Fruitfulness - Émile Zola

Mathieu Froment lives in the suburbs of Paris and travels to the city every day to work. He and his wife Marianne have a loving relationship and an enormous amount of children. "Fruitfulness" is the first book in Emile Zola's series , "Les Quatre Évangiles", where he explores the four qualities he felt were necessary to a healthy fertility, labor, truth, and justice.