Paris
by Émile Zola
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Ce matin-la, vers la fin de janvier, labbe Pierre Froment, qui avait une messe a dire au Sacre-Coeur de Montmartre, seretrouvait des huit heures sur la Butte devant la basilique. Et,avant dentrer, un instant il regarda Paris, dont la mer immense se deroulait a ses pieds.
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FictionCatholicsMan-woman relationshipsClergy in fictionMan-woman relationships in fictionCatholics in fiction
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Paris (France)1848-1870
About the author
Émile Zola
2 April 1840 – 28 September 1902
Emile Zola was a French journalist and novelist known for his series of 20 novels known collectively as Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93). Zola's style was called literary naturalism; his novels were attacked and even banned for their frankness and sordid detail, and caused quite a bit of controversy in their day. The same traits made him a best-selling author and a star of French literature in his day. In 1898 he then further incurred the wrath of French officials when he published the open letter "J'Accuse," in defense of Alfred Dreyfus, an Army officer who had been convicted of treason. Zola was sentenced to prison for libel, fled to England, and was granted amnesty a few months later. He die…
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