Chapter XXII: Appendix: A

DECLARATION OF THE BIRTH OF ÉMILE ZOLA

The year 1840, this fourth day of April, at a quarter past two o'clock in the afternoon, before us, Barthélémy Benoist Decau, knight of the Legion of Honour, Mayor of the Third Arrondissement of Paris, discharging the functions of registrar of births, deaths, and marriages, there has appeared the Sieur François Antoine Joseph Marie Zola, civil engineer, forty-four years of age, residing in Paris at No. 10 _bis_ Rue St. Joseph, who has presented to us a child of the male sex, born the day before yesterday, at eleven o'clock in the evening, at the appearer's residence, being the son of the said appearer and of Françoise Émilie Aubert, his wife, married in Paris at the municipal offices of the First Arrondissement, on March 16, 1839; to which said child the appearer has given the forenames of Émile Édouard Charles Antoine. Entered in the presence of Norbert Lecerf, grocer, age fifty-two years, residing in Paris, at No. 18 Rue St. Joseph, and of Louis Étienne Auguste Aubert, of independent means, age fifty-six years, residing in Paris at No. 106 Rue de Cléry, maternal grandfather of the said child. And after perusal of the present the father and the witnesses have signed, ZOLA, LECERF, AUBERT, DECAU, mayor.

B

DECLARATION OF THE DEATH OF ZOLA

The year 1902, this thirtieth day of September, before us, Mayor of the Ninth Arrondissement of Paris, declaration has been made of the death of Monsieur Émile Zola, officer of the Legion of Honour, _homme de lettres_, who died the twenty-ninth September in Paris, at his residence, situated No. 21 _bis_ Rue de Bruxelles, at the age of sixty-two years. Son of the deceased François Zola, engineer, and of the deceased Émilie Aubert. Husband of Madame Alexandrine Gabrielle Zola, _née_ Meley. In testimony of which the declaring witnesses have signed with us, LABORI, M. DUTARD, ----, mayor.

C

NOTE ON SOME ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF ZOLA'S NOVELS

Some information respecting the first editions, etc., of Zola's writings has been given in a number of foot-notes in the course of the present volume. That information is by no means exhaustive, but pending the appearance of a complete bibliography, which will surely be undertaken before long, it may be acceptable to various readers and book-collectors. For the convenience of those who are unacquainted with French, the author here appends a list of the translations in the English language which are known to him. Unfortunately he has no acquaintance with the great majority of those issued in America. Should the present volume be reprinted, and information concerning American translations be supplied to him through his publisher, he will endeavour to include it in a future edition. He may mention now that he believes several translations of merit have been made in the United States by Mr. Benjamin R. Tucker.

With respect to the English translations those published by Vizetelly & Co. between 1884 and 1889 were the following: "The Fortune of the Rougons," "The Rush for the Spoil" ("La Curée"), "A Love Episode" ("Une Page d'Amour"), "Fat and Thin" ("Ventre de Paris"), "The Conquest of Plassans," "Abbé Mouret's Transgression," "His Excellency E. Rougon," "The Assommoir," "Nana," "Piping-Hot" ("Pot-Bouille"), "The Ladies' Paradise" ("Au Bonheur des Dames"), "How Jolly Life is!" ("La Joie de Vivre"), "Germinal," "His Masterpiece" ("L'Œuvre"), "The Soil" ("La Terre"), "Madeleine Férat," "Thérèse Raquin," and "A Soldier's Honour" (short stories). All the above were issued in crown octavo form. There were also large octavo editions of "Nana," "The Assommoir," and "Piping-Hot," each with about one hundred illustrations. The smaller volumes also contained illustrations or frontispieces. After the first proceedings at law against the publishers, most of the above translations were re-expurgated and reissued. The reissues were distinguished from the earlier editions by the words "A new Edition," and by the heading "The Rougon-Macquart Family," I, II, III, etc., which heading does not appear on the title-pages of the first and fuller editions. There was, however, no such reissue of "Nana," "Piping-Hot," and "The Soil." In some early catalogues "Claude's Confession" was announced by the firm, but the writer does not find that it was ever published. The above translations are all out of print, with the exception of "The Soil," which is sold _in France only_ by the proprietor of the copyright of that translation (Paris, Flammarion). In consequence of the conviction of Henry Vizetelly it may not be sold in the British dominions.

The English translations now in circulation in Great Britain are enumerated below. Here and there in the list the writer has mentioned some American editions known to him. In the case of the Rougon-Macquart series the order in which the volumes are placed is that in which they should be read.

ROUGON-MACQUART SERIES.

I. "The Fortune of the Rougons," edited with an introduction
by Ernest A. Vizetelly. London, Chatto and Windus, St.
Martin's Lane.

II. "His Excellency" ("Son Exc. E. Rougon"), edited, etc., by
E. A. Vizetelly. London, Chatto. The same, published in New
York by the Macmillan Co.

"La Curée" should follow here, but there is no English
version on sale.

III. "Money" ("L'Argent"), translated by E. A. Vizetelly.
London, Chatto.

IV. "The Dream" ("Le Rêve"), translated by Eliza E. Chase.
Eight illustrations. London, Chatto.

V. "The Conquest of Plassans," edited, etc., by E. A.
Vizetelly. London, Chatto.

"Pot-Bouille" should follow here, but no English version is
in circulation.

VI. "The Ladies' Paradise" ("Au Bonheur des Dames"), edited,
etc., by E. A. Vizetelly. Frontispiece. London, Hutchinson &
Co., Paternoster Row.

VII. "Abbé Mouret's Transgression," edited, etc., by E. A.
Vizetelly. London, Chatto.

VIII. "A Love Episode" ("Une Page d'Amour"), translated by E.
A. Vizetelly. Ninety-four illustrations. London, Hutchinson.

IX. "The Fat and the Thin" ("Le Ventre de Paris"), translated
by E. A. Vizetelly. London, Chatto.

X. "The Joy of Life," edited, etc., by E. A. Vizetelly.
London, Chatto.

XI. "The Dram Shop" ("L'Assommoir"), edited, etc., by E. A.
Vizetelly. London, Chatto.

XII. "His Masterpiece" ("L'Œuvre"), edited, etc., by E. A.
Vizetelly. London, Chatto.

XIII. "The Monomaniac" ("La Bête Humaine"), translated by
Edward Vizetelly (see _ante_, p. 248, foot-note). London,
Hutchinson.

XIV. "Germinal," edited by E. A. Vizetelly. London, Chatto.

"Nana" should follow here, but no English version of the
slightest value is in circulation, though of this and a few
other volumes there are some paltry adaptations, which omit
from a third to half of those works as they stand in the
original French.

After "Nana" should come "La Terre," no English version of
which is sold in Great Britain.

XV. "The Downfall" ("La Débâcle"), translated by E. A.
Vizetelly. London, Chatto.

An American translation, under the same title, by E. P.
Robins, was published by the Cassell Co., New York, 1893. The
Macmillan Co. also catalogues a translation, perhaps the same.

XVI. "Doctor Pascal," translated by E. A. Vizetelly. London,
Chatto.

An American translation by Mary J. Serrano is published by
the Macmillan Co., New York.

The "TROIS VILLES" series: I, "Lourdes," II, "Rome," and III,
"Paris," as translated by Ernest A. Vizetelly, is published
in London by Chatto and Windus, in New York by the Macmillan
Co.

Of Zola's last series, "LES QUATRE ÉVANGILES," only three
volumes were issued, the translations being as follows:

I. "Fruitfulness" ("Fécondité"), translated by E. A.
Vizetelly. London, Chatto; New York, Doubleday.

II. "Work" ("Travail"), translated by E. A. Vizetelly.
London, Chatto.

An American translation called "Labor" is issued by Messrs.
Harper, New York.

III. "Truth" ("Vérité"), translated by E. A. Vizetelly.
London, Chatto; New York, John Lane.

There are also the following translations of Zola's
miscellaneous novels and short stories:----

I. "Thérèse Raquin," translated by Edward Vizetelly, London,
Grant Richards.

II. "A Dead Woman's Wish" ("Le Vœu d'une Morte"), translated
by Count C. S. de Soissons. London, Greening.

III. "The Mysteries of Marseilles," translated by Edward
Vizetelly. London, Hutchinson.

IV. "The Honour of the Army and other Stories" ("Le Capitaine
Burle," "Naïs Micoulin," "Nantas," etc.), edited by E. A.
Vizetelly. London, Chatto. This volume is not identical with
the one called "A Soldier's Honour," formerly published by
Vizetelly & Co., some of the tales contained in the latter
having been omitted, and others added.

V. "Stories for Ninon" ("Contes à Ninon" and "Nouveaux Contes
à Ninon"), translated by Edward Vizetelly. 2 vols. London,
Heinemann.

VI. "The Attack on the Mill," etc. London, Heinemann.

One may also mention Zola's "Letters to France" (Dreyfus
case), introduction by L. F. Austin. London and New York,
John Lane.