Notwithstanding the fact that his profligacy went to even
greater lengths in the city, he was successful in journalism, and soon
earned between seven and eight thousand francs a year as a leader-writer
and art critic. His first success was gained in a series of articles
in a little newspaper called _Le Tambour_, in which he fell foul of the
accepted canons of art, and hailed Claude Lantier and his companions as
the founders of a new school. Later he claimed to have made Fagerolles
by his articles, in the same manner as he formerly took credit for
making Lantier. He gradually dropped his old friends, however, finding
that the public only laughed at their productions, and in excuse pleaded
that he had not a journal in which he could support their cause;
but when, still later, he became director of a great Art review, he
preserved the same silence. After innumerable love affairs, he ended by
marrying Mathilde Jabouille. L'Oeuvre.
JORY (MADAME), wife of the preceding. See Mathilde Jabouille.
JOSEPH, a butler in the employment of Nana at La Mignotte. Nana.
JOSEPH, an old soldier who secured a situation in "The Ladies' Paradise"
through the influence of Lhomme, whose foster brother he was.
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