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...Hugues Le Roux delivered his fifth lecture in Sanders Theatre yesterday taking for his subject, "Has Zola described a general side of humanity, or a particular aspect of French society...
...Roux took for the text of his lecture a passage from Pascal: "L'homme n'est ni ange ni bete." This principle of Pascal Zola has ignored, and has only considered the lower side of man. Zola's novel, "La Terse," has lately been dramatized and put on the stage in a Parisian literary theatre. The characters are countrymen, people of little or no culture, who in every country have a certain brutality of instinct. Yet in criticising this work, the peasants declare that Zola has ascribed to them all the crimes committed in the whole of France during...
...Roux will give his sixth lecture under the auspices of the Cercle Francais in Sanders Theatre this afternoon at 4.30. The subject will be "Zola a-t-il peint un cote general de l'humanite, ou un aspect particulier de la societe francaise...
Cercle Francais Lectures. VI. Zola a-t-il peint un cote general de l'humanite ou un aspect particulier de la societe francaise? M. Hugues Le Roux. Sanders Theatre...
...widespread protest in this country at the present moment against the practices of the British government might thus materially assist the efforts of fair-minded Englishmen like Lehman, just as two years ago the world wide protest against the French government helped Zola and Picquart. Can not Harvard men then give some more deliberate and formal expression to those opinions which twice within the past fortnight have so strikingly revealed themselves...