La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret [SEP] series
La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret
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 the level of realist observation compared to outright fantasy is most uncharacteristic; however, the novel remains extraordinarily
department store the perfect milieu for his natural gifts. He also inherits from his great-grandmother (Adelaïde Fouque or Tante Dide) a touch of obsessive-compulsive disorder, manifested in his intense commercial drive and his obsession with dominating female consumers.
Octave's brother is the priest Serge ("La faute de l'Abbé Mouret"), who served as a guardian to their mentally challenged sister Desirée.
In "Le docteur Pascal", the final novel in the series set in 1872-1873, Octave and Denise