A Love Episode

by Émile Zola

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A Love Episode is a book by Émile Zola. The list of illustrations names, among others, “Jeanne's Illness,” “Malignon Appoints a Rendezvous With Juliette” and “The Meeting of Hélène and Henri.” In one scene, each child leaving the table bears away one of the large gilt paper twists, from which pour a host of toys, grotesque hats made of tissue paper, birds and butterflies. A character named Malignon exclaims, “By Jove! my lad, you eat heartily!”

Jeanne, giddy with the noise, starts back, but being fond of rain she returns, leans out again and stretches out her arms to feel the big, cold rain-drops splashing on her hands. Rosalie enters with a dish and says, “These are fillets of sole au gratin for Monsieur Rambaud.”

About the author

Émile Zola

Émile Zola (1840-1902) was a French novelist and the leading figure of literary naturalism. His twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle traced one family under the Second Empire, and his open letter J'accuse in defense of Alfred Dreyfus reshaped the writer's role in public life.