"A Love Episode", Une page d'amour is the eighth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by ⁹mile Zola, set among the petite bourgeoisie in Second Empire suburban Paris. It was first serialized between December 11, 1877, and April 4, 1878, in Le Bien public, before being published in novel form by Charpentier in April 1878. The central character of the novel is Hľ̈ne Grandjean ně Mouret (b. 1824), first introduced briefly in La fortune des Rougon. Hľ̈ne is the daughter of Ursule Mouret ně Macquart, the illegitimate daughter of Adela̐de Fouque (Tante Dide), the ancestress of the Rougon-Macquart family. Hľ̈ne's brothers are Franȯis Mouret, the central character of La conqůte de Plassans, and Silv̈re Mouret, whose story is told in La fortune des Rougon. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

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