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Zola a écrit la - Lettre à la jeunesse - à l'occasion de l'agression d'un grand dreyfusard par les ligueurs étudiants. Extrait : « Des jeunes gens antisémites, ça existe donc, cela ? Il y a donc des cerveaux neufs, des âmes neuves, que cet imbécile poison a déjà déséquilibrés ? Quelle tristesse, quelle inquiétude, pour le vingtième siècle qui va s'ouvrir ! Cent ans après la déclaration des Droits de l'homme, cent ans après l'acte suprême de tolérance et d'émancipation, on en revient aux guerres de religion, au plus odieux et au plus sot des fanatismes ! Et encore cela se comprend chez certains hommes qui jouent leur rôle, qui ont une attitude à garder et une ambition vorace à satisfaire. Mais, chez des jeunes gens, chez ceux qui naissent et qui poussent pour cet épanouissement de tous les droits et de toutes les libertés, dont nous avons rêvé que resplendirait le prochain siècle ! Ils sont les ouvriers attendus, et voilà déjà qu'ils se déclarent antisémites, c'est-à-dire qu'ils commenceront le siècle en massacrant tous les juifs, parce que ce sont des concitoyens d'une autre race et d'une autre foi ! ».
LanguageFrançais
PublisherBauer Books
Release dateJan 28, 2024
ISBN9788834102367
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Emile Zola

Émile Zola (1840-1902) was a French novelist, journalist, and playwright. Born in Paris to a French mother and Italian father, Zola was raised in Aix-en-Provence. At 18, Zola moved back to Paris, where he befriended Paul Cézanne and began his writing career. During this early period, Zola worked as a clerk for a publisher while writing literary and art reviews as well as political journalism for local newspapers. Following the success of his novel Thérèse Raquin (1867), Zola began a series of twenty novels known as Les Rougon-Macquart, a sprawling collection following the fates of a single family living under the Second Empire of Napoleon III. Zola’s work earned him a reputation as a leading figure in literary naturalism, a style noted for its rejection of Romanticism in favor of detachment, rationalism, and social commentary. Following the infamous Dreyfus affair of 1894, in which a French-Jewish artillery officer was falsely convicted of spying for the German Embassy, Zola wrote a scathing open letter to French President Félix Faure accusing the government and military of antisemitism and obstruction of justice. Having sacrificed his reputation as a writer and intellectual, Zola helped reverse public opinion on the affair, placing pressure on the government that led to Dreyfus’ full exoneration in 1906. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902, Zola is considered one of the most influential and talented writers in French history.

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