, dies in 1864 from a nervous disease.
Reverting heredity, skipping one generation. Hysteria. Moral and
physical likeness to Adelaide Fouque. Resembles her husband.

10. FRANCOIS MOURET, born in 1817, married in 1840 to Marthe Rougon, who
bears him three children; dies mad in 1864 in a conflagration kindled
by himself. Prepotency of his father. Physical likeness to his mother.
Resembles his wife. At first a wine-merchant, then lives on his income.

11. HELENE MOURET, born in 1824, married in 1841 to Grandjean, a puny
man, inclined to phthisis, who dies in 1853; has a daughter by him in
1842; remarried in 1857 to M. Rambaud, by whom she has no children.
Innateness as in Pascal Rougon's case. Still living, at Marseilles, in
retirement with her second husband.

12. SILVERE MOURET, born in 1834; shot dead by a gendarme in
1851. Prepotency of his mother. Innateness with regard to physical
resemblance.

13. LISA MACQUART, born in 1827, married in 1852 to Quenu, a healthy
man with a well-balanced mind. Bears him a daughter, dies in 1863 from
decomposition of the blood. Prepotency of and physical likeness to her
mother. Keeps a large pork-butcher's shop at the Paris markets.

14. GERVAISE MACQUART, born in 1828, has three sons by her lover
Lantier, who counts paralytics among his ancestors; is taken to Paris,
and there deserted by him; is married in 1852 to a workman, Coupeau, who
comes of an alcoholic stock; has a daughter by him; dies of misery and
drink in 1869. Prepotency of her father. Conceived in drunkenness. Is
lame. A washerwoman.

15. JEAN MACQUART, born in 1831, married in 1867 to Francoise Mouche,
who dies childless in 1870; remarried in 1871 to Melanie Vial, a sturdy,
healthy peasant-girl, by whom he has a son, and who is again _enceinte_.
Innateness, as with Pascal and Helene. First a peasant, then a soldier,
then peasant again. Still alive at Valqueyras.

Fourth Generation:

16. MAXIME ROUGON, alias SACCARD, born in 1840, has a son in 1857 by
a servant, Justine Megot, the chlorotic daughter of drunken parents;
married in 1863 to Louise de Mareuil, who dies childless the same year;
succumbs to ataxia in 1873. A dissemination of characteristics. Moral
prepotency of his father, physical likeness to his mother. Idle,
inclined to spending unearned money.

17. CLOTILDE ROUGON, alias SACCARD, born in 1847, has a son by Pascal
Rougon in 1874. Prepotency of her mother. Reverting heredity, the moral
and physic