Émile Zola
Émile Zola passed away on 29 September 1902 in Paris. The great French author was one of the leading exponents of Naturalism, together with Flaubert and Balzac. His realist fiction attempted to portray contemporary French society in a scientific manner, especially the Rougon-Macquart cycle, which comprised twenty novels published between 1871 and 1893, including the renowned Nana and Germinal, and narrated the Second French Empire period through a family saga.