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y MILE EDoUARD CHARLES 70
: LA, usually called Emile zola,
- was born on April 2. 1910. in Paris.

LA, usually called Emile Zola.
A was born on April 2. 1910. in Paris.
of an Italian father, Francesca Zola,
and a Provencal mother. He was only
seven when his father died, virtually
bankrupt At the college to which CATER
receiving q primary education), he was
sent, at AK, in Provence. he did not par
ticularly distinguish himself, except In
composition. Nor. when later on. he con-
tinued his studies at the Lycee Louis
le-Grand, in Paris, did he give marked
evidence of extraordinary talents. In
deed he failed to win degree as bach
elor.
On leaving college to earn living
for himself like Alphonse Daudet, VINO
was his close friend through great part
of his career. he had to endure great
hardships Often, with his mother, he
came near starvation, and at one time
he accounted himself fortunate II he
could pay for a four room in disrepu-
table little hotel meuble in the Latin
quarter and q crust of bread with an
occasional slice OF meat as an accom-
paniment. For a short time he subsisted
on a trifiing elerkship His literary as
pirations were, however, from the outset
of his career, foremost among his pre-
occupations. After composing a poem
which he entitled "L'Amoureux Come
die" he was engaged, virtually as a
hack. by Hachettes, the great firm OF
Paris publishers Some time after he took
to Journalism, contributing to LIE Peut
Journal which, thirty or forty years
later. he was to prosecute, and La We
Parisienne."
In 1864 he produced a series Of delicate
stories. published as "Contes Ninon,
~, Mo Cd his HCOnfnSGiOn
de Claude" At the invitation Of NJ. de
VilIemessant, then rising into notoriety
as an editor, he became a book reviewer
and reporter on L'Evenement, with
salary of zoo francs Cs1O0) a month. His
subsequent articles on the Paris salon
caused considerable excitement, owing
to the unconventionality of the realistic
views which they expressed. When M.
de Villemessant assumed the editorship
of the Figaro, lola contributed for
time to that paper, leaving 1t, however.
ere long for the more congenial paths or
literature proper, Cor, as some thought
it. literature ilnproper). In turn he pub
lished "Therese Raquin' (afterward
dramatized and played in Engllsh oy
Mrs Potter and Mr.. Kyrle BELIEVE. Les
Mysteres de Marseille" and Madeleine
Ferat."
1t was in 1871 that he began the pub
Ucation of the immense work to which
he devoted the best years Of his literary
activity. the series Of studies known col
lectively as the "Rougon-Macquart
stories. The first of these, entitled La
Fortune des Rougon," at once attracted
general attention to the young author.
The other stories in the series dealt
more or less Realistically and pessimis-
tically with social conditions and char
acters during the corrupt period OF the
| second empire.
ON the termination Of the "Rougon-
Macauart" books, on which rests his best
claim TO fame, Zola wrote three stories,
collected under the title Of LES Trois
Villes." and treating of religious ques-
lions in Lourdes, Rome and Paris. In
Rome" he published remarkable study
of Pope Leo XIII. The freedom and
anti-Catholicism Of his views led to their
condemnation by the Congregation OF the
Index Casting about for new themes
he next began a series which he was
not destined to complete. entitled Les
Quatre Evanggiles," and including Fe-
condite," Travail ''Verite" (the last
of which is now being issued In Paris
as a seriaD.
Besides writing his novels, or studies,
and his critical essays, lola occasionally
experimented-not over-successfully-as
dramatist. His "Therese Raquin,"