, Lord nor Master)' and the homophones -in French -for 'standards', spirit-level and tape-measure, A complex pun on both the original anarchist maxim 'Ni Dieu, ni Maître

G. Jacques-le and P. Nora,

, In the sense of a 'false and superficial system of values' as described by Guy Debord in his book La Société du spectacle. For the rest of this article, the words 'spectacle' and 'spectacular' refer to this deliberate and dishonest 'surface seeming

, A hard-fought cultural specificity of Europe, whose governments passed a law to prohibit 'dumping' or massive underselling of books by legally fixing their sale prices, thus somewhat restricting the economic power of larger, often nonspecialized, stores and somewhat supporting smaller publishers and independent booksellers

, The reputable art auction house in Paris, the equivalent of a Christie's or Sotheby's. 6, p.37

, Annual collective art exhibitions in Paris started at the end of the 19th century

P. Le-père, Le Père Peinard, Éditions Galilée, p.315, 1893.