Nana (Novel) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A year before he started to write Nana, Zola did not know anything yet about the Varietes. It was Ludovic Halevy who invited him to see an operetta with him on February 15, 1878 and took him backstage. Halevy told him innumerable stories about the amorous life of the star-Anna Judic whose menage a trois would become the model for Rose Mignon, her husband, and Fauchery-and also about famous cocottes such as Blanche d'Antigny, Anna Deslions, Delphine de Lizy, and Hortense Schneider, an amalgam of which was to serve the writer as the basis for his principal character.