Emile Zola was the nineteenth century literary giant with a fierce passion for the truth. A friend of Cezanne and Manet, he started out as a journalist and never lost the desire to hunt down a ...

Zola wrote an open letter to President Félix Faure in defense of the Jewish officer, which was published on the front page of the L'Aurore newspaper on 13 January,1898 and sold thousands of copies.