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Échappé du bagne, Florent gagne la capitale où il trouve un emploi au coeur des Halles. Républicain contraint à la clandestinité dans une France dirigée d'une main de fer par Napoléon III, il devra composer avec un peuple de petits bourgeois avides et prompts à revendiquer la part du voisin. Le Ventre de Paris, ce sont les Halles, avec leur "souffle colossal épais encore de l'indigestion de la veille", leurs montagnes de mangeailles, de viandes saignantes, "de choses fondantes, de choses grasses", de "gradins de légumes" d'où montent "le râle de tous les potagers de la banlieue". "L'idée générale, écrit Zola, est le ventre, la bourgeoisie digérant, ruminant, la bête broyant le foin au râtelier, la bedaine pleine et heureuse se ballonnant au soleil." C'est l'éternel combat des "Gras" contre les "Maigres".
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?mile Zola was a French writer who is recognized as an exemplar of literary naturalism and for his contributions to the development of theatrical naturalism. Zola s best-known literary works include the twenty-volume Les Rougon-Macquart, an epic work that examined the influences of violence, alcohol and prostitution on French society through the experiences of two families, the Rougons and the Macquarts. Other remarkable works by Zola include Contes ? Ninon, Les Myst?res de Marseille, and Th?r?se Raquin.
In addition to his literary contributions, Zola played a key role in the Dreyfus Affair of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. His newspaper article J Accuse accused the highest levels of the French military and government of obstruction of justice and anti-semitism, for which he was convicted of libel in 1898. After a brief period of exile in England, Zola returned to France where he died in 1902. ?mile Zola is buried in the Panth?on alongside other esteemed literary figures Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas.
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Échappé du bagne, Florent gagne la capitale où il trouve un emploi au coeur des Halles. Républicain contraint à la clandestinité dans une France dirigée d'une main de fer par Napoléon III, il devra composer avec un peuple de petits bourgeois avides et prompts à revendiquer la part du voisin. Le Ventre de Paris, ce sont les Halles, avec leur "souffle colossal épais encore de l'indigestion de la veille", leurs montagnes de mangeailles, de viandes saignantes, "de choses fondantes, de choses grasses", de "gradins de légumes" d'où montent "le râle de tous les potagers de la banlieue". "L'idée générale, écrit Zola, est le ventre, la bourgeoisie digérant, ruminant, la bête broyant le foin au râtelier, la bedaine pleine et heureuse se ballonnant au soleil." C'est l'éternel combat des "Gras" contre les "Maigres".
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