Bloody Week Letters on the Paris Commune of 1871

This book consists of 13 letters that Emile Zola sent daily to the newspaper "Le Semaphore" in Marseille. They narrate, from his point of view, and through his daily observations, the last days of the siege of Paris, before the "Commune" fell. These days were known as "Bloody Week" and witnessed many acts of violence, killing, destruction and fires. But amid all of this, we must note the writer's love for his city and his refusal to destroy it under any justification. Therefore, many may be surprised by Zola's position on the "Commune" and his defense of authority at that time, as he was the writer whose novels came to talk about the workers, the destitute, and the poor, in other words, they came to stand against the prevailing authority at that time, without of course forgetting his position (at the end of his life ) From the Dreyfus case, and his famous letter to the President of the Republic at the beginning of the twentieth century, which prompted him to choose exile and go to live in London.