Zola, Émile
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...tr. Labor, 1901), and Verite (1903, tr. Truth, 1903). Zola had an ardent zeal for social reform. He was anti-Catholic and...Church. His part in the Dreyfus Affair (notably his article, "Jaccuse," 1898) was his most conspicuous public action, and he became...