Pierre Rougon

Main character in La Fortune des Rougons. Son of Adélaide Fouque and Rougon. Dominated his step brother and sister and pushed them and his mother out of the family home and ensured he ended up with the family inheritance.
After marrying Felicité Puech he ran the firm of Puech and Lacamp (oil dealers). He retired from the firm in 1845 but did not really achieve prominence until the time of the events described in the first novel.
His apartment in the rue de la Banne, and in particular the yellow drawing room, became the focus of the group who decried the republic, and became instumental in supporting the second empire. They were led initially by the marquis de Carnavelet. However, through the workings of his son Eugene, Pierre came out as the hero of putting down the insurrection and thereby attained an important post in the town.
He had three sons and two daughters.
He is mentioned briefly in La Curée as Aristide's father from Plassans, who had gone fishing in the troubled waters of the coup d'etat in 1851 and landed the prize of tax of tax collector.