Nana

Nana tells the story of Nana Coupeau''s rise from streetwalker to high-class cocotte during the last three years of the French Second Empire. Nana first appears in the end of L''Assommoir (1877), another of Zola''s Rougon-Macquart series, in which she is portrayed as the daughter of an abusive drunk; in the end, she is living in the streets and just beginning a life of prostitution.