# Abbe Mouret's Transgression

By Émile Zola.

"Abbe Mouret's Transgression" by Émile Zola is a novel published in 1875. The fifth volume in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, it follows neurotic young priest Serge Mouret as he takes charge of a desolate Provençal parish. After a nervous breakdown leaves him with complete amnesia, Serge awakens in an overgrown estate where he meets Albine, a wild innocent girl. Together they experience an idyllic existence filled with biblical parallels, until a shocking discovery forces Serge to confront his past and faith. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Translator: Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
- Subjects: Clergy -- Fiction; France -- Fiction; Catholics -- Fiction; Sin -- Christianity -- Fiction

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## Audiobooks of it

- [Abbe Mouret's Transgression, Book Five of Rougon-Macquart Cycle](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/20854) by Émile Zola (15 h 14 min, English)

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