[110] Several of the persons here named are also writers of fiction or poetry.
[111] Lately deceased.
[112] Lately deceased.
[113] This title may perhaps be paraphrased by the American colloquialism “Out of It.”
[114] Henri Fouquier, an older conservative journalist (recently deceased), of so much distinction that he was considered a possible Academician, published about this time an article in the XIXe Siècle in which he ridiculed the blowing up of the house of the bourgeois as an act devoid of common sense, but declared comprehensible a desire to blow up the Chamber of Deputies, the Prefecture of Police, or the Palace of the President.
[115] “I surely have the right,” he said, “to quit the theatre when the piece becomes odious to me, and even to slam the doors behind me in going out, at the risk of troubling the tranquillity of those who are satisfied.”
[116] Author of Démolissons and De Mazas à Jérusalem.
[117] On the occasion of this lecture Xavier Privas was assisted by an actor and an actress who recited appropriate poems and by the chansonnier Trimouillat. The hall was entirely without light except for a single lamp before the lecturer. In the accompanying illustration the standing figure is Trimouillat.
[118] A translation of this play has been successfully produced in America (1904) under the title Business is Business.
[119] La Cage is well known, nevertheless, since it is given several private representations every season.