This author was known for his intense preparation, as when he rode in a locomotive to research La Bete Humaine.
This author was known for his intense preparation, as when he rode in a locomotive to research La Bete Humaine. He was fired from his job as a clerk in a publishing house when the autobiographical novel The Confession of Claude attracted the attention of Paris police. His best known works include L'Assomoir, The Soil, and The Dram Shop, and are found in a long series of naturalistic novels about life in the Second Empire called the Rougon Macquart series, which also contains Nana and Germinal. FTP, who was this French author perhaps best known for defending Alfred Dreyfus with his open letter J'accuse?
This author was known for his intense preparation, as when he rode in a locomotive to research La Bete Humaine.
Emile Zola