La Débâcle Œuvres complètes - Les Rougon-Macquart, Histoire naturelle et sociale d’une famille sous le Second Empire – XIX

The penultimate book in the Rougon-Macquart series, the resolution of its great historical fresco, and a model war novel, La Débâcle offers a striking panorama of the conflicts of 1870, with the central tableau provided by the defeat at Sedan and the collapse of the imperial regime.