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'''Ernest Alfred Vizetelly''' (1853–1922) was an English journalist, author and translator, best known for translating and editing the works of French novelist [[Émile Zola]] into English. He also worked as a war correspondent and published a memoir of his experiences during the [[Siege of Paris (1870–71)|Siege of Paris]] in the [[Franco-Prussian War]].

== Life ==
He was a son of the English publisher [[Henry Vizetelly]], by his first marriage to Ellen Elizabeth Pollard. He was known as a war correspondent.<ref>{{ODNBweb|id=28344|title=Vizetelly, Henry Richard|first=P. D.|last=Edwards}}</ref>

Ernest was present with his father at the [[Siege of Paris (1870–71)|Siege of Paris]] during the [[Franco-Prussian War]] and wrote a memoir of his experiences, ''My Days of Adventure: The Fall of France, 1870–71'', which also contains an autobiographical introduction.

He edited some translations of [[Émile Zola]]'s works that had previously been published by his father between 1884 and 1889, as well as producing his own translations.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Project Gutenberg eBook of Émile Zola, Novelist and Reformer, by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly. |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/57546/57546-h/57546-h.htm |access-date=2022-07-24 |website=www.gutenberg.org}}</ref>

When Zola fled France for England during [[the Dreyfus Affair]] in 1898, Vizetelly supported and advised Zola.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rosen |first1=Michael |title=The disappearance of Émile Zola : love, literature and the Dreyfus case |date=2017 |publisher=Faber & Faber |location=London |isbn=978-0-571-31202-3 |page=25}}</ref>

==Translations and editions of Zola==
Many of Ernest Vizetelly's translations of Zola were based on work done by anonymous translators who, each to some degree, [[Expurgation|expurgated]] the texts. Following the publication of the translation of {{Lang|fr|[[La Terre]]}}, Vizetelly & Co. was prosecuted for obscenity by the [[National Vigilance Association]], causing him to re-edit, rewrite, and further bowdlerize the English versions of the [[Les Rougon-Macquart|Rougon-Macquart series]], and as such they are almost universally considered to be of inferior quality.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordguidetolit00pete/page/279/mode/1up |title=The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2000 |isbn=0-19-818359-3 |editor-last=France |editor-first=Peter |location=Oxford |pages=279}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=King |first=Graham |url=https://archive.org/details/gardenofzolaemil0000king_x0a7/page/370/mode/2up?view=theater&q=370+372 |title=Garden of Zola: Émile Zola and his Novels for English Readers |publisher=Barrie & Jenkins |year=1978 |isbn=0-214-20403-0 |location=London |pages=370-373}}</ref>{{additional citations needed|date=September 2022}}

* ''[[La Débâcle|The Downfall]]'', translated by E. A. Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1893)
* ''[[Le Docteur Pascal|Doctor Pascal]]'', translated by E. A. Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1894)
* ''[[L'Argent|Money]]'', translated by Ernest A. Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1894)
* [[Au Bonheur des Dames|''The Ladies' Paradise'']], edited with an introduction by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1895)
* ''[[Une page d'amour|A Love Episode]]'', translated with a preface by E. A. Vizetelly (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1895)
* ''[[Le Ventre de Paris|The Fat and the Thin]]'', translated with an introduction by E. A. Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1896)
* ''[[L'Assommoir|The Dram Shop]]'', edited with an introduction by E. A. Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1897)
* [[Son Excellence Eugène Rougon|''His Excellency'']], edited with a preface by Ernest A. Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1897)
* ''[[La Fortune des Rougon|The Fortune of the Rougons]]'', edited with an introduction by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1898)
* ''[[La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret|Abbé Mouret's Transgression]]'', edited with an introduction by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1900)
* ''[[La Conquête de Plassans|The Conquest of Plassans]]'', edited with an introduction by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1900)
* ''[[Germinal (novel)|Germinal]]'', edited with a preface by E. A. Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1901)
* ''[[La joie de vivre|The Joy of Life]]'', edited with a preface by E. A. Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1901)
* ''[[L'Œuvre|His Masterpiece]]'', edited with a preface by E. A. Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1902)
* The "Trois Villes" series: I, "Lourdes," II, "Rome," and III, "Paris," as translated by Ernest A. Vizetelly, (The Three City, 1899) is published in London by Chatto and Windus, in New York by the Macmillan Co.
* "Fruitfulness" ("Fécondité"), translated by E. A. Vizetelly. London, Chatto; New York, Doubleday.
* "Work" ("Travail"), translated by E. A. Vizetelly. London, Chatto.
* "Truth" ("Vérité"), translated by E. A. Vizetelly. London, Chatto; New York, John Lane.

== Notes ==
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