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François Zola

French engineer (1796–1847)

François Zola

Born	Francesco Antonio Giuseppe Maria Zolla 7 August 1796 Venice, Republic of Venice
Died	27 March 1847(1847-03-27) (aged 50) Marseille, France
Resting place	Saint-Pierre Cemetery
Occupation	Engineer
Spouse	Émilie Aubert
Children	Émile Zola

François Zola (born Francesco Antonio Giuseppe Maria Zolla; 7 August 1796 – 27 March 1847) was an Italian-born French engineer. He built the Zola Dam, creating Lac Zola near Le Tholonet in Aix-en-Provence.^[1]

Zola was an Italian engineer with some Greek ancestry,^[2] who was born in Venice in 1795; his mother was French.^[3]

He lived in Paris with his wife Émilie Aubert when their son, the author Émile Zola, was born in 1840.^[1] The family moved to Aix-en-Provence when Émile was three years old. François died four years later, in 1847.

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^ ^a ^b Mitterand, Henri (2009). Zola tel qu'en lui-même. Paris: Presses universitaires de France. pp. 171–204. ISBN 9782130570820. Retrieved March 28, 2016 – via Cairn.info.
^ Marzials, Frank Thomas (1911). "Zola, Émile Édouard Charles Antoine" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1001.
^ Sacquin, Michèle; Cabannes, Viviane (2002). Zola et autour d'une oeuvre : Au bonheur des dames. Bibliothèque nationale de France. ISBN 9782717722161.