Rougon family
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The Rougon family is the ambitious, socially climbing bourgeois clan at the center of Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart cycle, embodying themes of heredity, power, and corruption in Second Empire France.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mouret family | 1 |
| Rougon family canonical | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional family
ⓘ
literary character group ⓘ |
| appearsAcrossNumberOfNovels | 20 ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Les Rougon-Macquart ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
La Curée
ⓘ
Le Docteur Pascal ⓘ Son Excellence Eugène Rougon ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
family degeneration
ⓘ
political intrigue ⓘ social climbing ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
bourgeois power
ⓘ
corruption ⓘ determinism ⓘ heredity ⓘ social ambition ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Macquart family
ⓘ
Mouret family ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| createdBy | Émile Zola ⓘ |
| cycleSubtitle |
Les Rougon-Macquart
ⓘ
surface form:
Histoire naturelle et sociale d’une famille sous le Second Empire
|
| fictionalGenealogicalRole | legitimate branch of the Rougon-Macquart line ⓘ |
| fictionalTimePeriod |
Second Empire of France
ⓘ
surface form:
Second French Empire
|
| firstAppearanceInWork |
Les Rougon-Macquart
ⓘ
surface form:
La Fortune des Rougon
|
| hasFamilyTrait |
ambition
ⓘ
cunning ⓘ desire for social dominance ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember |
Aristide Rougon
ⓘ
Son Excellence Eugène Rougon ⓘ
surface form:
Eugène Rougon
Félicité Rougon ⓘ Doctor Pascal Rougon ⓘ
surface form:
Pascal Rougon
Pierre Rougon ⓘ Sidonie Rougon ⓘ |
| hasSettingContext |
Parisian political milieu
ⓘ
provincial town of Plassans ⓘ |
| influences |
imperial administration
ⓘ
local politics in Plassans ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | realist novel cycle ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Naturalism ⓘ |
| memberOfFictionalDynasty |
Les Rougon-Macquart
ⓘ
surface form:
Rougon-Macquart family
|
| narrativeFunction |
to depict political and social rise under Napoleon III
ⓘ
to illustrate the effects of heredity and environment ⓘ |
| originatesFromCharacters | Adélaïde Fouque ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Bonapartist ⓘ |
| represents | opportunistic bourgeoisie of Second Empire France ⓘ |
| setInFictionalPlace | Plassans ⓘ |
| socialClass | bourgeoisie ⓘ |
| symbolizes | alliance between bourgeoisie and imperial regime ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mouret family