# The Fortune of the Rougons

By Émile Zola.

"The Fortune of the Rougons" by Émile Zola is a novel published in 1871. It opens the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart series, tracing two branches of a family descended from the troubled Adelaide Fouque. Against the backdrop of Napoleon III's 1851 coup d'état in provincial France, the ambitious Rougons scheme for wealth and status while their working-class Macquart relatives struggle to survive. A young couple's idealistic romance collides with political upheaval as family destinies unfold. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Editor: Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
- Subjects: France -- History -- 1848-1870 -- Fiction

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## Audiobooks of it

- [Fortune of the Rougons](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/10772) by Émile Zola (13 h 14 min, English)
- [Fortune of the Rougons, Book One of Rougon-Macquart Cycle (Version 2)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/20134) by Émile Zola (14 h 37 min, English)

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