A country girl takes work in the first Paris department store and watches it swallow every small shop on the street. Zola researched it inside the Bon Marché with a notebook, and the book is both a love story and the clearest account anyone wrote of how modern retail was invented.
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
Paris : A Brother Making Bombs in a Workshop