![]() His first notable work was Thérèse Raquin, in which he began to develop his ideas about human behavior and disposition-ideas he would explore in more depth in Les Rougon-Macquart, a series of 20 novels considered to be some of the foundational works of the Naturalist literary movement. ![]() ![]() Zola eventually started working in the sales department of Hachette (a publishing house), but he left that job in 1866 to devote himself to writing. A little more than a decade later, Zola and his mother moved to Paris, where they lived in poverty. When his father died in 1847, the family was left with very little money. He grew up in Aix-en-Provence, where he became lifelong friends with the painter Paul Cézanne. ![]() Émile Zola was born in Paris in 1840, but his family moved three years later to Aix-en-Provence, in southern France. ![]()
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