Rupert Christiansen’s Tales of the New Babylon

Zola’s La Débâcle, first planned in 1868, was the penultimate chapter in Les Rougon-Macquart. Warfare was something Zola had always meant to give full play in Les Rougon-Macquart, and his 1868 scheme had provided for “a novel that will have the military world as its framework…; an episode in [Napoleon III’s] Italian campaign.” But after the calamitous Franco-Prussian War, this installment acquired special significance. What had originally been envisaged as one tale among …showed first 75 words of 2462 total…

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