La Conquête de Plassans by Émile Zola

"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%C3%AAte_de_Plassans fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Conqu%C3%AAte_de_Plassans
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
Last Update May 31, 2013
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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