Le Mot d'ordre - Saturday, April 13, 1895
This report was originally published in French. Machine translations may be available in other languages.
CHRONIQUE
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Mercredi 3 avril. — L’affaire Oscar Wilde continue à passionner l'opinion : détails piquants, maladresse sur maladresse du plaignant devenant accusé et réponses d’esthète ultra-fantaisiste à la justice anglaise qui ne s’en contente pas ; de la désinvolture d’acrobate qui se casserait le cou.
Au club, le poète a ses détracteurs et ses partisans.
« Le scandaleux, là-dedans, c'est l’hypocrisie anglaise, la sévérité de la loi dans un pays qui fournit le plus d’hiverneurs intéressés aux quais de Naples et aux rues du Caire. Ainsi, moi qui vous parle... (Suivent quelques chuchotements.)
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CHRONIC
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Wednesday April 3. — The Oscar Wilde affair continues to fascinate public opinion: piquant details, awkwardness and awkwardness of the plaintiff becoming accused and answers of an ultra-fanciful esthete to the English justice which is not satisfied with it; the casualness of an acrobat who would break his neck.
At the club, the poet has his detractors and supporters.
“The scandalous thing in all of this is the English hypocrisy, the severity of the law in a country which supplies the most interested winterers to the quays of Naples and the streets of Cairo. Thus, I who speak to you... (A few whispers follow.)
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