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| | Emile Zola biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The first novel of the series, La fortune des Rougon, was not published until 1871, after the fall of the Empire. |
 | | The whole series consisted of 20 volumes, the last two of which, La débâcle, dealing with the unreadiness of France for the Franco-German War, and Le Docteur Pascal, were published in 1892 and 1893. |
 | | It is very uneven; it must be admitted that some of the volumes, Pot-Bouille (1882), e.g., which claims to be a picture of the life of the middle class, present hardly anything that is not nauseating and at the same time tedious. |
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