Le Siècle - Monday, December 9, 1895
This report was originally published in French. Machine translations may be available in other languages.
ÉCHOS
Quelques renseignements sur M. Stuart Merrill, qui s'est donné sa tâche ingrate de recueillir des signatures en faveur d'Oscar Wilde et qui semble y réussir complètement. C'est un Américain d'une trentaine d'années, à figure intelligente et énergique. Il est bien connu comme poète. Sur les bancs du lycée Condorcet, où il a fait ses études, il a collaboré au Fou, journal lithographié, rédigé paf les elèves, sous la direction de M. Guillaumet et dont les exemplaires sont devenus rarissimes, car plusieurs écrivains et journalistes actuels y ont écrit, MM. René Ghil, Quillard, G.Vanor, E. Lefeuve, etc. C'est dans cette modeste feuille, à laquelle M. Catulle Mendès ne dédaigna pas de collaborer, que M. Stuart Merrill fit ses premières armes.
ECHOES
Some information on Mr. Stuart Merrill, who gave himself the thankless task of collecting signatures in favor of Oscar Wilde and who seems to have succeeded completely. He is an American in his thirties, with an intelligent and energetic face. He is well known as a poet. On the benches of the Condorcet high school, where he studied, he collaborated with Le Fou, a lithographed newspaper, written by the students, under the direction of Mr. Guillaumet and whose copies have become extremely rare, because several current writers and journalists there wrote, Messrs. René Ghil, Quillard, G. Vanor, E. Lefeuve, etc. It is in this modest sheet, to which Mr. Catulle Mendès did not disdain to collaborate, that Mr. Stuart Merrill made his debut.