Le rêve is the sixteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It is about an orphan girl who falls in love with a nobleman, and is set in the years 1860–1869.
Les Rougon-Macquart is a literary cycle of twenty novels by French writer Émile Zola. Subtitled Histoire naturelle et sociale d'une famille sous le Second Empire, it follows the lives of the members o
First page of La Fortune des Rougon, the first book of the series
Zola, with the book of the Rougon-Macquart under his arm, salutes the statue of Balzac.
Letter by Zola to his publisher
The 1878 tree, published in a note included in Une Page d'amour