This carefully crafted ebook: "Captain Burle (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Captain Burle is a story by Émile Zola about a French officer who embezzles funds to support his mistresses. Table of Contents: Chapter I. The Swindle Chapter II. The Cafe Chapter III. Again? Chapter IV. Inspection Émile Zola (1840 ? 1902), French novelist, critic, and political activist who was the most prominent French novelist of the late 19th century. He was noted for his theories of naturalism, which underlie his monumental 20-novel series Les Rougon-Macquart, and for his intervention in the Dreyfus Affair through his famous open letter, "J'accuse."