ROGRON (Jerome-Denis), two years younger than his sister Sylvie, and like her sent to Paris by his father.  When very young he entered the establishment of one of the leading haberdashers on rue Saint-Denis, the firm of Guepin at the Trois Quenouilles.  He became first clerk there at eighteen.  Finally associated with Sylvie in the haberdasher’s establishment, the Soeur de Famille, he withdrew with her in 1823 to Provins.  Jerome-Denis Rogron was ignorant and did not amount to much, but depended on his sister in everything, for Sylvie had “good sense and was sharp at a bargain.”  He allowed his sister to maltreat Pierrette Lorrain, and, when called before the Provins court as responsible for the young girl’s death, was acquitted.  In his little city, Rogron, through the influence of the attorney, Vinet, opposed the government of Charles X. After 1830 he was appointed receiver-general.  The former Liberal, who was one of the masses, said that Louis Philippe would not be a real king until he could create noblemen.  In 1828, although homely and unintelligent, he married the beautiful Bathilde de Chargeboeuf, who inspired in him an old man’s foolish passion. [Pierrette.]

ROGRON (Madame Denis), born Bathilde de Chargeboeuf, about 1803, one of the most beautiful young girls of Troyes, poor but noble and ambitious.  Her relative, Vinet the attorney, had made “a little Catherine de Medicis” of her, and married her to Denis Rogron.  Some years after this marriage she desired to become a widow as soon as possible, so that she might marry General Marquis de Montriveau, a peer of France, who was very attentive to her.  Montriveau controlled the department in which Rogron had a receivership. [Pierrette.]

ROGUIN, born in 1761; for twenty-five years a Paris notary, tall and heavy; black hair and high forehead; of somewhat distinguished appearance; affected with ozoena.  This affection caused his ruin, for, having married the only daughter of the banker, Chevrel, he disgusted his wife very soon, and she was untrue to him.  On the other hand, he had paid mistresses, and kept and was fleeced by Sarah van Gobseck —­“La Belle Hollandaise”—­mother of Esther.  He had met her about 1815.  In 1818 and 1819 Roguin, seriously compromised by careless financial ventures as well as by dissipation, disappeared from Paris; and thus brought about the ruin of Guillaume Grandet, Cesar Birotteau, and Mesdames Descoings and Bridau. [Cesar Birotteau.  Eugenie Grandet.  A Bachelor’s Establishment.] Roguin had by his wife a daughter, whom he married to the president of the Provins tribunal.  She was called in that city “the beautiful Madame Tiphaine.” [Pierrette.] In 1816 he made, for Ginevra di Piombo, a respectful request of her father that he would allow his daughter to marry Luigi Porta, an enemy of the family. [The Vendetta.]