Wholly given over to pleasure
and extravagance, she soon got deeply into debt, and her husband took
advantage of this from time to time by inducing her to make over to him
her property, in order that he might speculate with it. She engaged in a
shameful liaison with her husband's son Maxime, which ultimately brought
her great unhappiness, and she died of acute meningitis at an early age.
La Curee.
ROUGON (CHARLES), born 1857, son of Maxime Rougon, alias Saccard, and of
Justine Megot, a maid-servant of Madame Renee Saccard. The child and his
mother were sent to the country with a little annuity of twelve hundred
francs. La Curee.
At fifteen years of age he lived at Plassans with his mother,
who had married a saddler named Anselme Thomas. Charles was a
degenerate who reproduced at a distance of three generations his
great-great-grandmother, Adelaide Fouque. He did not look more than
twelve years old, and his intelligence was that of a child of five.
There was in him a relaxation of tissues, due to degeneracy, and the
slightest exertion produced hemorrhage. Charles was not kindly treated
by his stepfather, and generally lived with his great-grandmother
Felicite Rougon.
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