This area was a central focus in a wider network of debates about Figure 24 Ferdinand Heilbuth city and country. In one sense these debates had a geographical focus: where did (German, active France, Paris end and the country begin? How far did one now have to go to reach the 1826-1889). By the Waterside, circa "real" countryside? Even more centrally, these areas were now the arenas for a 1869-70. Oil on canvas, 113 X 147 cm (44V X 2 set of competing representations. What are on the surface a set of questions 57% in.). Present where- about the "facts" of suburban expansion are also, and more fundamentally, abouts unknown; sold Paris, Hotel Drouot, expressions of competing interest groups. Their battle was over what might be 7 June 1911, lot 20. Photograph, London, Witt called symbolic territory. Library, Courtauld Institute of Art. In 1867 Victorien Sardou wrote of this frontier as if it could be defined in topographical terms. He described the contrast between Louveciennes, a 39