Germinal (In Our Time)
1885 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emile Zola's greatest literary success, his thirteenth novel in a series exploring the extended Rougon-Macquart family. The relative here is Etienne Lantier, already known to Zola’s readers as one of the blighted branch of the family tree and his story is set in Northern France.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1885
- Dreyfus Affair (1894)
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- Scramble for Africa (1881)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Berlin Conference (1884)
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881)