Les Rougon-Macquart is the collective title given to a cycle of twenty novels by French writer Emile Zola. Subtitled Histoire naturelle et sociale d'une famille sous le Second Empire (Natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire), it follows the lives of the members of the two titular branches of a fictional family living during the Second French Empire (1852-1870) and is one of the most prominent works of the French naturalism literary movement. CONTENTS:01 - THE FORTUNE OF THE ROUGONS02 - THE KILL03 - THE FAT AND THE THIN04 - THE CONQUEST OF PLASSANS05 - ABBE MOURET'S TRANSGRESSION06 - HIS EXCELLENCY EUGENE ROUGON07 - THE DRAM SHOP08 - A LOVE EPISODE09 - NANA10 - PIPING HOT11 - THE LADIES' PARADISE12 - THE JOY OF LIFE13 - GERMINAL14 - HIS MASTERPIECE15 - THE EARTH16 - THE DREAM17 - THE HUMAN BEAST18 - MONEY19 - THE DOWNFALL20 - DOCTOR PASCAL