La Débâcle

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La Débâcle is an 1892 historical novel by Émile Zola that portrays the Franco-Prussian War and the fall of the Second French Empire through the experiences of ordinary soldiers and civilians.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical novel
novel
author Émile Zola
countryOfOrigin France
depictsEvent Battle of Sedan (1870)
surface form: Battle of Sedan

Franco-Prussian War
fall of Napoleon III
featuresCharacterType French infantry soldiers
Prussian soldiers
civilians
followedBy Le Docteur Pascal
follows Le Rêve
genre historical fiction
realist novel
war novel
hasTranslation The Debacle
Downfall
surface form: The Downfall
literaryMovement Naturalism
mainTheme civilian hardship
collapse of political regimes
defeat
suffering of ordinary soldiers
war
narrativePerspective third-person
notableFor critique of the Second French Empire
detailed depiction of military defeat
naturalistic portrayal of war’s brutality
originalLanguage French
partOf French literature
partOfAuthorProject Les Rougon-Macquart
surface form: Rougon-Macquart social and natural history of a family under the Second Empire
positionInSeries 19
publicationDate 1892
publisher Charpentier et Fasquelle
series Les Rougon-Macquart
setInPeriod Franco-Prussian War
Siege of Paris
fall of the Second French Empire
setting France
Paris
battlefields of eastern France
timeOfAction 1870
1871

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Les Rougon-Macquart hasPart La Débâcle
Émile Zola notableWork La Débâcle