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Updated: May 5, 2025
He is not concerned about the quality of any great work, but in the quantity of dollars his purchase implies. Thus the financier in Mirbeau's LES AFFAIRES SONT LES AFFAIRES points to some blurred arrangement in colors, saying "See how great it is; it cost 50,000 francs." Just like our own parvenues.
In Octave Mirbeau's notorious novel, a novel which it would be complimentary to describe as naturalistic, the heroine is warned by her director against the works of Anatole France, "Ne lisez jamais du Voltaire. . . C'est un peche mortel . . . ni de Renan . . . ni de l'Anatole France. Voila qui est dangereux."
And yet the works of Brieux as ROBE ROUGE, portraying the terrible corruption of the judiciary and Mirbeau's LES AFFAIRES SONT LES AFFAIRES picturing the destructive influence of wealth on the human soul have undoubtedly reached wider circles than most of the articles and books which have been written in France on the social question.
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