"The man of today has no time to love, and married women without knowing it, without her know you. Are two distinctive features of modern marriage. "

Émile Zola (1840-1902) is one of the greatest French writers of all time. Throughout, above all, his great narrative cycle Les Rougon-Macquart -spacious study of the vicissitudes of a French family during the Second Empire, Zola made a penetrating diagnosis of the society of his time and underlined the fatality involved to man the heavy burden of their physical and moral heritage. In how we got married (1893), Zola makes a brilliant study exercise habits presenting, not without close acid humor, the way the social convention of marriage in the various social classes is made: nobility, gentry, merchants and common people. In all cases, and whatever worldly or economic motivations that lead to marriage, it is doomed to inexorable disintegration.