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Emile Zola, French novelist, with his family, 1899. An influential writer, Zola was also an important figure in the liberalisation of French society at the end of the 19th century. He staunchly defended Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French Army officer wrongly accused of treason, a case that polarised French politics and society. In 1898 Zola wrote a famous letter titled J'accuse that was published on the front page of the newspaper L'Aurore. Tried and convicted of criminal libel, he was sentenced to a year's imprisonment and removed from the Legion d'Honneur, but escaped to exile in London, where he remained until July 1899. He died three years later from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a blocked chimney, and suspicion abounded that he had been murdered by his political enemies. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L'Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1850-1900, 2nd album, Editions MD, Paris. Get premium, high resolution news photos at getty

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