Émile ZOLA (1840-1902). L.A.S., Médan, July 5, 1892, to a colleague [Félix Dumoulin ?]; 1 1/2 pages in-8. He recommends "a study that my colleague and friend Alfred Duquet would like to do on La Débâcle, in the Revue Bleue, from the military point of view. He is very competent and would say, I believe, very interesting things. See if you can accept this study, and please excuse my approach, which is dictated to me especially by my sympathy for Duquet"... [Alfred Duquet (1842-1916), military historian, had documented Zola on the war of 1870 to write La Débâcle].