Les Rougon-Macquart

Les Rougon-Macquart, Histoire naturelle et sociale d'une famille sous le Second Empire
First page of La Fortune des Rougon, the first book of the series

20 books, see this list
AuthorÉmile Zola
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
GenreNaturalism
Published1871–1893
Media typePrint

Les Rougon-Macquart (French pronunciation: [le ʁuɡɔ̃ makaʁ]) is the collective title given to a cycle of twenty novels by French writer Émile 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.