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. Émile Zola (1840–1902).

L.A.S. ‘Emile Zola’, Médan, 6 October 1894, to Pierre DALAVAT, ‘clerk at the Magistrates’ Court’ in Lourdes; 1 page, in-8 format, stamped envelope.

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L.A.S. ‘Emile Zola’, Médan, 6 October 1894, to Pierre DALAVAT, ‘clerk at the Magistrates’ Court’ in Lourdes; 1 page, in-8 format, stamped envelope.

[It was in August that the first volume of *Les Trois Villes* devoted to Lourdes was published. Henri Bourgeois, a civil engineering contractor in Chartres, feeling that his reputation had been defamed, took legal action against Zola and his publisher.] 43632

‘Thank you for your kind assurance. The trial is not due to take place until the 24th. But I would like to have the information within the next ten days or so, so that my lawyer can prepare his case’...