The Joy of Life

Emile Zola (1840-1902) was an influential French writer and a major figure in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'Accuse. The Joy of Life( Joie de Vivre) is the 12th first in Zola's monumental twenty-volume series, Les Rougon-Macquart.