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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History:
"J'Accuse...!", an open letter written by Émile Zola in response to the events of the Dreyfus affair, was published (13 January 1898) in the newspaper L'Aurore.
"Four years after the letter was published, Zola died from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a blocked chimney... In 1953, the newspaper Libération published a death-bed confession by a Parisian roofer that he had murdered Zola by blocking the chimney of his house."