Emile Zola, his writings, and the social issues that inspired him are the topics of this program. Using dramatizations of portions of three of Zola’s most famous works—Les Victimes de l’Alcoolisme, Medan, and Germanal—we see how they reflected important events of Zola’s day, including the Paris Commune and the Dreyfus Affair. In French. (14 minutes)

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