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10 Observer reminded of Dante: ibid., 198–99.
11 Bülow, “There are three Great Powers”: C. Radziwill, 298.
12 Gossip on de Rodays bribed: Radziwill, Letters, 106.
13 Zola, a “shameful disease”: l’Aurore, May 13, 1902, q. Boussel, 216.
14 Ernest Judet’s fear of Clemenceau: Daudet, 43.
15 Arthur Meyer’s career: C. Radziwill, 297–307.
16 Rochefort and Kaiser’s supposed letter: Blum, 78–80; Boussel, 157–59. The story of the letter appeared in l’Intransigeant, Dec. 13, 1897.
17 Boisdeffre and Princess Mathilde: Radziwill, Letters, 133–35. Princess Radziwill told the story to the Kaiser who commented, “It’s a good thing for me that such a man heads the French General Staff … and all I wish is that they leave him where he is.”
18 The “Syndicate”: The Right’s conception of the Syndicate is expressed in all seriousness by Daudet, 11–17, and satirized by Anatole France in Chapter 9 of M. Bergeret. The Dépěche de Toulouse on Nov. 24, 1897, affirmed the existence of a Syndicat D. and its expenditure of 10,000,000 francs: q. Boussel, 138. Other charges from Libre Parole l’Intransigeant, Jour, Patrie, Eclair, Echo de Paris given with dates by Reinach, III, 20; also “Le Syndicat,” l’Aurore, Dec. 1, 1897, in Zola, 13–19.
19 “Something very great”: Count Harry Kessler, q. Masur, 297.
20 Henry Adams on reading Drumont: July 27 and Aug. 4, 1896, Letters, 110, 116.
21 “Clandestine and merciless conspiracy”: q. Herzog, 30.
22 Duc d’Uzès felt gratified: ibid., 31.
23 “They bore us with their Jew”: q. Goldberg, 216.
24 Socialist review of Lazare’s pamphlet: Zevaès, v. 141, 21.
25 “The Duc de Saint-Simon himself”: Reinach, II, 618, n. 1.
26 Esterhazy, “hands of a brigand”; “elegant and treacherous”: C. Radziwill, 326–27; Benda, 181.
27 Scheurer-Kestner like a 16th-century Huguenot: Rolland, 290.
28 Crowds in the Luxembourg gardens: described by Clemenceau in 1908 in a speech dedicating a statue to Scheurer-Kestner.
29 Clemenceau on Monet: q. J. Hampden Jackson, Clemenceau and the Third Republic, New York, 1962, 81.
30 “Only the artists”: Martet, 286.
31 Clemenceau on Esterhazy, Jesuits, justice: q. Boussel, 143; Reinach, III, 265. The degree to which contemporary attention was focused on the Affair may be judged from Clemenceau’s five volumes of collected articles: L’Iniquité (162 articles from l’Aurore and La Justice up to July, 1898); Vers la Réparation, 1899 (135 articles from l’Aurore, July-Dec., 1898); Des Juges, 1901 (40 articles from l’Aurore, Apr.-May, 1899); Injustice Militaire, 1902 (78 articles from l’Aurore, Aug.-Dec., 1899); La Honte, 1903 (65 articles from La Dépěche de Toulouse, Sept., 1899-Dec., 1900).
32 “Generals of debacle” et seq.: Reinach, III, 258.
33 Anton Radziwill “loves to talk English”: Spring-Rice (see Chap. 3), I, 184.
34 Witte, “I can see only one thing”: Reinach, II, 542, n. 1.
35 Jules Ferry, “to organize mankind”: q. Goldberg, 39.
36 Léon Bourgeois to the Ralliés: q. Chapman, 23.
37 De Mun’s speech to the Academy: Mar. 10, 1898. Reprinted in his Discours politiques et Parlementaires.
38 De Mun’s career: Garric, passim; on Socialism, ibid., 94.
39 Galliffet, “continue to understand nothing”: to Princess Radziwill, Sept. 22, 1899, 342.
40 Comtesse de Noailles, “too beautiful to be real” and “merely smiled”: C. Radziwill, 337–38.
41 “Certitude of superiority”: Clermont-Tonnerre, 113.
42 Aimery de la Rochefoucauld: “fossil rigidity” was Proust’s phrase for the Prince de Guermantes, for whom de Rochefoucauld served as a model. “Mere nobodies in the year 1000”: q. Painter, 189.
43 Duc d’Uzès, “we were always killed”: Painter, 200.
44 Gratin not hospitable: Clermont-Tonnerre, 113.
45 English visitor of Duc de Luynes: Wyndham (see Chap. 1), I, 346, 480.
46 Thiers on Comte de Paris: q. Spender, Campbell-Bannerman (see Chap. 5), II, 59.
47 Gamelba: Lonergan, 120–21.
48 “All this Dreyfus business” and “Perfectly intolerable”: Proust, Guermantes, I.
49 “Colossus with dirty feet”: Flaubert, Correspondence, Apr. 18, 1880.
50 “Pornographic pig,” “Merde!” and other