Title: Pot-bouille
Description: Pot-Bouille is the tenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. The novel is an indictment of the mores of the bourgeoisie of the Second French Empire.

It is set in a Parisian apartment building, a relatively new housing arrangement at the time and its title (roughly translating as stew pot) reflects the disparate and sometimes unpleasant elements lurking behind the building's new façade.
Subjects: Fiction, Middle class, Paris (France), Embroidery, History, Technique, Machine Embroidery, Meiji period, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
Places: Paris, Paris (France), France
Time periods: Second French Empire (1852-1870)