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Emile Zola: if you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: 'I am here to live out loud.'.

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Date: 20070501
Author:Teisch, Jessica

In 1894 Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was put on trial for passing military secrets to the Germans. Despite improper court procedures and scant evidence of his guilt, he was convicted of espionage and sentenced to life in prison on Devil's Island. The Dreyfus affair scandalized France and divided the country between the Catholic Church, the royalists, and the army and the more liberal, republican society.

Emile Zola--one of the most widely read French novelists of his day and a founder of the literary school of naturalism--risked his reputation ...

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