Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'etat in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marche d
Little known in this country, The Belly of Paris (Le Ventre de Paris) is one of Emile Zola's most descriptive, humorous, and exciting fictions. In this novel the author of Germinal, L'Assommoir, Nan,
