ZOLA, Émile

[AFFAIRE DREYFUS] Émile ZOLA (L’Aurore, 13 janvier 1898) 

“J’accuse…!” Letter to the President of the Republic
Paris, L’Aurore, 13 janvier 1898, 4 pages in-plano

“The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it”

[AFFAIRE DREYFUS] Émile ZOLA (L’Aurore, 13 janvier 1898) 

First edition of the 87th issue of journal L’Aurore
[Paris, 13th January 1898], 4 p. in-plano

« The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it »  

[AFFAIRE DREYFUS] ZOLA, Émile (1840-1902)

Autograph card-letter signed « Z » [to Eugène Fasquelle]
[Queen’s Hotel, Upper Norwood], 1^st February [18]99, 2 pp. petit in-12°

« The horrible waste we are going through… »

[AFFAIRE DREYFUS] ZOLA, Émile (1840-1902)

[AFFAIRE DREYFUS] ZOLA, Émile (1840-1902)

Autograph letter signed « Émile Zola » [to his publisher Eugène Fasquelle]
Paris, 5th February 1901, 1 p. n-8° on laid paper

« I am sending you the Vérité en marche… »

[BAUDELAIRE] ZOLA, Émile (1840-1902)

Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » [to Léon Deschamps]
Paris, 20th March 1893, 1 p. in-8° on laid paper

« A few usual banal lines about Baudelaire… »

[MANET] DAUDET, Léon (1867-1942)

Autograph manuscript signed « Léon Daudet »
N.p.n.d [Paris, June 1932], 4 pp. large in-4°

« Manet is the beauty of colour, the celebration of the decomposition of light through the prism »

[ZOLA] FLAUBERT, Gustave (1821-1880)


Autograph letter signed « Votre Gve Flaubert » to Emile Zola
[Paris, 17 December 1874], 1 p. in-8°

« Tourgueneff, de Goncourt & Daudet will be at my place on Sunday »

[ZOLA] FLAUBERT, Gustave (1821-1880)

Two autograph letters signed « Gve Flaubert » to Émile Zola
[Croisset, 2th May and 3rd June 1874], 5 pp. in-8°

« It’s very strong! my good man! I read it all at once, and I am giddy with it »

[ZOLA] FLAUBERT, Gustave (1821-1880)

Autograph letter signed « Votre vieux Gve Flaubert » to Emile Zola
Croisset, Sunday [15 février 1880], 3 p. in-8°

« Nana turns into myth, without ceasing to be real »

[ZOLA] FLAUBERT, Gustave, (1821-1880)

Autograph letter signed « Gus Flaubert » to Émile Zola
[Croisset, 25th July 1876], 3 p. in-8°

« I received yesterday from our young friend Maupassant a very pleasant epistle, and full of the detail of his lust – on a boat, with a fat woman »

CLEMENCEAU, Georges (1841-1929)

Autograph letter signed “GClemenceau” to Michel Alexandre Gaston Tournier
Paris, 20th December [18]99, 1 p. 1/4 in-8

“I desire nothing more, as you may suggest, to get back in the right fight”

CLEMENCEAU, Georges (1841-1929)

Autograph letter signed “G.C” to his secretary Étienne Winter at the L’Aurore newspaper
Paris, February 12, 1898 (post office), 1 page in-8, pneumatic letter

“Have me for tonight the shorthand of the whole trial“

DREYFUS, Alfred (1859-1935)

Autograph letter signed “Dreyfus” to Alfred Bruneau
N.p, 20th Nov[ember] 1901, 1 page in-8

“Let’s hope we end up finding what we’re looking for”

PISSARRO, Camille (1830-1903)

Autograph letter signed “C. Pissarro” to his son Rodolphe « Rodo » Pissarro
Le Havre, 21st Sep(tember) 1903, ¾ page in-8 on graph paper

“I am part of the Zola pilgrimage delegation at Médan”

VALLÈS, Jules (1832-1885)

Autograph letter signed « J.V. » to Aurélien Scholl
[Londres], 29 8bre [October] [18]77, 6 pp. in-8°

 « I am thinking of letting my political hopes lie dormant, and returning to my profession »

ZOLA, Alexandrine (1839-1925)

Autograph letter signed « Alexandrine Zola » to Gabriel Thyébaut
[Paris], 7 8bre [octobre] 1906, 8 pp. in-8° à l’encre violette sur papier de deuil

« I always think I die at every step, when I go up to this study in which life has also gone »

ZOLA, Emile (1840-1902)

Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » to the journal L’Avenir national
Paris, 12th June 1865, 2 p. 1/2  in-8, Librairie Hachette & Cie letterhead

« You have kindly promised me your support, and I commend myself to you »

ZOLA, Émile (1840-1902)

Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » to Fernand Desmoulin
Médan, 8th August 1895, 2 pp. in-8°

« I ended up despising the weather, going out in the downpours, which means that I come back soaked, covered in mud »

ZOLA, Émile (1840-1902)

Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » to Joseph Canqueteau
Paris, 10th March 1885, 2 p. in-8°

« The first idea of “Germinal” is already very far away… »

ZOLA, Émile (1840-1902)

Two autograph letters signed « Emile Zola » to Philippe Gille
Paris, 13th April 1878 and Médan, 9th August 1878, in total 3 p. in-8°

« I would be very grateful, at this moment, if you could find a way to tell your readers, in an echo, that the fiftieth edition of L’Assommoir is being printed by Charpentier »

ZOLA, Emile (1840-1902)

Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » to Paul Meurice
Paris, Monday (February 1870), 2 pages in-8, address on verso

« I would like to do for Balzac what Camille Pelletan has done for Flaubert…”

ZOLA, Emile (1840-1902)

Corrected proofs for his novel The Beast within
Paris, January 1890, 45 proofs printed on recto

« I love you, I will never let anyone hurt you… See, how good it is to be so, one in another ! »

ZOLA, Emile (1840-1902)

Autograph letter signed “Z” to Georges Charpentier
London, Tuesday 28th February [18]99, 4 pages in-8

“My only hope lies in the force of truth”

ZOLA, Emile (1840-1902)

Autograph letter signed « E » to Georges Charpentier
[Queen’s Hotel, Norwood, London] Sunday 30th Oct.[ober] 1898, 4 pages in-8

“Victory is coming”

ZOLA, Emile (1840-1902)

Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » to Gustave Flaubert
Médan, 30th November [18]78, 4 pages in-8 on double sheet, black ink on laid paper

“My ambition is to show the whore’s daily life”

ZOLA, Émile (1840-1902)

Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » to a colleague
Paris, 12th November [18]93, 1 p. 1/2 in-8°

“When I have finished a book and given it to the public, it no longer exists for me. All my passion collapses”

ZOLA, Émile (1840-1902)

Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » to Berger de la Magne
Médan, 19th June [18]81, 1 p. in-8° on mourning paper

« The religious opinions of Le Figaro unfortunately prevent me from talking about it »

ZOLA, Émile (1840-1902)

Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » [to Albert Lacroix]
Paris, 13 Sept[ember] 1867, 2 pp. in-8°

« I’m counting on a horror success »

ZOLA, Émile (1840-1902)

Unpublished autograph letter signed “Emile Zola” to Eugène Pelletan
Paris, January 9th 1869, 2 pages in-8 on laid paper

“I make a living with my writing”