The Fortune of the Rougons

Synopsis

'he thought he could see, in a flash, the future of the rougon-macquart family, a pack of wild satiated appetites in the midst of a blaze of gold and blood. 'set in the fictitious provençal town of plassans, the fortune of the rougons tells the story of silvère and miette, two idealistic young supporters of the republican resistance to louis-napoleon bonaparte's coup d'état in december 1851. They join the woodcutters and peasants of the var to seize control of plassans, opposed by the bonapartist loyalists led by silvère's uncle, pierre rougon.