[120] Forbidden by the censorship, but a favourite at the amateur theatricals of the anarchistic groups.
[121] Under the ban of the censorship from 1891 to 1900.
[122] Forbidden by the censorship, but given a representation—by invitation—at which literary and artistic Paris was fully represented.
[123] Prohibited by the censorship at the time it was written. The prohibition was removed in the winter of 1904.
[124] No notice is taken here of Richepin as a writer of romances.
[125] Technically, “d’avoir commis une provocation directe au crime de meurtre, laquelle provocation, non suivie d’effet, avait pour but un acte de propagande anarchiste.”
[126] The court in detaching this violent passage from its philosophical and artistic setting made Tailhade’s offence appear much graver than it really was.
[127] “What I have had especially in view has been to serve the cause of progress, of knowledge; that is to say, the Revolution,” wrote the editor of Le Décadent.
[128] The minor French poets are so little known in England and America that it would be superfluous to mention by name the members of these bizarre coteries.
[129] The Magiques, Romanistes, and Magnificistes are possible exceptions. But the Magiques possessed at one time such an unquiet spirit as Paul Adam, and the Magnificistes oppose the tyranny of science and magnify “les êtres.” The Romanistes, it is true, accept relatively regular poetic forms, but they attack the Christian church and admit the destruction of nationality. The union of the Latin peoples, which they advocate, they regard simply as an intermediate step preparatory to the union of the whole human race.