Eugène Rougon loses office, spends the book intriguing to get it back, and discovers that power was the only thing he ever wanted. Zola drew the parliament from the official records, and the portrait of Rougon is the coldest in the cycle.

Eugène Rougon loses office, spends the book intriguing to get it back, and discovers that power was the only thing he ever wanted. Zola drew the parliament from the official records, and the portrait of Rougon is the coldest in the cycle.
Englisch

Thérèse Raquin

Germinal

His Masterpiece : A Painter Defeated by His Own Canvas

Money : L'Argent

Fruitfulness : A Family Against a Barren Paris

Germinal : A Coal Strike in Northern France

Rome : A Priest's Manuscript on the Index

The Downfall : The French Army in the War of 1870

The Rush for the Spoil : Speculation in Haussmann's Paris

Paris : A Brother Making Bombs in a Workshop

The Ladies' Paradise : A Great Paris Store Eating Its Street