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Clotilde Rougon

Pascal's niece and companion

Pascal Rougon's niece. She assists him in his scientific work, sharing his laboratory and his life. In the final novel she becomes his lover — a controversial relationship that Zola frames as life-affirming, the cycle's last act of defiance against death and endings. She carries his child as the novel closes.
Young, fair, with a luminous quality and the calm of someone who has found her purpose.

Family & Relationships

Appears In

Doctor Pascal major

Details

Branch
Rougon
Generation
IV