L'Argent.
After the war he re-established himself in his mansion in Avenue du
Bois-de-Boulogne, where he lived on the fortune left by his wife. "He
had become prudent, however, with the enforced restraint of a man whose
marrow is diseased, and who seeks by artifice to ward off the paralysis
which threatened him." In the fear of this impending illness, he induced
his sister Clotilde to leave Doctor Pascal, and go to live with him
in Paris, but in his constant fear of being taken advantage of he soon
began to be suspicious of her, as he did of every one who served him.
His father, who wished to hasten his own inheritance, encouraged him in
a renewal of his vicious courses, and he died of _locomotor ataxy_ at
the age of thirty-three. Le Docteur Pascal.
ROUGON (MADAME MAXIME). See Louise de Mareuil.
ROUGON (PASCAL), born 1813, second son of Pierre Rougon, "had an
uprightness of spirit, a love of study, a retiring modesty which
contrasted strangely with the feverish ambitions and unscrupulous
intrigues of his family." Having acquitted himself admirably in his
medical studies at Paris, he returned to Plassans, where he lived a life
of quiet study and work.
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