^{Note 1 in page 446} “Zola intime,” Revue Illustrée, iii (1887), 144-145—italics mine.

^{Note 2 in page 449} Unpublished letter, Bibliothèque Acquisitions Françaises, Vol. 24,518 (italics

^{Note 3 in page 449} Zola's italics.

^{Note 4 in page 449} There is one minor error of fact in cle. He claims that L‘œuvre, Zola's novel of laid in the early 1860's, so that the artist-music whom Zola charges with the discussions of have known only Wagner's earliest L‘œuvre covers quite a long period of time and ably beyond the terminal date of the Rougo series. It opens in July 1862, and extends at is proved by the fact that Jacques, Claude born in February 1864, dies at the age of months before his father's suicide. In fact, Zola himself chronologically in the novel and there dications that it actually closes in 1877, not in

^{Note 1 in page 450} Zola, Correspondance, 1858-1871 in Œuvres complètes (Paris: Bernouard, 1928), XLVIII, 109 (letter of 25 June 1860 to Paul Cézanne). One of these songs, “Le Nuage,” was published in the Journal du Dimanche, No. 414 (17 Oct. 1861), p. 400.

^{Note 2 in page 451} Gaston Poulain, Bazille et ses amis (Paris: La Renaissance du Livre, 1932), pp. 166-168. Poulain quotes a letter from Zola to Bazille dated 18 April 1863, indicating that the two are already friends (p. 168, n.).