His Excellency Eugene Rougon, Book Six of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

His Excellency Eugene Rougon, Book Six of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook.

Genre: drama

In His Excellency Eugene Rougon, the sixth novel in Emile Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, Paris under Napoleon III becomes a glittering arena where ambition, favors, and fear decide who rises and who is ruined. Eugene Rougon, a powerful minister and master of backroom alliances, believes he can control the Empire's machinery through disciplined loyalty and carefully chosen clients. Around him gathers a hungry court of dependents: journalists, businessmen, and social climbers who treat politics as a marketplace and Rougon as the man who can open every door. Yet influence is never stable. As rivals maneuver and the mood of the regime shifts, Rougon faces the cost of ruling through patronage and the danger of mistaking obedience for devotion. Into this precarious world steps the enigmatic Clorinde Balbi, whose charm and independence unsettle Rougon's carefully managed life and expose the personal desires beneath his public authority. With Zola's sharp eye for power's rituals and hypocrisies, the novel explores how a modern state can be driven by vanity, greed, and spectacle - and how even the most commanding figure can be trapped by the system he serves.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:32:32) Chapter 01

(00:57:46) Chapter 02

(01:31:24) Chapter 03

(01:51:21) Chapter 04

(02:16:01) Chapter 05

(02:44:55) Chapter 06

(03:06:52) Chapter 07

(03:30:57) Chapter 08

(03:56:40) Chapter 09

(04:26:59) Chapter 10

(05:02:55) Chapter 11

(05:26:25) Chapter 12

(05:54:58) Chapter 13

(06:24:04) Chapter 14

(07:02:20) Chapter 15

(07:30:17) Chapter 16

(07:57:38) Chapter 17

(08:28:59) Chapter 18

(09:06:20) Chapter 19

(09:34:49) Chapter 20

(09:54:39) Chapter 21

(10:23:42) Chapter 22

(10:49:16) Chapter 23

(11:11:43) Chapter 24

(11:41:58) Chapter 25

(12:11:05) Chapter 26

(12:31:24) Chapter 27

(12:57:35) Chapter 28

(13:35:36) Chapter 29

(14:05:40) Chapter 30

(14:23:20) Chapter 31

(14:48:46) Chapter 32

(15:21:47) Chapter 33

(15:44:20) Chapter 34

(16:09:05) Chapter 35

(16:35:43) Chapter 36

(16:58:52) Chapter 37

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