Alexandrine ZOLA, née Méley (1839-1925) wife of Émile Zola. - Lot 294

Alexandrine ZOLA, née Méley (1839-1925) wife of Émile Zola. 4 L.A.S., May-August 1904, [to Frantz Jourdain]; 14 pages in-8 or in-12 (mourning). About Zola's tomb, designed by architect Frantz Jourdain (1847-1935). May 18-21. She asks Frantz Jourdain to come to the Montmartre cemetery himself to present "to all our friends, the intimate, the known and the unknown, the superb monument that your great affection for my dear husband has inspired". The day after this meeting, in gratitude and admiration for his work, she asks him to accept the "paper knife" Zola used in Médan. - August 24th. She is delighted that he is coming to Médan for lunch with Alfred Bruneau, to whom he is to present, as godfather, the brevet d'officier de la Légion d'Honneur; she wants to talk to him about a land boundary problem...