[30] Salsou, who attempted to assassinate the Shah of Persia, was a trimardeur.
[31] Whence the slang verb watriner and the substantive watrinade.
[32] Another version is that Pini, having voted twice, was condemned to three months’ imprisonment, and that it was to avoid this that he left the country.
[33] Frustrated by a faithful dog.
[34] This sentence was commuted to long-term imprisonment by President Grévy.
[35] Le terme (rent) in Paris must be paid quarterly and in advance. It is due on the 1st, and must be paid on the 8th or 15th (according to its amount) of January, April, July, and October.
[36] There is a distinct class of men and women in Paris ready at any moment to cry à bas or vive, no matter whom or what, for a five-franc piece. Napoléon Hayard, known as the “empereur des camelots,” who died recently at a ripe age, was known to Parisians for many years as an organiser of manifestations.
[37] It was Rochefort who declared the mysterious shooting of Labori during the Dreyfus trial at Rennes to be a fictitious manœuvre.
[38] The curious filing of the hammer of Salsou’s pistol, which rendered impossible—according to a portion of the expert testimony—its discharge, lent a certain colour of truth to this accusation.
[39] As lately as 1902 the anarchist spy service was recruited in this fashion, and so openly that spies might almost be said to have been advertised for.