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    Le Ventre de Paris [lə vɑ̃tʁ də paʁi] (1873) is the third novel in French writer Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. It is set in and...
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    charcutiers Lisa Macquart and M. Quenu, who are central characters in Le ventre de Paris (published 1873). Pauline plays a small part in that novel. The novel...
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    Belly of Paris (Le Ventre de Paris); first trans. by Brian Nelson in 2007. Oxford World's Classics. ISBN 978-0-19-280633-8 (2008) The Belly of Paris; first...
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    as the "Belly of Paris", as Émile Zola called it in his 1873 novel Le Ventre de Paris, which is set in the busy marketplace of the 19th century. Unable...
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  • of pride and defiance, he wrote: "Le groupe d'écrivains naturalistes auquel j'ai l'honneur d'appartenir a assez de courage et d'activité pour produire...
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    Émile Zola (category Burials at the Panthéon, Paris)
    Les Soirées de Médan L'Inondation (The Flood) novella (1880) Les Rougon-Macquart La Fortune des Rougon (1871) La Curée (1871–72) Le Ventre de Paris (1873)...
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    Nana (novel) (category Books of Les Rougon-Macquart)
    works. One was a reply to Dumas. Another, Le Jesuite rouge, contended that the Jesuits organized the Paris Commune to create Jewish martyrs and thereby...
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  • Isle de France. Kerguelen abandoned Berryer and requisitioned the 24-gun fluyt Fortune and Gros Ventre to continue his mission. Fortune and Gros Ventre started...
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    Émile Zola in particular his Les Rougon-Macquart novel cycle, which includes Germinal, L'Assommoir, Nana, Le Ventre de Paris, La Bête humaine, and L'Œuvre...
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  • Africa. Nicolas Le Floch is Commissaire of the Châtelet in 18th century Paris. Working for the Lieutenant General of Police Antoine de Sartine, and assisted...
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