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Tag: Emile Zola

Therese Raquin, Emile Zola (1867)

On April 23, 2019December 13, 2025 By LaurieIn French LiteratureLeave a comment

This life of alternating excitement and calm went on for eight months. The lovers lived in perfect bliss. Thérèse was no longer bored, and had nothing left to wish for; Laurent sated, coddled, heavier than ever, had only one fear, that this delectable existence might come to an end. The premise of Émile Zola’s, Thérèse …

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