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The rue Saint-Joseph in Paris, where Zola was born. A photograph taken by Charles Marville in the 1850s, looking from the rue du Sentier toward the rife Montmartre. Zola at the age of six, with his droopy eyelid. It is a face that seems to promise strong resolutions. \n anonymous painting of the Zola family lone by an amateur in Aix-en-Provence. The mournful faces of mother and son are - rearly identical. An early-nineteenth-century lithograph of the Place des Quatre-Dauphins, in what was then the aristocratic quarter of Aix- en-Provence, the Quartier Mazarin. The fountain, showing four dolphins supporting an obelisk, which is surmounted by a pinecone, was erected in 1667. The Collège Bourbon abutted this square. The entrance to one of Aix’s aristocratic town houses, the Hôtel de Panisse-Passis, built in 1739. One of the mountain paths on which Cézanne and Zola used to hike, as it enters a dense pine wood overlooking the Infernets gorge and the Zola dam. The Zola dam, with Mont Sainte-Victoire in the distance. The Lycée Saint-Louis was constructed at Napoleon Bonaparte’s command and opened in 1820. Pictured here is the façade built in the 1850s, overlooking the newly traced Boulevard Saint-Michel. Charles Marville’s photograph of the leveled Châtelet district and the Châtelet Column being encased for removal dates to the 1850s, when Zola first arrived in Paris. Paul Cézanne in 1861. Zola in the early 1860s, when he was working as a clerk at the Customs House. Zola in his mid-twenties, director of publicity at Hachette. Edouard Manet, photographed by Nadar around 1865, when he was thirty-three. Manet’s portrait of Zola, exhibited at the 1868 Salon. The cover of Zola’s 1867 brochure on Manet, published for the one-man show Manet organized after being excluded from the artistic section of the Universal Exposition. A view of the Place de Clichy in June 1869, not long after Zola moved into the neighborhood. An undated photograph of Alexandrine Meley Zola. Army regulars encamped on the Champs-Elysées, during the German siege of Paris in 1870. The north wing of the Louvre in lîames during l<i semaine sanglante. A distant barricade is visible on the rue de Rivoli.
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