Les Rougon-Macquart

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book series literary work novel cycle

Les Rougon-Macquart is a twenty-novel cycle by Émile Zola that traces the lives of a fictional French family to explore heredity, environment, and society during the Second French Empire.

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Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book series → literary work → novel cycle →
author	Émile Zola →
centralFamily	Rougon-Macquart family →
countryOfOrigin	France →
depicts	bourgeois society → industrialization → urban life in Paris → working-class conditions →
firstPublicationYear	1871 →
genre	naturalist fiction → realist fiction →
hasPart	Au Bonheur des Dames → Germinal → La Bête humaine → La Conquête de Plassans → La Curée → La Débâcle → La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret → La Fortune des Rougon → La Joie de vivre → La Terre → Le Docteur Pascal → Le Rêve → Le Ventre de Paris → L’Argent → L’Assommoir → L’Œuvre → Nana → Pot-Bouille → Son Excellence Eugène Rougon → Une Page d’amour →
historicalSetting	Second French Empire →
influencedBy	positivism → scientific theories of heredity →
lastPublicationYear	1893 →
literaryMovement	Naturalism →
mainTheme	French society → determinism → environment → heredity →
narrativeScope	multiple generations →
notableWorkInCycle	Au Bonheur des Dames → Germinal → L’Assommoir → Nana →
numberOfWorks	20 →
originalLanguage	French →
publisher	Georges Charpentier NERFINISHED →
setting	France →
timePeriodCovered	1852–1870 →

Referenced by (40)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Au Bonheur des Dames → La Conquête de Plassans → La Débâcle → La Joie de vivre → Le Ventre de Paris → L’Œuvre → Pot-Bouille → Son Excellence Eugène Rougon →	series
Les Rougon-Macquart ("La Fortune des Rougon") → Les Rougon-Macquart ("L’Assommoir") → Les Rougon-Macquart ("Germinal") → Les Rougon-Macquart ("La Bête humaine") → Émile Zola ("Les Rougon-Macquart cycle") →	hasPart
Émile Zola → Émile Zola ("Germinal") → Émile Zola ("L’Assommoir") → Émile Zola ("La Bête humaine") → Émile Zola ("La Fortune des Rougon") →	notableWork
La Conquête de Plassans ("Rougon-Macquart cycle") → La Joie de vivre ("Rougon-Macquart cycle") → Le Ventre de Paris ("Rougon-Macquart cycle") → Son Excellence Eugène Rougon ("Rougon-Macquart cycle") →	partOf
La Curée → Le Rêve → Nana → Thérèse Raquin ("Rougon-Macquart cycle (sometimes associated)") →	partOfSeries
Les Rougon-Macquart ("Germinal") → Les Rougon-Macquart ("L’Assommoir") →	notableWorkInCycle
L’Œuvre → Pot-Bouille →	partOfCycle
Le Ventre de Paris ("L’Assommoir") → Le Ventre de Paris ("Germinal") →	relatedWorkByAuthor
Les Rougon-Macquart ("Rougon-Macquart family") →	centralFamily
Le Rêve ("La Bête humaine") →	followedBy
La Joie de vivre ("Germinal") →	hasWorkInSeriesFollowedBy
La Débâcle ("Rougon-Macquart social and natural history of a family under the Second Empire") →	partOfAuthorProject
La Conquête de Plassans ("Histoire naturelle et sociale d’une famille sous le Second Empire") →	partOfProject
Nana ("L’Assommoir") →	precededBy
La Curée ("Rougon-Macquart family") →	protagonistFamily
La Curée ("Les Rougon-Macquart: Histoire naturelle et sociale d’une famille sous le Second Empire") →	workIn