You are paid to dishonour my father, a woman claiming to be Esterhazy’s daughter shouted, rushing into the office of M. Jacques Richepin, the author of the Dreyfus affair play which is now being performed at the Nouvel Ambigue Theatre.
No, I am not, M. Richepin retorted, and what is more, I never received German Marks, for which your father dishonoured himself. It is established that he was a traitor. The woman who was trying to slash at M. Richepin with a whip was disarmed by friends of M. Richepin and was removed from the theatre.
A great deal of surprise is expressed here that the daughter of a proved traitor was not ashamed of declaring herself in public.
15 Camelots du Rois were arrested last night in the theatre, after they had attempted to break up the performance of the Dreyfus play. The disorder lasted only a few minutes, the police soon removing the interrupters.
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