Les Rougon-Macquart is the collective title given to a cycle of twenty novels by French writer Émile Zola. Subtitled "Natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire", it follows the ...
‘The Fortune of the Rougons is the first novel in Zolas monumental Les Rougon-Macquart series. The novel is partly an origin story with an enormous cast of characters, many of whom go on to become the ...