AUTHOR’S NOTE
To-day, when the nations are gathered about the statue over-looking the arena in which the hero fought, does it not seem permissible to add to the legend the embellishment of a reality which will not misrepresent it? And, if it is found that this reality trenches too closely upon the man’s private life, need we object?
It was in Simon Dubosc that the western spirit first became conscious of itself and it is the whole man that belongs to history.
