Le r ve (The Dream) is the sixteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by mile Zola. It is about an orphan girl who falls in love with a nobleman, and is set in the years 1860-69. The novel was published by Charpentier in October 1888 and translated into English by Eliza E. Chase as The Dream in 1893 (reprinted in 2005).