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Aet. 35, to a French man of letters. “Le Tableau de Bianchi au Louvre” by Joris-Karl Huysmans appeared in Revue indépendante (October 1887). Téodor de Wyzewa reviewed George Moore’s novel A Mere Accident in Revue indépendante (September 1887); the novel would be rewritten as “John Norton” in Celibates (1895). Dujardin’s novel Les Lauriers sont coupés was serialized in Revue indépendante (May-August 1887) and then published as a book. J-H Rosny’s Les Corneilles was serialized in Revue indépendante (September-December 1887). Rosny had signed the “Manifeste des cinq” against Émile Zola’s novel La Terre in Le Figaro (18 August 1887).