Emile Zola was an influential author of the naturalism literary school. He was very interested in the changes taking place in society due to industrialization and the second empire in France. A great supporter of Manet's, Zola actually published a pamphlet 'A New Manner in Painting: Edouard Manet' emphasizing the 'truth' of his art which, Zola insisted, aside from the formal and technical qualities, was the truth of "the contemporary girl we meet everyday on the pavements."1.