[37] He had shown it at a very early stage to his friends Huysmans and Céard, and the former has recorded how greatly they were amazed by it. ("Le Matin," September 30, 1902.)
[38] Sherard (l. c., 188 et seq.) gives a variety of information on these points taken from Zola's letters to a friend whose name does not appear.
[39] £1,200 = about $6,000.
[40] Sherard, l. c., p. 193.
[41] "Pot-Bouille," Paris, Charpentier, 1882, 18mo, 499 pages; some copies on Dutch, India, and Japanese paper; eighty-second thousand in 1893, ninety-fifth thousand in 1903. Illustrated edition: Marpon and Flammarion, 1883, large 8vo, titles, 452 pages. Fifty-seven wood-engravings after Bellanger and Kauffmann. Sold also in parts at 10 centimes. One hundred special copies on Dutch paper with the engravings on India paper.
[42] "Journal des Goncourt," Vol. VI, p. 140.
[43] Ibid., p. 162.
[44] "Journal des Goncourt," Vol. VII, p. 11.
[45] "Journal des Goncourt," Vol. VI, p. 186 (March 6, 1882).
[46] A somewhat similar dinner is described in "L'Œuvre."