city
Paris
The heart of the Second Empire and the dominant setting of the cycle. Zola's Paris is a city in violent transformation — Haussmann's great boulevards cutting through the old warrens, fortunes made and lost on the scaffolding of demolition, the working classes driven to the periphery. It appears in at least a dozen of the twenty novels.
Le cœur du Second Empire et le décor dominant du cycle. Paris est une ville en transformation violente sous Haussmann.