Inventaire des Cahiers

SIXTH CAHIER OF THE FOURTH SERIES Courier Cahier

CAHIERS DE LA QUINZAINE appearing twenty times a year PARIS 8, rue de la Sorbonne, ground floor

To learn what the Cahiers de la Quinzaine are, it suffices to send a money order for three francs fifty to M. André Bourgeois, administrator of the cahiers, 8, rue de la Sorbonne, Paris, fifth arrondissement. One will receive as samples six cahiers of the second and third series.

We place this cahier in the trade; we sell it for one franc.

Paris Courier

INVENTORY OF THE CAHIERS

The cahiers possessed, on August 31, 1902, the following trade assets:

EQUIPMENT AND GENERAL EXPENSES

Two lamps; a candlestick; a table of 1 meter 26 by 0 meter 75; a table of 2 meters 20 by 0 meter 75; four trestles; a mirror; a wardrobe; a complete cyclostyle apparatus; two composing sticks, copper type; a seal; a date stamp; seven miscellaneous rubber stamps; a glue pot and four flat brushes; a glass; two pairs of scissors; four wastepaper baskets; a scale and set of weights from 1 gram to 5 kilograms; six cane-seated chairs and one wooden; a wooden stool; six coat hooks; file boxes; registers; a foreign Bottin directory; a small Larousse dictionary; a directory of communes; packing paper, smooth and corrugated; 26 meters 42 of shelving at 0 meter 32 wide; 23 meters 50 of shelving at 0 meter 47 wide; 30 meters 55 of shelving at 0 meter 54 wide; 11 meters of shelving at 0 meter 62 wide; 8 meters 88 of shelving at 0 meter 63 wide; broom (one third, shared with Pages libres for one third, Jean-Pierre and the Work of the Book for All for one third); double ladder (one third, same distribution); a bookseller’s outfit; a clothes brush; a double brush; a polishing brush; a box of shoe polish; a spatula-scraper; a hammer; a pair of pliers; a folding meter stick; a stamp moistener; inkwells; six months’ rent paid in advance;

Although these furnishings have cost us a rather good price to set up, it is wise to count them only as a memorandum.

EDITIONS OF THE CAHIERS prior to the founding of the cahiers

MARCEL AND PIERRE BAUDOUIN. — Joan of Arc, drama in three pieces: Domrémy, the Battles, Rouen, finished writing in Paris in June 1897, finished printing in December 1897, a large octavo volume of 752 pages, 416 copies, at ten francs, 2,496 francs

PIERRE BAUDOUIN. — Marcel, first dialogue of the harmonious city, a large octavo volume, 228 pages, finished writing in Paris in April 1898, finished printing in June 1898, editions of Georges Bellais, 714 copies, at two francs, 856 francs

JÉRÔME AND JEAN THARAUD. — The Feeble Porter, a fine square duodecimo volume of 116 pages, with a lithograph by Henry de Groux, dedicated to Lucile de Châteaubriand, who died of having loved her brother, episodes: The Scaffolding, The Marvel, On the Roads, Distress; editions of Georges Bellais, Paris, winter 1898, finished printing in August 1898, 629 copies, at two francs, 794 francs

JÉRÔME AND JEAN THARAUD. — The Light, a cahier of 96 pages; epigraph: He who loses his eyes loses the beauty of the Universe and remains like a man who would be buried alive in a sepulcher where there is movement and life, Leonardo da Vinci; dedicated to our master Villiers de l’Isle-Adam; The Ship, The Magician, Timor, The Darkness; Rome — Paris, March 1898 — August 1899; finished printing in June 1900; 541 copies, at one franc, 324 francs

ROMAIN ROLLAND. — Aërt, three acts, performed for the first time in Paris, at the Théâtre de l’Œuvre, on May 3, 1898; the scene takes place in an imaginary Holland, in the seventeenth century; epigraph: I have no need to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere, William of Orange; editions of the Revue d’Art dramatique, finished printing on August 1, 1898, a volume of 124 pages, square duodecimo, the last 28 copies, at three francs, 84 francs

ROMAIN ROLLAND. — The Triumph of Reason, drama in three acts, performed for the first time in Paris, at the Théâtre de l’Œuvre, on June 21, 1899; epigraph: Let us institute a more touching festival, the festival of misfortune. Slaves worship fortune and power. We, let us honor misfortune. Robespierre, May 7, 1794; the scene in Paris and in the provinces, in July-August 1793; editions of the Revue d’Art dramatique, finished printing on October 20, 1899, a volume of 94 pages, square duodecimo, the last 17 copies, at three francs, 51 francs

ROMAIN ROLLAND. — The Wolves, three acts, performed for the first time at the Théâtre de l’Œuvre, on May 18, 1898, under the title Morituri, epigraph homo homini lupus, the scene at Mainz in 1793, editions of Georges Bellais, a fine large square octavo volume of 128 pages, with a lithograph by Henry de Groux, finished writing in Paris at the end of March 1898, finished printing in October 1898, 731 copies, at three francs fifty, 1,535 francs

JEAN JAURÈS. — Socialist Action, first series, a large square duodecimo volume of 560 pages, editions of Georges Bellais,

Socialism and Education: Municipal Popular Schools; To Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses; The Organization of Primary Education; Capitalism, the Middle Class and Education; In the West; Thinking Youth and the People; The Ideal of Justice; The Spirit of the Peasants; Regional Universities; Reform of the Baccalaureate; Clerical Action and Education; By Moonlight; Year’s End; The Workers’ Pope; Nothingness of Social Catholicism; Moral Instruction in School; The Religious Question; The Secularism of Education; The Freedoms of Teaching Personnel. — Thierry Casès Interpellation; Secular Education and Clerical Education; The Crisis of the University;

Socialism and the Peoples: Peace; European Alliances; Military Schools; Equal Military Law for All; Returning from the Regiment; Peace and Revenge; A Speech by M. de Bismarck; French Democracy in Europe; Our Comrades the German Socialists; The Berlin Conference; France and Russia; France and Socialism; Army and Diplomacy; The Russian Sailors in Paris; To the Annexed Lands; The Democratic Army; Colonial Competitions; The Tsar in Paris; The Armenian Massacres; The Cretan War of Independence; The Russian Alliance and Reaction; The Spanish-American War; Fashoda, England and Peace; International Action; 195 copies, at three francs fifty, 409 francs

CAHIERS DE LA QUINZAINE FIRST SERIES

First cahier, of January 5, 1900, a cahier of 144 pages:

Letter from the Provincial; Reply to the Provincial; The “Triumph of the Republic”; The Liebknecht Affair: an incident at the first national socialist congress, Tuesday, December 5, 1899, down with Liebknecht; official account of this incident; documents: a letter addressed by Liebknecht to the editor of the journal die Fackel, supplement to the “Affair”; translation of these three articles; the translation of these articles in the Action française, number 10, of December 1, 1899: W. Liebknecht and the Dreyfus Affair; an article from the Libre Parole, Tuesday, December 5, 1899, W. Liebknecht and the Dreyfus Affair; an article from the Petite République, Monday, December 11, the Liebknecht article; an incident at the Saint-Mandé reception, from the Petite République of Tuesday, December 12; explanations, two letters from Liebknecht, presented by Gérault-Richard in the Petite République of Wednesday, December 20; at Liebknecht’s, interview of Liebknecht by M. Marcel Hutin, published in the Echo de Paris of Friday, December 22; commentaries;

Before the First Fortnight: financial chronicle of the Aurore; departure of M. Clemenceau; the Zola affair, letters from Zola to General de Galliffet and to M. Waldeck-Rousseau, the reply of M. Waldeck-Rousseau; the League of the Rights of Man; the pardon of Liard-Courtois, the League of the Rights of Man and the Armenian massacres; on the Dreyfus affair, a summons from Colonel Picquart, a letter from Philippe, Duke of Orléans, to the Duke of Luynes; against the barbarians, Popular Union Against Bullfighting;

cahier priced at one franc fifty; outside complete collections there remain only 24 copies, at ten francs, 240 francs

Second cahier, of January 20, 1900, a cahier of 144 pages:

From the Second Provincial; Provisional Reply; The Preparation of the National Socialist Congress: an article by Jaurès in the Petite République of Saturday, July 1, 1899, Complete Action, the conclusion; the Socialist Federations of the Doubs, the Haut-Rhin, the Jura, the Ain, and the Côte-d’Or establish proposals; text of these proposals, reproduced and commented by Jaurès in the Petite République of Wednesday, July 12; a declaration by Jaurès in the Petite République of the following Thursday the 13th; the manifesto to working and socialist France communicated to the press on the same Thursday by the French Workers’ Party, the Revolutionary Socialist Party, and the Revolutionary Communist Alliance; an article by Jaurès in response, the class struggle, in the same Petite République;

Child Labor, discussion in the Chamber of the bill, adopted by the Senate, amending the law of November 2, 1892 on the labor of children, underage girls, and women in industrial establishments; sessions of Wednesday the 20th and Thursday, December 21, 1899; account borrowed from the Official Journal; several speeches by M. Vaillant and M. Millerand, details of ballots for socialist deputies;

cahier priced at one franc fifty; outside complete collections there remain only 14 copies, at twelve francs, 168 francs

Third cahier, of February 5, 1900, a cahier of 144 pages:

For and Against Socialism: Freedom through Study, speech delivered by Anatole France at the inauguration of Emancipation, the people’s university of the fifteenth arrondissement, text borrowed from the newspapers of November 23; by the same, contemporary history, Clopinel, text borrowed from the Figaro of Wednesday, January 3, 1900; by the same, contemporary history, After Clopinel, text borrowed from the Figaro of Wednesday, January 10, 1900; in response, by M. Jules Roche, Against Socialism. — I. — The Danger, beginning of the article, text borrowed from the Figaro of Friday, January 12, 1900; by Anatole France, contemporary history, Consoling Spectacle, conclusion of the article, text borrowed from the Figaro of Wednesday, January 17, 1900;