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"I really don't understand how people can blame a priest so much, when he strays from the path."

First published in 1875, mile Zola's The Sin of Abb Mouret (La Faute de l'Abb Mouret) is a lyrical and haunting exploration of faith, desire, and the conflict between human instinct and religious devotion. As the fifth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series,... Read Full Overview

Serge Mouret, the younger son of Francois Mouret, is ordained to the priesthood and appointed Cure of Les Artaud, a squalid village in Provence, to whose degenerate inhabitants he ministers. He has inherited the family taint of the Rougon-Macquarts, which in him takes the form... Read Full Overview

Serge Mouret, fils de Fran ois Mouret et de son pouse Marthe, vient d' tre ordonn pr tre et a demand tre envoy dans la plus petite et la plus mis rable paroisse des environs de Plassans: les Artauds. Par l'interm diaire du Dr Pascal, il y fait la connaissance de la jolie... Read Full Overview

The Sin of Father Mouret (1875) is a novel by French author mile Zola. The fifth of twenty volumes of Zola's monumental Les Rougon-Macquart series is an epic story of family, politics, class, and history that traces the disparate paths of several French citizens... Read Full Overview

Le h ros, Serge Mouret, est le fils de Fran ois et de Marthe Mouret, personnages principaux du pr c dent roman. Ordonn pr tre l' ge de ving-cinq ans, il choisit d'exercer son minist re dans le petit village des Artaud, quelques kilom tres de Plassans, sa ville natale (qui... Read Full Overview

'LA FAUTE DE L'ABBE MOURET' was, with respect to the date of publication, the fourth volume of M. Zola's 'Rougon-Macquart' series; but in the amended and final scheme of that great literary undertaking, it occupies the ninth place. It proceeds from the sixth volume of the series,... Read Full Overview

I La Teuse, en entrant, posa son balai et son plumeau contre l'autel. Elle s' tait attard e mettre en train la lessive du semestre. Elle traversa l' glise, pour sonner l'Angelus, boitant davantage dans sa h te, bousculant les bancs. La corde, pr s du confessionnal, tombait... Read Full Overview

The Sin of Father Mouret (1875) is a novel by French author mile Zola. The fifth of twenty volumes of Zola's monumental Les Rougon-Macquart series is an epic story of family, politics, class, and history that traces the disparate paths of several French citizens... Read Full Overview

Serge Mouret, the younger son of Francois Mouret (see La Conquete de Plassans), was ordained to the priesthood and appointed Cure of Les Artaud, a squalid village in Provence, to whose degenerate inhabitants he ministered with small encouragement. He had inherited the family... Read Full Overview

Abbe Mouret's Transgression is a novel written by Emile Zola and first published in 1915. The story is set in a small village in southern France and follows the life of a young priest, Serge Mouret, who becomes obsessed with the idea of purity and perfection. He believes that... Read Full Overview

Serge Mouret, the younger son of Francois Mouret, is ordained to the priesthood and appointed Cure of Les Artaud, a squalid village in Provence, to whose degenerate inhabitants he ministers. He has inherited the family taint of the Rougon-Macquarts, which in him takes the form... Read Full Overview