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Robert Mitchell (1818–1883): French journalist and politician, editor of various republican newspapers. Cassagnac's polemic with Mitchell was one of his characteristic loud press duels; such exchanges were a staple of Paris newspaper life in the 1880s. ↩
Émile de Girardin (1802–1881): the pioneering journalist who had transformed the French press by inventing the cheap subscription model. By 1881 he was in his late seventies but still publishing in Le Voltaire; he died in late April 1881. ↩
Boulevard Malesherbes 151 was Cassagnac's Paris address — Marie regularly checks whether she might encounter him there. ↩
Divorçons (1880): a hugely successful comedy by Victorien Sardou and Émile de Najac, running at the Palais-Royal. It satirised the new divorce debates of the Third Republic. ↩