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Autograph letter signed by Emile Zola - apparently unpublished - addressed to Léon Carbonnaux, written in black ink on a double sheet. Folds inherent to mailing. Envelope included.
Important testimony to the colossal documentation work and the capital role of Emile Zola's informants in depicting his immense natural and social fresco.
This letter was sent to Léon Carbonnaux, department head at Bon Marché who transmitted precious information to Emile Zola for the creation of the eleventh volume of the Rougon-Macquart series: Au Bonheur des Dames.
Only two letters from Léon Carbonnaux to Emile Zola are known: they can be...

Autograph letter signed by Emile Zola - apparently unpublished - addressed to Léon Carbonnaux, written in black ink on a double sheet. Folds inherent to mailing. Envelope included.
Important testimony to the colossal documentation work and the capital role of Emile Zola's informants in depicting his immense natural and social fresco.
This letter was sent to Léon Carbonnaux, department head at Bon Marché who transmitted precious information to Emile Zola for the creation of the eleventh volume of the Rougon-Macquart series: Au Bonheur des Dames.
Only two letters from Léon Carbonnaux to Emile...

Autograph letter signed by Emile Zola - apparently unpublished - written in black ink on a double sheet and addressed to Léon Carbonnaux, department head at Bon Marché. Folds inherent to mailing. Envelope included.
Only two letters from Léon Carbonnaux to Emile Zola are known: they can be consulted in the digitized preparatory file for Au bonheur des dames made available online by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. However, we know from this same file, which contains a long section entitled "Notes Carbonnaux," that this department head at Bon Marché provided Zola with a significant amount of information, particularly about employee customs, their remuneration, and...

Autograph letter signed by Emile Zola, dated in his hand April 10, 1898. One and a half pages in black ink on a bifolium, addressed to Octave Mirbeau.
Fold marks inherent to mailing, some foxing to outer margins.
Published in his Correspondance, ed. B. Bakker, Presses de l'Université de Montréal et Editions du CNRS, 1978-1995, vol. IX, p. 186; bibliographers are divided on the identity of the recipient, and also propose his publisher Charpentier, who had remained at his side and played the role of bodyguard in February 1898, during the first trial.
Immense missive from the writer as defender of justice, resilient and even cheerful after being...