The priest, having lost Lourdes and Rome, comes to Paris and finds his brother making bombs in a workshop, while ministers, financiers and newspapers arrange a scandal above them. Zola finished the trilogy in 1898, the year of the Dreyfus letter that sent him into exile, and the anarchist chapters draw on the bombings and trials of the early 1890s. Faith is not restored at the end; something else is put in its place.
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
His Excellency : A Minister of the Second Empire
The Rush for the Spoil : Speculation in Haussmann's Paris
The Ladies' Paradise : A Great Paris Store Eating Its Street