ugon,
the Minister of State. Satisfied with the information which he received,
he threw himself heartily into the political struggle then proceeding at
Plassans, giving Faujas every assistance in carrying out his schemes on
behalf of the Bonapartist candidate. La Conquete de Plassans.

ROUSSIE (LA), a woman who had formerly worked as a putter in the Voreux
pit. Germinal.

ROUSTAN (ABBE), one of the clergy of Sainte-Eustache church. Madame
Lisa Quenu consulted him as to her proposed course of action regarding
Florent. Le Ventre de Paris.

ROUVET, an old peasant who lived in the same village as Zephyrin Lacour
and Rosalie Pichon. One of her pleasures consisted in calling to mind
the sayings of the old man. Une Page d'Amour.

ROZAN (DUC DE), was a young man of dissolute life, who, after getting
the control of his fortune, soon went through the greater part of it. He
was the lover of Renee Saccard for a time. La Curee.

ROZAN (DUCHESSE DE), mother of the preceding. She kept her son so short
of money that, till he was thirty-five, he seldom had more than a dozen
louis at a time. Her death was largely occasioned by the knowledge of
the enormous amount of debts her son had incurred. La Curee.

RUSCONI (CHEVALIER), the Sardinian Minister at Paris, a friend of
Comtesse Balbi, and her daughter. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

S

SABATANI, a native of the Levant, who appeared in Paris after defaulting
on some foreign Stock Exchange. He was a handsome man, and little by
little gained the confidence of the Bourse "by scrupulous correctness
of behaviour and an unremitting graciousness even towards the most
disreputable." He began doing business with Mazard by depositing a small
sum as "cover" in the belief that the insignificance of the amount would
in time be forgotten; and "he evinced great prudence, increasing the
orders in a stealthy gradual fashion, pending the day when, with a heavy
settlement to meet, it would be necessary for him to disappear." When
Saccard founded the Universal Bank, he selected Sabatani as the "man of
straw" in whose name the shares held by the Bank itself were to be taken
up. Sabatani soon increased his speculations to an enormous extent,
gaining large sums, but after the collapse of the Universal Bank he
disappeared without paying his "differences," thereby contributing
largely to the ruin of Mazard. L'Argent.

SABOT, a vine-grower of Brinqueville. He was a renowned joker, who
entered into