The Attack on the Mill, and Other Sketches of War

by Émile Zola

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The Attack on the Mill and Other Sketches of War is a book by Émile Zola, with an essay on the short stories of M. Zola by Edmund Gosse. The contents list an essay by Mr. Gosse, The Attack on the Mill and Three Wars. The text says the author, towards the close of 1862, chose another lodging, again a romantic chamber, overlooking the whole extent of the cemetery of Montparnasse, and in this elegiacal retreat composed two short stories, Sœur des Pauvres and Celle qui m’Aime.

In one scene Françoise is told how much she is loved, and Dominique goes on in low, caressing tones to say that to-day is the fête of Saint Louis, our wedding-day, that we have been waiting for so long.

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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.