262:
rendezvous, but before she can go, Jeanne insists on going with her. Hélène tells her she cannot go, and Jeanne becomes hysterical at being left and at being lied to. She says that she will die if she is left behind. Hélène goes anyway. At the apartment, she is met by Mother Fétu, who, feeling she has played the part of Hélène's procuress and confidante, lets her into the apartment with a knowing glance. Hélène successfully stops the rendezvous, but just as the prospective lovers part, Henri enters. He thinks that Hélène has arranged for them to be alone together. Hélène gives in to her feelings, and the two of them make passionate love at last.
307:, Zola described the influence of heredity on Hélène as 'innateness', a 'chemical blending in which the physical and moral natures of the parents are so amalgamated that nothing of them seems to subsist in the offspring'. She is one of the 'normal' members of the family. Jeanne is described as an instance of 'reverting heredity', where the family neuroses have skipped one or more generations. Jeanne thus inherits her grandmother Ursule's 'brain affection', which Ursule inherited from her mother Tante Dide. The descriptions of Tante Dide's seizures in
238:
squalid apartment, Dr
Deberle pays a medical call. Mother Fétu immediately realises that Hélène and Deberle know each other and, seeing them so shy with one another, she immediately begins to attempt to bring them together. At a later visit, Mother Fétu arranges to leave the two of them alone together, but Dr Deberle leaves before either can express their attraction.
261:
The next day, Hélène attempts to warn
Juliette not to keep her rendezvous with Malignon, scheduled for that afternoon, but she is unable to do so. Hélène slips a note into the Doctor's pocket with the address and time of the assignation. That afternoon, she decides to go to the apartment and stop the
241:
Juliette throws a party for the wealthy children of the neighbourhood. At the party, Dr
Deberle passionately confesses to Hélène in private that he loves her. She leaves the party in confusion. On contemplating her life, Hélène realises that she has never really been in love; though she respected her
273:
The novel is unusual among Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, with an uncharacteristic absence of social critique, and an intense focus on Hélène; even Dr
Deberle remains a sketchy figure. Jeanne may be a victim, but perhaps also Hélène, repressed by her circumstances at every stage of her dutiful life.
233:
On the night the novel opens, Jeanne has fallen ill with a violent seizure. In panic, Hélène runs into the street to find a doctor. Eventually, she begs her neighbour Dr Henri
Deberle to come attend Jeanne, and his ministrations save the girl's life. Later that week, Hélène goes to thank Dr Deberle,
237:
Hélène's only friends are a pair of stepbrothers who were friends of her husband's: Abbé Jouve, the officiating priest at the parish church of Passy, and
Monsieur Rambaud, an oil and produce merchant. The Abbé asks Hélène to visit one of his invalid parishioners, Mother Fétu. While Hélène is at her
257:
Hélène realises that
Malignon has been pursuing Juliette and the two are planning an assignation. She learns from Mother Fétu that Malignon has taken rooms in her building, and guesses that this will be the place where he and Juliette will meet. When Hélène goes out ostensibly to bring Mother Fétu
253:
However, as Jeanne recuperates during the ensuing months, she witnesses Hélène and the Doctor talking quietly together and realises that he is taking her place in Hélène's affections. She is then consumed by intense jealousy and refuses to see him. The symptoms of her illness return whenever he is
245:
During May, Hélène and Jeanne begin attending church, where they regularly meet
Juliette. Dr Deberle frequently meets them after church ostensibly in order to escort his wife home, and continues to act as escort even on those evenings when Juliette doesn't attend services. At the end of the month,
265:
Meanwhile, Jeanne, left alone, furious and confused and jealous, makes herself sick by hanging her arms out of her bedroom window in the rain. Growing increasingly lethargic and listless, she believes her mother does not care for her anymore, especially after witnessing her mother and Dr
Deberle
270:(the same disease her grandmother Ursule died of) and gives her three weeks to live. In due course, she dies. Hélène is completely grief-stricken, feeling responsible for her daughter's death. Two years later, she marries M. Rambaud and the two return to Marseille.
229:
and died eight days later. Hélène and Jeanne have only been into Paris proper three times. From the window of their home, they can see the entire city, which takes on a dreamlike, foreign, and romantic, yet inaccessible, character for them throughout the novel.
246:
after Hélène's passion for Dr
Deberle is replaced by a passion for the church, Jeanne has another seizure. Her illness lasts three weeks, during which she is assiduously attended by Hélène and Dr Deberle to the exclusion of all others. At last, the Doctor uses
258:
some shoes, but in reality to look at the rooms (Mother Fétu thinks she is arranging a place for Hélène and the Doctor to meet), Jeanne is extraordinarily distressed to be left alone, especially because Hélène gives no explanation for not taking her along.
199:. Hélène is the daughter of Ursule Mouret 'née' Macquart, the illegitimate daughter of Adelaïde Fouque (Tante Dide), the ancestress of the Rougon-Macquart family. Hélène's brothers are François Mouret, the central character of
296:, he specifically links Jeanne with her great-grandmother, the family ancestress AdelaĂŻde Fouque (Tante Dide), who was possessed by the same seizures, and her grandmother Ursule, who died of the same disease.
234:
and befriends his wife Juliette and her circle of friends, including Monsieur Malignon, a handsome, wealthy man-about-town who is exceptionally comfortable in female society.
321:(Mouret hanged himself, a year after his wife's death, in a cupboard where her dresses were still hanging), a characteristic she also shares with her uncle François in
1322:
266:
exchange silent, knowing glances while planning a family excursion to Italy. Eventually, she falls seriously ill, and Deberle diagnosis her with galloping
313:
are similar to the descriptions of Jeanne's seizures in 'Une page d’amour'. Jeanne probably also inherited her grandfather's (Ursule's husband, the
1317:
221:
The story takes place in 1854-1855. When the novel begins, Hélène has been widowed 18 months, living in what was then the Paris suburb of
1342:
652:
1312:
584:
336:, Zola tells us that Hélène and Rambaud continue to live in Marseilles (this novel is set in 1872). They have no children.
1225:
576:
242:
late husband, she felt no love or passion for him. She finds, however, that she is falling in love with Dr Deberle.
1307:
1027:
979:
715:
708:
128:
1099:
318:
225:
with her 11-year-old daughter Jeanne. Her husband Charles Grandjean fell ill the day after they arrived from
1337:
1332:
1327:
191:
The central character of the novel is Hélène Grandjean 'née' Mouret (b. 1824), first introduced briefly in
831:
1302:
1263:
1190:
1091:
645:
701:
202:
1003:
1217:
1182:
987:
1249:
971:
250:
and Jeanne recovers. Having saved her daughter's life, Hélène admits that she loves the Doctor.
1271:
1255:
1158:
912:
638:
955:
931:
680:
290:
and environment worked on the members of one family over the course of the Second Empire. In
194:
1115:
1075:
939:
896:
750:
177:
8:
1011:
838:
670:
165:
106:
58:
1123:
694:
173:
145:
1150:
845:
792:
785:
813:
623:
607:
580:
557:
540:
523:
506:
302:
1166:
1131:
1107:
1083:
1059:
1043:
1019:
995:
963:
888:
764:
757:
20:
1279:
1243:
1174:
1067:
1051:
947:
904:
870:
852:
806:
480:
414:
404:
722:
371:
1296:
771:
661:
169:
39:
1035:
736:
267:
184:. It was first serialised between December 11, 1877, and April 4, 1878, in
1209:
799:
743:
687:
551:
534:
517:
500:
226:
618:
382:
114:
110:
602:
778:
287:
188:
before being published in novel form by Charpentier in April 1878.
247:
314:
277:
630:
286:
Zola's plan for the 'Rougon-Macquart' novels was to show how
222:
181:
69:
397:(1878, tr. Mary Neal Sherwood, T.B. Peterson & Bros.)
575:); first trans. by Helen Constantine in 2017; Edited by
254:
present, until at last Hélène drives him from her home.
441:(2017, tr. Helen Constantine, Oxford University Press)
429:(1905, tr. C. C. Starkweather, Société des Beaux-arts)
1294:
423:(1897, tr. T. F. Rogerson, Geo Barrie & Son)
1323:Works originally published in French magazines
646:
207:, and Silvère Mouret, whose story is told in
459:
376:
365:
344:
331:
322:
308:
300:
291:
208:
200:
192:
158:
143:
126:
27:
653:
639:
89:1877-1878 (serial) & 1878 (book form)
455:. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
1295:
1318:Novels first published in serial form
634:
435:(1957, tr. Jean Stewart, Elek Books)
349:has had several filmed adaptations:
370:, a 1980 French TV film featuring
13:
381:, a 1995 French TV film featuring
14:
1354:
594:
1343:French novels adapted into films
388:
216:
1100:Nana, the True Key of Pleasure
660:
562:
545:
528:
511:
494:
339:
19:For the 1978 French film, see
1:
487:
1313:Books of Les Rougon-Macquart
716:Son Excellence Eugène Rougon
468:by C.C. Starkweather (1910).
164:is the eighth novel in the '
7:
1264:A Studio at Les Batignolles
1092:The Demise of Father Mouret
579:. Oxford World's Classics.
10:
1359:
445:
18:
1236:
1201:
1142:
923:
880:
862:
832:Les Mystères de Marseille
823:
709:La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret
668:
138:
129:La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret
121:
101:
93:
83:
75:
65:
53:
45:
35:
16:1877 novel by Émile Zola
702:La ConquĂŞte de Plassans
417:, Hutchinson & Co.)
403:(1886, tr. unknown for
324:La conquĂŞte de Plassans
203:La conquĂŞte de Plassans
79:Charpentier (book form)
1272:The Life of Emile Zola
1256:Portrait of Emile Zola
1202:Television adaptations
460:
407:, Vizetelly & Co.)
395:Hélène: A Love Episode
377:
366:
345:
332:
323:
309:
301:
292:
278:Relation to the other
209:
201:
193:
159:
144:
127:
28:
681:La Fortune des Rougon
362:, a 1923 Italian film
356:, a 1912 Italian film
310:La fortune des Rougon
210:La fortune des Rougon
195:La fortune des Rougon
1308:Novels by Émile Zola
1226:The Ladies' Paradise
751:Au Bonheur des Dames
317:Mouret) tendency to
1338:Fiction set in 1855
1333:Novels set in Paris
1328:Fiction set in 1854
1159:L'attaque du moulin
1143:Musical adaptations
1012:Shop Girls of Paris
913:Les Quatre journées
671:Les Rougon-Macquart
59:Les Rougon-Macquart
32:
1303:1878 French novels
695:Le Ventre de Paris
519:Una pagina d'amore
502:Una pagina d'amore
451:Brown, F. (1995).
360:Una pagina d'amore
354:Una pagina d'amore
174:petite bourgeoisie
146:Le Ventre de Paris
26:
1290:
1289:
814:Le Docteur Pascal
624:Project Gutenberg
608:Project Gutenberg
585:978-0-1987-2864-1
333:Le docteur Pascal
303:Le docteur Pascal
155:
154:
94:Publication place
1350:
1084:The Game Is Over
1060:La Bestia humana
924:Film adaptations
758:La joie de vivre
730:Une page d'amour
655:
648:
641:
632:
631:
626:
610:
603:Une Page d'Amour
588:
573:Une Page d'amour
566:
560:
553:Une page d'amour
549:
543:
536:Une page d'amour
532:
526:
515:
509:
498:
475:, translated as
473:Le doctor Pascal
464:, translated as
463:
461:Une page d'amour
380:
378:Une page d'amour
369:
367:Une page d'amour
348:
346:Une page d'amour
335:
326:
312:
306:
295:
293:Une page d'amour
212:
206:
198:
172:, set among the
162:
160:Une page d'amour
149:
139:Followed by
132:
122:Preceded by
85:Publication date
33:
31:
29:Une page d'amour
25:
21:One Page of Love
1358:
1357:
1353:
1352:
1351:
1349:
1348:
1347:
1293:
1292:
1291:
1286:
1267:(1870 painting)
1259:(1868 painting)
1232:
1197:
1170:(1903 oratorio)
1138:
1068:Lovers of Paris
1004:La BĂŞte Humaine
948:Maddalena Ferat
919:
876:
858:
846:Madeleine FĂ©rat
819:
793:La BĂŞte humaine
664:
659:
616:
600:
597:
592:
591:
567:
563:
550:
546:
533:
529:
516:
512:
499:
495:
490:
481:E. A. Vizetelly
448:
415:E. A. Vizetelly
391:
342:
284:
280:Rougon-Macquart
219:
186:Le Bien public,
166:Rougon-Macquart
102:Media type
86:
24:
17:
12:
11:
5:
1356:
1346:
1345:
1340:
1335:
1330:
1325:
1320:
1315:
1310:
1305:
1288:
1287:
1285:
1284:
1280:CĂ©zanne et Moi
1276:
1268:
1260:
1252:
1247:
1240:
1238:
1234:
1233:
1231:
1230:
1222:
1214:
1205:
1203:
1199:
1198:
1196:
1195:
1191:Thérèse Raquin
1187:
1186:(2001 musical)
1183:Thou Shalt Not
1179:
1171:
1163:
1155:
1146:
1144:
1140:
1139:
1137:
1136:
1128:
1120:
1112:
1104:
1096:
1088:
1080:
1072:
1064:
1056:
1048:
1040:
1032:
1028:Thérèse Raquin
1024:
1016:
1008:
1000:
992:
984:
980:Thérèse Raquin
976:
968:
960:
952:
944:
936:
927:
925:
921:
920:
918:
917:
909:
901:
893:
884:
882:
878:
877:
875:
874:
866:
864:
860:
859:
857:
856:
849:
842:
839:Thérèse Raquin
835:
827:
825:
821:
820:
818:
817:
810:
803:
796:
789:
782:
775:
768:
761:
754:
747:
740:
733:
726:
719:
712:
705:
698:
691:
684:
676:
674:
666:
665:
658:
657:
650:
643:
635:
629:
628:
619:A Love Episode
613:
612:
596:
595:External links
593:
590:
589:
561:
544:
527:
510:
492:
491:
489:
486:
485:
484:
469:
466:A Love Episode
456:
447:
444:
443:
442:
436:
430:
427:A Love Episode
424:
421:A Page of Love
418:
411:A Love Episode
408:
401:A Love Episode
398:
390:
387:
386:
385:
374:
363:
357:
341:
338:
283:
276:
218:
215:
153:
152:
140:
136:
135:
123:
119:
118:
103:
99:
98:
95:
91:
90:
87:
84:
81:
80:
77:
73:
72:
67:
63:
62:
55:
51:
50:
47:
43:
42:
37:
15:
9:
6:
4:
3:
2:
1355:
1344:
1341:
1339:
1336:
1334:
1331:
1329:
1326:
1324:
1321:
1319:
1316:
1314:
1311:
1309:
1306:
1304:
1301:
1300:
1298:
1282:
1281:
1277:
1274:
1273:
1269:
1266:
1265:
1261:
1258:
1257:
1253:
1251:
1248:
1245:
1244:François Zola
1242:
1241:
1239:
1235:
1229:(2015 series)
1228:
1227:
1223:
1221:(2012 series)
1220:
1219:
1215:
1212:
1211:
1207:
1206:
1204:
1200:
1193:
1192:
1188:
1185:
1184:
1180:
1177:
1176:
1175:NaĂŻs Micoulin
1172:
1169:
1168:
1164:
1161:
1160:
1156:
1153:
1152:
1148:
1147:
1145:
1141:
1134:
1133:
1129:
1126:
1125:
1121:
1118:
1117:
1113:
1110:
1109:
1105:
1102:
1101:
1097:
1094:
1093:
1089:
1086:
1085:
1081:
1078:
1077:
1073:
1070:
1069:
1065:
1062:
1061:
1057:
1054:
1053:
1049:
1046:
1045:
1041:
1038:
1037:
1033:
1030:
1029:
1025:
1022:
1021:
1017:
1014:
1013:
1009:
1006:
1005:
1001:
998:
997:
993:
990:
989:
985:
982:
981:
977:
974:
973:
969:
966:
965:
961:
958:
957:
953:
950:
949:
945:
942:
941:
937:
934:
933:
929:
928:
926:
922:
915:
914:
910:
907:
906:
902:
899:
898:
894:
891:
890:
886:
885:
883:
879:
873:
872:
868:
867:
865:
861:
855:
854:
850:
848:
847:
843:
841:
840:
836:
834:
833:
829:
828:
826:
822:
816:
815:
811:
809:
808:
804:
802:
801:
797:
795:
794:
790:
788:
787:
783:
781:
780:
776:
774:
773:
769:
767:
766:
762:
760:
759:
755:
753:
752:
748:
746:
745:
741:
739:
738:
734:
732:
731:
727:
725:
724:
720:
718:
717:
713:
711:
710:
706:
704:
703:
699:
697:
696:
692:
690:
689:
685:
683:
682:
678:
677:
675:
673:
672:
667:
663:
656:
651:
649:
644:
642:
637:
636:
633:
625:
621:
620:
615:
614:
609:
605:
604:
599:
598:
586:
582:
578:
574:
570:
565:
559:
555:
554:
548:
542:
538:
537:
531:
525:
521:
520:
514:
508:
504:
503:
497:
493:
482:
478:
477:Doctor Pascal
474:
470:
467:
462:
457:
454:
450:
449:
440:
437:
434:
433:A Love Affair
431:
428:
425:
422:
419:
416:
412:
409:
406:
402:
399:
396:
393:
392:
384:
379:
375:
373:
368:
364:
361:
358:
355:
352:
351:
350:
347:
337:
334:
328:
325:
320:
316:
311:
305:
304:
297:
294:
289:
281:
275:
271:
269:
263:
259:
255:
251:
249:
243:
239:
235:
231:
228:
224:
214:
211:
205:
204:
197:
196:
189:
187:
183:
179:
178:Second Empire
175:
171:
167:
163:
161:
151:
148:
147:
141:
137:
134:
131:
130:
124:
120:
116:
112:
108:
104:
100:
96:
92:
88:
82:
78:
74:
71:
68:
64:
60:
56:
52:
48:
44:
41:
38:
34:
30:
22:
1278:
1270:
1262:
1254:
1224:
1218:The Paradise
1216:
1208:
1194:(2001 opera)
1189:
1181:
1178:(1907 opera)
1173:
1165:
1162:(1893 opera)
1157:
1154:(1891 opera)
1149:
1130:
1122:
1114:
1106:
1098:
1090:
1082:
1074:
1066:
1058:
1050:
1042:
1036:Human Desire
1034:
1026:
1018:
1010:
1002:
994:
988:The Struggle
986:
978:
970:
962:
954:
946:
938:
930:
911:
905:L'Enfant roi
903:
895:
887:
871:J'Accuse...!
869:
853:L'Inondation
851:
844:
837:
830:
824:Other novels
812:
805:
798:
791:
784:
777:
770:
763:
756:
749:
742:
735:
729:
728:
721:
714:
707:
700:
693:
686:
679:
669:
617:
601:
577:Brian Nelson
572:
569:A Love Story
568:
564:
552:
547:
535:
530:
518:
513:
501:
496:
476:
472:
465:
453:Zola: A life
452:
439:A Love Story
438:
432:
426:
420:
410:
405:H. Vizetelly
400:
394:
389:Translations
359:
353:
343:
329:
298:
285:
279:
272:
264:
260:
256:
252:
244:
240:
236:
232:
220:
217:Plot summary
190:
185:
168:' series by
157:
156:
142:
125:
1283:(2016 film)
1275:(1937 film)
1213:(1995 film)
1210:Cruel Train
932:L'Assommoir
863:Non-fiction
744:Pot-Bouille
723:L'Assommoir
413:(1895, tr.
372:Anouk Aimée
340:Adaptations
268:consumption
1297:Categories
1250:Naturalism
807:La Débâcle
662:Émile Zola
488:References
227:Marseilles
170:Émile Zola
40:Émile Zola
1132:In Secret
956:The Earth
897:L'Ouragan
627:(English)
471:Zola, E.
458:Zola, E.
383:Miou-Miou
319:obsession
180:suburban
115:paperback
76:Publisher
1246:(father)
1116:Germinal
1076:Germinal
1052:Gervaise
972:L'Argent
940:Germinal
889:Messidor
881:Libretti
800:L'Argent
779:La Terre
765:Germinal
688:La Curée
611:(French)
288:heredity
111:hardback
46:Language
1237:Related
1151:Le RĂŞve
786:Le RĂŞve
772:L'Ĺ’uvre
483:(1893).
446:Sources
248:leeches
105:Print (
1167:Lazare
1135:(2013)
1127:(2009)
1124:Thirst
1119:(1993)
1111:(1985)
1103:(1982)
1095:(1970)
1087:(1966)
1079:(1963)
1071:(1957)
1063:(1957)
1055:(1956)
1047:(1955)
1039:(1954)
1031:(1953)
1023:(1944)
1015:(1943)
1007:(1938)
999:(1934)
991:(1931)
983:(1928)
975:(1928)
967:(1926)
959:(1921)
951:(1920)
943:(1913)
935:(1909)
916:(1916)
908:(1905)
900:(1901)
892:(1897)
587:(2017)
583:
315:hatter
282:novels
150:
133:
113:&
107:serial
97:France
54:Series
49:French
36:Author
223:Passy
182:Paris
70:Novel
66:Genre
1108:Nana
1044:Nana
1020:Nana
996:Nana
964:Nana
737:Nana
581:ISBN
558:IMDb
541:IMDb
524:IMDb
507:IMDb
622:at
606:at
556:at
539:at
522:at
505:at
479:by
330:In
299:In
176:in
1299::
327:.
213:.
109:,
654:e
647:t
640:v
571:(
117:)
61:'
57:'
23:.
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.