Pot-Bouille Comic

Pot-Bouille Bd .D after the novel by Émile Zola

Les Arènes Bd Editions 2020

Author: Cedric Simon, Eric Stalnet

ISBN: 9791037500625

“Pot-bouille”: ordinary cooking, mediocre family grub.
Having just arrived in Paris, Octave Mouret moves into a bourgeois building on Rue de Choiseul in the heart of a capital undergoing a Haussmannian transformation. Behind the polite façade, he discovers the other side of the coin: low intrigues and adultery on every floor! Everyone is cooking up their own unappetizing dishes to buy themselves a place in the society of the Second Empire. With the appetite of a hungry young wolf, Octave has a field day among these hypocrites, takes a mistress on each floor and gets drunk on the pettiness of families ready to do anything to marry off their daughters. Éric Stalner and Cédric Simon skillfully draw up a gallery of characters, each more jubilant than the last, and regale us with the spectacle of human weakness.
Behind the luxury and the golden curtains, everything is filth, debauchery and emptiness. As Zola wrote, the bourgeoisie is "pigs and company"!