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Abbe Mouret's Transgression, by Emile Zola
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Title: Abbe Mouret's Transgression La Faute De L'abbe Mouret
Author: Emile Zola
Editor: Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
Release Date: November 28, 2004 [EBook #14200] Posting Date: May 29, 2009
Language: English
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ABBE MOURET'S TRANSGRESSION
By Emile Zola
Edited with an Introduction by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
INTRODUCTION
'LA FAUTE DE L'ABBE MOURET' was, with respect to the date of publication, the fourth volume of M. Zola's 'Rougon-Macquart' series; but in the amended and final scheme of that great literary undertaking, it occupies the ninth place. It proceeds from the sixth volume of the series, 'The Conquest of Plassans;' which is followed by the two works that deal with the career of Octave Mouret, Abbe Serge Mouret's elder brother. In 'The Conquest of Plassans,' Serge and his half-witted sister, Desiree, are seen in childhood at their home in Plassans, which is wrecked by the doings of a certain Abbe Faujas and his relatives. Serge Mouret grows up, is called by an instinctive vocation to the priesthood, and becomes parish priest of Les Artaud, a well-nigh pagan hamlet in one of those bare, burning st