Le Matin

I made exclamation as I clasped to my breast my hands and my eyes shone with excitement.

I have read it in Le Matin just the day before yesterday.

You go to buy grain against the winter of starvation in the République.

No man is so great a financier as you and so brave a soldier with your wound not healed from the trenches in the Vosges.

And at the same time, that drew all of the reporters who, of course, were stationed right there in Printer's Alley.

That's where all of the newspapers were based.

And so that's where they would all convene and where so many of the investigative reporting of local government politics occurred was at the Gerst House.

So it's a pretty interesting part of Nashville's history.

Oh.

And just before leaving journalism altogether, he worked in Russia as an international correspondent for Le Matin, reporting on the 1905 Russian Revolution, which, which must have been s- just so fun.

Oh, absolutely.

Uh-huh.

Well, yeah.

Mm-hmm.

So in 1896, Gaston Leroux was still working as a re- reporter for Le Matin-

Yeah

Hmm.

And he is introduced to you all as a roving correspondent for the daily newspaper Le Matin by a man by the name of Gaston Leroux.

Gaston.

What? No.

The four disappearances are making the headlines.

Le Matin alluded to Bluebeard, the Landru drama begins, and all the newspapers bring out their bits of information.

The press plays a key role in the identification of the victims of Landru.

First of all, we must know what the press is.

The trial will last 20 days.

It's a big trial.

It's raised by the presence of personalities We see Mistinguette, there is Rému, there is Maurice Chevalier, and Le Matin, the newspaper Le Matin, has delegated its reporter, Colette, who will make very beautiful stories of this trial.

And so Landru will appear in this trial in a dazzling form.

Historical Preface: The Sandalwood Box.

One evening last year, I perceived in the waiting room of my newspaper, Le Matin, a man dressed in black, his face heavy with the darkest despair, whose dry, dead eyes seemed to receive the images of things like unmoving mirrors.

He was seated, and there rested on his knees a sandalwood box inlaid with polished steel.

An office boy told me that he had sat there motionless, silent, awaiting my coming for three mortal hours.

However, since the proofs of it exist, I ended, after a searching inquiry into them, by believing it to be true.

Monsieur Theophrastus Longway's reason for bequeathing this strange legacy to me was itself strange.

He did not know me, but he had read articles by me in Le Matin, his favorite organ, and among the many contributors to that journal he had chosen me, not for my superior knowledge, an allegation which would have made me blush, but because he had come to the conclusion that I possessed a more solid intellect than the others.

Gaston Leroux.

Sometimes there are five or six explosions almost simultaneously.

I suppose we shall read in the Times that all is quiet and in Le Matin that pour le reste tout est calme.

The staff are doing well.

They are generally too busy to be frightened but one has to speak once or twice to them before they hear.