The Downfall (La Débâcle)
by Émile Zola
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About this eBook
- Author
- Zola, Émile, 1840-1902
- Title
- The Downfall (La Débâcle): A Story of the Horrors of War
- Credits
- Produced by Clare Graham & Marc D'Hooghe at Free Literature (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
- Subject
- Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 56799
- Release Date
- March 20, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE DOWNFALL
- 2.ÉMILE ZOLA — TRANSLATED BY ERNEST A. VIZETELLY — PREFACE — CONTENTS
- 3.THE DOWNFALL — PART I — FROM THE RHINE TO THE MEUSE — IN CAMP—A GREAT DISASTER — THE PANIC—FROM BELFORT TO RHEIMS — TALES OF TWO BATTLES—THE EMPEROR — ON THE MARCH—THE SPY — IN BATTLE ARRAY—THE NIGHT OF THE CRIME — AN ARMY'S CALVARY—CHASED BY THE FOE — IN VIEW OF SEDAN—SILVINE'S STORY — SEDAN AT LAST! THE EVE OF BATTLE — PART II — THE BATTLE OF SEDAN — THE ATTACK ON BAZEILLES—THE EMPEROR UNDER FIRE — MAURICE RECEIVES THE BAPTISM OF FIRE — INSIDE SEDAN: NAPOLEON'S MIDNIGHT AGONY—TWO WOMEN — A WOMAN'S HEROISM—THE HORRORS OF BAZEILLES — THE STRUGGLE FOR THE CALVARY—THE GREAT CHARGE — THE WHITE FLAG—THE HORRORS OF AN AMBULANCE — THROUGH THE ROUT—THE FIGHT AT THE HERMITAGE — TRUCE AND SURRENDER — PART III — WOE TO THE VANQUISHED! — SILVINE'S QUEST—AMONG THE SLAIN — THE HORRORS OF CAPTIVITY—STARVATION, MURDER, AND DISEASE — THE SLAVE-DRIVERS—A BID FOR FREEDOM — DARK DAYS—BAZAINE THE TRAITOR—THE TIDE OF WAR — GOLIATH THE SPY—AN AWFUL VENGEANCE — THE CONQUEROR'S SWAY—GIDDY GILBERTE — INSIDE PARIS: SIEGE AND COMMUNE—THE BARRICADES — THE BURNING OF BABYLON—THE BITTER END — TRANSLATOR'S NOTE. — NOTES.
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