RT, born in 1789; a soldier in 1809; married in 1829
to a market dealer, Josephine Gavaudan, a vigorous, industrious, but
intemperate woman; has three children by her; loses her in 1851;
dies himself in 1873 from spontaneous combustion, brought about by
alcoholism. A fusion of characteristics. Moral prepotency of and
physical likeness to his father. A soldier, then a basket-maker,
afterwards lives idle on his income.

4. URSULE MACQUART, born in 1791; married in 1810 to a
journeyman-hatter, Mouret, a healthy man with a well-balanced mind.
Bears him three children, dies of consumption in 1840. An adjunction of
characteristics, her mother predominating morally and physically.

Third Generation:

5. EUGENE ROUGON, born in 1811, married in 1857 to Veronique Beulin
d'Orcheres, by whom he has no children. A fusion of characteristics.
Prepotency and ambition of his mother. Physical likeness to his father.
A politician, at one time Cabinet Minister. Still alive in Paris, a
deputy.

6. PASCAL ROUGON, born in 1813, never marries, has a posthumous child
by Clotilde Rougon in 1874; dies of heart disease on November 7,
1873. Innateness, a combination in which the physical and moral
characteristics of the parents are so blended that nothing of them
appears manifest in the offspring. A doctor.

7. ARISTIDE ROUGON, alias SACCARD, born in 1815, married in 1836 to
Angele Sicardot, the calm, dreamy-minded daughter of an officer; has
by her a son in 1840, a daughter in 1847; loses his wife in 1854; has
a natural son in 1853 by a work-girl, Rosalie Chavaille, counting
consumptives and epileptics among her forerunners; remarried in 1855
to Renee Beraud Du Chatel, who dies childless in 1864. An adjunction of
characteristics, moral prepotency of his father, physical likeness to
his mother. Her ambition, modified by his father's appetites. A clerk,
then a speculator. Still alive in Paris, directing a newspaper.

8. SIDONIE ROUGON, born in 1818, married at Plassans in 1838 to a
solicitor's clerk, who dies in Paris in 1850. Has, by a stranger, in
1851, a daughter Angelique, whom she places in the foundling asylum.
Prepotency of her father, physical likeness to her mother. A commission
agent and procuress, dabbling in every shady calling; but eventually
becomes very austere. Still alive in Paris, treasurer to the OEuvre du
Sacrement.

9. MARTHE ROUGON, born in 1820, married in 1840 to her cousin Francois
Mouret, bears him three children