The Fortune of the Rougons, originally published in 1871, is the first novel in mile Zola\'s monumental twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart.
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The novel is partly an origin story, with a huge cast of characters swarming around - many of whom become the central figures of later novels in the series - and partly an account of the December 1851 coup d\' tat that created the French Second Empire under Napoleon III as experienced in a large provincial town in southern France.
The Fortune of the Rougons, originally published in 1871, is the first novel in mile Zola\'s monumental twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart