Émile ZOLA (1840-1902). Autograph manuscript; 1page small in-4. Project for a stage adaptation of La Curée. "The comedy of La Curée seems to me very possible. First act exposition. Business, household, friends arriving, René's note [...] Second act - Chez la d'Auragny. Larsonneau, father and son. -Saccard stripping his wife, Maxime's wedding - Renée arrives and learns of the wedding. [...] Fifth act. - The drama. Saccard in the presence of René and Maxime. The woman awakens. The three of them crash. The aunt comes to save Renée". Verso, 4 autograph lines, draft abandoned and crossed out for La Faute de l'abbé Mouret (1875): "The sleeping church was to live at this hour only on the extra-human life of the God of the host, enclosed in the tabernacle"... [Renée, a drama in five acts by Émile Zola, taken from La Curée (1871), was first performed at the Théâtre du Vaudeville on April 16, 1887].