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===Émile Zola===
[[File:Zola jaccuse0001.jpg|thumb|1898 portrait of Zola by [[Nadar]]]]
[[Émile Zola]] was born on 2 April 1840 in Paris. His main literary work was {{lang|fr|[[Les Rougon-Macquart]]}}, a monumental cycle of twenty novels about Parisian society during the [[French Second Empire]] under [[Napoleon III]] and after the [[Franco-Prussian War]]. He was also the founder of the [[Naturalism (literature)|Naturalist]] movement in 19th-century literature. Zola was among the strongest proponents of the [[French Third Republic|Third Republic]]. He was made Officer of the [[Legion of Honour]] on 13 July 1893 by President [[Raymond Poincaré]], but suspended on 26 July 1898. His rank was reinstated on 10 March 1901.
 
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