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HENRI ROCHEFORT Whatever may have been the views of English statesmen in 1896, Henri Rochefort harboured no illusions as to the ambitions and aims of the German Emperor.

In the light of what has transpired since, a light that blazed red for four years, I may have done Rochefort an injustice by quitting his house before the portrait was finished, because of the vehemence of his invective against the enemies of France and the unfortunate Dreyfus.