[1] Sherard, l. c., p. 228.
[2] His play "Madeleine" (originally called "La Madeleine") which he had vainly offered to the Gymnase and Vaudeville theatres in 1866, and which he had afterwards turned into a novel, "Madeleine Férat" (see ante, pp. 99 and 107) was produced with indifferent success at the Théâtre Libre in 1889—first performance, May 2.
[3] The writer believes it is called the Schveninger cure.
[4] About $600.
[5] "Le Rêve," Paris, Charpentier, 1893, 18mo, 310 pages. Some copies on Dutch, India, and Japanese papers. Eighty-eighth thousand in 1893; one hundred and sixteenth thousand in 1903. Illustrated edition: Flammarion, 1888, 4to; illustrations by Carlos Schwob and Métivet; one hundred and fifty copies on Dutch paper. Was sold in parts at 10 centimes. Jeanniot had illustrated the story in "La Revue Illustrée," which paid Zola one thousand pounds for the serial rights.
[6] First performed at the Opéra Comique, June 18, 1891.
[7] M. Eugène Fasquelle had now acquired an interest in M. Charpentier's publishing business, which he ultimately purchased.
[8] This was the result of having rid himself of his obesity.
[9] The allusion is to the house in the Rue de Bruxelles (21 bis), which Zola made his Paris home until his death.