Mouret branch
Abbé Serge Mouret
Catholic priest
The mystic, ascetic priest at the centre of La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret. Struck by a brain fever, he recovers in the paradisiacal garden of Le Paradou without memory of his vows, and falls passionately in love with the wild Albine. When his memory returns, he must choose between flesh and faith — one of Zola's most lyrical and philosophically daring explorations.
Prêtre mystique et ascète. Sa chute amoureuse pour Albine dans le jardin du Paradou, et le retour déchirant de sa vocation, sont l'un des passages les plus lyriques de Zola.
Pale, thin, luminous-eyed — a man whose physical presence seems almost to dissolve into the spiritual.
Pale, thin, luminous-eyed — a man whose physical presence seems almost to dissolve into the spiritual.
Family & Relationships
- Child Marthe Rougon
- Child François Mouret
- Sibling Octave Mouret
- Sibling Désirée Mouret
- Lover Albine — His love for Albine in Le Paradou — passionate, Edenic, and ultimately impossible.