Paul alexis emile zola biography

          Antoine Joseph Paul Alexis (16 June – 28 July ) was a French novelist, dramatist, and journalist..

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          Paul Alexis (16 June 1847 – 28 July 1901) was a Frenchnovelist, dramatist, and journalist.

          He is best remembered today as the friend and biographer of Émile Zola.

          Paul Alexis was a novelist, journalist, and dramatist, one of the naturalistes, and a friend of Emile Zola.

        1. Paul Alexis was a novelist, journalist, and dramatist, one of the naturalistes, and a friend of Emile Zola.
        2. First edition of this biography of Zola by novelist and playwright Paul Alexis who was familiar with Zola (he was born in Aix-en-Provence) and member of the.
        3. Antoine Joseph Paul Alexis (16 June – 28 July ) was a French novelist, dramatist, and journalist.
        4. Contrary to his parents' wishes, Alexis abandoned studies in law to pursue a career as a poet.
        5. Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism.

          6. Life

          Alexis was born at Aix-en-Provence. He attended the Collège Bourbon where he first learned of Zola, who was himself a graduate. At the direction of his parents he studied law at the University of Aix, but he longed for the life of a writer, and finally left Aix-en-Provence for Paris.

          He arrived in the capital in 1869 where he quickly became acquainted with Zola and his family. He contributed articles to a number of newspapers including L'Avenir national, La Cloche, Le Corsaire,Le Cri du peuple (under the pseudonym Trublot), Gil Blas,, Le Journal, La Réforme, Le Recueil, and Le Voltaire.

          He wrote novels in the naturalist style as well as several plays, some of which were written in collabora