The
Passagenwerk
or
Arcades
Project
an
unfinished
project
of
German
author
Walter
Benjamin,
written
between
1927
and
1940
May
1
on
the
Butte
Rouge.
New
and
old
catacombs
(
Metro
)
wine
cellars,
ancient
sites.
Street
vending.
Ghetto
The
street
where
newspapers
are
printed.
Lost
animals
(
the
pound
)
The
slaughter
houses
Social
fortifications.
Stroll
along
vanished
town
walls
(
ancient
)
Philip
Augustus,
Louis
XII,
Ferme-
General
and
the
last
fortification,
now
in
the
process
of
being
demolished.
Gasoline.
(
The
perfect
chauffeur
in
Paris
)
Mirrors.
The
jireside
andthe
"
Lanterne
"
The
last
jiacres
Old
signs.
Conveniences
and
inconveniences
(
tobacco,
mailboxes,
tickets,
poster
pillars,
and
so
forth'
)
Parisians
on
Paris.
'"
Pickup,
mome)
streetwalker,
tart,
artiste,
and
so
on.
Paris
alpine.
Developmental
and
artistic
history
of
the
Eiffel
Tower.
Afternoon
in
Montmartre.
Etiquette
for
mealtimes.
Inoffensive
monuments
Il
faut
amuser
les
enfants.
Biography
ofa
street
(
Rue
HonoreSaint-,
or
Rivoli
)
Annual
fair.
Fashion
houses
The
bridges.
Doors
and
windows.
Architectures
of
chance.
(
Posters
)
Arcades.
Hotel
Dance
hall.
The
smallest
square
in
Paris.
Church
windows
The
parks
from
Monceau
to
Buttes-
Chaumont.
Street
of
art
dealers
(
1,
000
meters
of
painted
canvas)
The
Sunday
of
the
poorer
classes
Tea
in
the
Bois.
America
and
Asia
in
Paris
Reassuring
advice
for
museum
visits.
Lunch
hour
for
dressmakers
'
assistants.
Fairy(
tale
motif.)
Physiology(
theof
box)
history),
of
the
development
smallof
restaurants.
With(
SaintSimon-,
Liselotte,
and
other
revenants
in
Versailles.)
All
sorts
of
racing.
The
Sunday
of
the
poorer
classes.
Staircases,
windows,
doors,
and
signboards
of
Paris.
Dance
halls
o[
different
districts
Paris
alpine.
The
deujeuner
of
dressmakers
'
assistants.
How
a
firstclass-
restaurant
comes
into
being.
Aperitif,
place,
time,
varieties
Fair.
How
I
drive
carmy
in
Paris
Theater
fewerwiththan
500
seats.
Purveyors(
of
pleasure)
Fashionable
teas.
Tavern
with
musical
entertainment.
1,
000
meters
of
modern
art
Rue(
dela
Bodie)
Great
and
small
labyrinth
of
Paris
Catacombsand
Paris
translated
traduit<>.
Underground
newspapers
Parisian
mirrorsfrom,
the
bistro
to
Versailles.
Types
of
cocottes:
streeiwalken,
milmes,
call
girls
deluxe(
)
social
relations
tarts
lionesses
girlfriend
liaison
sweetheart
artiste
Artiste
serieuse.
Toyshop
saddlers
harnessmakers
hardware
store
Things
of
yesteryear
likeandthe ;
Sacre
Ferme
1.
N.
A
walk
with
the
secret
agent.
Small
side
alleyin
the
Passage
des
Panoramas:
service
passage
withiron
ladders
on
the
walls.
Visitors
'
cards
are
made
immediately;
boots
immediately
cleaned
Mosaic
thresholds,
in
the
style
of
the
old
restaurants
in
the
PalaisRoyal-,
lead
to
a
dinerde
Paris
at
five
francsso-
broad
and
empty
are
they,
that
one
cannot
believethere
is
really
a
restaurant
up
there.
The
sametrueis
of
the
entrance
to
the
Petit
Casino.
There
you
indeed
see
a
ticket
booth
and
prices
ofseats;
but
you
have
the
feeling
that,
once
through
the
glass
door;
you
would
wind
up
on
the
street
again
instead
of
in
a
theater.
Many
institutes
of
hygiene
For
the
bicops,
hip
reducer,
gladiators
with
orthopedic
belts
Bandages
round
the
white
bellies
of
mannequins
In
old
hairdressing
salons,
the
last
womenwith
lang
hair,
undulating
permanent"
wave,"
petrifiedcoiffures .
If
these
latter
are
petrified,
the
stonework
of(
the
arcade
,
by
contrast,
often
has
the
effict
of
crumbling
papiermache-.
Ridiculous
souvenirs"
"
and
bibelots
quite-
hideous
Odalisques
stretchednextout
to
inkwell;
priestesses
raise
aloft
ashtrays
like
patens.
laA
Capricieuse""
lingerie
toutde
genre.
Doll
mender.
Fan
factory
under
the
arch
Bookshop
on
the
mezzanine:
Etreintes
secretes,
Art
aimerd',
Affolantes
Illusions,
Les
Insatiables,
School
of
Love,
Memoires
uned'
bonne
a
toutefaire .
In
theirmidst ,
Images
d'
Epinal.
Harlequinbetrothshis
daughter.
Images
Napoleonof\C2\B7.
Artillery.
Way
to
heaven
and
hell,
with
caption
in
French
and
German
in(
devotional
shop
on
the
Rue
du
Valde
Grace
English
the
broad
and
the
narrow
way)
.
Typographies.
Visitors
'
cards
while
you
wait
Evoywhere,
as
addition
to
the
program,
as
guest
star:
stockings
.
Now
lyingnextto
some
photosnow,
in
a
watchedtavernover,
by
a
girl
we(
think
of
the
theaterin
Montrouge,
where,
during
the
day,
they
hang
on
the
ticket
booththat
opensonly
at
evening)
Stairway
to
the
Arabic
restaurant,
Kebab
Frequently,
handbags
petits(
sacs)
in
open
cardboard
boxes,
wrapped
in
tissue
paper.
In
the
building
next
door,
where
there
is
a
gateway,
almost
an
arcade
:
Mme.
de
Consolis,
Maitresse
de
BalletLecons-,
Cours,
Numeros
.
Mme
.
Zahhna,
Cartomanciere.
Narrow(
alley)
behind
Hotel
de
Boulogne,
with
one
window
above
hairdresser.
The
girl
waiting
below
and
the
one
looking
out
of
the
window.
The
whole
framed
by
the
entryway.
Drawing<
by
Hessel
representing
the
gateway
mentioned>
This
in
front
of
me
as(
seen
from
the
cafe)
and,
to
the
right,
the
Gate
of
Saint\C2\AD
Denis
dedicated
to
Louis
the
Great,
with
couchant
weaponslions, ,
and
vague
trophies
on
pyramids.
In
the
arcades
,
bolder
colorsare
possible.
There
arered
and
green
combs.
Preserved
in
the
arcades
are
types
of
collar
studs
for
which
we
no
longer
know
the
corresponding
collars
or
shirts.
Should
a
shoemakers'
shop
be
neighbor
to
a
confectioners',
his
display
of
shoelaces
will
start
to
resemble
licorice.
There{
are
many
stamp
shops
whichtheirSouthwith(,
American
hummingbird
stamps
on
paper
stained
by
damp,
remind
the
visitor
from
Berlin
of
childhood
and
cuckoos
).
One
could
imagine
an
ideal
shopin
an
ideal
arcade
a-
shop
which
brings
together
all
mitiers,
whichdollis
clinic
and
orthopedic
institute
in
one,
which
sells
trumpets
and
shells,
birdseed
fixativein
pans
from
a
photographers'
darkroom,
ocarinas
as
umbrella
handles
.