[2] Ibid., p. 306.
[3] Société du Canal Zola: deeds drawn by Maître Baudier, Notary in Paris.
[4] Paul Alexis' "Émile Zola: Notes d'un Ami," 2d edition, Paris, 1882, p. 130. É. Zola's "Une Page d'Amour," Paris, 1878, pp. 20, 21.
[5] "La Vérité en Marche," p. 241.
[6] Among his works, which in the first instance generally appeared as feuilletons in Paris newspapers, were "Eugénie Lamour," "Francis et Mariette," "Les Mariages Jaunes," and "Evariste Planchu, Mœurs vraies du Quartier Latin," the last named being perhaps his best book.
[7] "Palmarès du Collège d'Aix," 1853 et seq.
[8] P. Alexis, l. c., p. 21.
[9] An accessit is a distinction conferred, in French colleges, on the three pupils who come nearest to a prize winner.
[10] Zola's "L'Œuvre," Chap. II.
[11] "If it is good King René whom you seek, you will find him at this time walking in his chimney... the narrow parapet yonder; it extends between these two towers, has an exposure to the south, and is sheltered in every other direction. Yonder it is his pleasure to walk and enjoy the beams of the sun on such cool mornings as the present. It nurses, he says, his poetical vein."—Scott's "Anne of Geierstein," Chap. XXIX.