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“... of Zola’s literary writing’. They distort the already distorted.‘He was only seven,’ Robert Lethbridge writes, ‘when the riots of February 1848 finished off the French monarchy once and for all.’ Zola was living in Aix-en-Provence and Lethbridge thinks he was ‘probably oblivious of bloody events on ...”

“... those touching and boring notices in the Times which read: ‘NM writes: Colonel Jocelyn Lethbridge – always known to his friends as “Stubby” – will be long remembered and sadly missed not only by them but by the regiment and at the club. Always one for a joke, Stubby combined unswerving loyalty with a lovable talent for organising ...”