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Authors: Émile Zola
1
In the preface to the first novel of the series,
The Fortune of the Rougons
.
2
‘Napoleon II never governed, the First Empire being replaced by the Bourbon Restoration in 1814.
3
L’Union générale, sa vie, sa mort, son programme
(1888).
4
In the journal
Le Figaro
(1896), collected in
Nouvelle campagne
(1897), 203–14.
5
These included: Mirecourt’s
La Bourse, ses abus et ses mystères
(1858), Ernest Feydeau’s
Mémoires d’un coulissier
(1873), Proudhon’s
Manuel du spéculateur à la Bourse
(1854, 1857), and Henri Cozic’s
La Bourse mise à la portée de tous
(1885).
6
Anthony Trollope,
The Way We Live Now
, ch. 44 (World’s Classics edition, 1982).
7
Ibid., ch. 30.
8
In the Pléiade edition of
Les Rougon-Macquart
, vol. 5, p. 1242.
9
He is briefly mentioned in
The Belly of Paris
(
Le Ventre de Paris
), has a very minor role in
La Joie de vivre
, and is briefly recalled in
Dr Pascal
.
10
Archduke Maximilian of Austria, sent to be emperor of a (conquered) Mexico.
11
Jeremy Jennings,
Revolution and the Republic: A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 229.
12
Gallois, in
Zola: The History of Capitalism
(Berne: Peter Lang, 2000), 119.
13
Zola drew largely on Schaeffle,
La Quintessence du socialisme
(1886), and Georges Renard, ‘Le Socialisme actuel en France’,
La Revue socialiste
(1887–8).
14
But the ideas of those papers are perhaps partly realized in
Toil
(1901), the second of Zola’s
Four Gospels
.