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    Zola's later works focused more on political propaganda than fiction. He wrote two series after completing his Rougon-Macquart series: Les Trois Villes and Les Quatre Evangiles, though he only finished three books of the latter before his death. Zola became increasingly interested in politics, especially the Dreyfus affair, which outraged his sense of justice. In 1898, he published his famous open letter "J'accuse", which altered the course of events in France, though it also led to virulent attacks against Zola even after his death. Zola's campaign for Dreyfus was motivated by justice, not lust for fame, as he adopted an unpopular cause and was

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    Zola's later works focused more on political propaganda than fiction. He wrote two series after completing his Rougon-Macquart series: Les Trois Villes and Les Quatre Evangiles, though he only finished three books of the latter before his death. Zola became increasingly interested in politics, especially the Dreyfus affair, which outraged his sense of justice. In 1898, he published his famous open letter "J'accuse", which altered the course of events in France, though it also led to virulent attacks against Zola even after his death. Zola's campaign for Dreyfus was motivated by justice, not lust for fame, as he adopted an unpopular cause and was

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    Zola's later works focused more on political propaganda than fiction. He wrote two series after completing his Rougon-Macquart series: Les Trois Villes and Les Quatre Evangiles, though he only finished three books of the latter before his death. Zola became increasingly interested in politics, especially the Dreyfus affair, which outraged his sense of justice. In 1898, he published his famous open letter "J'accuse", which altered the course of events in France, though it also led to virulent attacks against Zola even after his death. Zola's campaign for Dreyfus was motivated by justice, not lust for fame, as he adopted an unpopular cause and was

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    There can be little doubt that Zola's best work was expended on the Rougon-Macquart series.

    With
    itsconclusion his zeal as a reformer began to outrun his judgment as an artist, and his later books
    partake more of the nature of active propaganda than of works of fiction. They comprise two series:

    Les Trois Villes

    (Lourdes,Paris, Rome) and

    Les Quatre Evangiles

    , of which only three (Fecondite, Travail, and Verite) were writtenbefore the author's death. Politics had
    begun to occupy his attention, and from 1896 onwards he increasinglyinterested himself in the Jewish
    question which culminated in the Dreyfus case. His sense of justice, alwayskeen, was outraged by the
    action of the authorities and on 13th January, 1898, he published his famous letter,beginning with the
    words

    J'accuse

    , a letter which altered the whole course of events in France. It is difficultnow to realize the effect of
    Zola's action in this matter; he was attacked with a virulence almost unexampled, avirulence which
    followed him beyond the grave. Four years later, on the day after his death, the Pariscorrespondent of

    The Times

    wrote: "It is evident the passions of two or three years ago are still alive. Manypersons expressed their
    joy with such boisterous gestures as men indulge in on learning of a victory, and someexclaimed
    savagely, 'It is none too soon.' The unseemliness of this extraordinary spectacle evoked no retortfrom
    the passers-by." The feeling of resentment is still alive in France, and it is necessary to take it
    intoaccount in the consideration of any estimates of his literary work by his own countrymen. It is a
    mistake toattribute Zola's campaign for the rehabilitation of Dreyfus to mere lust of fame, as has been
    freely done. Hecertainly was ambitious, but had he wished to gain the plaudits of the crowd he would
    not have adopted acause which was opposed by the majority of the nation. As a result of the agitation,
    he was obliged to leaveFrance and take refuge in England, till such time as a change of circumstances
    enabled him to return

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