EMILE ZOLA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19200, 17 June 1924, Page 7

EMILE ZOLA

MONUMENT UNVEILED IN PARIS. LINK WITH DREYFUS CASE. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, June 16. (Received June 16, at 9.40 p.m.) The Zola monument was unveiled in the presence of M. Herriot and all the members of Cabinet. Many thousands of persons were present. I'he speakers paid a tribute to the work of Zola on bchali of Dreyfus. There were other demonstrations at the Pantheon, where Zola is buried.—A. and N.Z. Cable. Emile Zola, the well-known French novelist, was found dead in the bedroom of his Paris house on the morning of September 29, 1902, having been accidentally asphyxiated by the fumes from a defective Hue. Ho played a very important part in the famous Dreyfus case, and believing from an early stage that Captain Dreyfus was the victim of a conspiracy, he published a terrible denunciation of all those who had a hand in bounding down that unfortunate officer. He was prosecuted for libel and condemned, but he appealed successfully. A second trial took place at Versailles, and Zola, acting on advice, abruptly left prance and took refuge in England. When he died he was accorded a public funeral, which was attended by Captain Dreyfus, and at which M. Anatole France delivered an impassioned oration.