Émile Zola and Henry Céard Papers, 1864-1921

(bulk 1864-1901)

John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Published in 2014

Collection Overview

Title:	Émile Zola and Henry Céard Papers
Date range:	1864-1921, (bulk 1864-1901)
Creator:	Céard, Henry, 1851-1924
Extent:	162 items (3 clamshell boxes)
Abstract:	The Émile Zola and Henry Céard Papers consist chiefly of correspondence. Zola writes about contemporary writers and journalists, literary criticism, the stage, censorship, politics, and personal affairs, including his own novels and reviews. Seventy-seven letters (1879-1889) are to Henry Céard.
Language of materials:	English
Repository:	John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
Collection number:	Ms.Zola

Scope & content

Letters and manuscripts in the collection span the years 1864 to 1921. Over half of the letters are to Zola's friend and fellow-writer, Henry Céard. These letters have been published by Albert J. Salvan. See

Émile Zola. Lettres inédites à Henry Céard, publiée et annotées par Albert J. Salvan, Providence: Brown University Press, 1959.

Other correspondents include:

• Paul Adam
• Jean Aicard
• Georges Charpentier
• François Coppée
• Alphonse Daudet
• Théodore Duret
• Edmond de Goncourt
• François Hébrard
• Léon Hennique
• Joris Karl Huysmans
• Wilhelm Lilienthal
• Georges Ricouard
• Paul Robiquet
• Jules Simon
• Édouard Toulouse
• Louis Ulbach
• Ernest Vizetelly
• Raoul Vast
• Ernst Ziegler

Access Points

Subject Names

• Adam, Paul, 1862-1920
• Aicard, Jean, 1848-1921
• Alexis, Paul, 1851-1901
• Bauer [Henry Francis?], 1851-1915
• Berthelot, M. (Marcellin), 1827-1907
• Blowitz, A. Opper de (Adolphe Opper), 1825-1903
• Brulat, Paul, 1866-1925
• Bruneau, Alfred, 1857-1934
• Caponi, Giacomo, 1832?-1909
• Charpentier, Georges, 1846-1905
• Chauchard, Hippolyte-Alfred, 1821-1909
• Clemenceau Georges, 1841-1929
• Cler, Hegesippe
• Coppée, François, 1842-1908
• Coste, Augustin Numa, 1843-1907
• Céard, Henry, 1851-1924
• Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897
• De Rodays, Fernand, 1945-1925
• Deslandes, Raimond, 1828-1890
• Desmoulin, Fernand, 1853-1914
• Detaille, Édouard, 1848-1912
• Duport, Paul, 1798-1866
• Duret, Théodore, 1838-1927
• Duverdy, Denis Charles, 1830-1898
• Fasquelle, Eugène, 1863-1952
• Ferry, Jules, 1832-1893
• Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880
• Garraud, Eugene, 1803-1893
• Geffroy, Gustave, 1855-1926
• Goncourt, Edmond de, 1822-1896
• Halévy, Ludovic, 1834-1908
• Hennequin, Émile, 1858-1888
• Hennique Léon, 1851-1920
• Hermant, Abel, 1862-1950
• Huart, Louis, 1813-1865
• Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl), 1848-1907
• Hébrard, François Marie Adrien, 1834-
• Jourdain, Frantz, 1847-1935
• Le Blond-Zola, Denise, 1889-1942
• Lemaître, Jules, 1853-1914
• Leo XIII, Pope, 1810-1903
• Lilienthal, Wilhelm, 1867-1906
• Lockroy, Edouard, 1840-1913
• Loti, Pierre, 1850-1923
• Moore, George, 1852-1933
• Mucha, Alphonse Marie, 1860-1939
• Perret, A.
• Ricoard, Georges, 1853-1887
• Robiquet, Paul, 1848-1928
• Sarcey, Francisque, 1827-1899
• Simon, Jules, 1814-1896
• Séverine, 1855-1929
• Theuriet, André, 1833-1907
• Toulouse, Édouard, 1865-
• Ulbach, Louis
• Vast, Raoul, 1850-1889
• Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred, 1853-1922
• Xau, Fernand, 1852-1899
• Ziegler, Ernst, 1849-1905
• Zola, Alexandrine Méley, 1839-1925
• Zola, Émile, 1840-1902

Subject Organizations

• Académie française
• Aurore (Paris, France)
• Brown University--Faculty.
• Charpentier and Company
• Cloche (Paris, France)
• Eugène Fasquelle (Firm)
• Evenément (Paris, France)
• Gil Blas (Paris, France)
• Hachette (Firm)
• Journal (Paris, France)
• Légion d'honneur (France)
• Petit Journal (Paris, France)
• Revue de Paris (Paris, France)
• Societé des gens de lettres (France)
• Temps (Paris, France)
• Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique (Paris, France)
• Union (Paris, France)

Subject Topics

• Adam, Paul, 1862-1920. Chair molle
• Adam, Paul, 1862-1920. Soi
• France--History--Third Republic, 1870-1940
• Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
• Naturalism in literature
• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Assomoir
• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Bouton de rose
• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Bête humaine
• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Capitaine Burle
• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Contes àNinon
• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Débâcle
• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Fécondité
• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Germinal
• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Inondation
• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Jacques Damour
• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Joi de Vivre
• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Madeleine Férat
• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Nais Micoulin
• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Nana
• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Pot-Bouille
• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Renée
• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Rome
• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Rêve
• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Terre
• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Thérése Raquin
• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Zaire
• Paris (France)--History--Commune, 1871

Occupations

• Authors

Document Types

• cards
• documents
• Letters (Correspondence)
• Manuscripts
• Notes
• Telegrams

Subject Topics

• Language and Literature

Arrangement

The collection is divided into 4 series:

• Series 1. Émile Zola letters to Henry Céard
• Series 2. Other Émile Zola correspondence
• Series 3. Émile Zola manuscripts
• Series 4. Henry Céard letters to Madame Céard

Series 1, 4, and "Titre général de l'ouvrage, 1761 and Titre particulier de la plaquette, 1770" (from Series 3), were originally represented by a summary catalog card record as well as a printed item-level inventory listing place, date, document type, pages, and accession number.

Series 2 and 3 were cataloged at the item level on catalog cards. Records include salutation or title, date, place, document type, pages, size in centimeters, accession number and a summary in English of the item's content.

The series are interfiled in one chronological sequence and are housed in three document boxes. Folders are not numbered.

Biographical note

Émile Zola (1840-1902), French novelist, critic, and political activist, was the most prominent French novelist of the late 19th century. He was noted for his theories of naturalism, which he developed in Le Roman expérimental (1880) and Les Romanciers naturalistes (1881), and which underlie his monumental twenty-novel series Les Rougon-Macquart. In this series of novels, Zola relates the story of the various generations of a single family; his detailed descriptions of the characters of the family Rougon-Macquart represent hereditary factors as primary determinants of behavior. The correspondence between Émile Zola and Henry Céard (Series 1 in this inventory, 1879-1889) covers the most productive years of Zola's career as a writer. Later on Zola and Céard distanced themselves from each other. In 1898, Zola took the defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish soldier who had been wrongly convicted of treason. Zola came to his defense through the open letter, J'accuse, in which he unveils the perjury of French government and military figures. Although his stand against injustice led him to seek exile in England for one year, Dreyfus eventually received a new trial and was exonerated of all charges.

Henry Céard (1851-1924) was a writer and literary critic. He was a close friend of Émile Zola and his wife until 1888. An avid reader, Céard often visited the Zolas at Médan, sharing his readings and contributing ideas to the topics Zola was researching for his novels. Zola, in turn, influenced Céard who adopted the naturalist theory and methodology. Céard held various administrative positions at the Ministry of War, at the Préfecture de la Seine, and at the Bibliothèque de la Ville de Paris. He contributed to the anthology Soirées de Médan with the novel La Saignée in which he relates an episode of the Siege of Paris. His is best known for the novel Une belle journée (1881). He wrote some theater plays which received a mix reception: an adaptation of Renée Mauperin originally written by the brothers Goncourt (1886), Tout pour l'honneur (1887), Les Résignés (1889), and La Pêche (1890).

Albert Salvan (1904-2001) served on the Brown faculty from 1939 until 1972. His research interest in Zola was supported by strong print and manuscript collections assembled by the Library during his tenure. His dissertation on Zola, Zola aux États-Unis .., Providence, R.I., Brown University, 1943, was published as volume VIII in the series, Brown University Studies. He edited and annotated the 78 letters from Émile Zola to Henry Céard which comprise Series 1. These letters were published by Brown University Press in 1959 as volume XXII of the series, Brown University Studies. In 1961, as a supplement to this volume, Brown University Press published Salvan's annotated edition of 22 additional messages from Zola to Céard which had been discovered by the Zola scholar, Henri Mitterand, among papers belonging to Dr. Jacques Émile-Zola. Later Salvan co-edited volume III of the ten-volume edition of Zola's correspondence published between 1978 and 1995.

Access & Use

Access to the collection:	There are no restrictions on access, except that the collection can be seen only by prior appointment. Some materials may be stored off-site and cannot be produced on the same day on which they are requested.
Use of the materials:	Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. Researchers should note that compliance with copyright law is their responsibility. Researchers must determine the owners of the literary rights and obtain any necessary permissions from them.
Alternate form:	Digital facsimiles of items from this collection are available from within the online finding aid.
Preferred citation:	Émile Zola and Henry Céard Papers, Ms. Zola, Brown University Library.
Contact information:	John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts Box A Brown University Providence, RI 02912 Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148 Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION
Acquisition:	In 1953 the Library purchased from Pierre Béres, Inc. a collection of 78 letters, cards, and telegrams, written by Émile Zola to Henry Céard. This acquisition was in support of the research of Albert J. Salvan, Professor of French Studies, Brown University. Two letters from Henry Céard to his wife in Series 4 were a gift from Albert Salvan as were also several items in Series 2 and 3. Since that time over 80 Zola manuscripts and letters to various correspondents have been purchased and added to the collection. The Manuscripts Accession Register in University Archives records the date and source for these additions.
ABOUT THE FINDING AID
Author:	Finding aid prepared by Gwendolyn Fuertes and Jean Rainwater
Encoding:	This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2014-12-11

Additional Information

Related material:	RESOURCES AT BROWN UNIVERSITYAdditional manuscript material: Adam, Paul to Madame, [circa 1896]. Call number: Ms.45.1Bruneau, Alfred. L'attaque du moulin. Paris: G. Charpentier et E. Fasquelle [189-?]. Call number: PQ2497.A62 B7, Rare Books CollectionCler, Hegesippe to Émile Zola, 1882 February 23. Call number: Ms.15.62Rhodes, Albert to John Hay, 1882 April 20. Accession No. A40005 [16]. Call number: Ms. Hay, 1882 April 20, John Hay CollectionZola, Émile to [Theodore] Duret, 1868 June 1. Accession number: A87-28Published correspondence available at Brown University includes: Zola, Émile. [Correspondance d'Émile Zola.] [Toronto, University of Toronto Library Photoduplication Unit: 1978] [Microform] Call number: F5589r-F5604r Film Copy, Rockefeller LibraryZola, Émile. Correspondance, éditée sous la direction de B. H. Bakker; éditrice associée, Colette Becker; conseiller littéraire, Henri Mitterand. Montréal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal; Paris: Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, circa 1978-1995. Call number: PQ2529 .A5 1978, volumes 1-10, Rockefeller LibraryZola, Émile. Lettres inédites à Henry Ceard, publiée et annotées par Albert J. Salvan. Providence: Brown University Press, 1959. Call number: PQ2529.A5 C4 1959, Rockefeller Library; 1-UF Sa287zo 1959, 1-P B818 22, University ArchivesZola, Émile. Vingt messages inédits de Zola à Ceard, présentés et annotés par Albert J. Salvan. Providence, RI, Brown University Press: 1961. Call number: PQ2529.A5 C42x 1961, Rockefeller Library; 1-UF Sa287ZO 1959 Suppl, 1-P B818 22 suppl., University ArchivesList of Brown University holdings: Salvan, Albert. "Émile Zola holdings in the Brown University Libraries." in Books at Brown, volume XXVII (1979): pages 79-81. Call number: Z733 P958B Rockefeller LibraryRESOURCES BEYOND BROWN UNIVERSITY Les Archives Émile Zola (University of Toronto website).
Location/Existence of copies:	Digital facsimiles of items from this collection are available from within the online finding aid.
Other information:	Brown University Library catalog record for this collection: Émile Zola and Henry Céard Papers

Inventory

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