La Zola, Émile 1840-1902 creator text utu 2005 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "La Conquête de Plassans" by Émile Zola is a novel published in 1874. When a mysterious priest arrives in the provincial town of Plassans, he slowly infiltrates the household of François Mouret and his wife Marthe. What begins as simple lodging becomes a calculated takeover of family, home, and eventually the entire town's political landscape. As the priest's influence grows and Marthe falls under his spell, François finds himself increasingly marginalized in his own house, leading toward a devastating descent into madness and destruction. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Conqu%C3%AAte_de_Plassans https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Conqu%C3%AAte_de_Plassans Release date is 2005-08-01 Produced by Carlo Traverso, Marc D'Hooghe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team Original publication data not identified France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction Clergy -- France -- Fiction France -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870 -- Fiction Insanity (Law) -- France -- Fiction Psychiatric hospitals -- France -- Fiction Confessors -- France -- Fiction Christian life -- France -- Fiction Priests -- France -- Fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8712 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8712 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133225.0 8712