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I dare… to tell the truth, with all the force born of the revulsion of an honest man, since the normal channels of justice have failed to do so.
– Émile Zola
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The last years of novelist Émile Zola’s life were filled with upheaval.
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After a long career telling what he called “scientific” truths about poverty and working-class life in naturalist fiction, he put himself at risk by publishing his famous open letter to the president, J’Accuse!, on January 13, 1898 in defense of Jewish artillery officer Alfred Dreyfus.
Three years earlier, Dreyfus been falsely accused, stripped of rank, and prosecuted for treason by an anti-Semitic right wing intent on using his case to advance their own interests.
“In the modern age of celebrity,” writes Caroline Moorehead at The Guardian, “it is easy to forget the heightened public attention once enjoyed by bestselling writers and commentators.
Zola was then at the peak of his popularity, feted not only in Franc