A conversation piece by ROBERT BALDICK based on the Goncourt Journals
Produced by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL
The Restaurant Magny, in the Rue Contre-Escarpe-Dauphine in Paris, was the scene in the eighteen-sixties of some of the most famous literary gatherings of modern times. The date of this particular dinner may be supposed to be Sunday,
October 22, 1866.