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ZOLA Émile (1840-1902). RECUEIL de lettres, pièces et notes autographes,
Estimate14 000 - 15 000 €
ZOLA Émile (1840 - 1902) RECUEIL de lettres, pièces et notes autographes, dont plusieurs signées, et quelques documents d'une autre main, [Notes sur François Zola], 1868-1899| 85 autograph pages in various formats, and 17 non-autograph pages, all mounted on tabs and bound in a small in-4 purple half-maroquin volume (H. Jacquet-Riffieux).
A very fine set of documents on François Zola, an engineer who died in 1847, and whose memory Zola was determined to rehabilitate.
François ZOLA (Venice 1795-Marseille 1847) joined the Foreign Legion in 1830, but was forced to resign in 1832 after being implicated in a case of embezzlement, which was dismissed. After becoming a civil engineer in Marseille, he 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.
A. À propos d'une campagne à Aix-en-Provence, 1868.
5 drafts of autograph letters| and 4 letters addressed to
(We follow the chronological order of the letters here, not the order of the binding). [August 3], to REMONDET-AUBIN, director of the Mémorial d'Aix (4 p.
in-4). Zola protests against the Mémorial's refusal to insert his response to an item directed against himself. "Indeed, I suffered a barbarity at your place: I saw my father die at work and then be stoned to death, even in his memory"... He vigorously rebukes the editor, then adopts an ironic tone to acknowledge that
Le Mémorial "has not yet tried to erase my name from the cover of my books, as it has often done when talking about the Zola canal"... [August 3], to Léopold ARNAUD, director of Messager de Provence (1 p.). He asks him to insert the text of his letter to Le Mémorial, where he has been attacked "with rudeness". [August 12], to REMONDET-AUBIN (8 p.). He notes an insulting sentence in Le Mémorial: "M. Zola fils abus un peu trop de M. Zola père." How! You already have enough of my complaints! But I've only just begun.
So you don't understand that if I've kept silent for so many years, it's because I've been waiting to be strong| I've been fighting for ten years, I've grown in work and courage, I've conquered my position by fighting every day against misery and despair.
And now you want to silence me [...] Ah! you say I'm abusing my father's name, on the day when for the first time I severely reproach you for forgetting. You lack tact, you lack heart"... [September 14], to the Mayor and members of the City Council of Aix. "My father, M. François Zola, provided the town you represent with a canal. I won't remind you of his long negotiations with the government, the struggles he had to endure from the outset, the successes he achieved when death seized him just as he was about to realize his project, which had been declared a public utility"... To ensure that the creator of the canal
Aix in water, his son asked for some tribute to his memory... [After December 19], to the Mayor and members of the Aix City Council. He received a copy of their deliberations and of the decree by which they named the boulevard du Chemin
Neuf the name of François Zola. "I knew I would not be able to recall my father's work without your generosity being moved by the delay in rewarding the memory of a man who devoted himself to the interests of the citizens you represent.
[...] Please accept my deepest gratitude. Although I'm not a son of your town, I grew up in Aix and consider myself somewhat its adopted child. Today, a new bond binds me strongly to it"...
Letters to Zola on the same subject from REMONDET-AUBIN (July 31, 1868), L. MARGUERY (Aix, August 1, 1868 and Dimanche), and Pascal ROUX, mayor of Aix (November 6, 1868, announcing the City Council's decision to name the Boulevard Zola).
B. Letters to General de Galliffet and M. Waldeck-Rousseau, December 1899. MANUSCRIT, partly autograph and signed (18 p. in-4, including 10 in Madame Zola's hand, who has copied the two letters to Galliffet, at the bottom of which Zola has affixed her signature, as well as the Minister's reply).
This exchange of letters between Zola and the Minister of War, General de GALLIFFET, and the Minister of the Interior, WALDECKROUSSEAU, was published in L'Aurore on December 19, 1899 (the manuscript was cut up for printing and reassembled).
December 9, to General de GALLIFFET. "An editor of the Petit
Journal, M.
A very fine set of documents on François Zola, an engineer who died in 1847, and whose memory Zola was determined to rehabilitate.
François ZOLA (Venice 1795-Marseille 1847) joined the Foreign Legion in 1830, but was forced to resign in 1832 after being implicated in a case of embezzlement, which was dismissed. After becoming a civil engineer in Marseille, he 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.
A. À propos d'une campagne à Aix-en-Provence, 1868.
5 drafts of autograph letters| and 4 letters addressed to
(We follow the chronological order of the letters here, not the order of the binding). [August 3], to REMONDET-AUBIN, director of the Mémorial d'Aix (4 p.
in-4). Zola protests against the Mémorial's refusal to insert his response to an item directed against himself. "Indeed, I suffered a barbarity at your place: I saw my father die at work and then be stoned to death, even in his memory"... He vigorously rebukes the editor, then adopts an ironic tone to acknowledge that
Le Mémorial "has not yet tried to erase my name from the cover of my books, as it has often done when talking about the Zola canal"... [August 3], to Léopold ARNAUD, director of Messager de Provence (1 p.). He asks him to insert the text of his letter to Le Mémorial, where he has been attacked "with rudeness". [August 12], to REMONDET-AUBIN (8 p.). He notes an insulting sentence in Le Mémorial: "M. Zola fils abus un peu trop de M. Zola père." How! You already have enough of my complaints! But I've only just begun.
So you don't understand that if I've kept silent for so many years, it's because I've been waiting to be strong| I've been fighting for ten years, I've grown in work and courage, I've conquered my position by fighting every day against misery and despair.
And now you want to silence me [...] Ah! you say I'm abusing my father's name, on the day when for the first time I severely reproach you for forgetting. You lack tact, you lack heart"... [September 14], to the Mayor and members of the City Council of Aix. "My father, M. François Zola, provided the town you represent with a canal. I won't remind you of his long negotiations with the government, the struggles he had to endure from the outset, the successes he achieved when death seized him just as he was about to realize his project, which had been declared a public utility"... To ensure that the creator of the canal
Aix in water, his son asked for some tribute to his memory... [After December 19], to the Mayor and members of the Aix City Council. He received a copy of their deliberations and of the decree by which they named the boulevard du Chemin
Neuf the name of François Zola. "I knew I would not be able to recall my father's work without your generosity being moved by the delay in rewarding the memory of a man who devoted himself to the interests of the citizens you represent.
[...] Please accept my deepest gratitude. Although I'm not a son of your town, I grew up in Aix and consider myself somewhat its adopted child. Today, a new bond binds me strongly to it"...
Letters to Zola on the same subject from REMONDET-AUBIN (July 31, 1868), L. MARGUERY (Aix, August 1, 1868 and Dimanche), and Pascal ROUX, mayor of Aix (November 6, 1868, announcing the City Council's decision to name the Boulevard Zola).
B. Letters to General de Galliffet and M. Waldeck-Rousseau, December 1899. MANUSCRIT, partly autograph and signed (18 p. in-4, including 10 in Madame Zola's hand, who has copied the two letters to Galliffet, at the bottom of which Zola has affixed her signature, as well as the Minister's reply).
This exchange of letters between Zola and the Minister of War, General de GALLIFFET, and the Minister of the Interior, WALDECKROUSSEAU, was published in L'Aurore on December 19, 1899 (the manuscript was cut up for printing and reassembled).
December 9, to General de GALLIFFET. "An editor of the Petit
Journal, M.