Le Voltaire (newspaper)

Overview

A republican Paris daily, first published on 5 July 1878 under the editorship of Aurélien Scholl, nicknamed «le Figaro républicain» and founded to support Gambetta's Union républicaine; Émile Zola wrote for it and it serialised fiction (en.wikipedia «Le Voltaire (newspaper)»; Center for Research Libraries catalogue: «1re année, n° 1 (5 juillet 1878)», ceased 12 April 1930). Not the writer Voltaire.

Relevance to Marie

A paper Marie reads, writes to and is written about in:

• 087.0314 (25 January 1880): she sends it an article of her own («l'article que voici … que j'ai envoyé au "Voltaire"»).
• 087.0429 (7 February 1880): Queen Isabella is indignant at an article «paru dans "le Voltaire"» against King Francis of Assisi.
• 088.0257 (21 May 1880): Saint-Amand has a few lines printed in it about her Salon picture.
• 092.0034 (21 May 1881): it lists her among the most elegant society women at the circus.
• 094.0465–0466 (29 April 1882): it names her among those present at the Chaulnes trial hearing, to her dismay.
• 097.0382 (7 January 1883): on Gambetta's death, «"Le Voltaire" fait pleurer».
• 098.0030 (14 January 1883), 103.0359 (22 February 1884), 104.0048 and 104.0050 (30 April 1884, the Salon varnishing-day issue).