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Une édition de référence de Au Bonheur des Dames d'Émile Zola, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
Dans le pan coupé donnant sur la place Gaillon, la haute porte, toute en glace, montait jusqu'à l'entresol, au milieu d'une complication d'ornements, chargés de dorures. Deux figures allégoriques, deux femmes riantes, la gorge nue et renversée, déroulaient l'enseigne: Au Bonheur des dames. Puis, les vitrines...
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Émile Zola was one of the most important, though controversial, French novelists of the late nineteenth century, and founder of the Realist movement. In 1871 Zola began to write his most notable series of novels, the "Rougon-Macquart Novels", that relate the history of a fictional family under the Second Empire. As a strict naturalist, Zola was greatly concerned with science, especially the problems of evolution and heredity vs. environment. However,...
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Zola's The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames, 1883) plays out in a colossal and opulent Parisian department store of the same name. Its owner, Octave Mouret, builds his innovative, upmarket women's fashion empire at the expense of the city's smaller, traditional shops. A self-declared manipulator of women, Mouret not only plays on his female customers' personal insecurities and social aspirations to keep his takings high, but also exploits his...
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