Les Rougon-Macquart
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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
La joie de vivre
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La joie de vivre is the twelfth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was serialized in the periodical Gil Blas in 1883 before being published in book form by Charpentier in February 1
1903 edition
Vase with Oleanders and Books, van Gogh (1888)