Le Docteur Pascal

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"Le Docteur Pascal" by Émile Zola is a novel published in 1893, the twentieth and final volume of the Rougon-Macquart series. Doctor Pascal Rougon lives in Plassans, where he has spent thirty years studying heredity through his own family's history. His mother and household members plot to destroy his compromising documents about the family. The story follows Pascal's struggle to protect his work, his unexpected passionate relationship with his niece Clotilde, and his tragic fate, concluding the entire saga of the Rougon-Macquart dynasty. (This is an automatically generated summary.)