File 3 - Files: 581-601

12 cm of textual records, 4 photographs.

These files consist of photocopies of documents pertaining to Émile Zola’s personal and professional life.
There are six broad categories in these files:

1. Obituaries: This file (#581) contains various death notices and announcements for Zola, including 16
   original newspaper clippings with dates ranging from 1902-1904. This file also contains some
   documents regarding anniversaries of Zola’s life and death.
2. Theatre: These files (#582-590) consist of documents relating to theatre productions of Zola’s novels,
   with particular focus on L’Assommoir, Germinal, Les Mystères de Marseille, Nana, Renée and Thérèse Raquin.
   The file on Théâtre Libre contains 5 original pamphlets and 2 booklets about Zola’s theatrical
   productions, dating from 1888-1904.
3. Zola Today: These files (#591-592) contain photocopies of newspaper clippings and articles that
   document current tensions and issues arising around Zola, with particular focus on the sale of the
   J’Accuse manuscript in 1987.
4. Zola and the Dreyfus Affair: These files (#593-594) consists of photocopies of handwritten and
   newspaper articles that explore Zola’s participation in the Dreyfus Affair from a non-French
   perspective (many English articles, as well as articles exploring the responses of various other countries
   • Germany and Russia, to name a couple). As well there is a catalog from the Beitler Family
     Foundation that held an exposition for the 100th anniversary of Zola’s involvement in the Affair.
5. Zola and England: These files (#595-600) contain photocopies of newspaper clippings, articles and
   documents mostly pertaining to the development of the Émile Zola Society in 1990, as well as
   photocopies of handwritten documents donated to the Society by J.C. Burr and Chantal Morel. These
   files also contain photographs documenting the tracking of Zola’s experience in England by the Émile
   Zola Society and Zola’s descendants.
6. Zola and La Société des gens de lettres: This file (#600) contains a listing of days upon which Zola
   attended meetings between 1891 and 1897.
   Similar to the other boxes in this sub-series, these documents were likely collected to provide context and
   material for the annotations of the published letters. This box in particular also represents some research into
   Zola’s influence in the modern world, the world in which the Zola Research Program was participating and
   adding research and knowledge.

Added by S Mohtadi 30 October 2018.