Third Generation:5.

EUGENE ROUGON, born in 1811, married in 1857 to Veronique Beulin d'Orcheres,

by whom he has nochildren. A fusion of characteristics. Prepotency and ambition of his mother. Physical
likeness to his father. Apolitician, 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 moralcharacteristics
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
herforerunners; 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 hisfather'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
in1850. 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 inevery shady calling; but eventually becomes very austere. Still alive in Paris, treasurer to the
OEuvre duSacrement.