Soirée Chez Les Verdurins

suivante de Rodrigue Courons la vengeance (scne 6). ACTE IILe comte ne regrette pas son geste et ne craint pas la colre du roi (scne 1). Rodrigue retrouve loffenseur de son pre et russit le convaincre de se battre avec lui (scne 2). Chimne, en visite chez lInfante, craint que Rodrigue ne tue son pre ou ne soit tu par lui. LInfante propose demprisonner Rodrigue pour viter lirrparable. Chimne accepte (scne 3). Hlas, il est trop tard. Un page annonce quon a vu le comte et Rodrigue partir ensemble (scne

he was the focus of the Naturalist doctrine which marked the extreme point of the view that the goal of the writer was Truth not Beauty. The group which had rallied around him during the furore unleashed by L’Assommoir (1877) collaborated on Les Soirées de Médan (1880), a collection of stories of the war of 1870, though not all contributors applied strict Naturalist principles. Nor, despite the flood of Naturalist texts which appeared in the 1880s and the migration of Naturalism to the theatre, did