Unmaking of the working class

Zola’s vivid characters blew his theories off course

Why books that became beloved classics struggled to find their way into print

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Eating your way through the arrondissements

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So close was Jean-François Millet to the humble peasants he painted that he wore clogs and coarse clothing. He was steeped in nostalgia, yet inspired avant-garde artists from van Gogh to Salvador Dalí, finds Mary Miers