Zola, Émile 1840-1902 creator text utu 2005 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) 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 Original publication data not identified Paris (France) -- Fiction France -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870 -- Fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8907 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8907 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133227.0 8907