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Émile Zola — Novelist of the Rougon-Macquart and voice of the Affair, 1840–1902
The novelist of L’Assommoir put his fame at an unknown captain’s service; convicted for “J’Accuse…!”, exiled a year in London, he died asphyxiated before the rehabilitation — “truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it”. (Editorial synthesis)
Émile Zola was born on 2 April 1840. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Émile Zola was born in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Émile Zola died on 29 September 1902. (source: Larousse)
Émile Zola died in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
According to consensus, Émile Zola died of carbon-monoxide asphyxiation, his chimney deliberately blocked by an anti-Dreyfusard. A contested minority hypothesis suggests accidental asphyxiation, the conclusion of the inquiry at the time. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica and Larousse)
Recorded work of Émile Zola: Germinal. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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