ed with
the object of assisting seduced girls, who had become mothers, to secure
husbands." Le Docteur Pascal.

ROUGON (VICTOR), son of Aristide Saccard and Rosaline Chavaille. Brought
up in the gutter, he was from the first incorrigibly lazy and vicious.
La Mechain, his mother's cousin, after discovering his paternity, told
the facts to Caroline Hamelin, who, to save Saccard annoyance, paid over
a considerable sum and removed the boy to _L'Oeuvre du Travail_, one of
the institutions founded by the Princess d'Orviedo. Here every effort
was made to reclaim him, but without success; vice and cunning had
become his nature. In the end he made a murderous attack upon Alice
du Beauvilliers, who was visiting the hospital, and having stolen her
purse, made his escape. Subsequent search proved fruitless; he had
disappeared in the under-world of crime. L'Argent.

"In 1873, Victor had altogether vanished, living, no doubt, in the shady
haunts of crime--since he was in no penitentiary--let loose upon the
world like some brute foaming with the hereditary virus, whose every
bite would enlarge that existing evil--free to work out his own future,
his unknown destiny, which was perchance the scaffold." Le Docteur
Pascal.

ROUGON (-----), the child of Doctor Pascal Rougon and of Clotilde
Rougon, born some months after his father's death. Pascal a few
minutes before he died, drew towards him the genealogical tree of the
Rougon-Macquart family, over which he had spent so many years, and in
a vacant space wrote the words: "The unknown child, to be born in 1874.
What will it be?" Le Docteur Pascal.

ROUSSE (LA), a peasant girl of Les Artaud, who assisted to decorate the
church for the festival of the Virgin. La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

ROUSSEAU, one of the auditors of the Universal Bank, an office which he
shared with Lavigniere, under whose influence he was to a great extent.
L'Argent.

ROUSSELOT (MONSEIGNEUR), Bishop of Plassans, an amiable but weak man,
who was entirely under the influence of Abbe Fenil. Having got into
disfavour with the Government over the election of a Legitimist as
Deputy, he was anxious to retrieve his position, and with this object
agreed to appoint Abbe Faujas vicar of Saint-Saturnin's church. This led
to a quarrel with Abbe Fenil, who, of course, resented the appointment.
The Bishop being still in some doubt as to the standing of Abbe Faujas
with the Government, went to Paris, where he interviewed Eugene Ro