Thanks be to Warner Brothers for making “The Life of Emile Zola” with such loving care that it emerges on the screen of the Hollywood Theatre as the most distinguished and most important contribution ...

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 ...

What inspired Mary Cassatt’s portraits of mothers? Why did Jackson Pollock paint on the floor? Eureka investigates the origins of artists’ most famous works and techniques, unpacking how great art ...

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M. Herriot, the new French Premier, unveiled today a monument to the memory of Emile Zola, the great realistic author, champion of justice and defender of Captain Alfred Dreyfus. The Zola monument has ...

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 ...

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A turbulent friendship of French cultural giants, the bond between post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne and novelist Emile Zola makes for agreeable big-brushstroke historical drama in Danièle ...

IF it he true that the critical spirit to-day, in presence of the rising tide of prose fiction, a watery waste out of which old standards and landmarks are seen barely to emerge, like chimneys and the ...

History fated Emile Zola and Alfred Dreyfus to forever be footnotes in each other’s stories. Dreyfus, a military officer wrongly convicted of treason, sparked an antisemitism scandal that split French ...