For 10 points, name this French naturalist whose Rougon-Macquart cycle includes his novels L'Assommoir, Nana, and Germinal.
One of this author's novels ends with a pregnant woman committing suicide by suffocating on flowers, and focuses on the priest Serge's relationship with Albine in the lush garden of Paradou. The title character of another novel by this author attempts to prove his theories about heredity by chronicling the descendants of Tante Dide, and falls in love with his niece Clotilde. This author led the Medan group of novelists, whose members included Paul Alexis and Joris-Karl Huysmans. He also wrote a novel about Coupeau, whose alcoholism destroys the life of his wife Gervaise, and a novel about Gervaise's daughter, who dies of smallpox after living as a high-class cocotte. He included La Faute de l'AbbÃ© Mouret and Doctor Pascal in his cycle of twenty novels about the Second Empire. For 10 points, name this French naturalist whose Rougon-Macquart cycle includes his novels L'Assommoir, Nana, and Germinal.
One of this author's novels ends with a pregnant woman committing suicide by suffocating on flowers, and focuses on the priest Serge's relationship with Albine in the lush garden of Paradou.
Emile Zola