A jumble of details, digressions, stodgy .... Looks like the author wanted to put absolutely everything she has read and copied, the documentation collected ... It is boring, I am very disappointed, and I do not have it done! It is to say! Nothing to do with the biographies of the great Dominique Bona, who knows how to sort out what it collects, and please his readers ... J 'adore Zola, and I would have liked was going on .... Mrs. Zola is an extraordinary woman who s' s student and culturally enriching to her husband, she will support all his life, making recognize his two illegitimate children, after the death of her husband ... But details tingling stifles this couple unusual ...