DREYFUS AFFAIR - PROVENCE - Joseph (Jousé) d'ARBAUD (Meyrarg - Lot 360

DREYFUS AFFAIR - PROVENCE - Joseph (Jousé) d'ARBAUD (Meyrargues 1874 - 1950, félibre, Majoral in 1919 and manadier, Captain of the Confrérie des Gardians) / Autograph letter signed, 6 p petit in-8, circa 1896, [to Aix lawyer and félibre Jean-Marie Demolins]: "Je t'avoue que j'ai les oreilles et les c....... broken by the Dreyfus affair; all the potato makers that fate puts in my path, say to me: 'Where are we going, my God, poor France! Ah that bastard Zola. And that doddering Scheurer-Kestner. Ah! he arranged all those Jews for you, Drumont...!!!". I'm drunk. To my misfortune, I went to the café at aperitif time. I found birbes gargling with patriotism and pasty absinthes. One red-headed gentleman, shiny as a wormy apple, was spouting Pernod molecules all over the place: "Si on me donnait le gouvernement (textual), je leur aurais vite fait leur affaire... c'est comme les socialistes...". E zou qué n'iague! I couldn't resist the pleasure of telling him: "If I were given the government, I'd start by closing the cafés and banning the newspapers. We'd hear less c... (3 letters) talking about things they don't understand, and we'd wipe our asses with grocery paper". This man disapproved of me strongly, but he didn't take kindly to my righteous but trashy remarks - how open! That's the kind of intellectual resources Cavaillon has to offer, where the flower of intelligence is represented by those citizens who turn their swampy Pernod over on café tables", so he prefers to stay sealed up for half the day.