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work by Zola

Also known as: “Au Bonheur des Dames”

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discussed in biography

In Émile Zola: Les Rougon-Macquart
Au Bonheur des Dames (1883; Ladies’ Delight) depicts the mechanisms of a new economic entity, the department store, and its impact on smaller merchants. The sweeping descriptions of crowds and dry-goods displays justify Zola’s characterization of the novel as “a poem of modern activity.”
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Rougon-Macquart cycle

In Rougon-Macquart cycle
Au Bonheur des dames (1883; Ladies’ Delight) depicts the mechanisms of a new economic entity, the department store, and its impact on smaller merchants.
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