A fusion of characteristics. Moral prepotency of and
physical likeness to his father. A soldier, then a basket-maker,
afterwards lives idle on his income.
4. URSULE MACQUART, born in 1791; married in 1810 to a
journeyman-hatter, Mouret, a healthy man with a well-balanced mind.
Bears him three children, dies of consumption in 1840. An adjunction of
characteristics, her mother predominating morally and physically.
Third Generation:
5. EUGENE ROUGON, born in 1811, married in 1857 to Veronique Beulin
d'Orcheres, by whom he has no children. A fusion of characteristics.
Prepotency and ambition of his mother. Physical likeness to his father.
A politician, at one time Cabinet Minister. Still alive in Paris, a
deputy.
6. PASCAL ROUGON, born in 1813, never marries, has a posthumous child
by Clotilde Rougon in 1874; dies of heart disease on November 7,
1873. Innateness, a combination in which the physical and moral
characteristics of the parents are so blended that nothing of them
appears manifest in the offspring. A doctor.
7. ARISTIDE ROUGON, alias SACCARD, born in 1815, married in 1836 to
Angele Sicardot, the calm, dreamy-minded daughter of an officer; has
by her a son in 1840, a daughter in 1847; loses his wife in 1854; has
a natural son in 1853 by a work-girl, Rosalie Chavaille, counting
consumptives and epileptics among her forerunners; remarried in 1855
to Renee Beraud Du Chatel, who dies childless in 1864.
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