[100] Deceased.
[101] The French free-stage movement, which involved revolutionary thought as well as revolutionary form, was launched at Montmartre, and was identified with Montmartre through all its polemic period,—up to the moment, in fact, when it became Parisian, having gained its cause.
[102] Alexandre is about to leave Montmartre for the Grands-Boulevards.
[103] Maquereau is a type name for a criminal loafer who lives by the prostitution of his mistress.
[104] Biribi is the name given to the African battalion to which recalcitrant soldiers are assigned.
[105] Les Opinions de M. Jerôme Coignard. M. Coignard belongs to the eighteenth century.
[106] Since M. France wrote these words, the images of the Christ have been removed from the French courts.
[107] As evidence that M. Barrucand’s scheme for free bread deserves to be considered as something more than the Utopian ideal of a littérateur, it should be mentioned that the economist L. Auby advocated the same thing (winter of 1903-04) in as conservative an organ as the Annales Parlementaires.
[108] Dubois-Dessaulle, while acting as a newspaper correspondent in Abyssinia in the spring of 1904, was assassinated by natives. He was a martyr to his conscientious belief that it is a crime to carry arms.
[109] J.-H. Rosny is the signature of the Rosny brothers, who have to be treated as one person in their relations to thought and literature.