TY - BOOK AU - Zola,Émile AU - Vizetelly,Ernest Alfred TI - The Fortune of the Rougons AV - PQ PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - France -- History -- 1848-1870 -- Fiction N1 - 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; Dagny, John Bickers and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5135 ER -