ZOLA Émile (1840-1902). COLLECTION of letters,... - Lot 199 - Aguttes

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ZOLA Émile (1840-1902). COLLECTION of letters,... - Lot 199 - Aguttes
ZOLA Émile (1840-1902). COLLECTION of letters, pieces and autograph notes, many of them signed, and some documents from another hand, [Notes sur François Zola], 1868-1899; 85 autograph pages of various sizes, and 17 non-autograph pages, all mounted on tabs and bound in a small volume in-4 purple half-maroquin (H. Jacquet-Riffieux) Very nice set of documents on François Zola, engineer who died in 1847, whose memory Zola will want to rehabilitate. François ZOLA (Venice 1795-Marseille 1847) had joined the Foreign Legion in 1830, but had to resign in 1832, having been involved in a case of embezzlement, which ended in a dismissal. He became a civil engineer in Marseille and designed several large-scale projects, including dams and a water conveyance canal for the city of Aix-en-Provence, where he settled with his family in 1843. He died suddenly, leaving his family in debt. His son wrote: "My father passes like a shadow in the memories of my early childhood...During the Dreyfus Affair, Zola defended his father, whose memory had been slandered.
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