General de Pellieux.—“Colonel Picquart is judge of his own answers. I have no advice or command to give him.”
M. Clemenceau.—“It is not advice or command that I ask, but an opinion.”
General de Pellieux.—“I have no opinion to offer to Colonel Picquart.”
M. Labori.—“Then, Monsieur le President, will you ask General Gonse if Colonel Picquart was not delegated by the minister of war to attend the Dreyfus trial?”
General Gonse.—“I have not to answer that question.”
M. Labori.—“Then I say to the jury that it is the truth, and, if it is not true, let one or the other of these gentlemen contradict me. Now I ask General Gonse how he knows that the notes enumerated in the bordereau furnished any serious revelations regarding the important subjects mentioned.”
General Gonse.—“From the titles themselves. I cannot suppose that these notes contained trifles.”
M. Labori.—“Then I ask General Gonse this question: A traitor is a man who delivers documents for money. When he delivers a serious document, does he not show its importance, and, when he says ‘a note,’ can it be taken to be a document instead of a personal note?”
General Gonse.—“I have no answer to make on that matter.”
M. Labori.—“Come back now to this passage of the bordereau: