Scientific editor:Marquer (Bertrand) General directors:Alexandre (Didier), Hamon (Philippe), Pagès (Alain), Tortonese (Paolo)
Abstract: The first opus of the Trois Villes, the new novelistic cycle that Émile Zola devoted himself to following Les Rougon-Macquart, Lourdes questions its author, and its time, about the psychological imperative of faith, and insists on the need for a “new religion”.
