The novel is partly an origin story, with a huge cast of characters swarming around - many of whom become the central figures of later novels in the series - and partly an account of the December 1851 coup d'état that created the French Second Empire under Napoleon III as experienced in a large provincial town in southern France.
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The Fortune of the Rougons
Introduction
Author's Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5 The high roads stretched far way, white with moonlight.