A Love Episode is the eighth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by ???mile Zola, set among the petite bourgeoisie in Second Empire suburban Paris. It was first serialized between December 11, 1877, and April 4, 1878, in Le Bien public, before being published in novel form by Charpentier in April 1878. The central character of the novel is H???l???ne Grandjean n???e Mouret (b. 1824), first introduced briefly in La fortune des Rougon. H???l???ne is the daughter of Ursule Mouret n???e Macquart, the illegitimate daughter of ...
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A Love Episode is the eighth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by ???mile Zola, set among the petite bourgeoisie in Second Empire suburban Paris. It was first serialized between December 11, 1877, and April 4, 1878, in Le Bien public, before being published in novel form by Charpentier in April 1878. The central character of the novel is H???l???ne Grandjean n???e Mouret (b. 1824), first introduced briefly in La fortune des Rougon. H???l???ne is the daughter of Ursule Mouret n???e Macquart, the illegitimate daughter of Adela???de Fouque (Tante Dide), the ancestress of the Rougon-Macquart family. H???l???ne's brothers are Fran???ois Mouret, the central character of La conqu???te de Plassans, and Silv???re Mouret, whose story is told in La fortune des Rougon.
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