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, some very interesting things. See if you can accept this study, and please excuse my approach, which is dictated above all by my sympathy for Duquet"... [Alfred Duquet (1842-1916), a military historian, had documented Zola's account of the 1870 war in order to write La Débâcle].