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51 Björnson, “stupor and distress”: Reinach, III, 314.
52 “The scene is France”: q. Herzog, 144.
53 Chekhov on Zola’s trial: Ernest J. Simmons, Chekhov: A Biography, Boston, 1962, 412–13.
54 “Smelled of suppressed slaughter”: Paléologue, 131.
55 “Paris palpitated”: Hyndman (see Chap. 7), 301.
56 Zola’s trial: Paléologue, 131–33; Hyndman, Clemenceau, 176–77; Vizetelly, 450–56; et al.
57 Labori “not an intellect”: q. Chapman, 175.
58 Zola, “Listen to them!”: Guilleminault, I, 189.
59 Clemenceau, “not a single Dreyfusard”: Hyndman (see Chap. 7), 301.
60 Henry Adams on Zola verdict: Feb. 26, 1898, Letters, 151.
61 Anatole France got out of bed: from unpublished diary of Daniel Halévy, q. Delhorbe, 95–96.
62 “Altogether one of us”: Daudet, 66.
63 Monet quarreled with Degas: Stephen Gwynn, Claude Monet, New York, Macmillan, 1934, 92, 201 Degas read Libre Parole: Chapman, 182; on arrivistes: q. George Slocombe, Rebels of Art: Manet to Matisse, New York, 1939, 158.
64 Debussy and Puvis de Chavannes: Painter, 356; Reinach, III, 248, n. 2.
65 “If I sign” said a school principal: Clemenceau in l’Aurore, Jan. 18, 1898.
66 Emile Duclaux, Revision in the laboratory: Reinach, III, 169.
67 “He paints with his hands in my pockets”: René Gimpel, Carnets, Paris, 1963.
68 Gaston Paris: Reinach, IV, 150, n. 5; Paul Stapfer: Zevaès, v. 141, 202.
69 Whole villages took sides: Barclay, 135.
70 Dîner Bixio: Claretie. All anecdotes of Dîner Bixio are from this source.
71 Opening of “Les Loups”: Rolland, 291–95.
72 “We needed reassurance, ideals”: Adolphe Brisson on “l’Aiglon,” in Figaro, Mar. 13, 1900.
73 Ranc, “warned not to sleep at home”: q. Reinach, IV, 151.
74 The salons: Bertaut, 163–73; Wharton (see Chap. 1), 261, 273; Painter, 130, 201, 281; for Mme Straus, see esp. Bertaut, Painter, 110–16, Paléologue; for Mme Arman, esp. Pouquet, passim; Clermont-Tonnerre, I, 4–5, 13; Blum, 98; for Mme Aubernon: Paléologue, 114; Suttner (see Chap. 5), I, 282–84; for Mme de Loynes: esp. Meyer, Ce que je peux dire, 250–53, 287; Castellane, 195.
75 Lemaître, “The Republic cured me”: q. Giraud, 72.
76 “Que faite vous, Maître?”: Barclay, 142.
77 Meetings of Ligue des Patriotes: Meyer, Ce que je peux dire, 253–63; Daudet, 89–90.
78 De Vogüé, “Now the odious case”: Paléologue, 151.
79 Reciting 17th-century poetry: Goldberg, 226.
80 His “splendid amplitude”: Rolland, 298; “Like a huge cat with a mouse”: ibid.
81 Socialists on Zola’s trial: Jaurès’ Œuvres, VI, 197, q. Goldberg; Reinach, III, 255, IV, 148; Zevaès, v. 141, 97, 199.
82 Jaurès, “how tormented I am”: q. Goldberg, 220.
83 “Because we seem to oppose”: from a letter of Nov. 7, 1898, in the Guesde Archives, Amsterdam, q. Goldberg, 243.
84 Socialist Committee of Vigilance: Zevaès, v. 141, 203.
85 André Buffet telegraphed Pretender: Details of the right-wing conspiracy and its financing were obtained from evidence at the subsequent trial of Déroulède, Reinach, IV, 332–42.
86 “Eve of a new Commune”: Radziwill, Letters, 155.
87 “Soul of a second lieutenant”: André Maurois, The Miracle of France, New York, 1948, 404.
88 “Sanctuary of treason,” et seq.: Paléologue, 187–90.
89 Anarchists on Dreyfus “parade”: Boussel, 170–72: Maitron (see Chap. 2), 307–18.
90 Mme de Greffulhe wrote to the Kaiser: André Germain, Les clés de Proust, 1953, 43. (I am indebted for this source to Mr. George D. Painter, the biographer of Proust.)
91 Change in the Guermantes: recorded in Sodome and La Prisonnière.
92 An officer said to Galliffet: Claretie, 50.
93 Jaurès, “If war breaks out”: q. Goldberg, 245.
94 Contributors to the Henry Subscription: Quillard, passim.
95 Loubet’s election: Paléologue, 203; “The Republic will not founder”: q. Chapman, 254.
96 Lemaître on driving Loubet out: q. Goldberg, 247.
97 Anti-Semitic League funds: Reinach, IV, 573, n. 4; V, 113, 254, n. 1, from evidence at Déroulède trial.
98 Le Temps, “What other country”: June 6, 1899.
99 William James, “one of those moral crises”: June 7, 1899, Letters, II, 89.
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