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La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret

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Faute de l’Abbé Mouret, La
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Novel
Language
French
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La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret (1875) is the fifth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Viciously anticlerical in tone, it follows on from the horrific events at the end of La Conquête de Plassans, focussing this time on a remote Provençal backwater village.

Unusually for Zola, the novel contains very few characters and locations, and its use of amnesia as a plot device gives it an unusually fantastical tone.

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LibraryThing Work
719137
Wikidata Work ID
Q2610567

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2025-12-13