Zola, Émile,  1840-1902 <br/><br/>
The Fortune of the Rougons 

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<br/><br/> Translation of La fortune des Rougon.  The Fortune of the Rougons is the first in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series of novels.  Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fortune_des_Rougon  Release date is 2006-04-22 
<br/><br/>Dagny, John Bickers and David Widger  Dagny, John Bickers and David Widger 
<br/><br/> "The Fortune of the Rougons" by Émile Zola is a novel published in 1871. It opens the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart series, tracing two branches of a family descended from the troubled Adelaide Fouque. Against the backdrop of Napoleon III's 1851 coup d'état in provincial France, the ambitious Rougons scheme for wealth and status while their working-class Macquart relatives struggle to survive. A young couple's idealistic romance collides with political upheaval as family destinies unfold. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>France -- History -- 1848-1870 -- Fiction 
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