This author depicted Octave, a widower who expands his wife’s silk shop into a department store named The Ladies’ Paradise, in a sequel to a novel whose title has been translated by Henry Vizetelly as Piping Hot. In a novel by this author, a woman who has (10[1])a stroke is unable to report the murder of a character who bites a man on the neck before drowning. A character created by this author meets the anarchist Souvarine in a novel set in “Le Voreux.” This author, who wrote a novel in which a character kills Catherine’s abusive lover Chaval while trapped in a pit, created the murderer Thérèse Raquin (-5[1])(“tay-REZZ ra-CAN”). Étienne Lantier leads a strike at the Montsou mines in this author’s novel Germinal. For (10[1])10 (10[1])points, name this (10[1])author of the Rougon-Macquart (“roo-GON-mah-CAR”) series, who defended Alfred Dreyfus in the letter “J’Accuse…!” ■END■ (10[1])