The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete
Lourdes, Rome and Paris
The Three Cities brings together the three novels Émile Zola built around Pierre Froment, a young priest who has lost his faith and goes looking for something to replace it. In Lourdes (1894) he escorts a paralyzed friend on a national pilgrimage and watches the crowds, the cures and the commerce of the shrine. In Rome (1896) he travels to the Vatican to defend a book on a renewed Christianity, and in Paris (1898) he confronts poverty, anarchist violence and political corruption in the capital. Translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, the trilogy shows Zola weighing religion against science and social justice. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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