WRITER

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 3,828,456 page views. His biography is available in 113 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 110 in 2019). Émile Zola is the 42nd most popular writer (up from 52nd in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from France (up from 49th in 2019) and the 11th 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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  • 113

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  • 4.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Émile Zola ranks 42 out of 7,302. Before him are Alexander Pushkin, Friedrich Schiller, H. P. Lovecraft, Charles Dickens, Hermann Hesse, and Charles Baudelaire. After him are Stendhal, Euripides, Gustave Flaubert, Aristophanes, Jane Austen, and Aeschylus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Émile Zola ranks 3. Before him are Claude Monet, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. After him are Auguste Rodin, Crazy Horse, Murad V, Victoria, Princess Royal, Alphonse Daudet, Odilon Redon, Edward Drinker Cope, Carl Menger, and Ernst Abbe. Among people deceased in 1902, Émile Zola ranks 1. After him are Cecil Rhodes, Levi Strauss, Swami Vivekananda, Rudolf Virchow, Samuel Butler, Maria Goretti, Marie Henriette of Austria, Francis, Duke of Cádiz, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Ion Ivanovici, and Albert of Saxony.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Zola ranks 37 out of 6,770. Before him are Édith Piaf (1915), Paul Gauguin (1848), Émile Durkheim (1858), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Charles Baudelaire (1821), and Pierre Curie (1859). After him are Stendhal (1783), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Henry IV of France (1553), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Octave Mirbeau (1848), and Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1122).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Émile Zola ranks 11. Before him are Honoré de Balzac (1799), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Denis Diderot (1713), Alexandre Dumas (1802), and Charles Baudelaire (1821). After him are Stendhal (1783), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Marcel Proust (1871), and Romain Rolland (1866).

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