Zola, l'infréquentable

An intense and impactful face to face

The true and little-known confrontation between Émile Zola and Léon Daudet, anti-semitic polemicist, which led to the publication of the famous "J'accuse".

On January 5th, 1895, Émile Zola dined, as usual, with his friend Alphonse Daudet. His son, Léon Daudet, nationalist and anti-Semitic pamphleteer, returned from the Military Academy where he had just witnessed the degradation of Captain Dreyfus, an event that he covers for Le Figaro.
His article is ready. He gives an ignominious summary of his paper. Zola is indignant.
From this confrontation, Émile Zola emerges transfigured. He then decides to embark on what is already becoming "the Affair". It was that evening that it all started.