Money (Oxford World’s Classics) (69 page)

¹
In the preface to the first novel of the series,
The Fortune of the Rougons
.

²
‘Napoleon II never governed, the First Empire being replaced by the Bourbon Restoration in 1814.

³
L’Union générale, sa vie, sa mort, son programme
(1888).

⁴
In the journal
Le Figaro
(1896), collected in
Nouvelle campagne
(1897), 203–14.

⁵
These included: Mirecourt’s
La Bourse, ses abus et ses mystères
(1858), Ernest Feydeau’s
Mémoires d’un coulissier
(1873), Proudhon’s
Manuel du spéculateur à la Bourse
(1854, 1857), and Henri Cozic’s
La Bourse mise à la portée de tous
(1885).

⁶
Anthony Trollope,
The Way We Live Now
, ch. 44 (World’s Classics edition, 1982).

⁷
Ibid., ch. 30.

⁸
In the Pléiade edition of
Les Rougon-Macquart
, vol. 5, p. 1242.

⁹
He is briefly mentioned in
The Belly of Paris
(
Le Ventre de Paris
), has a very minor role in
La Joie de vivre
, and is briefly recalled in
Dr Pascal
.

¹⁰
Archduke Maximilian of Austria, sent to be emperor of a (conquered) Mexico.

¹¹
Jeremy Jennings,
Revolution and the Republic: A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 229.

¹²
Gallois, in
Zola: The History of Capitalism
(Berne: Peter Lang, 2000), 119.

¹³
Zola drew largely on Schaeffle,
La Quintessence du socialisme
(1886), and Georges Renard, ‘Le Socialisme actuel en France’,
La Revue socialiste
(1887–8).

¹⁴
But the ideas of those papers are perhaps partly realized in
Toil
(1901), the second of Zola’s
Four Gospels
.