The Three Cities Trilogy, Rome

Trilogy of the Three Cities (1894-1898), which he began with “Lourdes” and continued with “Rome” and finished with “Paris”; and thus the adventures and experiences of Abbe Pierre Froment, the doubting Catholic priest who failed to find faith at the miraculous grotto by the Cave, and hope amidst the crumbling theocracy of the Vatican, are here brought to what, from M. Zola’s point of view, is their...