[2] "Une Page d'Amour," Paris, Charpentier, 1878, 18mo, vii-486 pages (genealogical tree of the Rougon-Macquarts); seventy-fifth thousand on sale in 1893 when the series was completed; ninety-seventh thousand in 1903. Illustrated edition: Paris, Librairie du Bibliophile (Jouaust), 1884, 2 vols., crown 8vo, iv-261 and 287 pages; portrait and ten designs by Ed. Dantan, etched by Duvivier, ornaments by Giacomelli. Impressions on various papers, Dutch, India, Japanese, etc. Another illustrated edition, Paris, 1894, with etchings and woodcuts designed by F. Thévenot. [3] "Le Sublime, ou le Travailleur comme il est et ce qu'il peut être," Paris, Charpentier, 1865. [4] "Le Figaro," Supplément Littéraire, December 22, 1878. [5] It was as the Paris correspondent of various English newspapers that the writer became acquainted with a good many French literary men. A reference to the Paris letters in the first volumes of the "Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News" will show that the writer at one time dealt largely with the French stage. In that connection he was fortunate enough to secure the favour of Dumas _fils_ to whom he was indebted for many little kindnesses. [6] Zola to Vizetelly, November, 1898. [7] "La République Française et la Littérature," 8vo, Paris, Charpentier, 1879. The text of this pamphlet was added by Zola to the collection of papers entitled "Le Roman Expérimental," which he issued in 1880. [8] Alexis, _l. c._, p. 190 _et seq._; Adolphe Brisson in "Le Temps," October 3, 1902. [9] "Les Romanciers Naturalistes," p. 204. [10] "Journal des Goncourt," Vol. VI (January 21, 1879). [11] "Journal des Goncourt," Vol. VI (January 21, 1878). [12] See Sala's "Paris herself Again," London, Vizetelly & Co., 1879 _et seq._ [13] It will be remembered that Charles Reade prepared an English version entitled "Drink." [14] "My Impressions of Zola," by George Moore, in "The English Illustrated Magazine," February, 1894. [15] "L'Œuvre," p. 435. [16] "English Illustrated Magazine," _l. c._ [17] So stated by M. Yves Guyot in conversation with the writer and others in the autumn of 1902. It ought to have been mentioned that it was M. Guyot who engaged Zola as dramatic critic of "Le Bien Public." See _ante_, p. 156.