Chapter XIII: Naturalism--The Goncourts, Zola, and Maupassant 459

The beginnings--"Les deux Goncourts"--Their work--The novels--_Germinie Lacerteux_ and _Chérie_ taken as specimens--The impression produced by them--The rottenness of their theory--And the unattractiveness of their style--Émile Zola to be treated differently--Some points in his personality: literary and other--The Pillars of Naturalism--"Document" and "detail" before Naturalism--General stages traced--Some individual pioneers; especially Hugo--Survey of books: the short stories--"Les Rougon-Macquart"--"Les Trois Villes"--"Les Quatre Évangiles"--General considerations--Especially in regard to character--[Maupassant]--_Bel-Ami_--_Une Vie_--_Fort comme la Mort_--_Pierre et Jean_--_Notre Coeur_--_Les Dimanches_, etc.--_Yvette_--Short stories: the various collections--Classes: stories of 1870-71--Norman stories--Algerian and Sporting--Purely comic--Tragic--Tales of Life's Irony--Oddments--General considerations--Huysmans--Belot and others.

CHAPTER XIV

OTHER NOVELISTS OF 1870-1900 518

The last stage--Ferdinand Fabre--_L'Abbé Tigrane_--_Norine_, etc.--_Le Marquis de Pierrerue_--_Mon Oncle Célestin_--_Lucifer_--_Sylviane_ and _Taillevent_--_Toussaint Galabru_--André Theuriet--_Sauvageonne_--_Le Fils Maugars_--_Le Don Juan de Vireloup_ and _Raymonde_--General characteristics--Georges Ohnet--_Serge Panine_--_Le Maître de Forges_--_Le Docteur Rameau_--_La Grande Marnière_--Reflections--Édouard Rod--_La Vie Privée de Michel Teissier_--_La Sacrifiée_--Note on _La Seconde Vie de M. T._--_Le Silence_--_Là-Haut_--_La Course à la Mort_--_Le Ménage du Pasteur Naudié_--_Mademoiselle Annette_--_L'Eau Courante_--_Scènes de la Vie Cosmopolite_--Catulle Mendès.

CONCLUSION 556

APPENDIX 571

INDEX 577