Son Excellence Eugène Rougon

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novel political novel

Son Excellence Eugène Rougon is a political novel by Émile Zola that explores power, ambition, and corruption within the Second French Empire as part of his Rougon-Macquart series.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel ⓘ
political novel ⓘ
author Émile Zola ⓘ
countryOfOrigin France ⓘ
depicts French political elite ⓘ
court politics under Napoleon III ⓘ
focusesOn mechanisms of political influence ⓘ
relationships between politicians and their clients ⓘ
genre political fiction ⓘ
realist novel ⓘ
literaryMovement Naturalism ⓘ
literaryPeriod 19th-century literature ⓘ
mainCharacter Son Excellence Eugène Rougon self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Eugène Rougon
narrativePerspective third-person narration ⓘ
originalLanguage French ⓘ
partOf Les Rougon-Macquart ⓘ
surface form: Rougon-Macquart cycle
series Les Rougon-Macquart ⓘ
settingCity Paris ⓘ
settingCountry France ⓘ
settingPeriod Second Empire of France ⓘ
surface form: Second French Empire
theme ambition ⓘ
authoritarianism ⓘ
clientelism ⓘ
corruption ⓘ
patronage ⓘ
political power ⓘ

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Les Rougon-Macquart → hasPart → Son Excellence Eugène Rougon ⓘ
Son Excellence Eugène Rougon → mainCharacter → Son Excellence Eugène Rougon self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Eugène Rougon
Émile Zola → notableWork → Son Excellence Eugène Rougon ⓘ