This article proposes reading Émile Gaboriau’s 1862 novel Mariages d’aventure as a precursor to Émile Zola’s 1871 classic La Curée, providing a new optic for understanding novels that deal with Haussmannian Paris and the families that inhabited it. In particular, both works draw parallels between the modern matchmaker and the real estate developer as figures of modernity, building French families and the spaces they occupy. The matchmaker and developer dealt in desire, either for women or for new neighborhoods in the French capital. Furthermore, these novels posit that dealing in desire necessitated a fluid gender identity, the developer and matchmaker exhibiting both femininity and masculinity when courting their clients.

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爱与不动产：媒人和不动产开发商作为佐拉和加波罗的社会类型

本文建议阅读ÉmileGaboriau于1862年出版的小说《 Mariages d'aventure》，作为ÉmileZola于1871年出版的经典《 LaCurée》的前身，为理解与奥斯曼帝国巴黎及其居住家庭有关的小说提供了新的视角。尤其是，这两件作品都将现代媒人与房地产开发商之间的相似之处作为现代性的象征，营造了法国家庭及其所占据的空间。媒人和开发商满足了对女性或对法国首都新社区的渴望。此外，这些小说认为，处理欲望需要流动性的性别认同，开发商和媒人在向客户求婚时既表现出女性气质又表现出男性气质。