Angèle Rougon (née Sicardot)

The wife of Aristide Rougon and daughter of a retired military man called commander Sicardot. She was noted for loving gowns and ribbons. She had one son called Maxime and a daughter called Clotilde.
In La Curée we learn that Angèle arrives in Paris in 1852 with her husband Aristide Rougon and daughter Clotilde. Her son Maxime was left in Plassans with his grandparents. They lived in a small room on Rue Saint Jacques and the last week of each month they ate dry bread while Aristide waited for his next pay day from the city council. She got on well with her Sister in law-Mme Sidonie. In early 1854 she contracted pneumonia from which she never recovered. Even as she was dying her husband was plotting with his sister about obtaining a new wife and the money to go with her.