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by (shelved 38 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.73 — 37,260 ratings — published 1867

by (shelved 37 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 4.20 — 42,145 ratings — published 1885

by (shelved 29 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,988 ratings — published 1876

by (shelved 28 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.84 — 27,287 ratings — published 1880

by (shelved 24 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.98 — 20,066 ratings — published 1883

by (shelved 23 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,012 ratings — published 1871

by (shelved 22 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,127 ratings — published 1873

by (shelved 18 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,184 ratings — published 1871

by (shelved 16 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,857 ratings — published 1890

by (shelved 15 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,305 ratings — published

by (shelved 12 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,619 ratings — published 1882

by (shelved 10 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.56 — 2,305 ratings — published 1888

by (shelved 10 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,645 ratings — published 1891

by (shelved 10 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,853 ratings — published 1876

by (shelved 9 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,512 ratings — published 1877

by (shelved 9 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.59 — 2,271 ratings — published 1875

by (shelved 9 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,188 ratings — published 1874

by (shelved 9 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,483 ratings — published 1887

by (shelved 9 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,845 ratings — published 1892

by (shelved 8 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,282 ratings — published 1883

by (shelved 7 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,179 ratings — published 1893

by (shelved 3 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.80 — 353 ratings — published 1884

by (shelved 3 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.66 — 382 ratings — published 1880

by (shelved 2 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 4.17 — 353 ratings — published 1902

by (shelved 2 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.32 — 53 ratings — published 1880

by (shelved 2 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.27 — 141 ratings — published 1880

by (shelved 2 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.89 — 66 ratings — published 1901

by (shelved 2 times as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.95 — 282 ratings — published 1894

by (shelved 1 time as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.65 — 134 ratings — published 1896

by (shelved 1 time as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.49 — 168 ratings — published 1867

by (shelved 1 time as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.93 — 202 ratings — published 1898

by (shelved 1 time as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.83 — 60 ratings — published 1899

by (shelved 1 time as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.32 — 228 ratings — published 1865

by (shelved 1 time as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,561 ratings — published 1883

by (shelved 1 time as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.49 — 217 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 1 time as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.87 — 668 ratings — published 1880

by (shelved 1 time as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.72 — 476 ratings — published 1884

by (shelved 1 time as emile-zola)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 1972

by (shelved 1 time as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.98 — 120 ratings — published 1993

by (shelved 1 time as emile-zola)
avg rating 4.12 — 96 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 1 time as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.48 — 65 ratings — published 1910

by (shelved 1 time as emile-zola)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 1996

by (shelved 1 time as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.96 — 268 ratings — published 2012

by (shelved 1 time as emile-zola)
avg rating 4.22 — 32,672 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 1 time as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.59 — 185 ratings — published 1868

by (shelved 1 time as emile-zola)
avg rating 4.32 — 81 ratings — published 2000

by (shelved 1 time as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.25 — 185 ratings — published 2004

by (shelved 1 time as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as emile-zola)
avg rating 3.76 — 3,900 ratings — published 2003

“In the meantime, he anxiously awaited visitors, and on occasion even attempted some visits of his own—including one to his nearby Bellevue neighbor, the charming and notorious courtesan Valtesse de la Bigne. Red-haired and beautiful, Valtesse de la Bigne had brought several rich and titled men to financial ruin. She had also captivated some of the most sophisticated men in town, including Manet, who referred to her as “la belle Valtesse” and had painted her the year before. Born Louise Emilie Delabigne, Valtesse de la Bigne was sufficiently intelligent and charming to draw an entourage of admiring writers and artists such as Manet. Zola also paid court to Valtesse—although in his case from a desire to get the characters and setting right for his upcoming novel Nana. Flattered by his journalistic interest, Valtesse even agreed to show him her bedroom—until then off-limits to all but her most highly paying patrons. Zola (who seems to have limited his visit to note taking) used her over-the-top boudoir as the model for Nana’s bedroom. Even if the fictional Nana was nowhere near the sophisticated creature that Valtesse had become, the bed said it all. It was “a bed such as had never existed before,” Zola wrote, “a throne, an altar, to which Paris would come in order to worship her sovereign nudity.”
― Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends
― Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends

“Very well, sir. A woman's opinion, however humble she may be, is always worth listening to, if she's got any sense...If you put yourself in my hands, I shall certainly make a decent man of you.”
― The Ladies' Paradise
― The Ladies' Paradise