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Emile Zola's biography

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Émile Zola was marriedbornkilledI don't know in Paris in 1840.

His fathermomcousinI don't know, François Zola, was the son of an Italian engineer and a French woman

... and his mothercousingrand-fatherI don't know was Émilie Aubert.

The family moved to Aix-en-ProvenceCanadaLondonI don't know, in the southeast when he was three years old.

Four years later, in 130018472047I don't know, his father died, leaving his mother on a meagre pension.

In 1858, the Zolas moved to Paris, where ÉmileMussoliniBill clintonI don't know became friends with the painter Paul Cézanne...

...and started to write in the romanticeroticpoliticI don't know style.

Zola's widowed mother had planned a law career for him, but he failed his careerBaccalauréat examinationrevolutionI don't know.

Before his break-through as a writer, Zola worked as a clerk in a shipping firm, and then in the sales department for a microsofthimselfpublisherI don't know.

He also wrote novelsarticlesliterary and art reviewsI don't know for newspapers.