Zola's main work :
Les Rougon-Macquart

The family tree

An anecdote (only in French)

• La Fortune des Rougon : Story of Pierre Rougon who makes his fortune from the coup d'état in 1851.
• La Curée : Story of Aristide Rougon, said Saccard, who becomes an important businessman in the parisian middleclasses.
• Le Ventre de Paris : Story of Lisa Quenu, born Macquart, who becomes a queen of the Halles de Paris : parisian middleclasses.
• La Conquête de Plassans : Story of Marthe Rougon and François Mouret in the house of whom settles the abbot Faujas.
• La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret : Story of Serge Mouret, priest in Les Artaud, whio falls in love with a young girl, Albine.
• Son Excellence Eugène Rougon : Story of Eugène Rougon minister in Paris in the 1860's.
• L'Assommoir : Story of Gervaise Macquart, a launderess, who becomes alcoholic and very miserous, moraly and physically.
• Une Page d'amour : Story of Hélène Mouret, widow of Grandjean, who falls in love, in Paris, with a married man, Dr Deberle.
• Nana : Story of Nana, Gervaise Macquart and Coupeau's daughter. Bestial courtesan, she dies of the smallpox in 1870, aged 18.
• Pot-Bouille : Story of Octave Mouret who gets married, in Paris with Mrs Hédouin, owner of a store.
• Au Bonheur des Dames : When Mrs Hédouin dies, Octave becomes the owner of a modern supermarket.
• La Joie de vivre : Story of Pauline Quenu, Lisa Macquart's daughter...
• Germinal : Story of Etienne Lantier, miner in the north of France.
• L'Oeuvre : Story of Claude Lantier, a painter.
• La Terre : Story of Jean Macquart, farmhand in La Borderie.
• Le Rêve : Romantic story of Angélique Rougon, Sidonie Rougon's daughter, with a bishop's son.
• La Bête Humaine : Story of Jacques Lantier, engine driver on a train, La Lison.
• L'Argent : Sequel of La Curée, about speculation on the Market.
• La Débâcle : About Sedan's French rout in 1870.
• Le Docteur Pascal : Story of Pascal Rougon, who represents a brilliant scientist.

  

  
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