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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 reactions: du Gard, 8.

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Anatole France got out of bed: from unpublished diary of Daniel Halévy, q. Delhorbe, 95–96.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.

100
-8 The attack on Loubet at Auteuil:
Figaro
, June 5, 1899.

101
Next Sunday at Longchamps:
Le Temps
, June 12/13, 1899. Henri Léon, the Nationalist leader and cynic in
M. Bergeret à Paris
, describes how hooligans yelled
“Pa-na-ma! De-mis-sion!”
under his orders. “I beat time for them and they yell the separate syllables. It was really done with taste.”

102
Lucien Herr’s argument: from
Vie de Lucien Herr
, by Charles Andler, q. Goldberg, 254.

103
Socialists split on support for Government: Zevaès, v. 142, 47.

104
Marquis de Galliffet, silver-plated stomach: Castellane, 99; “air of a bandit chief”: Reinach, V, 168–69; on arresting members of his club: Radziwill,
Letters
, 340; “courage and effrontery”: Reinach,
loc. cit.

105
Millerand, “cat in a downpour”: Suarez (
see
Chap. 8), I, 259.

106
“Invite those chaps to dinner”: from Louis Thomas,
Le Général de Galliffet
, 1910, 247 (supplied by Mr. Painter).

107
Rennes trial: eyewitness accounts by Marcel Prévost, New York
Herald
, Aug. 8/9; Severine and others, q. in Reinach, V; Barrès, 146; Zevaès, v. 142, 53; Benda, 211; London
Times
, New York
Tribune
, Aug. 8/9. Evidently it is a rule that discrepancies in observation increase with intensity of emotion: Dreyfus’ hair was “white” according to
The Times
, “auburngrey” according to the
Tribune;
his moustache “jet black” according to
The Times
, “frankly red” according to the
Tribune.

108
G. A. Henty: Hyndman, 184.

109
Galliffet, “I don’t budge from my office”: Radziwill,
Letters
, 340.

110
Labori “looked like Hercules”: Meyer,
Mes Yeux
, 152.

111
“I’ve just killed the Dreyfus”: Paléologue, 241.

112
Queen Victoria’s telegram: Reinach, V, 544.

113
Clemenceau: In
l’Aurore
, Sept. 10, 1899.

114
Comtesse de Noailles weeping: Painter, 299.

115
Foreign reaction to Rennes verdict:
The Times
, Sept. 12, 13, 14, 1899; Barclay, 162.

116
Grieg’s “Indignation”: Finck,
Grieg
(
see
Chap. 6), 104.

117
Galliffet, “That’s something to see”: Lonergan, 369.

5. The Steady Drummer

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