Maurice MAETERLINCK (1862-1949). L.A.S., [1898], to a colleague; 2pages in-8 in red ink. About a tribute to Émile Zola. He tried to fit on two pages "my opinion on Zola's act. I have not succeeded. You'd have to examine all three trials. Weigh up the good faith of some, the explicable concern of others, the ignorance, the scruples of some, the honorable but too narrow confidence of others, it would still be necessary to say how necessary it is for every man today that the idea of Justice should seem superior to the idea of fatherland etc." He concludes by reminding "those who blindly criticize this great act of heroic conscience of the terrible words of Sieyès: 'They want to be free, and they don't know how to be just'"...