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Pot-Bouille
''Pot-Bouille'' is the tenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was serialized between January and April 1882 in the periodical ''Le Gaulois'' before being published in book form by Charpentier in 1883.
The novel is an indictment of the mores of the bourgeoisie of the Second French Empire. It is set in a Parisian apartment building, a relatively new housing arrangement at the time and its title (roughly translating as ''stew pot'') reflects the disparate and sometimes unpleasant elements lurking behind the building's new façade.
==Explanation of the novel's title==
Like Zola's earlier novel ''L'Assommoir'', the title is extremely difficult to render in English. The word ''pot-bouille'' is a 19th-century French slang term for a large cooking pot or cauldron used for preparing stews and casseroles and also the foods prepared in it. The title is intended to convey a sense of disparate ingredients, the various inhabitants of the building mixed together, to create a potent and heady mix like a strong stew. The impression is to hint at the greed, ambition and depravity which lies behind the pretentious façade of the outwardly well behaved bourgeois apartment block. There is no equivalent word in English to convey this. The closest English term would probably be an expression such as melting pot.
In the film ''The Life of Emile Zola'', the novel's title is rendered as ''Piping Hot''.
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