Fall Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/15/2018
Original personal calling card bearing Zola’s name, 4 x 2.5, signed in black ink with a note in French, sending his sympathies and regret. matted and framed In very fine condition.
Also included is a large signature on a 3x4 clipped page from a letter with salutation.
Émile Zola, April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'Accuse…! Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 190
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