ROSE, a peasant girl at Artaud; sister of Lisa.  La Faute de l’Abbe Mouret.

ROSE, maid-servant to Madame Hennebeau.  She was not alarmed by the violence of the strikers, as, belonging to that district, she knew the miners, and believed them not to be wicked.  Germinal.

ROSE, daughter of the concierge at the sub-prefecture at Sedan.  She was a worker in Delaherche’s factory, and he applied to her for information regarding the course of the battle, as she was in a position to hear the gossip of the officers and officials.  When Napoleon III decided to request an armistice from the Prussians, it was Rose who furnished a tablecloth to be used as a white flag.  La Debacle.

ROSE, niece of Aristide Saccard’s hairdresser.  She was a pretty girl of about eighteen, whom Saccard sent to his son Maxime under the pretext of nursing him, but in reality with a view to hastening the course of a nervous disease from which the young man suffered.  Aristide agreed to pay her a percentage on the fortune which he hoped to acquire at his son’s death.  Le Docteur Pascal.

ROUBAUD, assistant station-master at Havre.  Born in the south of France, at Plassans, he had a carter for father.  He had quitted the army with the stripes of a sergeant-major, and for a long time had been general porter at the station at Nantes.  He had been promoted head porter at Barentin, and it was there that he first saw Severine Aubry, the god-daughter of President Grandmorin, whom he married.  This was the sole romance of his existence, and it was coupled with fortune, for apart from Severine and her marriage portion of ten thousand francs, the President, now a director of the Western Railway Company, got him appointed assistant station-master at Havre.  He proved an excellent official, and the only thing against him was a suspicion that he was affected by republican principles.  For three years Roubaud’s married life was a happy one, until a chance lie of his wife’s gave him a clue to her former relations with Grandmorin.  Driven frantic by jealousy, he forced her to reveal the truth, afterwards compelling her to become his accomplice in the murder of the President in the Havre express.  The Roubauds established an alibi, though slight suspicion attached to them, and Denizet, the examining magistrate, endeavoured to fasten the crime on Cabuche.  For political reasons it was not considered desirable that Grandmorin’s character should be publicly discussed, and the inquiry regarding the murder was dropped.  Roubaud was aware, however, that Jacques Lantier had strong suspicions, and tried to secure his silence by making him a friend; a friendship which soon developed into a liaison between Lantier and Severine.  With the murder of Grandmorin, the disintegration of Roubaud’s character began; he gradually became a confirmed gambler, and having lost all his own money began to use that which he had taken from the body of his victim in order to establish