In the office of the head of staff, he found himself in the presence of Du Paty and three others, also in civilian dress, whom he did not know at all ; they were Gribelin ( the archivist of the Intelligence Office ), the " chef de la sûreté ," Cochefert, and the latter's secretary.

While awaiting the general, Du Paty, pretending that he had hurt his finger, asked Dreyfus to write from his dictation a letter which he wished to present for signature.

Du Paty had flattered himself that the culprit, on recognizing the words, would confess ; a loaded revolver lay on a table to allow him to execute justice upon himself.

Things did not turn out as Du Paty had expected.

There was a moment when Du Paty, who was closely watching him, imagined he saw his hand tremble, and remarked sharply upon it to Dreyfus, who replied, " My fingers are cold.

" Du Paty and his associates assured him that a " long inquiry " made against him had resulted in " incontestable proofs " which would be communicated to him later on.

The conduct of the inquiry was entrusted to Major Du Paty de Clam.

Du Paty repeatedly visited Dreyfus in prison.

Not until 29 October did Du Paty show the entire text of the bordereau to Dreyfus, and then he made him copy it.

On October 31 Du Paty finished his inquiry, and handed in his report, which accused Dreyfus but left it to the minister to decide what further steps should be taken.

Du Paty de Clam got entangled in his description of the scene of the dictation.

This dossier was given up, still sealed, by Major Du Paty ( who was ignorant of the contents ) to Colonel Maurel, and the latter immediately entered the room where the judges were deliberating on the case, and communicated it to his colleagues.

" ( a commonplace initial which it was absurd, after Panizzardi's telegram, to attribute to Dreyfus ), and a sort of military biography of Dreyfus, based on, but not identical with, a memorandum from Du Paty, who had been told to make the various documents of the secret dossier coincide with one another.

The same day the condemned man received a visit from Du Paty de Clam, who had been sent by the minister of war with the mission to declare to Dreyfus that if he would make a confession and reveal the nature of his indiscretions, he might obtain a mitigation of his sentence.

Du Paty, somewhat moved, said to him on going out: " If you are innocent, you are the greatest martyr of all time.

In reality, the latter had merely related his interview with Du Paty and protested his innocence.

He wrote himself to the president, to Du Paty, and to General Boisdeffre without receiving any replies.

Du Paty declared: " They are from Matthew Dreyfus "; Bertillon said: " It is the writing of the bordereau.

Gonse, Henry, Lauth, Du Paty de Clam, were all present ; the last, although having nothing to do with the Intelligence Office, had been summoned to it as the principal worker in the condemnation of Dreyfus, and as interested therefore more than any one in maintaining it.

At the Staff Office Henry and Du Paty, understanding at once the wishes of Boisdeffre and of Gonse, resolved to join forces with Esterhazy.

There, while Henry ( fearing, as he said, recognition by his former comrade ) kept watch, Du Paty, who was also disguised, told Esterhazy that he was known to be innocent, and that he would be defended on condition that he conformed rigorously to the instructions that would be given to him.

Every evening from this time on Gribelin brought to him at the Military Club the program for the next day ; Du Paty and Henry, whose connection with the affair Esterhazy soon knew, saw him several times, sometimes at the Montmartre cemetery, sometimes on the Pont d ' Alexandre III.

Du Paty writes to Esterhazy: " The experts have been appointed.

" Gathering together with the prophetic imagination of the novelist all the details of a story of which up to then the outlines had hardly been discerned, he threw into relief, not without a good deal of exaggeration, the " diabolical rôle " of Colonel Du Paty.

Then I spoke at the ninetieth birthday party of W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, who embarked on a fictional trilogy at eighty-nine and who, with The Crisis, had created a Negro intelligentsia that had never existed in America before him.

Loneliness tore through him like a physical pain whenever he thought of Peter Robert, Nerien, Nicholas Cop, Martin Bucer, and even the compromising Louis Du Tillet.

Another time, a Du Pont executive made a visit to see him at Columbia.

The son of the gangster Du Yuesheng was arrested by him.

Du Bois supported him, but they grew apart as Du Bois sought more action to remedy disenfranchisement and lower education.

Charles raised funds to fit out two ships: the Elisabeth, an old man-of-war of 66 guns, and the Doutelle ( le Du Teillay ) a small frigate of 16 guns, which successfully landed him and seven companions at Eriskay on 23 July 1745.

The son of the gangster Du Yuesheng was arrested by him.

Du Guesclin was captured after a memorable resistance, and ransomed by Charles V, who considered him invaluable.

During the hunt, he is mounted on Du y Moroedd, the only horse that can carry him.

Ronsard's period of study occupied seven years, and the first manifesto of the new literary movement, which was to apply to the vernacular the principles of criticism and scholarship learnt from the classics, came not from him but from Du Bellay.

Ronsard's own work came a little later, and a rather idle story is told of a trick of Du Bellay's which at last determined him to publish.

It excited violent dislike to Ronsard on the part of the Huguenots, who wrote constant pasquinades against him, strove ( by a ridiculous exaggeration of the Dionysiac festival at Arcueil, in which the friends had indulged to celebrate the success of the first French tragedy, Jodelle's Cleopatre ) to represent him as a libertine and an atheist, and ( which seems to have annoyed him more than anything else ) set up his follower Du Bartas as his rival.

Chesnutt's views on race relations put him between Du Bois ' talented tenth and Booker Washington's separate but equal positions.

Jacques Davy Du Perron, bishop of Évreux, afterwards cardinal and archbishop of Sens, accused him of misquoting at least 500, and a public disputation was held at Fontainebleau on 4 May 1600.

For many years Du Bois-Reymond and his friend Hermann von Helmholtz, who like him had been a pupil of Johannes Peter Müller, were prominent scientists and professors in the Prussian capital.

Du Bois ' The Souls of Black Folk convinced him that the fight for social equality was most important.

Yuan Shao again sent him with an army to Runan to aid the bandit leader, Gong Du.

Du Bois ' Souls of Black Folk, which had a major impact on him and stirred his political involvement.

Ferdinand Brunetière points out the analogy of Du Vair's position with that afterwards developed by Blaise Pascal, and sees in him the ancestor of Jansenism.

Circumstantial evidence claims him to have been born the illegitimate child of an unknown priest and a woman named Marie Du Fayt, though this suggestion is as of yet unproven.

One particularly famous one — placed in more than one location and later published by William Pope — claims that he took only a part of his potential loot from a gentleman when his wife agreed to dance with him in the wayside, a scene immortalised by William Powell Frith in his 1860 painting Claude Du Val.

Tony and Drama Desk Awards went to costume designer Raoul Pène Du Bois, choreographer Donald Saddler, and Gallagher as best leading actress ; Kelly won a Tony as best featured actress, and Shevelove's work earned him a Drama Desk Award for outstanding book.