When her brother Serge was appointed priest of Les Artaud, she accompanied him there.  By that time she had grown to be a tall, handsome girl, but her mind had never developed, and she was still like a young child.  Her love of animals had become a passion, and at her brother’s home she was able to indulge it to the fullest extent, and to her complete happiness.  La Faute de l’Abbe Mouret.

She accompanied her brother to Saint Eutrope, where he became cure, and she continued innocent and healthy, like a happy young animal.  Le Docteur Pascal.

MOURET (FRANCOIS), born in 1817, son of Mouret and Ursule Macquart, his wife.  He got a situation in the business of his uncle, Pierre Rougon, whose daughter Marthe he married in 1840.  They had three children, Octave, Serge, and Desiree.  On the retirement of his uncle, Mouret returned to Marseilles and established himself in business there.  La Fortune de Rougon.

During fifteen years of close application on the part of Mouret and his wife, he made a fortune out of wines, oil, and almonds, and then retired to Plassans, where he lived on his means, making an occasional deal in wine or oil when a chance occurred.  He was not on good terms with his wife’s relations, and placed himself politically in opposition to them by supporting the Legitimist candidate, the Marquis de Lagrifoul.  In 1858, having two vacant rooms in his house, he was induced by the Abbe Bourrette to let them to Abbe Faujas, a priest who had been sent to Plassans by the Government to undermine the existing clerical influence there, which had been exercised in support of the Marquis de Lagrifoul.  Mouret was a man of narrow and restricted intellect, and his peculiarities became more and more marked as the Abbe Faujas gradually came to dominate the household and induce Madame Mouret to neglect her husband and family for the service of the Church.  By degrees Mouret came to be regarded as insane, and his wife having had several epileptic attacks, he was accused of having caused the injuries she had really inflicted on herself.  His wrongful removal to the asylum at Les Tulettes followed, and confinement soon confirmed the insanity which before had only threatened.  In 1864, his uncle, Antoine Macquart, in order to annoy the Rougons contrived his escape from the asylum, and he returned by night to his home at Plassans.  Finding it in the occupancy of Abbe Faujas and his relatives, he was overcome by the fury of madness, and set fire to the house in several places.  So thoroughly did he do his work that all the inmates, including himself, perished in the flames.  La Conquete de Plassans.

MOURET (MADAME MARTHE), wife of the preceding.  See Marthe Rougon.

MOURET (HELENE), born 1824, daughter of Mouret and Ursule Macquart, his wife.  La Fortune des Rougon.