Emile Zola was the nineteenth century literary giant ... When the editor of Le Gil Blas, which was serializing Zola’s new novel Germinal, took exception to several sections, most notably an ...

It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them.

Emile Zola started his working life as a journalist ... During the serialisation of Germinal, the newspaper’s editor objected to a particularly brutal scene (in which a group of women set ...