Le Ventre de Paris by Émile Zola
"Le Ventre de Paris" by Émile Zola is a novel published in 1873, the third in his twenty-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series. Set in and around Les Halles, Paris's enormous central market, it follows Florent, an escaped political prisoner who returns to his half-brother's family and finds work as a fish inspector. As he becomes entangled in a socialist plot against the Empire, the novel vividly captures working-class life and suffering in the
bustling market halls of nineteenth-century Paris. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 |
|---|---|
| Title | Le Ventre de Paris |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Ventre_de_Paris |
| Credits | Produced by Philippe Chavin, Carlo Traverso, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Image files courtesy of gallica.bnf.fr |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Historical fiction |
| Subject | Paris (France) -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 6470 |
| Release Date | Sep 1, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Sep 16, 2014 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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