Lourdes

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Lourdes is an 1894 novel by Émile Zola that critically explores religious faith, pilgrimage, and alleged miracles surrounding the famous Marian shrine in southwestern France.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
author Émile Zola
basedOn Zola’s observations at Lourdes
containsCharacter Doctor Chassaigne
Father Fourcade
Marie de Guersaint
surface form: Madame de Guersaint
countryOfOrigin France
depicts Marian apparitions at Lourdes as a social phenomenon
examines psychology of crowds
suggestibility and mass belief
firstPublicationForm book
followedBy Paris
Rome
hasAdaptation stage adaptations
hasCentralCharacter Abbé Pierre Froment
Marie de Guersaint
hasCriticalReception controversial among Catholic readers
praised for documentary realism
hasLiteraryForm prose
hasPageCount approximately 500 pages
hasSequel Paris
Rome
hasTitleInOriginalLanguage Lourdes self-link
includedInBibliographyOf Émile Zola
isCritiqueOf Catholic pilgrimage practices
belief in miraculous cures
literaryGenre naturalist literature
novel
mainSubject Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes
surface form: Marian shrine of Lourdes

miracles
pilgrimage
religious faith
movement Naturalism
narrativePerspective third-person narration
originalLanguage French
partOfSeries Les Trois Villes
publicationYear 1894
publisher Charpentier et Fasquelle
setIn France
Lourdes self-link
theme commercialization of faith
conflict between faith and reason
critique of organized religion
mass pilgrimage
social misery and illness
timePeriodOfSetting late 19th century

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Occitanie containsCity Lourdes
Occitanie hasHistoricCity Lourdes
Lourdes hasTitleInOriginalLanguage Lourdes self-link
Émile Zola notableWork Lourdes
Lourdes setIn Lourdes self-link