Speculation in the rebuilding of Paris under Haussmann, and a family that gets rich pulling down streets - with a stepmother and stepson affair at the center of it. The second of the Rougon-Macquart and the one where Zola set out what the empire was actually for.
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
Paris : A Brother Making Bombs in a Workshop
The Ladies' Paradise : A Great Paris Store Eating Its Street