For 10 points, name this author who defended Alfred Dreyfus in "J'accuse."
One work by this writer, in which Laurent and the title character begin an affair and kill Camille, was his first commercial success, Thérèse Raquin. He wrote the autobiographical Confession of Claude and a novel cycle subtitled "The History of a French Family during the Second French Empire". In addition to a novel about a girl who brings Georges Hugon to commits suicide with scissors, the high-class coquette Nana, the Rougon-Macquart cycle includes The Drumshop and Germinal. For 10 points, name this author who defended Alfred Dreyfus in "J'accuse."
One work by this writer, in which Laurent and the title character begin an affair and kill Camille, was his first commercial success, Thérèse Raquin.
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