Note 1 — BOOK III
Ernest Alfred Vizetelly translation
In the author's proofs of the earlier part of Vérité Doloir the mason is said to have a young son named Léon; Savin, the clerk, having one called Jules (see ante, p. 60). Some confusion seems to have arisen subsequently in M. Zola's mind with respect to these boys, for in later passages of the French original the name of Jules is given to Doloir's child, and that of Léon to Savin's. This error would undoubtedly have been rectified but for M. Zola's sudden death. In the present translation Jules has been changed to Léon, and Léon to Jules, wherever necessary.—Trans.