THE ROUGON-MACQUART GENEALOGICAL TREE.
First Generation:
1. ADELAIDE FOUQUE, called AUNT DIDE, born in 1768, married in 1786 to
Rougon, a placid, lubberly gardener; bears him a son in 1787; loses her
husband in 1788; takes in 1789 a lover, Macquart, a smuggler, addicted
to drink and half crazed; bears him a son in 1789, and a daughter in
1791; goes mad, and is sent to the Asylum of Les Tulettes in 1851; dies
there of cerebral congestion in 1873 at 105 years of age. Supplies the
original neurosis.
Second Generation:
2. PIERRE ROUGON, born in 1787, married in 1810 to Felicite Puech, an
intelligent, active and healthy woman; has five children by her; dies
in 1870, on the morrow of Sedan, from cerebral congestion due to
overfeeding. An equilibrious blending of characteristics, the moral
average of his father and mother, resembles them physically. An oil
merchant, afterwards receiver of taxes.
3. ANTOINE MACQUART, born in 1789; a soldier in 1809; married in 1829
to a market dealer, Josephine Gavaudan, a vigorous, industrious, but
intemperate woman; has three children by her; loses her in 1851;
dies himself in 1873 from spontaneous combustion, brought about by
alcoholism.
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