La vie et les prophéties du comte de Gobineau
The Life and Prophecies of the Count de Gobineau
Robert Dreyfus
We published in our previous editions and in our first five series, 1900-1904, so great a number of cahiers of literature — short stories, novels, dramas, dialogues, poems and tales — so great a number of cahiers of history and philosophy; and these cahiers of literature, history and philosophy were so considerable that we cannot think of giving here even the most succinct statement of them; to know what has appeared in the first five series of the cahiers, it suffices to send a money order for five francs to M. Andre Bourgeois, administrator of the cahiers, 8, rue de la Sorbonne, ground floor, Paris, fifth arrondissement; one will receive in return the brief analytical catalogue, 1900-1904, of our first five series.
This catalogue was precisely established to give, as much as was possible, an image in brief, an abridgment, an idea, abbreviated but complete, of our previous editions and of our first five series; everything is classified there in order; it suffices to read it to find, in their place, the references requested.
This catalogue, 18mo grand-jesus, forms a very thick cahier of XII + 408 very dense pages, marked five francs; this cahier counted as the first cahier of the sixth series and our subscribers received it at its date, October 2, 1904, as the first cahier of the sixth series; every person who subscribes to the sixth series receives it, by the very fact of subscription, at the head of the series; we send it for a money order of five francs to any person who requests it.
We address our respectful thanks to Madame la Comtesse de la Tour, who was kind enough to authorize us to reproduce this portrait, exhibited by her — under the pseudonym of MAHAUT — at the Salon of 1875.
TO THE READER
I publish these talks such (or approximately) as they were given at the Ecole des hautes etudes sociales, during the winter of 1904-1905. Yet I am not unaware that a volume of printed words is scarcely a book. But this didactic form has the advantage of being convenient and favorable to clarity.