Das Glück der Familie Rougon (La Fortune des Rougon: Die Rougon-Macquart Band 1)

"The Fortune of the Rougons," first published in 1871, is the inaugural volume of Émile Zola's extensive twenty-part Rougon-Macquart series. Set in the fictional town of Plassans during Napoleon III's 1851 coup, it intertwines fact and fiction. Zola, a prominent 19th-century French novelist and journalist, is a key figure in the Naturalism movement.