1880 French novels

novel by Émile Zola

Jules Verne novel

1886 novel by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

'''''L'Inondation''' (The Flood'') is an 1880 novella by Émile Zola. Set in the village of Saint-Jory, several miles up the Garonne from Toulouse, it is the story of a family tragedy, told by its patriarch, seventy-year-old Louis Roubieu.