Zola Dam is a dam in Le Tholonet near Aix-en-Provence, France. [1]
Zola Dam is a dam in Le Tholonet near Aix-en-Provence, France. [1]
The dam was designed by Italian-born engineer François Zola, the father of novelist Émile Zola. [1] [2] Its construction was initially rejected by Gaston Alexandre Auguste, Marquis de Galliffet, the landowner, in 1838. [1]
Zola founded the Société du Canal Zola in 1846 and began construction. [2] He died, however, in 1847, and the company was acquired by author and politician Jules Migeon in 1853. [2] Construction of the dam was completed on September 10, 1854, and it was dedicated on December 16, 1854. [2]
The dam was painted by Paul Cézanne in the 1880s. [3] The painting belonged to Paul Gauguin in 1885. It was purchased by Gwendoline Davies in 1918, who donated it to the National Museum Wales in 1952. [3]
Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.
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François Zola was an Italian-born French engineer. He built the Zola Dam creating Lac Zola near Le Tholonet in Aix-en-Provence.
Jules Migeon (1815–1868) was a French author, businessman and politician. He served in the Corps législatif from 1852 to 1859.
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