Ten years after its publication in 1898, the first volume of Léon Bloy’s diary, Le Mendiant ingrat, published by the famous Belgian bookseller Edmond Deman, sold 1100 copies. Barely 400 copies were sold. Fearing that the book would be sold out, Bloy tried to get back some copies. Finally, the broth was bought by Alfred Vallette, who had the copies covered with the yellow cover of the Mercure de France with the year 1908 and replaced the third leaf of the first notebook, which included the title, thus keeping the justification at the bottom of which, by contract, all the copies were signed by Bloy in 1898.