The Three Cities: Lourdes, Rome and Paris

The Three Cities is a novel cycle written by Emile Zola between 1893 and 1898. It directly follows the previous cycle of novelist Les Rougon-Macquart. His hero, Abbe Pierre Froment, the common thread to all three novels, Lourdes, Rome and Paris, where Zola asked about the place of religion in modern society, but also on the confrontation between a radiant face bourgeoisie a miserable working world.