La Debacle

'My title speaks not merely of war, but also of the crumbling of a regime and the end of a world.'mile ZolaThe penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Dbcle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1. During Zola's lifetime it was the bestselling of all his novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as for its a...