Covetous
of his son's fortune, he hastened a disease from which Maxime suffered,
by encouraging him in vicious courses, and in the end got possession
of the whole estate. By a singular irony, Aristide, now returned to his
original Republicanism, was in a position to protect his brother Eugene,
whom in earlier days he had so often compromised. Le Docteur Pascal.
ROUGON (MADAME ANGELE), first wife of the preceding, was a daughter
of commander Sicardot. She brought her husband a dowry of ten thousand
francs. La Fortune des Rougon.
Along with her daughter Clotilde, she accompanied her husband to Paris
in 1852, and being an amiable woman without ambition she was quite
satisfied with the modest position he at first secured. She died in 1854
of inflammation of the lungs. La Curee.
ROUGON, alias SACCARD (MADAME RENEE), the second wife of Aristide
Rougon, alias Saccard, was the elder daughter of M. Beraud du Chatel,
the last representative of an old middle-class family. Having become
seriously compromised, she was hurriedly married to Saccard through the
agency of his sister Madame Sidonie, and a considerable sum of money
as well as land was settled upon her.
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