He also supported Émile Zola's position in the Dreyfus affair.

Connick wrote the score for Susan Stroman's Broadway musical Thou Shalt Not, based on Émile Zola's novel Thérèse Raquin, in 2000 ; it premiered in 2001.

* 1898 – Émile Zola's J ' accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.

Émile Zola's " J ' Accuse " accused the highest levels of the French Army of obstruction of justice and antisemitism by having wrongfully convicted Alfred Dreyfus to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.

On 13 January 1898 Clemenceau, as owner and editor of the Paris daily newspaper L ' Aurore, published Émile Zola's " J ' accuse " on the front page.

L ' Aurore's front page on 13 January 1898 features Émile Zola's J ' accuse ( letter ) | open letter to the French President Félix Faure.

Temperance drama would even reach as far as the West Coast, as David Belasco's adaptation of Émile Zola's novel " Drink " premiered at the Baldwin Theatre in San Francisco in 1879.

The controversy surrounding the paintings was described in Émile Zola's novel L ' Œuvre ( 1886 ).

The Fortune of the Rougons ( French: La Fortune des Rougon ), originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monumental twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart.

La Curée ( 1871 – 72 ; English: The Kill ) is the second novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart.

La Conquête de Plassans ( 1874 ) is the fourth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart.

In Émile Zola's novel Thérèse Raquin, Thérèse Raquin and her second husband Laurent accidentally reveal to Thérèse's aunt, Madame Raquin ( who has suffered from locked-in syndrome after a stroke ), that they have killed Camille Raquin ( Madame Raquin's son ).

His more serious novels include Madelon ( 1863 ), L ' Infâme ( 1867 ), the three that form the trilogy of the Vieille Roche ( 1866 ), and Le roman d ' un brave homme ( 1880 ) – a kind of counterblast to the view of the French workman presented in Émile Zola's L ' Assommoir.

Naturalistic works often include uncouth or sordid subject matter ; for example, Émile Zola's works had a frankness about sexuality along with a pervasive pessimism.

In 1944, she returned to Mexican films starring in an adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Nana, which was well received.

Germinal ( 1885 ) is the thirteenth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart.

Le Ventre de Paris ( 1873 ) is the third novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart.

La Faute de l ' Abbé Mouret ( 1875 ) is the fifth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart.

L ' Assommoir ( 1877 ) is the seventh novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart.

In Émile Zola's short story La Mort d ' Olivier Becaille ( The Death of Olivier Becaille ), the title character is buried alive and notes that " I must have fallen into one of those cataleptic states that I had read of ".

The literary creations of Émile Zola were a noted source of inspiration, and the parallel led George Călinescu to propose him and Barbu Ştefănescu Delavrancea as the main representatives of Zola's style in local literature.

Émile Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle is a family saga, a format that later became a popular fictional form, going beyond the conventional three-volume novel.

On the other hand, he was a Dreyfusard and argued in favour of placing Émile Zola's remains in the Panthéon for Zola's part in the Dreyfus Affair.