01698cam a22003253u 4500 8907 UtSlPG 20260610133227.0 m cr n 260607r2005||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG fr iso639-1 PQ Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 Pot-Bouille Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2005 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-Bouille https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-Bouille Release date is 2005-09-01 Produced by Carlo Traverso, Christine De Ryck and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreaders "Pot-Bouille" by Émile Zola is a novel published in 1882, the tenth in the Rougon-Macquart series. Octave Mouret arrives in Paris and settles into a respectable bourgeois apartment building, seeking a mistress to advance his social position. Behind the facade of propriety, he discovers the building's inhabitants engage in adultery, arranged marriages, inheritance disputes, and child abandonment. Through biting irony, Zola exposes the hypocrisy and moral corruption lurking beneath the veneer of Parisian respectability. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Paris (France) -- Fiction France -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870 -- Fiction https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8907 50827 50827