La Conquête de Plassans by Émile Zola
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"La Conquête de Plassans" by Émile Zola is a novel published in 1874. When a mysterious priest arrives in the provincial town of Plassans, he slowly infiltrates the household of François Mouret and his wife Marthe. What begins as simple lodging becomes a calculated takeover of family, home, and eventually the entire town's political landscape. As the priest's influence grows and Marthe falls under his spell, François finds himself increasingly marginalized in
his own house, leading toward a devastating descent into madness and destruction. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 |
|---|---|
| Title | La Conquête de Plassans |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Conqu |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Conqu |
| Credits | Produced by Carlo Traverso, Marc D'Hooghe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 82.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Subject | Clergy -- France -- Fiction |
| Subject | France -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870 -- Fiction |
| Subject | Insanity (Law) -- France -- Fiction |
| Subject | Psychiatric hospitals -- France -- Fiction |
| Subject | Confessors -- France -- Fiction |
| Subject | Christian life -- France -- Fiction |
| Subject | Priests -- France -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 8712 |
| Release Date | Aug 1, 2005 |
| Last Update | May 31, 2013 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 421 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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