Abstract: This article interrogates La Fortune des Rougon from the critical perspective of rereading. What pleasure can we take from a novel whose aim is to present us with a rereading of history? How can we integrate the moment of rereading represented by Le Docteur Pascal into our approach? In this quest for meaning, it is important to remember the text of the preface which offers us an interpretive key, that of the “excess of appetites”.
