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The Flood
Author	Émile Zola
Original title	L'Inondation
Language	French
Genre	Short story
Publication date	1880
Publication place	France
Media type	Print

L'Inondation (The Flood) is an 1880 novella by Émile Zola. Set in the village of Saint-Jory, several miles up the Garonne from Toulouse, it is the story of a family tragedy, told by its patriarch, seventy-year-old Louis Roubieu.

Plot summary

On a beautiful May day, the Garonne floods, washing away all the bridges; ruining nearly two thousand houses; drowning hundreds; and leaving twenty thousand starving to death. The novella describes the immediate impact this flood has on one household.

External links

Project Gutenberg free eBook
The Flood public domain audiobook at LibriVox

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Libretti	Messidor (1897) L'Ouragan (1901) L'Enfant roi (1905) Les Quatre journées (1916)
Film adaptations	L'Assommoir (1909) Germinal (1913) Maddalena Ferat (1920) The Earth (1921) Nana (1926) L'Argent (1928) Thérèse Raquin (1928) The Struggle (1931) Nana (1934) La Bête Humaine (1938) Shop Girls of Paris (1943) Nana (1944) Thérèse Raquin (1953) Human Desire (1954) Nana (1955) Gervaise (1956) La Bestia humana (1957) Lovers of Paris (1957) Germinal (1963) The Game Is Over (1966) The Demise of Father Mouret (1970) Nana, the True Key of Pleasure (1982) Nana (1985) Germinal (1993) Thirst (2009) In Secret (2013)
Musical adaptations	Le Rêve (1891 opera) L'attaque du moulin (1893 opera) Lazare (1903 oratorio) Naïs Micoulin (1907 opera) Thou Shalt Not (2001 musical) Thérèse Raquin (2001 opera)
Television adaptations	Cruel Train (1995 film) The Paradise (2012 series) The Ladies' Paradise (2015 series)
Related	François Zola (father) Naturalism Portrait of Emile Zola (1868 painting) A Studio at Les Batignolles (1870 painting) The Life of Emile Zola (1937 film) Cézanne et Moi (2016 film)

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