Colonel Picquart.--“Yes.”
M. Clemenceau.--“Does General de Pellieux think that Colonel Picquart
may answer?”
General de Pellieux--“I cannot speak of the Dreyfus trial. I had
nothing to do with it.”
M. Clemenceau.--“That is not my question. I ask: Does General de
Pellieux think that Colonel Picquart may answer the question put to
him?”
General de Pellieux.--“Colonel Picquart is judge of his own answers. I
have no advice or command to give him.”
M. Clemenceau.--“It is not advice or command that I ask, but an
opinion.”
General de Pellieux.--“I have no opinion to offer to Colonel Picquart.”
M. Labori.--“Then, _Monsieur le President_, will you ask General Gonse
if Colonel Picquart was not delegated by the minister of war to attend
the Dreyfus trial?”
General Gonse.--“I have not to answer that question.”
M. Labori.--“Then I say to the jury that it is the truth, and, if it
is not true, let one or the other of these gentlemen contradict me.
Now I ask General Gonse how he knows that the notes enumerated in the
_bordereau_ furnished any serious revelations regarding the important
subjects mentioned.”
General Gonse.--“From the titles themselves. I cannot suppose that
these notes contained trifles.”
M. Labori.--“Then I ask General Gonse this question: A traitor is a man
who delivers documents for money. When he delivers a serious document,
does he not show its importance, and, when he says ‘a note,’ can it be
taken to be a document instead of a personal note?”
General Gonse.--“I have no answer to make on that matter.”