L’Événement - Wednesday, April 17, 1895
This report was originally published in French. Machine translations may be available in other languages.
MON CARNET
MARDI. — Les Yankees ne se plaquent pas de logique. Ce peuple neuf, aux moeurs nouvelles, qui inventa le flirt, un flirt dont rougiraient les demi-vierges de Marcel Prévost, filles pourtant accommodantes à l’endroit de la vertu — à l’envers serait mieux — vient de rallumer les autodafés de la vieille inquisition. Les livres d’Oscar Wilde seront brûlée sur la grand place par la main du […] séculier. Après quoi, cet hommage rendu à la pudeur publique, les apparences plutôt sauves que saines, on reprendra comme avant les doux jeux du flirtage et des poches percées […] — je le dis en latin has empire — […] boys Kif kif.
Louis de Rage
MY NOTEBOOK
TUESDAY. “The Yankees don't stick to logic. This new people, with new mores, who invented flirtation, a flirtation that would make Marcel Prévost's half-virgins blush, girls who were nevertheless accommodating to virtue - the reverse would be better - has just rekindled the auto-da-fés of the old inquiry. Oscar Wilde's books will be burned in the main square by the hand of the […] secular. After which, this homage paid to public modesty, appearances more safe than healthy, we will resume as before the sweet games of flirting and pierced pockets […] — I say it in Latin has empire — […] boys Kif kif.
Louis of Rage