Show 1 Little Biographies of Big Men I Emile Zola Lola the celebrated French I novelist tw was born horn April 2 1 1840 S O at nt I Paris France Franca When hn the thc little Umile Emile was teas seven Cven years yar old oM his father r died I leaving as a legacy to his son on his own ambition huf Industry h y and untiring p per r-I r I I II severance verance Robbed o oC of their share sharo of or the husbands husband's husbands husband's hus hus- hUll I bands band's and fathers father's In inventions Oft and en- en I wit which felt made marle tho those who robbed robbed rob rob- 1011 1 bed tho the orphan and widow rich rich rich-Ma- Ma Madame Ia- Ia j dame lame Zola ola and the little lilUe found Cound themselves selves In almost 1 destitute dc circumstances circum circum- I stances And to add to this bitter problem m the parents of Madame Zola Sola ola I had come to make mal their home with her When the thc little Emile was three y years ars old his fathers father's business s had hall called called call call- ed ell him to lo loIx Aix Ix whither he had taken talen his wife wiCe and child chill It was here that h he died leaving hl his hla widow willow to b be defrauded defrauded de tIc- out o of what might have ba been beena a fortune for COl hel herself lr anti ami child mother molher and grandmother grandmother- full of or sympathy for rOl tho the fatherless child spoiled child spoiled him saying Ing that the I greatest misfortune which could befall a boy had befallen the little Emile Inthe in inthe inthe I the loss 1018 of or his hL father Therefore ote the good Rood women humored his hiser every er whim granting gt pr c everything ho wished for I when it was po possible to do f so O. O l Emile was not a n. rugged boy hoy and his hilt mother molher allowed him to lo spend the first hest t seven sc years oars Ca of or his l life liCe In the till open playing I about In the big sunshiny garden that I tt was wn ns attached to lo th the house where they Ihy lived Jt ul ail Aix I In th the year ear 1847 1841 It was wa J decided by byI I I Emiles Emile's grandmother that he ho should b b. b besent sent Kent to school so the mother selected i a a 1 boys boys' school the school the Pension Notre I Dame that Dame that stood at the border of ot the tho thoI I town to For FOI several sc years ears EI was wasa a aI aa I a da day pupil there later Intel going in a as asa asa a 3 boarder But the tho times tines which haul hall been Joen hard har for Cor th the Zolas Zola l and anti Auberts the latter were the parents of oC oCIa Madame Madame Ma Ma- dame Jame Zola were growing from Crom had bad 10 to WOI worse and anti want stared stured them in the face The last piece franc belonging belong to Madame Zola had b been en swallowed up In their frugal living nest and us useless leKa lawsuits to recover her hel share of oC the proceeds from Crom certain Inventions In of or her hei husband The Tho Income of the Aubert as In Insufficient to keep the wolf wol from lom the door dOOl and Madame 1 Aubert bravely ply lighting fighting for tor existence began beKan selling furniture and clothing one clothing one piece at a time to time to supply the dally daily bread But nut the tho st ig ll le was too much for the poor ol old w man and anti In dire dhe poverty o she sickened and tIled died Then In iii j sheer desperation des tIe Zola went to Paris where she Ih obtained some seine relief leller front from troma H a t C few w o of her husband time old friends rif They also alfo secured a free Cree scholarship for her son at the St. St I Louis for Cor or s 's mother mothel was determined de tie- that her son POn should not h be robbed of a finished tI education which h she so HO fully Cully realized d was worth north more murf to him than mono money From Paris she 1010 to to sell 11 off the time remaining re re- furniture and household hOl go goods for rOl enough money to buy buS for Cor himself and a aged d grandfather RI third class s tick tick- fl Is to that Paris Paris t that who she had a 0 shelter fur for them there iM was 1 11 years old al at this time 1101 and wh when n ho 9 entered t. th l Lyss e he ho tie de- to lo pr lilt through the opportunity opportunity hl hia 4 mother had h procured for Cor him at nt KO great a H e to herself elf lie Ire work d hard and at ut his hili studio studio- ranking high among amon hl his II Hut But th ht years of vain Or of ot h halI arta ho heH dl ni and Dud disappointments dis II appointments that follo vel fast ont ono upon tI the other them before before the sun tun at last la t sienna through the clouds for tor Madame Zoto and ami read Hmil road like Ilke a woeful romance a tragedy ly tit ot times timen IC But th the young genius climbed l tho the rugged rug rug- ged petit path overcoming eVry ol and amid at last stood mood on en the mountain top tOil ton l peace and ami pl it all aU around him liar Mary i dial di- di dil l al Tola ola A la A |