Chapters 11: 0:00-Bohemians behaving badly. 4:16—Murger’s purpura. 5:56—The real Bohemians. 8:54—Murger’s models. 15:22—Christmas at Café Momus. 16:54—Interlude.

Chapters 12-14: 17:48—Becoming bohemian. 21:51—Celebration at the Viscount Paul’s. 24:16—Rodolphe & Mimi unite. 27:19—Demolishing Nisard. 29:02—Perfect harmony. 29:54—Shattered harmony. 34:47—Mimi mutilates. 36:58—Routine, recrimination & reanimation. 38:32—Rodolphe & Mimi separate. 39:45—A wild ballet. 42:15—An instrument of pleasure. 44:00—Lucile! Lucile! 44:57—The chill of solitude. 46:33—Raging Rodolphe. 48:13—Rodolphe & Mimi reunite. 48:55—Murger & Lucile. 50:50—Interlude.

Chapters 15-17: 51:43—Breaking up. 53:46—Upper-class Musette. 55:30—A love ode. 56:08—The passage of the Red Sea. 59:03—Médecis the Jew. 1:00:59—The Damascus Affair. 1:03:07—Anti-Semitism. 1:04:05—Médecis’s inventory. 1:05:49—Hanging Marcel’s painting. 1:06:34—A hub of luxury. 1:07:53—Bodies in the Louvre. 1:09:20—A Britisher. 1:12:09—Coco the parrot. 1:13:40—Dolores the actress. 1:14:05—The June Days Uprising & the February Revolution. 1:17:19—The Parisian poor. 1:19:06—Dolores & the Englishman. 1:21:47—Coco’s cacophony. 1:23:41—Interlude.

Chapter 18: 1:24:33—A man named Jacques D. 1:27:42—What about Francine’s muff? 1:28:11: Jacques & Francine. 1:31:29—Digressions. 1:33:58—Francine’s condition. 1:36:22—Francine’s last word. 1:40:46—Kissing her on another’s lips. 1:43:04—No special grave. 1:44:26—Missing person. 1:51:27—Closing.

Text: Henry Murger, The Bohemains of the Latin Quarter. Translated by Maurice Samuels. 1901. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

Interludes: Giacomo Puccini, La Boheme, “Ohè là! Le Gardie,” NBC Radio Orchestra, conducted by Arturo Toscanini, 1946.

Image: Henry Murger, by Nadar, between 1854 -1860 (Musee d'Orsay).

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