The Rougons' Career
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"Rugon Career" - the first novel of the epic multi-volume saga "Rugon-Macquaries", serving as a kind of prologue to the next books of the cycle.
Plassan, a small town in the south of France, December 1851. Society is divided - the democratically elected president of the country, the nephew of Bonaparte himself, staged a coup d'état and declared himself the new emperor. Revolutionary cells arise throughout the country, seeking to defend the republic. The uprising reaches Plassan and draws in Pierre Rougon and his half-brother, Antoine Macquart. Unbridled by dreams of enriching himself, Pierre Rougon wholeheartedly supports the restoration of the monarchy. Antoine, who hates Pierre, joins the rebels. But the revolutionaries do not suspect that in his desire for power and wealth Antoine is not inferior to his brother. And for the sake of the desired Macquart is ready for anything, even a temporary alliance with the most hated man in the world ...
Plassan, a small town in the south of France, December 1851. Society is divided - the democratically elected president of the country, the nephew of Bonaparte himself, staged a coup d'état and declared himself the new emperor. Revolutionary cells arise throughout the country, seeking to defend the republic. The uprising reaches Plassan and draws in Pierre Rougon and his half-brother, Antoine Macquart. Unbridled by dreams of enriching himself, Pierre Rougon wholeheartedly supports the restoration of the monarchy. Antoine, who hates Pierre, joins the rebels. But the revolutionaries do not suspect that in his desire for power and wealth Antoine is not inferior to his brother. And for the sake of the desired Macquart is ready for anything, even a temporary alliance with the most hated man in the world ...
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