Pot-Bouille.

Description:

Pot-Bouille is the tenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. The novel is an indictment of the mores of the bourgeoisie of the Second French Empire. It is set in a Parisian apartment building, a relatively new housing arrangement at the time and its title (roughly translating as stew pot) reflects the disparate and sometimes unpleasant elements lurking behind the building's new façade.

subjects: Fiction,  Middle class,  Paris (France),  Embroidery,  History,  Technique,  Machine Embroidery,  Meiji period,  Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)

Places: Paris,  Paris (France),  France

Times: Second French Empire (1852-1870)