Au Bonheur des dames, l'éditio

Text read by Lambert Wilson, with videos and many period pictures.

The National Library of France, Orange and Orsay museums have the tablet app "Au Bonheur ladies, the enhanced edition". This application provides the reader to discover or rediscover this major novel by Zola so playful and rigorous.

- "Read": This section provides an enhanced version of the novel. Large extracts are read by Lambert Wilson, in a lively and personal interpretation. Notes, cards, illustrations from the BnF collections and drawing from the catalogs of department stores and fashion illustrations of the time, enrich the discovery ... A selection of sheets of preparatory file of the writer is a valuable testimony about his method of working.

- "Explorer": Eight themes invite to explore the novel and society of the nineteenth century, offering educational deepening, interviews of personalities, an anthology and iconographic content. Are thus addressed Impressionism, the Industrial Revolution, modern commerce, women in the nineteenth, social change ...

- "Benchmarks": the author marks his work, the Dreyfus case and a chronology complete the discovery of the novel and the nineteenth century as a whole.