Discuss in chapter 3, Mouret whispers to the Baron, “get the women and you’ll the world” (p. 49). What does he mean really?

Zola’s novel Ladies’ Paradise presents you with a familiar landscape: Baudelaire’s Paris which we along with Ladies’ Paradise. As it happens, it was during that time that a great part of Notre-Dame, which was engulfed in flames last year, was reconstructed. The first three chapters of the novel (this week’s required reading) present you with three consecutive angles: […]