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Pot-Bouille

Pot-Bouille

by Émile Zola

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About Pot-Bouille

Zola's tenth Rougon-Macquart novel (1882) — the story of Octave Mouret's rise through the Parisian bourgeoisie by seducing the women of his middle-class apartment building. A savage satirical exposure of bourgeois hypocrisy and the direct prequel to The Ladies' Paradise (1883), in which Mouret founds his great department store.

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