For 10 points, name this French author who weighed in on the Dreyfus affair in J'Accuse.
This novelist claimed that scientific methodology could be applied to the writing of novels in his treatise "The Experimental Novel." This man also wrote a 20 novel cycle about the title family during the Second Empire called Rougon-Macquart. In one novel by this man, the rigid Catholic Comte Muffat de Beuville is ruined by the title courtesan. This author of Nana wrote a novel in which Etienne Lantier tries to organize coal miners. This author of Germinal wrote an open letter in which he accused his government of anti-Semitism for its jailing of a French officer. For 10 points, name this French author who weighed in on the Dreyfus affair in J'Accuse.
This novelist claimed that scientific methodology could be applied to the writing of novels in his treatise "The Experimental Novel.
Emile Edouard-Charles-Antoine Zola