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The Fortune of the Rougons By Émile Zola

The Fortune of the Rougons

By Émile Zola

  • Release Date: 2010-01-01
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
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La Fortune des Rougon, originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Emile Zola's monumental twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. The novel is partly an origin story, with a huge cast of characters swarming around - many of whom become the central figures of later novels in the series - and partly an account of the December 1851 coup d'état which created the French Second Empire under Napoleon III as experienced in a large provincial town in southern France.

— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.