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In that closed, sequestered town of plassans, where class distinction was so clearly marked in 1848, the commotion caused by political events was very slight. The fortune of the rougons emile zola audiobook and ebook. Les rougonmacquart histoire naturelle et sociale dune famille sous le second empire 1. The fortune of the rougons, by emile zola project gutenberg.
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