ZOLA EmileLivre Rare Book
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Portrait photographique d'Emile Zola à la Légion d'honneur
1900rif. 73358Londres London: London Stereoscopic Company 1900. Fine. London Stereoscopic Company Londres London 1900 10.70 x 16.60 cm une photographie au format carte cabinet Handsome original photographic portrait of Emile Zola in cabinet card format period print on albumen paper mounted on cardboard from the London Stereoscopic Company and taken by an unidentified photographer. The writer poses there rosette of the Legion of Honor at his buttonhole. Condemned for defamation after the publication of his famous ""J'Accuse!"" on the front page of L'Aurore and to escape prison Zola secretly fled to London on July 18 1898. On July 26 1898 the Legion of Honor was withdrawn from him. A snub to this France that did not understand him this ""rosette"" photograph was most likely taken after his removal from the order of the Legion of Honor. Exceptional state of conservation. London Stereoscopic Company unknown
