Émile Zola continually defends the art of…
1875 CE
Émile Zola continually defends the art of Cézanne, Manet, and the Impressionists Monet, Degas, and Renoir in newspaper articles during the late 1860s and '70s.
Cézanne, who had been his schoolmate in Aix-en-Provence, had joined him in Paris and had introduced him to Manet and the Impressionist painters.