La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret
| Author | Émile Zola |
|---|---|
| Language | French |
| Series | Les Rougon-Macquart |
| Genre | Novel |
Publication date | 1875 |
| Publication place | France |
| Media type | Print (Serial, Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 352 (paperback) |
| Preceded by | The Ladies Paradise/Delight |
| Followed by | A Love Story |
La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret (1875) is the fifth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Viciously anticlerical in tone, it follows on from the horrific events at the end of La Conquête de Plassans, focussing this time on a remote Provençal backwater village.
Unusually for Zola, the novel contains very few characters and locations, and its use of amnesia as a plot device gives it an unusually fantastical tone.