The editorial board of L’Fgalité*? had concluded an agreement 
with a printer’ for two years, under which the latter bore the 
expenses and shared the profits equally with the editorial board. A 
sale of 6,000 copies would cover the expenses. The first issue sold 
3,800 copies straightaway. But by the third issue the printer 
already declared that he no longer wished to pay out money in 
order to disseminate ideas which he did not share; henceforth he 
would pay only for the setting and the paper, the editorial board 
would have to provide the rest. Reference to the contract did not 
help. Accept or the paper closes (c’est a prendre ou a laisser). In 
return, he finally allowed the editorial board to receive the income 
from advertisements and sales outside Paris. Four days later the 
printer declared that this also had to stop; the editorial board 
would have to take over the newspaper on its own account. Since 
the board lacked the resources to do this, the newspaper was thus 
doomed. The editorial board will sue the man for breach of 
contract, but the newspaper remains dead and buried. The whole 
secret is that the man is being given a large Orleanist paper to 
print and has evidently been told that he must first show the 
damned socialists the door; after all, they had committed the 
crime of advocating the confiscation of the Orleans fortune. 

1883 paper 

No. ll, March 8, 1883 time 

4 Gabriel Deville, Jules Guesde, Paul Lafargue, Emile Massard.— Ed. 
b A. Le Tailleur.— Ed.