He was frequently taken to visit the aged Adelaide
Fouque in the asylum at Les Tulettes, and on one occasion, in 1873, when
he chanced to be left alone with her he was seized with bleeding at the
nose, and, under the fixed eyes of his ancestress, he slowly bled to
death. Le Docteur Pascal.
ROUGON (CLOTILDE), born 1847, daughter of Aristide Rougon, accompanied
her father and mother to Paris in 1852. After the death of her mother
in 1854, she was sent to live with Dr. Pascal Rougon, her uncle, who had
frequently offered to take her to enliven his silent scientific home. La
Curee.
At Plassans Clotilde lived a quiet healthy life, much of it spent in the
open air. She was not highly educated, but having considerable artistic
talent was able to assist Doctor Pascal by making illustrations for his
great work on heredity. At one period she developed strong religious
tendencies under the influence of Martine, the doctor's old servant,
who took her to church, and imbued the girl with her own bigoted ideas
regarding the salvation of Pascal. Her grandmother, Felicite Rougon,
who wished, for family reasons, to destroy Pascal's manuscripts on the
subject of heredity, played on Clotilde's feelings, and induced her to
assist in a search for the hated work.
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