Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1898 — A French Lawyer, [ARTICLE]

A French Lawyer,

Brunetiere, the French critic, has given an amusing account of a trial in which he, as editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes, was sued for refusing an outraged playwright his legal “right of response" to criticism in that magazine. The plaintiff’s counsel, Maitre Goudinet, made a tremendous onslaught in his opening address. “Who are you, to pretend to deny us the right to speak This after the man had roared away for three hours! “By what right do you condemn us to silence?” The windows were rattling at that moment with his bellowing. “Is thia France? Is this the end of the nineteenth century? Was it our grandfathers who razed the Bastile?”