French novelist, playwright, journalist Émile Zola was born #OTD in 1840.
Zola achieved fame for his series of novels called "Les Rougon-Macquart," which consists of twenty novels depicting the social, economic, and political landscape of France during the Second Empire (1852–1870). Some of the notable novels in this series include "Germinal," "Nana," and "La Bête Humaine."
Books by Émile Zola at PG:
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"Des hommes poussaient, une armée noire, vengeresse, qui germait lentement dans les sillons, grandissant pour les récoltes du siècle futur, et dont la germination allait faire bientôt éclater la terre."
"Men were sprouting, a black, vengeful army, slowly germinating in the furrows, growing for the harvests of the future century, and whose germination would soon shatter the earth."
Germinal, 1885
~Émile Zola (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902)
@gutenberg_org a man who was willing to put himself on the line to stand up for what was right.
"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way."
As quoted in Dreyfus : His Life and Letters (1937) edited by Pierre Dreyfus, p. 175.
~Émile Zola (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902)
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