Lourdes: Five Days on the White Train
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Gustave Caillebotte, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Jules Breton. A young priest takes a paralysed girl he has loved since childhood to Lourdes on the white train, and loses his faith over five days among the sick, the cured and the trade in candles. Zola went twice as an observer, took notes in the piscina and the hospital, and the book was put on the Index within the year. He does not deny the cures; he insists on counting them, which was the offence. Sixty plates from 1840 to 1907, among them Courbet and Millet, carry the same hard daylight of roads, rock and stream that Zola found on the road to Lourdes.
Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Gustave Caillebotte, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Jules Breton. A young priest takes a paralysed girl he has loved since childhood to Lourdes on the white train, and loses his faith over five days among the sick, the cured and the trade in candles...
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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 His Excellency Eugene Rougon, Germinal, L'Assommoir, and Money.
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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