A declaration of love for animals.
To declare his love for animals, Émile Zola chooses
Le Figaro
: "One day I miss any topical subject, I decide to write my article in
Le Figaro
on the love of animals" he indicates, two months later late in our columns.
Zola fears besides not to interest, "to write there one of these neutral articles".
What astonishment.
This plea earned him a large number of letters of sympathy: "More than two hundred letters have reached me and not only from France but from all the countries of the world."
He says that since his collaboration with
Le Figaro
, this is the first time that one of his articles has aroused so much passion.
We are in 1896, two years before the publication of the famous "J'accuse".
To read also:
Alfred Dreyfus: behind the scenes of “J'accuse…!”, By Zola
Finally crowned!
This moving testimony on animals secured him an award from the Society for the Protection of Animals, which awarded him an honorary diploma.
The eminent
Figaro
collaborator
then received an ovation, then spoke: the animals "I loved them all.
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