al characteristics of her maternal grandfather preponderant.
Still alive at Plassans.

18. VICTOR ROUGON, alias SACCARD, born in 1853. Adjunction of
characteristics. Physical resemblance to his father. Has disappeared.

19. ANGELIQUE ROUGON, born in 1851, married in 1869 to Felicien de
Hautecoeur, and dies the same day of a complaint never determined.
Innateness: no resemblance to her mother or forerunners on the maternal
side. No information as to her father.

20. OCTAVE MOURET, born in 1840, married in 1865 to Madame Hedouin, who
dies the same year; remarried in 1869 to Denise Baudu, a healthy girl
with a well-balanced mind, by whom he has a boy and a girl, still too
young to be classified. Prepotency of his father. Physical resemblance
to his uncle, Eugene Rougon. Indirect heredity. Establishes and directs
"The Ladies' Paradise." Still alive in Paris.

21. SERGE MOURET, born in 1841. A dissemination of characteristics;
moral and physical resemblance to his mother. Has his father's brain,
influenced by the diseased condition of his mother. Heredity of a form
of neurosis developing into mysticism. A priest, still alive at St.
Eutrope.

22. DESIREE MOURET, born in 1844. Prepotency of and physical likeness to
her mother. Heredity of a form of neurosis developing into idiocy. Still
alive at St. Eutrope with her brother Serge.

23. JEANNE GRANDJEAN, born in 1842, dies of a nervous complaint in
1855. Reverting heredity, skipping two generations. Physical and moral
resemblance to Adelaide Fouque.

24. Pauline Quenu, born in 1852, never marries. An equilibrious blending
of characteristics. Moral and physical resemblance to her father and
mother. An example of honesty. Still alive at Bonneville.

25. CLAUDE LANTIER, born in 1842, married in 1865 to Caroline
Hallegrain, whose father succumbed to paraplegia; has by her, prior to
marriage, a son, Jacques, who dies in 1869; hangs himself in 1870. A
fusion of characteristics. Moral prepotency of and physical resemblance
to his mother. Heredity of a form of neurosis developing into genius. A
painter.

26. JACQUES LANTIER, born in 1844, killed in an accident in 1870.
Prepotency of his mother. Physical likeness to his father. Heredity of
alcoholism, developing into homicidal mania. An example of crime. An
engine-driver.

27. ETIENNE LANTIER, born in 1846. A dissemination of characteristics.
Physical resemblance, first to his mother, afterwards to his father. A
miner. Stil