A Zola Dictionary
Publisher: Echo Library
Published: July 20, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781406801514
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; French; European - French; General; Literary Collections-General; Literary Criticism & Collections / French
First sentence: 1. ADELAIDE FOUQUE, called AUNT DIDE, born in 1768, married in 1786 to Rougon, a placid, lubberly gardener; bears him a son in 1787; loses her husband in 1788; takes in 1789 a lover, Macquart, a smuggler, addicted to drink and half crazed; bears him a son in 1789, and a daughter in 1791; goes mad, and is sent to the Asylum of Les Tulettes in 1851; dies there of cerebral congestion in 1873 at 105 years of age.