Miscellany
- Nana became popular, in spite of or, as some say, because of the opprobrium it garnered.
- In a retort to Nana and Zola's theory of heredity, author Alfred Sirven wrote a novel called Nana's Daughter (ca. 1880), in which he tells the story of Nana's daughter, who rises up out of "the gutter" and becomes a respectable lady.
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