Born in Paris in 1840 to Francois Zola an Italian Engineer and his mother Émilie Aubert a French housewife after his father’s death Zolas moved in 1858 to Paris, where Émile’s childhood friend Paul Cezanne soon joined him. Though Zola started to write in the romantic style, he emerged as the pioneer of a new fictional genre related to an extreme form of Realism. In his later life, he passed time in his luxurious villa (worth 300,000 francs in Médan, near Paris, after 1880. But Zola died on 29 September 1902 of carbon monoxide poisoning caused by an improperly ventilated chimney
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