Word: zolas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rank and assignment. Dreyfus' conviction touched off a wave of anti-Semitism that made it dangerous for anyone to doubt his guilt. But one general-staff officer, Lieut. Colonel Marie-Georges Picquart, found the truth more than his conscience could stand, although he cordially disliked Dreyfus. Novelist Emile Zola ripped into the nasty mess with his famous l'accuse! Georges Clemenceau became a Dreyfusard; famous lawyers kept trying to reopen the case at the risk of their lives. Not until July 1906 did France's highest court throw out the pack of lies and forgeries that...
...Enlightenment freely claimed (and were freely granted) credit for fomenting the Revolution. Victor Hugo was peremptorily exiled for 20 years for his support of the 1848 Revolution. François René de Chateaubriand, first proponent of Christian democracy, became Louis XVIII's Foreign Minister. Emile Zola rocked Europe with J'accuse, a defense of Dreyfus that was in fact an indictment of the established order...
...scene but not the character was pure Christie. Serge Rubinstein belonged in spirit to an earlier, gamier era-the turn of the century, when too many of the continental rich were confirming Emile Zola's savage caricatures of their class. His life was a rococo embroidery of lies, boasts, swindles, treacheries, beautiful women and rich living. He was a crook-who called himself an international financier-and he got away with it because highly placed people were impressed by his spending and his line. After he had been repeatedly exposed in court for shady dealings and declared non grata...
...takes his examinations at home, specially proctored, or on the honor system, and sends his blue books back by registered mail. "I was apprehensive about the exams, not having been to any of the lectures; but they did not prove more difficult than I had expected." Zola said...
...Zola denied there was any advantage in studying in bed and added that the increased time for study was counteracted by the increased difficulty of concentrating. "Besides," he added, "most courses, taken on the horizontal, tend to make me fall asleep...