Both these books were issued by Lacroix, a famous go-ahead publisher and bookseller in those days, whose place of business stood at one of the corners of the Rue Vivienne and the Boulevard Montmartre, and who, as Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie., ended in bankruptcy in the early seventies. While still a clerk at Hachette’s at eight pounds a month, engaged in checking and perusing advertisements and press notices, he had already in 1864 published the first series of Les Contesa Ninon, a reprint of short stories contributed to various publications and, in the following year, had brought out La Confession de Claude. This volume, Therese Raquin was Zola’s third book, but it was the one that first gave him notoriety, and made him somebody, as the saying goes.
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