working-class district
La Goutte d'Or
A working-class district of northern Paris, the setting of L'Assommoir. Zola researched it meticulously, walking its streets and visiting its laundries and zinc-topped bars. Named for its golden wine, it was in Zola's time a world of overcrowded tenements, seasonal workers, and grinding poverty.
Quartier ouvrier du nord de Paris, décor de L'Assommoir. Zola l'a minutieusement documenté.