Says De goncourt, her biographer: "They heard her on the steps of the scaffold, lost and desperate, mad with anguish and terror, struggling, imploring, begging for mercy, crying, 'Help!
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune
La Faustin was issued on the morning of Gambetta's downfall; and the seventh volume of the Journal des goncourt had barely been published a few hours when the news of Carnot's assassination reached Paris.
"Renée Mauperin"
Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
Realistic novels fail for the same reason: with all their gifts, neither Zola, nor Edmond de goncourt, nor Mr. Arnold Bennett ever produced a work of art.
"Since Cézanne"
Clive Bell
