Their little
girl was puny, but the younger child, a boy, took after his mother, and
grew magnificently. Le Docteur Pascal.
[*] It is interesting to note that by a curious oversight M.
Zola in _Pot-Bouille_ refers to Octave Mouret as having
passed the examination for his bachelor's degree before
leaving Plassans, and states that at Marseilles the lad
showed a passion for business life, being able during his
three years' stay there to make a sum of five thousand
francs (two hundred pounds), which he took with him to
Paris.
MOURET (MADAME CAROLINE), first wife of the preceding. See Madame
Caroline Hedouin.
MOURET (MADAME DENISE), second wife of Octave Mouret. See Denise Baudu.
MOURET (SERGE), born 1841, son of Francois Mouret. La Fortune des
Rougon.
He was a young man of nervous temperament and of somewhat delicate
health. Educated at Plassans, he took his degree at the college there,
and it was intended that he should go to Paris to study for the bar. The
state of his health caused his departure to be delayed, and meantime he,
like his mother, fell under the influence of Abbe Faujas.
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