After a first marriage in 1865[2] in Villefranche-sur-Mer, with Angélique Thérèse De Villa-Rey, daughter of a commander of the Monaco Marine, who gave him a first son, Édouard Joseph, Pradels supposedly married the divette Maria Theresa Mirbeau in 1873.

Imbued with the chauvinist[4] and revanchist mentality that arose after the capitulation in 1871, he contributed throughout his career to the dissemination of this feeling.

[5] Evidence is given by this excerpt from the words of this Marche Lorraine written in 1892: Tes fils n'ont pas dégénéré, Sol sacré !

Paulus's memoirs were not published as a volume, but via the equivalent of booklets or black and white magazines sold each week.

Rich in a sumptuous iconography, these notebooks contain reproductions of the cited figures, scores, but also small contextual ads.