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First Generation:1.

ADELAIDE FOUQUE, called AUNT DIDE, born in 1768, married in 1786 to Rougon, a
placid, lubberlygardener; bears him a son in 1787; loses her husband in 1788; takes in 1789 a lover,
Macquart, a smuggler,addicted to drink and half crazed; bears him a son in 1789, and a daughter in
1791; goes mad, and is sent tothe Asylum of Les Tulettes in 1851; dies there of cerebral congestion in
1873 at 105 years of age. Supplies theoriginal neurosis.Second Generation:2. PIERRE ROUGON, born in
1787, married in 1810 to Felicite Puech, an intelligent, active and healthywoman; has five children by
her; dies in 1870, on the morrow of Sedan, from cerebral congestion due tooverfeeding. An equilibrious
blending of characteristics, the moral average of his father and mother,resembles them physically. An oil
merchant, afterwards receiver of taxes.3. ANTOINE MACQUART, born in 1789; a soldier in 1809; married
in 1829 to a market dealer, JosephineGavaudan, a vigorous, industrious, but intemperate woman; has
three children by her; loses her in 1851; dieshimself 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 idleon his incom

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