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L'Inondation
Sign in to save'''''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.
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- version, edition or translation
- Author
- Émile Zola
- Country of origin
- France
- Narrative location
- Saint-Jory
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- page(s)
- 289-340
- form of creative work
- short story
- publication date
- 1883-00-00
- title
- L’inondation
- language of work or name
- French
- inception
- 1875-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
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'''''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.
==Plot summary== On a beautiful May day, the Garonne floods, washing away all the bridges; ruining nearly two thousand houses; drowning hundreds; and leaving twenty thousand starving to death. The novella describes the immediate impact this flood has on one household.
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