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The Fortune of the Rougons

by Émile Zola

History · Novel

Open Library OL15245304W

La Fortune des Rougon (The Fortune of the Rougons), originally published, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monumental twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. The Fortune of the Rougons is partly an origin story, with a large cast of characters - many of whom become the central figures of later novels in the series - and partly an account of the December coup d'état that created the French Second Empire under Napoleon III.

About the author

Émile Zola (1840–1902) is represented here by 21 public-domain titles, including Abbe Mouret's Transgression, Doctor Pascal, and For a Night of Love. This page is a shelf list: the books are read on Open Library, not stored here. More of this shelf for Émile Zola.

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