Original title L'Inondation Language French Media type Print | Country France Publication date 1880 Originally published 1880 Genre Short story | |
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L inondation d emile zola
L'Inondation (The Flood) is an 1880 novella by Émile Zola. Set in the village of Saint-Jory, several miles up the Garonne from Toulouse, it is the story of a family tragedy, told by its patriarch, sixty Louis Roubieu.
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On a beautiful May day, the Garonne floods, washing away all the bridges; ruining nearly two thousand houses; drowning hundreds; and leaving twenty thousand starving to death. The novella describes the immediate impact this flood has on one household.
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