The Fortune of the Rougons

first publication date:  1871
genre:  novel
part of the series:  Les Rougon-Macquart
series ordinal:  1
original title:  La Fortune des Rougon
original language:  French
movement:  naturalism
followed by:  La Curée

La Fortune des Rougon (The Fortune of the Rougons), originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monumental twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. The novel 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 1851 coup d'état that created the French Second Empire under Napoleon III. The events are experienced through the eyes of a large provincial town in southern France. The title refers not only to the "fortune" chased by protagonists Pierre and Felicité Rougon, but also to the fortunes of the various disparate family members Zola introduces, whose lives are of central importance to later books in the series. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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