Émile Zola

...an even more blatant, and risible, clich� - the housekeeper, reading the paper to Degas, says brightly, "Here's an article by Emile Zola." If the content of this drama takes us back to many other plays (or Hollywood film bios), the...

In this article: Suzanne Valadon, Eugene Delacroix, and London

...Nevermore, for instance. One liberating influence on the avant garde in the years leading up to 1900 was the novelist Emile Zola. A school friend of Cezanne who moved in impressionist circles in Paris, this rawly realistic novelist was...

In this article: Henri Matisse, Blue Nude, JW Waterhouse, Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Francis, and Paris

...in the country - home for eternity of such great minds as Nobel prize winning scientists Marie and Pierre Curie, author Emile Zola and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. French presidents can decree the transfer of luminaries to the...

In this article: Nicolas Sarkozy, Pantheon, Alexandre Dumas, The Stranger, Victor Hugo, Categorization, Bankruptcy, and Nobel Prize for literature

...Malraux, the Gaullist hero and postwar writer, shifted to the Left Bank necropolis which houses Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Emile Zola, Jean Moulin, Marie Curie, Louis Braille and many lesser-known heroes. But the operation looks too...

In this article: Albert Camus, Jean Moulin, Nobel Prize, Marie Curie, Alexandre Dumas, and Andre Malraux

...necropolis houses the remains of Voltaire and Louis Pasteur, as well as the writers Victor Hugo, Andre Malraux, Alexandre Dumas and Emile Zola. The chemist and physicist Marie Curie, and Sophie Berthelot, the wife of the chemist Marcellin...

In this article: Albert Camus, Nicolas Sarkozy, Jean Daniel, Le Monde, Pantheon, David Bellos, Paris, Alexandre Dumas, and Victor Hugo

...Andre Malraux, the Gaullist hero and writer, moved to the Republic's secular temple, which houses Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Emile Zola and other giants. Camus, who died in a car crash on January 1960 just south of Paris along with his...

In this article: Albert Camus, Nicolas Sarkozy, France, Totalitarianism, The Rebel, Nobel Prize for literature, Booker prize, and Le Monde