Émile ZOLA. L.A.S., Paris February 5, 1894, to his publisher and friend Georges Charpentier; 2pages in-8. Concerning a lawsuit to be brought against the director of Lecture à bon marché, which published La Débâcle in installments: "La société a passé un traité avec ce journal, mais en croyant que c'était un vrai journal, et non des séries de livraisons. As you rightly say, the company has no right to authorize the publication of issues. So the whole debate will be about the terms of the treaty themselves, and how they should be interpreted. The worst thing is that we'll have to go before the Belgian courts, which sometimes have peculiar ideas on these matters of literary property"...