On 18 July 1898, the French novelist, journalist and playwright Émile Zola (1840-1902) was preparing to flee his home in Paris. As the most famous defender of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the Franco-Jewish ...

Forced into exile after getting caught up in a high-profile trial, the great French novelist spent Christmas 1898 in hiding in a south London suburb On Christmas Day 1898, France’s most famous writer, ...

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Born in Paris on April 2, 1840, Emile Zola was raised in Aix-en-Provence, where his father, an Italian engineer, had been hired by the municipality to build its waterworks. François Zola died just as ...

Editor's Note: Blood, Sex and Money is a groundbreaking adaptation of all 20 novels in Emile Zola's epic Rougon-Macquart family saga for BBC Radio 4. The first part 'Blood' is now available on ...

Michael Rosen’s account of Zola’s year of exile sheds light on the great author’s public heroism and personal failings. By Adam Kirsch No one thinks of themselves as being against truth and justice, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Michael Rosen is best known as a writer of children’s fiction, but his latest book is a study of a little-documented ...

Warners’ most ambitious film production of many months, “The Life of Emile Zola,” is a vibrant, tense and emotional story about the man who fought a nation with his pen and successfully championed the ...

Paul Cézanne was not only "the father of modern art" but a prodigious writer of letters to his friends, family, patrons and fellow painters. Here - from his own translation of over 250 of these - ...

Oliver Emanuel is one of the writers of Radio 4's groundbreaking drama serialisation of all 20 novels in Emile Zola's epic Rougon-Macquart family saga. He explains the challenges of bringing the ...