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The novel A Lady's Happiness (1883) by the world-famous and always popular Emile Zola (1840-1902) depicts with amazing expressiveness the rise of modern retailing and all the traps it skilfully sets for gullible customers in department stores. And at the same time, it is a touching story of the passionate, devoted, tender, shy, chaste and fiercely proud love of a simple saleswoman from the provinces for the owner and director of a large and luxurious store, the prototype of which can still be admired today when visiting the Parisian department store Printemps. And, of course, the backdrop and one of the main characters of the novel is Paris itself, its reconstruction, farewell to the mouldy old days, and the opening of the spaces of the future.