Émile Zola

Émile Zola in full ÉmileÉdouardCharlesAntoine Zola was a French novelist critic and political activist who was the most prominent French writer of the late 19th century He was noted for his theories of naturalism which underlie his monumental novel series Les RougonMacquart and for his intervention in the Dreyfus Affair through his famous open letter JAccuse