Note 17 — ERNEST ALFRED VIZETELLY (continued 3)

This was perhaps due to the circumstance that Glais-Bizoin, the enfant terrible of the Republican opposition in the Corps Législatif, played the chief part in the directorship of the paper, the latter's better features being imparted to it by his co-editor, the scholarly Eugène Pelletan. It was run chiefly in view of the 1869 elections and Zola subsequently remarked that excepting himself and the office boy every member of its staff was a parliamentary candidate.