Bloody Week Letters on the Paris Commune of 1871

This book consists of 13 letters that Emile Zola sent daily to the newspaper "Le Semaphore" in Marseille. They narrate, from his point of view, and through his daily observations, the last days of the siege of Paris, before the "Commune" fell. These days were known as "Bloody Week" and witnessed many acts of violence, killing, destruction and fires. But amid all of this, we must note the writer's ...