From 1865 to 1872, Emile Zola its ranges and prepares its defenses in the press through knotted Hachette contacts: Republicans working papers, he married and reflects opposition to the Second Empire ; Similarly, parliamentary chroniqueur Bordeaux and Versailles from February 1871 to August 1872, it reflects the time-hinge where the Third Republic only take root. The borders of history, the press and literature, his columns offer a wide variety of topics - news Parisian political life through meditative stroll. Laboratory of the Great Work zolien they mostly deploy an impressive array of literary forms and records, preparing patterns or characters that the novelist reinvest in The Quarry, Nana, The Conquest of Plassans or His Excellency Euge...