Download or read book The Fortune of the Rougons(Les Rougon-Macquart #1) Annotated written by Emile Zola and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-17 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.Les Rougon-Macquart is the collective title given to a cycle of twenty novels by French writer Émile Zola. Subtitled Histoire naturelle et sociale d'une famille sous le Second Empire (Natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire), it follows the lives of the members of the two titular branches of a fictional family living during the Second French Empire (1852-1870) and is one of the most prominent works of the French naturalism literary movement.