His Exellency Eugène Rougon

Émile Zola; Brian Nelson (Editor)

'He loved power for power's sake . . . He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.'   His Excellency Eug ne Rougon (1876) is the sixth novel in Zola's twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle. A political novel set in the corridors of power and in the upper echelons of French Second Empire societ...