In an essay on various stage adaptations of Scenes de la vie de Boheme (1848) by Henri Murger, Cather describes a story based on "The End of a Mountebank and of Murger's Bohemia," in Alphonse Daudet's Thirty Years of Paris.
In a Courier piece after Daudet's death, Cather retells an anecdote of a disconcerting experience revealed in Thirty Years of Paris and of My Literary Life.