Jacques de Reinach
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Baron Jacob Adolphe Reinach, known as Jacques de Reinach was a French banker of Jewish German origin, involved in many major financial deals before being brought down by the Panama scandals. He was th
Baron de Reinach
Carricature: The Panama Canal: Baron de Reinach is forced to swallow poison. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
Émile Zola
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Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of t
Jacques de Reinach
…financial and artistic Paris. He also bought the château de Nivillers, a village in Picardy, of which he became mayor in 1884. In the 1898 novel Paris, Émile Zola based baron Duvillard on Jacques de Reinach. More recently, Reinach's suicide is a plot point in Eric Zencey's novel Panama…
Zola in 1898
Zola early in his career, c. 1865.
Paul Cézanne, Paul Alexis Reading to Émile Zola, 1869–1870, São Paulo Museum of Art
Captioned "French Realism", caricature of Zola in the London magazine Vanity Fair, 1880