Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (1853–1922) was an English journalist, translator and author, the son of the publisher Henry Vizetelly. As a young man he served as a war correspondent during the Franco-Prussian War. He translated many of Émile Zola's novels into English, carrying on the work for which his father had been prosecuted, and he helped Zola during his exile in England in 1898 and 1899. He wrote a biography of Zola, books on French history and society, including studies of the anarchists and the Bonapartes, and several novels.