The Archive · 1924

In Memory of Zola

Captain Dreyfus Present at Paris Tribute has "Gcon fixed fo "the humlie A commemorative plaque whi Geolling: baxte io the Rue St.

soph, a squalid litle sides tree the' Thug Montmartre whee Emile Zola. was Lorn, was pub Hiely unveiled on January! "86 anid a large gathering of thd great writer's admirers, 'Yhq. Sentral figure inthe. gathering, Alfred "Dreyius, the hero' perhaps, "was that of Capla, many years ago rent Prange in the minds of thousands of English "people to. whom' his books were' anathema to tha grade of champion of justice and ight. Others present included the novel Georges Zeta, and his daughter Madame Bland, the President of Paris Municipal Council, M. Lalou, President of the Sociéié des Gens de Lettres, and the leaders of several other organizations, lou in an eloquent alysis of Zola's works reversed to aris play-In the "four and " "Sustigo—thd supreme expression of Zola' thought—it was Paris," which "played the leading roles but, @ "Paris, which "wad a city "of the. founda tion of the modern city which when it shall have been organised according to scientific and human' Jaws, will become the. principle of all health and all virtto~Paria the arch-saint of modern civil tion, the cradle of the. eva ens, and Sustige PT Pre ion, the home ty, Prov

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