Zola, Emile : Zola-Edouard-Charles-Antoine (1840-1902), French novelist & critic.
... 484, 514 World Union 573, 685-6, 755 Wretched of the Earth, The 773 Yogic Sadhan 91 Yoga Sutras 192 Younghusband, Sir Francis 409 Zen Buddhism 153, 193ff, 288 Zir Naidu 47, 131 Zola, Emile 21fn Zoroaster 482 Page 924 ...
... conversation with Nirodbaran; they had just returned from the Playground after seeing J'accuse , a French film on Emile Zola. The man Mother referred to in the sentence above was Anatole France. The next day, the 13th, two films were shown: Paris plein ciel and Life of Emile Zola .—Nirodbaran, Memorable Contacts with the Mother , 1991, pp. 50-51. ...
... knew how false it was. It gave me the exact measure. ( long silence ) These last few days I have had a very strong impression that... I don't know if you remember (were you even born?) when Emile Zola said, "Truth is on the march." You weren't born. He told the court-martial a few home truths and it caused quite a row, and he Page 194 was advised to leave France because he would have ...
... truth to light. The rift split the nation in an outburst of passion seldom seen before or after; it ran through marriages, families and formerly close friendships, including artists. The novelist Emile Zola became internationally known for his letter published on the front page of a much-read newspaper under the banner ‘J’accuse’ (1898) and his dictum la Vérité est en marche , (Truth is on the move)... ‘Progress,’ the keyword of the nineteenth century, became the keyword of her life too, but widened in a way our story still has to discover. And one day she would quote Zola’s phrase, la Vérité est en marche , giving ‘Truth’ a meaning that Zola, or anybody else at the time, could not have comprehended. × ... others, who, wanting to force an immediate change upon society, were ready to pay for it, and to make others pay, with their lives. Ravachol, the author of numerous bombings, was guillotined in 1892. Emile Henry threw a bomb in Café Terminus. Auguste Vaillant took a bomb with him into the public gallery of the Lower House. It detonated ‘with the roar of a canon’ and wounded several Members of the House ...
... of painting and music, Mirra took occultism too in her easy stride; she made them all serve the cardinal aim of her life, but she didn't lose herself in them. *Years later, commenting on Emile Zola's description of a garden in La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret, the Mother remarked, "I have not read such a description anywhere else: so much wealth of splendour, harmony with Nature. When I went to ...
... whole work was done.' 1896-1907 Period of cultivation of the vital being and aesthetic consciousness. Comes in contact with leading artists of the period including Rodin and Matisse. Meets Emile Zola. Six of her paintings are exhibited at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, between 1903-06. Writes a novelette (since lost) depicting a human love that, universalised ...
... first half of the nineteenth century was the era of Alexandre Dumas, of Victor Hugo and Flaubert; the second half was dominated by Guy de Maupassant, Jules Verne, the father of science fiction, Emile Zola, famed for his I accuse letter—to name but a few. They Page 21 enriched the French language so much that it became, in Sri Aurobindo's words, "the greatest store-house of... legacy of the Renaissance and the Baroque. As a matter of fact, Hugo, Baudelaire, Zola had all leapt to the defence of Manet when he was attacked from all sides for his revolutionary painting. Baudelaire's critical work L'Art romantique (1868) is considered the fountainhead of modern artistic sensibility. Zola had actually met Manet in 1866 and had immediately set about championing the Impressionist ...
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