The Downfall: The French Army in the War of 1870
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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The Franco-Prussian war from Sedan to the Commune - the retreat, the surrender of an army, and Paris burning. Zola walked the battlefield of Sedan before he wrote it, and this was the best-selling volume of the whole Rougon-Macquart, two hundred thousand copies in a year. This edition binds fifty-one plates of painting with the text, among them works by Ernest Meissonier, Christian Sell and Wilhelm Camphausen, alongside two illustrations restored and coloured, in the translation of Ernest Alfred Vizetelly.
The Franco-Prussian war from Sedan to the Commune - the retreat, the surrender of an army, and Paris burning. Zola walked the battlefield of Sedan before he wrote it, and this was the best-selling volume of the whole Rougon-Macquart, two hundred thousand copies in a year. This edition binds fifty...
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Émile Zola (1840-1902) was a French novelist born in Paris and raised in Aix-en-Provence. He wrote the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle, intervened in the Dreyfus affair with the open letter J'accuse, was convicted of libel and fled to England, and died of carbon monoxide poisoning in circumstances still disputed. His works include The Downfall, Germinal, L'Assommoir, and Nana.
Émile Zola (1840-1902) was a French novelist born in Paris and raised in Aix-en-Provence. He wrote the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle, intervened in the Dreyfus affair with the open letter J'accuse, was convicted of libel and fled to England, and died of carbon monoxide poisoning in circumst...
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