Scientific editor:Baguley (David) General directors:Alexandre (Didier), Hamon (Philippe), Pagès (Alain), Tortonese (Paolo)
Abstract: The first installment in the Rougon-Macquart saga, this tale establishes the history of a family eaten away by an original fissure. Depicting the romance between Miette and Silvère and the ferocious egotism of the Rougon clan, La Fortune des Rougon is as much a novel of the idyll as it is social satire.