Emile ZOLA - See the truth and tell it - Signed autograph letter
Emile ZOLA (1840 - 1902), French writer.
Autograph letter signed to a colleague. Médan, December 27, 1878; 1 pages in-8 °. Repairs to the back with some imperfections
Letter from Zola, militant writer, which in one sentence defines all his commitment: "I am only a worker who tries to see the truth and to speak it". This prophetic phrase naturally echoes his act of bravery, taken twenty years later, in defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in an article published in the newspaper l'Aurore on January 13, 1898. “J'accuse…! », An open letter to President Félix Faure, in which Zola pointed out point by point all the dysfunctions which led to the conviction of Dreyfus and whose culmination was this scandalous acquittal in council of war of Commander Esterhazy. This engagement earned him a sentence and forced him to go into exile in London:
"Allow me to thank you for your article, in which you at least grant me that I am an honest man?" It touched me, in the midst of the tone the criticism takes towards me. I neither can nor want to argue with you. Only let me tell you that I do not believe myself to be a messiah. I am ignored a lot. I am only a worker who tries to see the truth and to speak it… ”.
Autograph letter signed to a colleague. Médan, December 27, 1878; 1 pages in-8 °. Repairs to the back with some imperfections
Letter from Zola, militant writer, which in one sentence defines all his commitment: "I am only a worker who tries to see the truth and to speak it". This prophetic phrase naturally echoes his act of bravery, taken twenty years later, in defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in an article published in the newspaper l'Aurore on January 13, 1898. “J'accuse…! », An open letter to President Félix Faure, in which Zola pointed out point by point all the dysfunctions which led to the conviction of Dreyfus and whose culmination was this scandalous acquittal in council of war of Commander Esterhazy. This engagement earned him a sentence and forced him to go into exile in London:
"Allow me to thank you for your article, in which you at least grant me that I am an honest man?" It touched me, in the midst of the tone the criticism takes towards me. I neither can nor want to argue with you. Only let me tell you that I do not believe myself to be a messiah. I am ignored a lot. I am only a worker who tries to see the truth and to speak it… ”.
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