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Séverine Roubaud
Railway official's wife
The femme fatale of La Bête humaine — though Zola's portrait of her is more sympathetic than that label suggests. Beautiful and passive, she was shaped by a much older man's influence in her youth, and has been trapped since by secrets she cannot escape. She falls in love with Jacques Lantier, but both of them are caught in the machinery of violence.
Femme fatale de La Bête humaine — portrait plus nuancé que son rôle apparent. Elle tombe amoureuse de Jacques Lantier mais tous deux sont pris dans l'engrenage de la violence.
Dark, with large violet eyes and a quality of stillness that men find irresistible, and that conceals a troubled, haunted interior.
Dark, with large violet eyes and a quality of stillness that men find irresistible, and that conceals a troubled, haunted interior.
Family & Relationships
- Spouse Roubaud
- Lover Jacques Lantier