蒻ile Zola was born on April 2, 1840, in Paris, France. His father was an Italian engineer. Young Zola studied at the Coll間e Bourbon in Provence, where his schoolmate and friend was Paul Cezanne. In 1858 Zola returned to Paris and became a student at the Lyc閑 Saint-Louis, from which he graduated in 1862. After working at clerical jobs, he began to write a literary column for a Parisian newspaper. Zola's main literary work was 'Les Rougon-Macquart', a monumental cycle of twenty novels about Pa ...[Read Story]