WITH the present work M Zola completes the Trilogy of the Three Cities which he began with Lourdes and continued with Rome and thus the adventures and experiences of Abbe Pierre Froment the doubting Catholic priest who failed to find faith at the miraculous grotto by the Cave and hope amidst the crumbling theocracy of the Vatican are here brought to what from M Zolas point of view is their logical conclusion From the first pages of Lourdes many r...