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Le Ventre de Paris (translated into English under many variant titles but literally meaning The Belly of Paris) is Zola's first novel entirely on the working class. The protagonist is Florent, an escaped political prisoner mistakenly arrested after the French coup of 1851.
- Émile Zola
- 1873
Le ventre de Paris est une métaphore faisant référence aux Halles centrales de Paris par son abondance de denrées : les halles y sont dépeintes comme un monde florissant où rien n'existe à part la nourriture ; la beauté, la richesse et la prospérité riment avec la nourriture.
The Belly of Paris (Le Ventre de Paris), the third novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series of Les Rougon-Macquart is a criticism leveled at the fat, well fed, self-satisfied bourgeois class. The setting is Les Halles of Paris and the story takes place over one year from 1858 to 1859.
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Jul 2, 2022 · The belly of Paris = (Le ventre de Paris) Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'etat in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition.
Aug 22, 2002 · A classic realist novel by Zola that depicts the life and struggles of the workers and traders in the vast Central Markets of Paris. The novel was inspired by Zola's own observations of the Halles and his article on violets, which he wrote in 1867.
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Dec 31, 2014 · Le ventre de Paris. by. Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Publication date. 1894. Publisher. Paris G. Charpentier. Collection. robarts; universityofottawa; toronto.
