Cenotaph by Émile Zola

In the quiet, hilly landscape of the Montmartre Cemetery, a stone monument rises as a permanent marker for the writer Émile Zola. It is distinguished by a bronze bust of the novelist, a work sculpted by his friend Philippe Solari and inaugurated in March nineteen oh four. The structure stands in division nineteen, anchoring the family plot where the author was originally laid to rest following his sudden death in nineteen oh two.