Émile Zola

Émile Zola was born in Paris on 2 April 1840, the son of an Italian engineer. He grew up in Aix-en-Provence, where he became friends with Paul Cézanne, then settled in Paris. Having failed the baccalauréat, he joined the publisher Hachette in 1862, where he became head of publicity, before living by journalism and his books. He devoted twenty novels to the history of a single family. Involved in the Dreyfus affair, he was convicted in 1898 and lived for nearly a year in exile in England. He died in Paris in 1902.

In the catalogue 4

• NovelThérèse RaquinÉmile Zola · 1867LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Belly of ParisLe Ventre de ParisÉmile Zola · 1873Literature
• NovelPot LuckPot-BouilleÉmile Zola · 1882LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelGerminalÉmile Zola · 1885Literature