ns, 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. 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. He had few patients, but devoted himself
to research, particularly on the subject of heredity, with special
reference to its results on his own family. In the hope of alleviating
suffering, he followed the Republican insurgents in their march from
Plassans in December, 1851. La Fortune des Rougon.

In 1854 his niece Clotilde, daughter of his brother Aristide, went to
live with him. He had frequently offered to take her, but nothing was
arranged till after the death of her mother, at which time she was about
seven years old. La Curee.

His practice as a medical man extended to Les Artaud, and he attende