Emmanuel Gonzalès

Emmanuel Gonzalès (25 October 1815 – 17 October 1887) was a 19th-century French novelist, feuilletonist and playwright.

Gonzalès wrote the novel Frères de la côte, which impressed Émile Zola in his childhood, following the praise he made of its author on the occasion of the inauguration of a bust in his memory 25 October 1891. The ceremony was organized by the Société des gens de lettres, of which Gonzalès had been president from 1863. Zola knew him personally through Édouard Manet. Emmanuel Gonzales's daughter, Eva Gonzalès, entered Manet’s studio and became his only student, also serving as a model for his famous painting: Eva Gonzalès peignant dans l'atelier de Manet (1870).

Main works 1838: Les Mémoires d'un ange 1841: Le Livre d'amour 1844: Les Frères de la côte 1849: Le Pêcheur de perles 1851: Le Vengeur du mari 1853: Le Chasseur d'hommes 1854: La Fille de l'aveugle 1856: Esau le lèpreux (Chroniques du temps de Duguesclin) 1857: Les Chercheurs d'or 1857: La Princesse russe 1860: Mes jardins de Monaco 1862: La Maîtresse du proscrit 1863: L'hôtesse du Connétable 1865: Les Proscrits de Sicile 1876: Les Danseuses du Caucase. 1877:La Servante du diable 1866: Les Sabotiers de la Forêt Noire 1880: L'Épée de Suzanne 1887: Rosario, (Short story in the collectif DENTU Pique-Nique)