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His Excellency Eugène Rougon (Oxford World's Classics) by Émile Zola [Zola, Émile] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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'He loved power for power's sake . . . He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.' His Excellency Eugene Rougon (1876) is the sixth novel in Zola's twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle. A political novel set in the corridors of power and in the upper echelons of French Second Empire society, including the Imperial court, it focuses on the fluctuating fortunes of the authoritarian Eugene Rougon, the "vice-Emperor." But it is more than just a chronicle. It plunges the reader into the essential dynamics of the political: the rivalries, the scheming, the jockeying for position, the ups and downs, the play of interests, the lobbying and gossip, the patronage and string-pulling, the bribery and blackmail, and, especially, the manipulation of language for political purposes. The novel's themes--especially its treatment of political discourse--have remarkable contemporary resonance. His Excellency Eugene Rougon is about politics everywhere.

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Author

Émile Zola [Zola, Émile]

Publisher

Oxford University Press;Translation edition

Published

1876

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198748250

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance

Updated

2026-03-24