Serge Mouret, the younger son of Francois Mouret, was ordained to the priesthood and appointed Cure of Les Artaud, a squalid village in Provence, to whose degenerate inhabitants he ministered with small encouragement. He had inherited the family taint of the Rougon-Macquarts, which in him took the same form as in the case of his mother-a morbid religious enthusiasm bordering on hysteria. Brain fever followed, and bodily recovery left the priest without a mental past. Dr. Pascal Rougon, his uncle, hoping to save his reason, removed him from his accustomed surroundings and left him at the Paradou, the neglected demesne of a ruined mansion-house near Les Artaud, where he was nursed by Albine, niece of the caretaker.
- ISBN10 1070988561
- ISBN13 9781070988566
- Publish Date 31 May 2019 (first published 25 February 1993)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Independently Published
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 358
- Language English