Translations:CP 03973/18/en
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- ↑ Gustave Geffroy (1855-1926), one of the founder members of the Académie Goncourt, becoming president in 1912. The Academy was composed of ten members, the eight signatories of the letter, along with Lucien Descaves and Émile Bergerat. Léon Daudet, Henry Céard, J. H. Rosny Aîné, J. H. Rosny Jeune, Gustave Geffroy and Élémir Bourges all voted in favour of Proust's book, whereas Jean Ajalbert, Léon Hennique, Émile Bergerat and Lucien Descaves all voted for the novel by Roland Dorgelès, Les Croix de bois. The Académie Goncourt has created a history on its internet page, where one can view an extract of a manuscript page of the deliberations that took place on 10 December 1919, the original of which is now conserved in the public archives of Nancy, the birthplace of Edmond de Goncourt, in the Académie Goncourt archive (register of resolutions 1903-1953, ref. Z 137), where it lists those present as "Geffroy, Bourges, Hennique, the Rosnys, Daudet, Ajalbert, Céard". The list of those present, which does not include Émile Bergerat and Lucien Descaves, explains why the latter two members did not sign the letter sent to Proust. [PK, CSz]