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Émile Zola

1840 - 1902

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Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, also US: , French: [emil zɔla]; 2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Émile Zola has received more than 3,541,784 page views. His biography is available in 110 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 107 in 2019). Émile Zola is the 52nd most popular writer (down from 33rd in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from France (down from 23rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Writer.

Émile Zola is most famous for his novel, "J'accuse" (I accuse) in which he accuses the French government of anti-Semitism.

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  • 110

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  • 4.77

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Émile Zola ranks 52 out of 5,755. Before him are Mark Twain, Simone de Beauvoir, Sappho, Octave Mirbeau, Arthur Conan Doyle, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. After him are Hesiod, Gabriel García Márquez, Daniel Defoe, Li Bai, Bertolt Brecht, and Stendhal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Émile Zola ranks 4. Before him are Claude Monet, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Auguste Rodin. After him are Victoria, Princess Royal, Murad V, Odilon Redon, Carlota of Mexico, Alphonse Daudet, Carl Menger, Ernst Abbe, and John Boyd Dunlop. Among people deceased in 1902, Émile Zola ranks 1. After him are Cecil Rhodes, Swami Vivekananda, Rudolf Virchow, Levi Strauss, Maria Goretti, Marie Henriette of Austria, Samuel Butler, James Tissot, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Francis, Duke of Cádiz, and Victor D'Hondt.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Zola ranks 49 out of 6,011. Before him are Louis XIII of France (1601), Édouard Manet (1832), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Auguste Rodin (1840), Pierre de Coubertin (1863), and Michel de Montaigne (1533). After him are Claudius (-10), Brigitte Bardot (1934), Francis I of France (1494), Pierre de Fermat (1601), Michel Foucault (1926), and William the Conqueror (1028).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Émile Zola ranks 13. Before him are Honoré de Balzac (1799), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Marcel Proust (1871), Denis Diderot (1713), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), and Octave Mirbeau (1848). After him are Stendhal (1783), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), Charles Perrault (1628), Romain Rolland (1866), and Marquis de Sade (1740).

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