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Abbe Mouret's Transgression

Abbe Mouret's Transgression

Vizetelly, Ernest
Zola, Emile

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Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1503135950
ISBN13: 9781503135956
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 14 2014
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Serge Mouret, the younger son of François Mouret (see The Conquest of Plassans), was ordained to the priesthood and appointed Curé of Les Artaud, a squalid village in Provence, to whose degenerate inhabitants he ministered with small encouragement. He had inherited the family taint of the Rougon-Macquarts, which in him took the same form as in the case of his mother-a morbid religious enthusiasm bordering on hysteria. Brain fever followed, and bodily recovery left the priest without a mental past. Dr. Pascal Rougon, his uncle, hoping to save his reason, removed him from his accustomed surroundings and left him at the Paradou, the neglected demesne of a ruined mansion-house near Les Artaud, where he was nursed by Albine, niece of the caretaker. The Abbé fell in love with Albine, and, oblivious of his vows, broke them...

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