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“... directed offstage that has nothing to tell us about the contents ahead. This is not the case with Jules Vallès. The dedications to the three books by which he’s mainly known are not meant kindly, are hard to avoid because they are printed directly underneath the title, convey the gist of what is coming and set the tone for the language it comes ...”

“... of ‘Le Temps des cerises’, the greatest of the songs associated with the Commune), the writer Jules Vallès and Courbet set about closing down all Catholic schools and removing religious symbols from the premises. The idea was to undo the stranglehold the Church had over schooling in Paris, where a third of children went to religious schools and ...”

“... is the fine French tradition of populist writing, in the work of such authors as the magnificent Jules Vallès or Charles-Louis Philippe, or, in a rather different direction, Simenon; and another native tradition, similarly strong, of the splendid humorous writing there has been in France over the past hundred years. The delectable band of the OuLiPo ...”

“... had become vanishingly rare. Murat locates its bloody-minded survival in the memoir of Jules Vallès, founder of the insurgent journal Le Cri du peuple, writing in 1881 about the fate of his artist friend André Gill, who ended his life confined in Sainte-Anne and Charenton. Gill broke down after seeing his painting of a madman, Le Fou, badly ...”

“... in the streets and the arrondissement committees – as other writers and artists such as Jules Vallès and Courbet assuredly were, during the brief spring of the Commune. In Rimbaud’s case, the revolution served the intellectual rather better. The wish to co-opt the poet-seer for ‘world historical’ purposes can lead to some odd ...”