[22] Zola's Verses, "À mes Amis" (Lycée St. Louis, 1858).
[23] Zola's first book, inspired largely by memories of Provence, and issued in Paris in 1864.
[24] Zola's "Nina," 1859. Readers of "La Fortune des Rougon" (which Zola wrote some ten years later) will remember that the old tombstone figures also in that work, in which the inscription is given as "Here lieth... Marie ... died...," the finger of time having effaced the rest. There is, however, an evident connection between the names Nina and Ninon, and perhaps they suggested Nana.
[25] From the mediæval Latin, barrium (Ducange).
[26] See ante, p. 27.
[27] Alexis, l. c., pp. 40, 41.
[28] It seems probable that he had already spent his Easter holidays there that year; for some of his verses, "Ce que je veux," are dated Aix, May, 1859. See Alexis, l. c., p. 297.