M. Clemenceau.--“I ask to make a simple observation, addressed especially to the jurors. I am of the opinion that the law must be complied with, whatever it may be. But I beg you to remember, gentlemen of the jury, that M. Zola has written an article which fills sixteen pages of the pamphlet in my hands. Out of these sixteen pages the public prosecutor, at the order of the minister of war, complains of only fifteen lines, and, when we come to court, it transpires that, in spite of a judicious selection of fifteen lines from sixteen pages, the prosecution is still embarrassed by one of these fifteen lines. They tell us in these fifteen lines there are still six which must be put aside, because, were we to leave them there, embarrassing evidence would be put in.” The Judge.--“I repeat that no question will be put which would be a means of arriving at the revision of a case sovereignly judged.” M. Clemenceau.--“Then the court will put no question concerning good faith?” The Judge.--“Concerning anything that relates to the Dreyfus case. No. Offer your motions. I repeat that I will not put the question.” M. Labori.--“Will you permit me, _Monsieur le Président_, in our common interest, to ask you, then, what practical means you see by which we may ascertain the truth?” The Judge.--“That does not concern me.” M. Labori then made a formal motion that, whereas the matters upon which the testimony of Mme. Dreyfus was required bore directly upon the matters expressly set out in the complaint, and especially upon the illegality charged, and whereas the defendants maintained, in spite of the court’s decree, the right to prove their good faith, and whereas the refusal to hear the witnesses summoned would constitute the highest violation of the defendants’ rights, the court order the following questions to be put to Mme. Dreyfus: (1) What do you think of M. Zola’s good faith? (2) What are the reasons that have led you to believe in his good faith? (3) Do you consider from what you know that the measures taken against your husband were legal or illegal? (4) Will you describe the first visit of Major du Paty de Clam at your house? Who were present? (5) Did not M. du Paty de Clam utter the grossest insults against your husband? (6) Did he not pretend to demonstrate his guilt geometrically and by drawing concentric circles? (7) Did he not speak of the Iron Mask? (8) Did he not expressly forbid you to speak of the arrest to anyone whomsoever, even to his family? (9) After how long a time were you allowed the right to write to your husband? (10) After how long a time did you again see your husband? (11) Did not M. du Paty de Clam say to you: “He denies, but I shall succeed in making him spit out all that he has in his body”? (12) Did not M. du Paty de Clam nevertheless lead you to hope that perhaps there had been an error, and that up to November?