Though she was aware that he was not
insane, she allowed him to be removed to an asylum, where confinement
soon completed the work begun by her own conduct. The Abbe Faujas having
resolutely resisted her advances, her health became still worse, and she
died in her mother's house on the same night that her husband escaped
from the asylum and burned down their old home. La Conquete de Plassans.
ROUGON (MAXIME), born 1840, son of Aristide Rougon. La Fortune des
Rougon.
When his father went to Paris in 1852, Maxime remained at school at
Plassans, not going to Paris till after his father's second marriage.
From early youth he was of vicious character, and the idleness and
extravagance of the life in his father's house only completed the
training begun at Plassans. After carrying on a disgraceful liaison with
his father's second wife, he married Louise de Mareuil, through whom he
got a considerable dowry. La Curee.
After the death of his wife, six months after their marriage, he
returned to Paris, where he lived quietly upon the dowry brought to him
by her. He refused to join in any of his father's schemes, or to assist
him in any way, and was consequently not affected by the failure of the
Universal Bank.
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