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A ZOLA DICTIONARY
By J. G. Patterson


                          A ZOLA DICTIONARY

                          THE CHARACTERS OF
                      THE ROUGON-MACQUART NOVELS
                            OF EMILE ZOLA

            With a Biographical and Critical Introduction,
                Synopses of the Plots, Bibliographical
                      Note, Map, Genealogy, etc.

                                  BY

                           J. G. PATTERSON



                            PREFATORY NOTE

  In the preparation of my Introduction I have, of course, relied
  for information on the recognized Biographies of Zola, namely
  /Notes d'un Ami/, by Paul Alexis (Paris, Charpentier); /Emile
  Zola, A biographical and Critical Study/, by R. H. Sherrard
  (London, Chatto & Windus, 1893); /Emile Zola, Novelist and
  Reformer/: An account of his Life and Work, by Ernest Alfred
  Vizetelly (London, John Lane, 1904). Reference has also been made
  to Mr. Arthur Symons' /Studies in Prose and Verse/, and to
  articles in the /Fortnightly Review/ by Mr. Andrew Lang, in the
  /Atlantic Monthly/ by Mr. Henry James, and in the /Contemporary
  Review/ by M. Edouard Rod, as well as to articles in the
  /Encyclopaedia Britannica/ and in the /Dictionnaire Universel des
  Contemporains/.

  By kind permission of Messrs. Chatto & Windus it has been possible
  to include the diagram of the Rougon-Macquart Genealogical Tree,
  which appears in the Preface to their edition of /Doctor Pascal/,
  and to make use of their translations in the preparation of the
  Dictionary. In compiling the latter, Zola's own words have been
  adopted so far as possible, though usually they have required such
  condensation as to make direct quotation difficult. This
  difficulty was increased by the fact that occasional use was made
  of different translations of the same book, and that frequent
  references to the original were found necessary.

  The Synopses of the Plots of the novels are arranged in the order
  in which the books should be read, as indicated by their Author in
  /Le Docteur Pascal/, and confirmed by his biographer, Mr. E. A.
  Vizetelly.

  EDINBURGH, May, 1912.                                     J. G. P.



                             INTRODUCTION

Emile Zola was born at Paris on 2nd April, 1840. His father, Francois
Zola, was a man whose career up to that time had not been a success,
though this was not due to any lack of energy or ability. Zola /pere/
was of mixed nationality, his father being an Italian and his mother a
Greek, and it is not unlikely that his unrest and want of
concentration were due to the accident of his parentage. When quite a
young man, Francois fought under the great Napoleon, after whose fall
he became a civil engineer. He spent some time in Germany, where he
was engaged in the construction of the first tramway line in Europe,
afterwards visiting Holland and possibly England. Failure seems to
have accompanied him, for in 1831 he applied for and obtained an
appointment, as lieutenant in the Foreign Legion in Algeria. His
career in Africa was, however, of short duration; some irregularities
were discovered, and he disappeared for a time, though ultimately he
came forward and made up his accounts, paying the balance that was
due. No prosecution took place, and resignation of his commission was
accepted. Nothing more was heard of the matter till 1898, when his son
Emile identified himself with the cause of Dreyfus, and in the
campaign of calumny that followed had to submit to the vilest charges
against the memory of his father. The old dossier was produced by the
French Ministry of War, the officials of which did not hesitate to
strengthen their case by the forgery of some documents and the
suppression of others. In view of these proved facts, and of the
circumstance that Francois Zola, immediately after his resignation
from the Foreign Legion, established himself as a civil engineer at
Marseilles and prepared a scheme for new maritime docks there, and
that in connection with this scheme he visited Paris repeatedly,
obtaining private audiences with the King and interviewing statesmen,
it must be held that the charges against him were of a venial nature,
in no way warranting the accusations brought forward by the War Office
nearly seventy years later to cast discredit on his son. Nothing came
of the Marseilles harbour scheme, and the same fate attended
subsequent plans for the fortification of Paris. Zola /pere/, who by
this time had married, then turned his attention to a proposal to
supply water to the town of Aix, in Provence, by means of a reservoir
and canal. He removed thither with his wife and child, and after many
delays and disappointments ultimately signed an agreement for the
construction of the works. Even then further delays took place, and it
was not till three years later that the work could be commenced. But
the engineer's ill fortune still attended him, for one morning while
he was superintending his workmen the treacherous mistral began to
blow, and he took a chill, from the effects of which he died a few
days afterwards.

The young widow, with her son Emile, then a child of seven, was left
in poor circumstances, her only fortune being a claim against the
municipality of Aix. Fortunately her parents had some means, and came
to her assistance during the years of fruitless struggle to establish
the rights of her dead husband. Emile had up to this time been allowed
to run wild, and he had spent most of his time out of doors, where he
acquired a love of the country which he retained in later years. Even
when he was sent to school he was backward, only learning his letters
with difficulty and showing little inclination for study. It was not
till 1852, when he was twelve years sold, that his education really
began. By this time he was able to realize his mother's financial
position, and to see the sacrifices which were being made to send him
as a boarder to the /lycee/ at Aix. His progress then became rapid,
and during the next five years he gained many prizes. Throughout all
these years the struggle between Madame Zola and the municipality had
gone on, each year diminishing her chance of success. In the end her
position became desperate, and finding it impossible to continue to
reside at Aix, the little family removed to Paris in 1858. Fortunately
Emile was enabled by the intervention of certain friends of his late
father to continue his studies, and became a day pupil at the Lycee
St. Louis, on the Boulevard St. Michael. For some reason he made
little progress there, and when he presented himself for his
/baccalaureat/ degree he failed to pass the examination. A later
attempt at the University of Marseilles had the same result. As this
examination is in France the passport to all the learned professions,
Zola's failure to pass it placed him in a serious position. His
mother's resources were by this time entirely exhausted, and some
means of support had to be sought without delay. After many attempts,
he got a place as clerk in a business house at a salary of twenty-six
pounds a year, but the work proved so distasteful that after two
months of drudgery he threw it up. Then followed a period of deep
misery, but a period which must have greatly influenced the work of
the future novelist. Wandering the streets by day and, when he could
find money to buy a candle, writing poems and short stories by night,
he was gaining that experience in the school of life of which he was
later to make such splendid use. Meantime his wretchedness was deep. A
miserable lodging in a garret, insufficient food, inadequate clothing,
and complete absence of fire may be an incentive to high endeavour,
but do not render easy the pathway of fame. The position had become
all but untenable when Zola received an appointment in the publishing
house of M. Hachette, of Paris, at a salary beginning at a pound a
week, but soon afterwards increased. During the next two years he
wrote a number of short stories which were published later under the
title /Contes a Ninon/. The book did not prove a great success, though
its undoubted ability attracted attention to the writer and opened the
way to some journalistic work. About this time he appears to have been
studying Balzac, and the recently published /Madame Bovary/ of
Flaubert, which was opening up a new world not only in French fiction,
but in the literature of Europe. He had also read the /Germinie
Lacerteux/ of Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, on which he wrote an
appreciative article, and this remarkable book cannot have been
without its influence on his work. The effect was indeed immediate,
for in 1865 he published his next book, /La Confession de Claud/,
which showed strong traces of that departure from conventional fiction
which he was afterwards to make more pronounced. The book was not a
financial success, though it attracted attention, and produced many
reviews, some favourable, others merciless. Influenced by the latter,
the Public Prosecutor caused inquiries regarding the author to be made
at Hachette's, but nothing more was done, and it is indeed doubtful if
any successful prosecution could have been raised, even at a period
when it was thought necessary to indict the author of /Madame Bovary/.

Zola's employers had, however, begun to look askance at his literary
work; they may have considered that it was occupying too much of the
time for which they paid, or, more probably, they were becoming
alarmed at their clerk's advanced views both on politics and literary
art. As Zola afterwards explained the matter, one of the partners said
to him, "You are earning two hundred francs a month here, which is
ridiculous. You have plenty of talent, and would do better to take up
literature altogether. You would find glory and profit there." The
hint was a direct one, and it was taken. The young author was again
thrown upon his own resources, but was no longer entirely unknown, for
the not unfavourable reception of his first book and the violent
attacks on his second had given him a certain position, even though it
may to some extent have partaken of the nature of a /succes de
scandale/. As he wrote at the time, he did not mean to pander to the
likes or the dislikes of the crowd; he intended to force the public to
caress or insult him.

Journalism was the avenue which now appeared most open, and Zola got
an appointment on the staff of a newspaper called /L'Evenement/, in
which he wrote articles on literary and artistic subjects. His views
were not tempered by moderation, and when he depreciated the members
of the /Salon/ in order to exalt Manet, afterwards an artist of
distinction, but then regarded as a dangerous revolutionary, the
public outcry was such that he was forced to discontinue publication
of the articles. He then began a second story called /Le Vaeu d'une
Morte/ in the same newspaper. It was intended to please the readers of
/L'Evenement/, but from the first failed to do so, and its publication
was stopped before it was half completed. Soon afterwards
/L'Evenement/ was incorporated with the /Figaro/, and Zola's
connection with it terminated. A time of hardship again began, and
during the year 1867 the wolf was only kept from the door by
unremitting toil of the least agreeable kind. In the midst of his
difficulties Zola wrote two books simultaneously, one supremely good
and the other unquestionably bad. The one was /Therese Raquin/, and
the other /Les Mysteres de Marseille/. The latter, which was pure
hack-work, was written to the order of the publisher of a Marseillaise
newspaper, who supplied historical material from researches made by
himself at the Marseilles and Aix law courts, about the various
/causes celebres/ which during the previous fifty years had attracted
the most public attention. These were to be strung together, and by an
effort of legerdemain combined into a coherent whole in the form of a
novel. Zola, desiring bread, undertook the task, with results that
might have been anticipated.

/Therese Raquin/ is a work of another kind, for into it Zola put the
best that was in him, and elaborated the story with the greatest care.
It is a tale of Divine Justice, wherein a husband is murdered by his
wife and her lover, who, though safe from earthly consequence, are yet
separated by the horror of their deed, and come to hate each other for
the thing they have done. The book is one of remarkable power, and it
is interesting to note that in the preface to it Zola first made use
of the word /naturalisme/ as describing that form of fiction which he
was afterwards to uphold in and out of season. A violent attack in the
/Figaro/ gave opportunity for a vigorous reply, and the advertisement
so obtained assisted the sales of the book, which from the first was a
success. It was followed by /Madeleine Ferat/, which, however, was
less fortunate. The subject is unpleasant, and its treatment lacks the
force which made /Therese Raquin/ convincing.

Up to this time Zola's life had been a steady struggle against
poverty. He was terribly in earnest, and was determined to create for
himself a place in literature; to accomplish this end he counted no
labour too arduous, no sacrifice too great. His habits were Spartan in
their simplicity; he was a slave to work and method, good equipment
for the vast task he was next to undertake. He had long been an
earnest student of Balzac, and there is no doubt that it was the
example of the great /Comedie Humaine/ which inspired his scheme for a
series of novels dealing with the life history of a family during a
particular period; as he described it himself, "the history natural
and social of a family under the Second Empire." It is possible that
he was also influenced by the financial success of the series of
historical novels written by Erckmann-Chatrian, known as the /Romans
Nationaux/. It was not, however, the past about which he proposed to
write; no period was more suitable for his purpose than that in which
he lived, that Second Empire whose regime began in blood and continued
in corruption. He had there, under his own eyes and within his
personal knowledge, a suitable /mise-en-scene/ wherein to further
develop those theories of hereditary influence which had already
attracted his attention while he was writing /Madeleine Ferat/. The
scheme was further attractive in as much as it lent itself readily to
the system of treatment to which he had applied the term
/naturalisme/, to distinguish it from the crudities of the realistic
school. The scientific tendency of the period was to rely not on
previously accepted propositions, but on observation and experience,
or on facts and documents. To Zola the voice of science conveyed the
word of ultimate truth, and with desperate earnestness he set out to
apply its methods to literary production. His position was that the
novelist is, like the scientist, an observer and an experimentalist
combined. The observer, he says, gives the facts as he has observed
them, fixes the starting-point, lays the solid ground on which his
characters are to walk and his phenomena to develop. Then the
experimentalist appears and starts the experiment, that is to say, he
makes the personages in a particular story move, in order to show that
the succession of events will be just what the determinism of
phenomena together with study demand that they should be. The author
must abstain from comment, never show his own personality, and never
turn to the reader for sympathy; he must, as Mr. Andrew Lang has
observed, be as cold as a vivisectionist at a lecture. Zola thought
the application of this method would raise the position of the novel
to the level of a science, and that it would become a medium for the
expression of established truths. The fallacy of the argument has been
exposed by more than one critic. It is self-evident that the
"experiments" by the novelist cannot be made on subjects apart from
himself, but are made by him and in him; so that they prove more
regarding his own temperament than about what he professes to regard
as the inevitable actions of his characters. The conclusion drawn by a
writer from such actions must always be open to the retort that he
invented the whole himself and that fiction is only fiction. But to
Zola in the late sixties the theory seemed unassailable and it was
upon it that he founded the whole edifice of /Les Rougon-Macquart/.
The considerations then that influenced Zola in beginning a series of
novels connected by subject into one gigantic whole were somewhat
various. There was the example of Balzac's great /Comedie Humaine/;
there was the desire of working out the theories of heredity in which
he had become interested; there was the opportunity of putting into
operation the system which he had termed /naturalisme/; and there was
also the consideration that if he could get a publisher to agree to
his proposals he would secure a certain income for a number of years.
His original scheme was a series of twelve novels to be written at the
rate of two a year, and he entered into a contract with a publisher
named Lacroix, who was to pay him five hundred francs a month as an
advance. M. Lacroix would, however, only bind himself to publish four
out of the twelve novels. The arrangement could not be carried out,
and at the end of three years only two volumes of the Rougon-Macquart
series had been published, while Zola found that he had become
indebted to the publisher for a very considerable sum.

The first novel of the series was begun in 1869, but was not published
till the winter of 1871, delay having occurred on account of the war
with Germany. Zola was never a rapid writer, and seems to have
regulated his literary production with machinelike uniformity. As his
friend and biographer Paul Alexis writes: "Only four pages, but four
pages every day, every day without exception, the action of the drop
of water always falling on the same place, and in the end wearing out
the hardest stone. It seems nothing, but in course of time chapters
follow chapters, volumes follow upon volumes, and a whole life's work
sprouts, multiplies its branches, extends its foliage like a lofty
oak, destined to rise high into the air and to remain standing in the
forest of human productions."

His literary creed at the time he began the Rougon-Macquart series may
be conveniently summed up in a few words from an article which he had
only a month before written in the /Gaulois/: "If I kept a school of
morals," he says, "I would hasten to place in the hands of my pupils
/Madame Bovary/ or /Germinie Lacerteux/, persuaded that truth alone
can instruct and fortify generous souls."

In /La Fortune des Rougon/, then, Zola set out to plant the roots of
the great family tree which was to occupy his attention during the
next twenty years of his life. His object was to describe the origin
of the family which he had selected for dissection in his series, and
to outline the various principal characters, members of that family.
Mr. Andrew Lang, writing on this subject in the /Fortnightly Review/,
points out that certain Arab tribes trace their descent from a female
Dog, and suggests that the Rougon-Macquart family might have claimed
the same ancestry. Adelaide Fouque came of a race of peasants who had
long lived at Plassans, a name invented by Zola to conceal the
identity of Aix, the town in Provence where his youth had been spent.
She was highly neurotic, with a tendency to epilepsy, but from the
point of view of the naturalistic novelist she offered many
advantages. When a mere girl she married a man named Rougon, who died
soon afterwards, leaving her with a son named Pierre, from whom
descended the legitimate branch of the family. Then followed a liaison
with a drunken smuggler named Macquart, as a result of which two
children were born, the Macquarts. Adelaide's original neurosis had by
this time become more pronounced, and she ultimately became insane.
Pierre married and had five children, but his financial affairs had
not prospered, though by underhand methods he had contrived to get
possession of his mother's property, to the exclusion of her other
children. Then came the /Coup d'Etat/ of 1851, and Pierre, quick to
seize his opportunity, rendered such services to the Bonapartist party
as to lay the foundation of the family fortune, a foundation which
was, however, cemented with treachery and blood. It was with these two
families, then, both descended from a common ancestress, and sometimes
subsequently united by intermarriage, that the whole series of novels
was to deal. They do not form an edifying group, these Rougon-
Macquarts, but Zola, who had based his whole theory of the
experimental novel upon the analogy of medical research, was not on
the outlook for healthy subjects; he wanted social sores to probe.
This is a fact much too often overlooked by readers of detached parts
of the series, for it should always be kept in mind that the whole was
written with the express purpose of laying bare all the social evils
of one of the most corrupt periods in recent history, in the belief
that through publicity might come regeneration. Zola was all along a
reformer as well as a novelist, and his zeal was shown in many a
bitter newspaper controversy. It has been urged against him that there
were plenty of virtuous people about whom he could have written, but
these critics appear to forget that he was in a sense a propagandist,
and that it was not his /metier/ to convert persons already in the
odour of sanctity.

/La Fortune des Rougon/ was not particularly successful on its
publication, but in view of the fact that the war with Germany was
barely concluded no surprise need be experienced. Zola's financial
position was, however, by the arrangement with his publisher now more
secure, and he felt justified in marrying. This he did, and settled
down into the quiet bourgeois existence in which his life was spent.

The next book was /La Curee/, a study of the mushroom society of the
Second Empire. The subject--the story of Phaedra adapted to modern
environment--is unpleasant and the treatment is daring; but despite a
slight /succes de scandale/, its reception by the public was no more
favorable than that of /La Fortune des Rougon/.

/La Curee/ was followed by /Le Ventre de Paris/, which reached a
second edition. It contained some excellent descriptive writing, but
was severely attacked by certain critics, who denounced it as the
apotheosis of gluttony, while they resented the transference of a pork
butcher's shop to literature and took particular exceptions to a
certain "symphony of cheeses."

Next came /La Conquete de Plassans/, an excellent story, to be
followed by /La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret/, one of Zola's most romantic
books, and the first to attain any considerable success. He next wrote
/Son Excellence Eugene Rougon/, in which he dealt with the political
side of the Second Empire and sketched the life of the Imperial Court
at Compiegne. For this task he was not particularly well equipped, and
the book was only moderately successful. Then came /L'Assommoir/, and
with it fame and fortune for the writer. It is a terrible story of
working-class life in Paris, a study of the ravages wrought by drink.
Again to quote Mr. Andrew Lang, "It is a dreadful but not an immoral
book. It is the most powerful temperance tract that ever was written.
As M. Zola saw much of the life of the poor in his early years, as he
once lived, when a boy, in one of the huge lodging-houses he
describes, one may fear that /L'Assommoir/ is a not untruthful picture
of the lives of many men and women in Paris."

In order to heighten the effect, Zola deliberately wrote the whole of
/L'Assommoir/ in the argot of the streets, sparing nothing of its
coarseness and nothing of its force. For this alone he was attacked by
many critics, and from its publication onwards an unexampled
controversy arose regarding the author and his methods. Looking
backwards it is difficult to see why such an outcry should have arisen
about such a masterpiece of literature, but water has flowed beneath
many bridges since 1877, and, largely by the influence of Zola's own
work, the limits of convention have been widely extended. At the time,
however, the work was savagely attacked, and to the author the basest
motives were assigned, while libels on his own personal character were
freely circulated. Zola replied to these attacks in a manner so calm
and so convincing that quotation may be permitted. "It would be well,"
he said, "to read my novels, to understand them, to see them clearly
in their entirety, before bringing forward the ready-made opinions,
ridiculous and odious, which are circulated concerning myself and my
works. Ah! if people only knew how my friends laugh at the appalling
legend which amuses the crowd! If they only knew how the blood-thirsty
wretch, the formidable novelist, is simply a respectable bourgeois, a
man devoted to study and to art, living quietly in his corner, whose
sole ambition is to leave as large and living a work as he can. I
contradict no reports, I work on, and I rely on time, and on the good
faith of the public, to discover me at last under the accumulation of
nonsense that has been heaped upon me." This statement is absolutely
in accordance with fact, and when it is realized that the writer of
the Rougon-Macquart novels was merely a hard-working, earnest man,
filled with a determination to complete the vast task which he had
planned, and not to be turned from his ideas by praise or blame, it
will go far to promote a better understanding of his aims and methods.
It is necessary too, as has already been said, that the various novels
forming the Rougon-Macquart series be considered not as separate
entities, but as chapters of one vast whole.

/L'Assommoir/ was an immediate success with the public, and the sales
were unusually large for the time, while now (1912) they amount to one
hundred and sixty-two thousand copies in the original French alone.

In 1878 Zola published /Une Page d'Amour/, the next volume of the
series, a simple love story containing some very beautiful and
romantic descriptions of Paris. Then followed /Nana/, to which
/L'Assommoir/ was the prelude. /Nana/ dealt with the vast demimonde of
Paris, and while it was his greatest popular success, was in every
sense his worst book. Of no subject on which he wrote was Zola more
ignorant than of this, and the result is a laboured collection of
scandals acquired at second-hand. Mr. Arthur Symons, in his /Studies
in Prose and Verse/, recounts how an English paper once reported an
interview in which the author of /Nana/, indiscreetly questioned as to
the amount of personal observation he had put into the book, replied
that he had once lunched with an actress of the Varietes. "The reply
was generally taken for a joke," says Mr. Symons, "but the lunch was a
reality, and it was assuredly a rare experience in the life of a
solitary diligence to which we owe so many impersonal studies in
life." The sales of the book were, however, enormous, and Zola's
financial position was now assured.

Publication of the Rougon-Macquart series went steadily on. /Pot-
Bouille/ a story of middle-class life, was followed by its sequel /Au
Bonheur des Dames/, a study of life in one of the great emporiums
which were beginning to crush out the small shopkeepers of Paris. /La
Joie de Vivre/, that drab story of hypochondria and self-sacrifice,
was succeeded by /Germinal/, the greatest, if not the only really
great, novel of labour that has ever been written in any language.
After /Germinal/ came /L'Oeuvre/, which deals with art life in Paris,
and is in part an autobiography of the author. We now come to /La
Terre/ around which the greatest controversy has raged. In parts the
book is Shakespearian in its strength and insight, but it has to be
admitted at once that the artistic quality of the work has been
destroyed in large measure by the gratuitous coarseness which the
author has thought necessary to put into it. Even allowing for the
fact that the subject is the brutishness and animality of French
peasant life, and admitting that the picture drawn may be a true one,
the effect had been lessened by the fact that nothing has been left to
the imagination. On the other hand there has, since Shakespeare, been
nothing so fine as the treatment of Pere Fouan, that peasant King
Lear, by his ungrateful family. It has been urged that Zola overdid
the horrors of the situation and that no parent would have been so
treated by his children. By a singular chance a complete answer to
this objection may be found in a paragraph which appeared in the
/Daily Mail/ of 18th April, 1911. A few days before, a peasant woman
in France had entered her father's bedroom and struck him nine times
on the head with an axe, afterwards going home to bed. The reason for
the crime was that the old man two years previously had divided his
property between his two daughters on condition that they paid him a
monthly allowance. His elder daughter was always in arrear with her
share of the pension, and, after constant altercations between father
and daughter, the latter extinguished her liability in the manner
indicated. Now this tragedy in real life is the actual plot of /La
Terre/, which was written twenty-four years before it occurred.

In accordance with the author's usual plan, whereby a heavy book was
followed by a light one, /La Terre/ was succeeded by /Le Reve/, a work
at the other extreme of the literary gamut. As /La Terre/ is of the
earth, earthy, so is /Le Reve/ spiritual and idyllic, the work of a
man enamoured of the refined and the beautiful. It has indeed been
described as the most beautiful work written in France during the
whole of the nineteenth century.

/La Bete Humaine/, the next of the series, is a work of a different
class, and is to the English reader the most fascinating of all Zola's
novels. It deals with human passions in their elemental forms, with a
background of constant interest in the railway life of Western France.
The motives are always obvious and strong, a criticism which can by no
means be invariably applied to French fiction.

Next appeared /L'Argent/, which is the sequel to /La Curee/ and deals
with financial scandals. It was inspired by the failure of the Union
Generale Bank a few years before, and is a powerful indictment of the
law affecting joint-stock companies. To /L'Argent/ there succeeded /La
Debacle/, that prose epic of modern war, more complete and coherent
than even the best of Tolstoi. And to end all came /Le Docteur
Pascal/, winding up the series on a note of pure romance.

Regarded as a literary tour de force the work is only comparable to
the /Comedie Humaine/. It occupied nearly twenty-five years in
writing, consists of twenty volumes containing over twelve hundred
characters, and a number of words estimated by Mr. E. A. Vizetelly at
two million five hundred thousand.

There can be little doubt that Zola's best work was expended on the
Rougon-Macquart series. With its conclusion his zeal as a reformer
began to outrun his judgment as an artist, and his later books partake
more of the nature of active propaganda than of works of fiction. They
comprise two series: /Les Trois Villes/ (Lourdes, Paris, Rome) and
/Les Quatre Evangiles/, of which only three (Fecondite, Travail, and
Verite) were written before the author's death. Politics had begun to
occupy his attention, and from 1896 onwards he increasingly interested
himself in the Jewish question which culminated in the Dreyfus case.
His sense of justice, always keen, was outraged by the action of the
authorities and on 13th January, 1898, he published his famous letter,
beginning with the words /J'accuse/, a letter which altered the whole
course of events in France. It is difficult now to realize the effect
of Zola's action in this matter; he was attacked with a virulence
almost unexampled, a virulence which followed him beyond the grave.
Four years later, on the day after his death, the Paris correspondent
of /The Times/ wrote: "It is evident the passions of two or three
years ago are still alive. Many persons expressed their joy with such
boisterous gestures as men indulge in on learning of a victory, and
some exclaimed savagely, 'It is none too soon.' The unseemliness of
this extraordinary spectacle evoked no retort from the passers-by."
The feeling of resentment is still alive in France, and it is
necessary to take it into account in the consideration of any
estimates of his literary work by his own countrymen. It is a mistake
to attribute Zola's campaign for the rehabilitation of Dreyfus to mere
lust of fame, as has been freely done. He certainly was ambitious, but
had he wished to gain the plaudits of the crowd he would not have
adopted a cause which was opposed by the majority of the nation. As a
result of the agitation, he was obliged to leave France and take
refuge in England, till such time as a change of circumstances enabled
him to return.

On 29th September, 1902, the world was startled to learn that Emile
Zola had been found dead in his bedroom, suffocated by the fumes of a
stove, and that his wife had narrowly escaped dying with him. A life
of incessant literary labour had been quenched.

The reputation of Zola has suffered, it is to be feared, in no small
degree from the indiscretions of his friends. In England he was
introduced to the notice of the reading public by Mr. Henry Vizetelly,
who between 1884 and 1889 published a number of translations of his
novels. The last of these was /The Soil/, a translation of /La Terre/,
which aroused such an outcry that a prosecution followed, and Mr.
Vizetelly was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Without raising
any question as to the propriety of this prosecution, it is difficult
to avoid pointing out that Mr. Vizetelly was singularly ill advised
not to have taken into account the essential differences between
English and French literature, and not have seen that the publication
of this particular book in its entirety was an impossibility under
existing conditions. It is regrettable also that Mr. Vizetelly, who
though a gentleman of the highest character, was no doubt anxious to
make the most possible out of his venture, did not duly appreciate
that the word "Realistic," which was blazoned on the covers of the
various books issued by him, was in the early eighties invariably
interpreted as meaning pornographic. Presumably nothing was further
from Mr. Vizetelly's wish--his defence at the trial was that the books
were literature of the highest kind--but it is unquestionable that the
format was such as to give the impression indicated, an impression
deepened by the extremely Gallic freedom of the illustrations. There
can be little doubt that had the works been issued in an unobtrusive
form, without illustrations, they would have attracted less attention
of the undesirable kind which they afterwards received. The use of the
term "Realistic" was the more remarkable as Zola had previously
invented the word /Naturalisme/ to distinguish his work from that of
the Realistic school. But if Zola's reputation in England suffered in
this way, it is right to refer here to the debt of gratitude to Mr. E.
A. Vizetelly under which the English public now lies. Some time after
the prosecution of his father, Mr. Vizetelly began to publish, through
Messrs. Chatto & Windus, a series of versions of Zola's works. The
translations were admirably done, and while it was found necessary to
make certain omissions, the task was so skilfully accomplished that in
many cases actual improvement has resulted. These versions are at
present the chief translations of Zola's works in circulation in this
country; but while their number has been added to from time to time,
it has not been found possible to include the whole of the Rougon-
Macquart series. In 1894-5, however, the Lutetian Society issued to
its members a literal and unabridged translation of six of the novels,
made by writers of such eminence as Havelock Ellis, Arthur Symons, and
Ernest Dowson. These are the only translations of these works which
are of any value to the student, but they are unfortunately almost
unobtainable, as the entire edition was restricted to three hundred
copies on hand-made paper and ten on Japanese vellum.

A charge not unfrequently brought against Zola is that he was a
somewhat ignorant person, who required to get up from textbooks every
subject upon which he wrote. Now there seems to be little doubt that
it was in the first instance due to the indiscretion of his
biographer, M. Paul Alexis, that this charge has arisen. Impressed by
the vast industry of his friend, M. Alexis said so much about
"research" and "documents" that less friendly critics seized the
opportunity of exaggerating the importance of these. Every novelist of
any consequence has found it necessary to "cram" his subjects, but
says little about the fact. James Payn, for instance, could not have
written his admirable descriptions of China in /By Proxy/ without much
reading of many books, and Mr. Rudyard Kipling has not been blamed for
studying the technicalities of engineering before he wrote /The Ship
that found Herself/. It is open to question even whether Mr. Robert
Hichens acquired his intimate knowledge of the conditions of life in
Southern Europe and Northern Africa entirely without the assistance of
Herr Baedeker. Zola undoubtedly studied his subjects, but far too much
has been made of the necessity for his doing so. His equipment for the
task he undertook was not less complete than that of many another
novelist, and, like Dickens, he studied life in that school of a
"stony-hearted stepmother," the streets of a great city.

Zola's literary method may be described as a piling up of detail upon
detail till there is attained an effect portentous, overwhelming. He
lacked, however, a sense of proportion; he became so carried away by
his visions of human depravity, that his characters developed powers
of wickedness beyond mortal strength; he lay under an obsession
regarding the iniquities of mankind. In dealing with this it was
unfortunately his method to leave nothing to the imagination, and
herein lies the most serious blemish on his work. There is undoubtedly
much coarseness in some of his books, and the regrettable feature is
that it is not only unnecessary, but in some cases actually lessens
the effect at which he aimed. It is doubtful whether he was possessed
of any sense of humour. Mr. Andrew Lang says that his lack of it was
absolute, a darkness that can be felt; Mr. R. H. Sherrard, on the
other hand, indicates that his work "teems with quiet fun." On the
whole, truth seems to lie with Mr. Lang. M. and Madame Charles
Badeuil, in /La Terre/ may seem Dickensian to an English reader, but
there is always the Gallic point of view to be reckoned with, and it
is doubtful if Zola did not regard these persons merely as types of a
virtuous bourgeoisie.

It was in the treatment of crowds in motion that Zola chiefly
excelled; there is nothing finer in literature than the march of the
strikers in /Germinal/ or the charges of the troops in /La Debacle/.
Contrast him with such a master of prose as George Meredith, and we
see how immensely strong the battle scenes in /La Debacle/ are when
compared with those in /Vittoria/; it is here that his method of
piling detail on detail and horror on horror is most effectual. "To
make his characters swarm," said Mr. Henry James in a critical article
in the /Atlantic Monthly/ (August, 1903), "was the task he set himself
very nearly from the first, that was the secret he triumphantly
mastered."

"Naturalism" as a school had a comparatively brief existence--Zola
himself departed largely from its principles after the conclusion of
the Rougon-Macquart series--but its effects have been far-reaching on
the literature of many countries. In England the limits of literary
convention have been extended, and pathways have been opened up along
which later writers have not hesitated to travel, even while denying
the influence of the craftsman who had cleared the way. It is safe to
say that had /L'Assommoir/ never been written there would have been no
/Jude the Obscure/, and the same remark applies to much of the best
modern fiction. In America, Frank Norris, an able writer who
unfortunately died before the full fruition of his genius had
obviously accepted Zola as his master, and the same influence is also
apparent in the work of George Douglas, a brilliant young Scotsman
whose premature death left only one book, /The House with the Green
Shutters/, as an indication of what might have sprung from the methods
of modified naturalism. M. Edouard Rod, an able critic, writing in the
/Contemporary Review/ (1902), pointed out that the influence of Zola
has transformed novel writing in Italy, and that its effect in Germany
has been not less pronounced. The virtue of this influence on German
letters was undoubtedly great. It made an end of sentimentality, it
shook literature out of the sleepy rut into which it had fallen and
forced it to face universal problems.

One must regret for his own sake that Zola was unable to avoid
offending those prejudices which were so powerful in his time. The
novelist who adopts the method of the surgeon finds it necessary to
expose many painful sores, and is open to the taunt that he finds
pleasure in the task. On no one did this personal obloquy fall more
hardly than on Zola, and never with less reason. It may be that he
accumulated unseemly details and risky situations too readily; but he
was an earnest man with a definite aim in view, and had formulated for
himself a system which he allowed to work itself out with relentless
fatality. The unredeemed baseness and profligacy of the period with
which he had to deal must also be borne in mind. As to his personal
character, it has been fitly described by M. Anatole France, himself a
distinguished novelist. Zola, said he, "had the candour and sincerity
of great souls. He was profoundly moral. He has depicted vice with a
rough and vigorous hand. His apparent pessimism ill conceals a real
optimism, a persistent faith in the progress of intelligence and
justice. In his romances, which are social studies, he attacks with
vigorous hatred an idle, frivolous society, a base and noxious
aristocracy. He combated social evil wherever he encountered it. His
work is comparable only in greatness with that of Tolstoi. At the two
extremities of European thought the lyre has raised two vast cities.
Both are generous and pacific; but whereas Tolstoi's is the city of
resignation, Zola's is the city of work."

It is still too soon to form an opinion as to the permanent value of
Zola's writings, for posterity has set aside many well-considered
judgments; but their influence has been, and will continue to be, far
reaching. They have opened up new avenues in literature, and have made
possible to others much that was formerly unattainable.



                THE ROUGON-MACQUART GENEALOGICAL TREE.


First Generation:

1. ADELAIDE FOUQUE, called AUNT DIDE, born in 1768, married in 1786 to
Rougon, a placid, lubberly gardener; bears him a son in 1787; loses
her husband in 1788; takes in 1789 a lover, Macquart, a smuggler,
addicted to drink and half crazed; bears him a son in 1789, and a
daughter in 1791; goes mad, and is sent to the Asylum of Les Tulettes
in 1851; dies there of cerebral congestion in 1873 at 105 years of
age. Supplies the original neurosis.


Second Generation:

2. PIERRE ROUGON, born in 1787, married in 1810 to Felicite Puech, an
intelligent, active and healthy woman; has five children by her; dies
in 1870, on the morrow of Sedan, from cerebral congestion due to
overfeeding. An equilibrious blending of characteristics, the moral
average of his father and mother, resembles them physically. An oil
merchant, afterwards receiver of taxes.

3. ANTOINE MACQUART, born in 1789; a soldier in 1809; married in 1829
to a market dealer, Josephine Gavaudan, a vigorous, industrious, but
intemperate woman; has three children by her; loses her in 1851; dies
himself in 1873 from spontaneous combustion, brought about by
alcoholism. A fusion of characteristics. Moral prepotency of and
physical likeness to his father. A soldier, then a basket-maker,
afterwards lives idle on his income.

4. URSULE MACQUART, born in 1791; married in 1810 to a journeyman-
hatter, Mouret, a healthy man with a well-balanced mind. Bears him
three children, dies of consumption in 1840. An adjunction of
characteristics, her mother predominating morally and physically.


Third Generation:

5. EUGENE ROUGON, born in 1811, married in 1857 to Veronique Beulin
d'Orcheres, by whom he has no children. A fusion of characteristics.
Prepotency and ambition of his mother. Physical likeness to his
father. A politician, at one time Cabinet Minister. Still alive in
Paris, a deputy.

6. PASCAL ROUGON, born in 1813, never marries, has a posthumous child
by Clotilde Rougon in 1874; dies of heart disease on November 7, 1873.
Innateness, a combination in which the physical and moral
characteristics of the parents are so blended that nothing of them
appears manifest in the offspring. A doctor.

7. ARISTIDE ROUGON, alias SACCARD, born in 1815, married in 1836 to
Angele Sicardot, the calm, dreamy-minded daughter of an officer; has
by her a son in 1840, a daughter in 1847; loses his wife in 1854; has
a natural son in 1853 by a work-girl, Rosalie Chavaille, counting
consumptives and epileptics among her forerunners; remarried in 1855
to Renee Beraud Du Chatel, who dies childless in 1864. An adjunction
of characteristics, moral prepotency of his father, physical likeness
to his mother. Her ambition, modified by his father's appetites. A
clerk, then a speculator. Still alive in Paris, directing a newspaper.

8. SIDONIE ROUGON, born in 1818, married at Plassans in 1838 to a
solicitor's clerk, who dies in Paris in 1850. Has, by a stranger, in
1851, a daughter Angelique, whom she places in the foundling asylum.
Prepotency of her father, physical likeness to her mother. A
commission agent and procuress, dabbling in every shady calling; but
eventually becomes very austere. Still alive in Paris, treasurer to
the OEuvre du Sacrement.

9. MARTHE ROUGON, born in 1820, married in 1840 to her cousin Francois
Mouret, bears him three children, dies in 1864 from a nervous disease.
Reverting heredity, skipping one generation. Hysteria. Moral and
physical likeness to Adelaide Fouque. Resembles her husband.

10. FRANCOIS MOURET, born in 1817, married in 1840 to Marthe Rougon,
who bears him three children; dies mad in 1864 in a conflagration
kindled by himself. Prepotency of his father. Physical likeness to his
mother. Resembles his wife. At first a wine-merchant, then lives on
his income.

11. HELENE MOURET, born in 1824, married in 1841 to Grandjean, a puny
man, inclined to phthisis, who dies in 1853; has a daughter by him in
1842; remarried in 1857 to M. Rambaud, by whom she has no children.
Innateness as in Pascal Rougon's case. Still living, at Marseilles, in
retirement with her second husband.

12. SILVERE MOURET, born in 1834; shot dead by a gendarme in 1851.
Prepotency of his mother. Innateness with regard to physical
resemblance.

13. LISA MACQUART, born in 1827, married in 1852 to Quenu, a healthy
man with a well-balanced mind. Bears him a daughter, dies in 1863 from
decomposition of the blood. Prepotency of and physical likeness to her
mother. Keeps a large pork-butcher's shop at the Paris markets.

14. GERVAISE MACQUART, born in 1828, has three sons by her lover
Lantier, who counts paralytics among his ancestors; is taken to Paris,
and there deserted by him; is married in 1852 to a workman, Coupeau,
who comes of an alcoholic stock; has a daughter by him; dies of misery
and drink in 1869. Prepotency of her father. Conceived in drunkenness.
Is lame. A washerwoman.

15. JEAN MACQUART, born in 1831, married in 1867 to Francoise Mouche,
who dies childless in 1870; remarried in 1871 to Melanie Vial, a
sturdy, healthy peasant-girl, by whom he has a son, and who is again
/enceinte/. Innateness, as with Pascal and Helene. First a peasant,
then a soldier, then peasant again. Still alive at Valqueyras.


Fourth Generation:

16. MAXIME ROUGON, alias SACCARD, born in 1840, has a son in 1857 by a
servant, Justine Megot, the chlorotic daughter of drunken parents;
married in 1863 to Louise de Mareuil, who dies childless the same
year; succumbs to ataxia in 1873. A dissemination of characteristics.
Moral prepotency of his father, physical likeness to his mother. Idle,
inclined to spending unearned money.

17. CLOTILDE ROUGON, alias SACCARD, born in 1847, has a son by Pascal
Rougon in 1874. Prepotency of her mother. Reverting heredity, the
moral and physical characteristics of her maternal grandfather
preponderant. Still alive at Plassans.

18. VICTOR ROUGON, alias SACCARD, born in 1853. Adjunction of
characteristics. Physical resemblance to his father. Has disappeared.

19. ANGELIQUE ROUGON, born in 1851, married in 1869 to Felicien de
Hautecoeur, and dies the same day of a complaint never determined.
Innateness: no resemblance to her mother or forerunners on the
maternal side. No information as to her father.

20. OCTAVE MOURET, born in 1840, married in 1865 to Madame Hedouin,
who dies the same year; remarried in 1869 to Denise Baudu, a healthy
girl with a well-balanced mind, by whom he has a boy and a girl, still
too young to be classified. Prepotency of his father. Physical
resemblance to his uncle, Eugene Rougon. Indirect heredity.
Establishes and directs "The Ladies' Paradise." Still alive in Paris.

21. SERGE MOURET, born in 1841. A dissemination of characteristics;
moral and physical resemblance to his mother. Has his father's brain,
influenced by the diseased condition of his mother. Heredity of a form
of neurosis developing into mysticism. A priest, still alive at St.
Eutrope.

22. DESIREE MOURET, born in 1844. Prepotency of and physical likeness
to her mother. Heredity of a form of neurosis developing into idiocy.
Still alive at St. Eutrope with her brother Serge.

23. JEANNE GRANDJEAN, born in 1842, dies of a nervous complaint in
1855. Reverting heredity, skipping two generations. Physical and moral
resemblance to Adelaide Fouque.

24. Pauline Quenu, born in 1852, never marries. An equilibrious
blending of characteristics. Moral and physical resemblance to her
father and mother. An example of honesty. Still alive at Bonneville.

25. CLAUDE LANTIER, born in 1842, married in 1865 to Caroline
Hallegrain, whose father succumbed to paraplegia; has by her, prior to
marriage, a son, Jacques, who dies in 1869; hangs himself in 1870. A
fusion of characteristics. Moral prepotency of and physical
resemblance to his mother. Heredity of a form of neurosis developing
into genius. A painter.

26. JACQUES LANTIER, born in 1844, killed in an accident in 1870.
Prepotency of his mother. Physical likeness to his father. Heredity of
alcoholism, developing into homicidal mania. An example of crime. An
engine-driver.

27. ETIENNE LANTIER, born in 1846. A dissemination of characteristics.
Physical resemblance, first to his mother, afterwards to his father. A
miner. Still alive, transported to Noumea, there married, with
children, it is said, who cannot, however, be classified.

28. ANNA COUPEAU, alias NANA, born in 1852, gives birth to a child,
Louis, in 1867, loses him in 1870, dies herself of small-pox a few
days later. A blending of characteristics. Moral prepotency of her
father. Physical resemblance to her mother's first lover, Lantier.
Heredity of alcoholism developing into mental and physical perversion.
An example of vice.


Fifth Generation:

29. CHARLES ROUGON, alias SACCARD, born in 1857, dies of hemorrhage in
1873. Reverting heredity skipping three generations. Physical and
moral resemblance to Adelaide Fouque. The last outcome of an exhausted
stock.

30. JACQUES LOUIS LANTIER, born in 1860, a case of hydrocephalus, dies
in 1869. Prepotency of his mother, whom he physically resembles.

31. LOUIS COUPEAU, called LOUISET, born in 1867, dies of small-pox in
1870. Prepotency of his mother, whom he physically resembles.

32. THE UNKNOWN CHILD will be born in 1874. What will it be?



         SYNOPSES OF THE PLOTS OF THE ROUGON-MACQUART NOVELS


La Fortune des Rougon.

In the preface to this novel Zola explains his theories of heredity,
and the work itself forms the introductory chapter to that great
series which deals with the life history of a family and its
descendants during the second empire.

The common ancestress of the Rougons and the Macquarts was Adelaide
Fouque, a girl who from youth had been subject to nervous seizures.
From her father she inherited a small farm, and at the age of eighteen
married one of her own labourers, a man named Rougon, who died fifteen
months afterwards, leaving her with one son, named Pierre. Shortly
after her husband's death she fell completely under the influence of
Macquart, a drunken smuggler and poacher, by whom in course of time
she had a son named Antoine and a daughter named Ursule. She became
more and more subject to cataleptic attacks, until eventually her mind
was completely unhinged. Pierre Rougon, her legitimate son, was a man
of strong will inherited from his father, and he early saw that his
mother's property was being squandered by the Macquarts. By means
approximating to fraud he induced his mother, who was then facile, to
sell her property and hand over the proceeds to him. Soon after he
married Felicite Peuch, a woman of great shrewdness and keen
intelligence, by whom he had three sons (Eugene, Aristide, and Pascal)
and two daughters (Marthe and Sidonie). Pierre Rougon was not
particularly prosperous, but his eldest son, Eugene, went to Paris and
became mixed up in the Bonapartist plots which led to the /Coup
d'Etat/ of 1851. He was consequently able to give his parents early
information as to the probable course of events, and the result of
their action was to lay the foundations of the family fortune.

The scene of the book is the Provencal town of Plassans, and the
tragic events attending the rising of the populace against the /Coup
d'Etat/ are told with accuracy and knowledge. There is a charming love
idyll between Silvere Mouret, a son of Ursule Macquart, and a young
girl named Miette, both of whom fall as victims in the rising which
followed the /Coup d'Etat/.

Mr. E. A. Vizetelly, in his introduction to the English translation of
/The Conquest of Plassans/ (London: Chatto & Windus), points out that
almost every incident in /The Fortune of the Rougons/ is based upon
historical fact. "For instance," he says, "Miette had a counterpart in
Madame Ferrier, that being the real name of the young woman who,
carrying the insurgents' blood-red banner, was hailed by them as the
Goddess of Liberty on their dramatic march. And in like way the tragic
death of Silvere, linked to another hapless prisoner, was founded by
M. Zola on an incident that followed the rising, as recorded by an
eye-witness."


Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

An account of the career of Eugene Rougon, the eldest son of Pierre
Rougon (/La Fortune des Rougon/), who went to Paris from Plassans,
becoming involved in the plots which resulted in the /Coup d'Etat/ of
1851 and the return of a Bonaparte to Imperial power. The future
career of Rougon was assured; his services had been too important to
be overlooked, and he ultimately became Minister of State and
practically Vice-Emperor. He fell for a time under the influence of
Clorinde Balbi, the daughter of an Italian adventuress, but realizing
the risk of compromising himself, he shook himself free, and married a
lady whose position in society tended to make his own still more
secure. The novel gives an excellent account of the political and
social life of the Second Empire, and of the cynical corruption which
characterized the period.

In a preface to the English translation (/His Excellency/. London:
Chatto & Windus), Mr. E. A. Vizetelly states that in his opinion,
"with all due allowance for its somewhat limited range of subject,
/Son Excellence Eugene Rougon/ is the one existing French novel which
gives the reader a fair general idea of what occurred in political
spheres at an important period of the Empire. But His Excellency
Eugene Rougon is not, as many critics and others have supposed, a mere
portrait or caricature of His Excellency Eugene Rouher, the famous
Vice-Emperor of history. Symbolism is to be found in every one of
Zola's novels, and Rougon, in his main lines, is but the symbol of a
principle, or, to be accurate, the symbol of a certain form of the
principle of authority. His face is Rouher's, like his build and his
favorite gesture; but with Rouher's words, actions, opinions, and
experiences are blended those of half a dozen other personages. He is
the incarnation of that craving, that lust for power which impelled so
many men of ability to throw all principle to the winds and become the
instruments of an abominable system of government. And his
transformation at the close of the story is in strict accordance with
historical facts."


La Curee.

In this novel Aristide Saccard, who followed his brother Eugene to
Paris in the hope of sharing the spoils of the Second Empire (/La
Fortune des Rougon/), was successful in amassing a vast fortune by
speculation in building-sites. His first wife having died, he married
Renee Beraud du Chatel, a lady of good family, whose dowry first
enabled him to throw himself into the struggle of financial life. In a
magnificent mansion which he built in the Parc Monceau a life of
inconceivable extravagance began. The mushroom society of Paris was at
this period the most corrupt in Europe, and the Saccards soon came to
be regarded as leaders in every form of pleasure. Vast though their
fortune was, their expenses were greater, and a catastrophe was
frequently imminent. Renee, satisfied with prodigality of every kind,
entered on an infamous liaison with her husband's son, a liaison which
Aristide condoned in order to extract money from his wife. Rene
ultimately died, leaving her husband immersed in his feverish
speculations.

The novel gives a powerful though unpleasant picture of Parisian
society in the period which followed the restoration of the Empire in
1851.


L'Argent.

After a disastrous speculation, Aristide Saccard (/La Fortune des
Rougon/ and /La Curee/) was forced to sell his mansion in the Parc
Monceau and to cast about for means of creating a fresh fortune.
Chance made him acquainted with Hamelin, an engineer whose residence
in the East had suggested to him financial schemes which at once
attracted the attention of Saccard. With a view to financing these
schemes the Universal Bank was formed, and by force of advertising
became immediately successful. Emboldened by success, Saccard launched
into wild speculation, involving the bank, which ultimately became
insolvent, and so caused the ruin of thousands of depositors. The
scandal was so serious that Saccard was forced to disappear from
France and to take refuge in Belgium.

The book was intended to show the terrible effects of speculation and
fraudulent company promotion, the culpable negligence of directors,
and the impotency of the existing laws. It deals with the shady
underwoods of the financial world.

Mr. E. A. Vizetelly, in his preface to the English translation
(/Money/. London: Chatto & Windus), suggests that Zola in sketching
Saccard, that daring and unscrupulous financier, "must have bethought
himself of Mires, whose name is so closely linked to the history of
Second Empire finance. Mires, however, was a Jew, whereas Saccard was
a Jew-hater, and outwardly, at all events, a zealous Roman Catholic.
In this respect he reminds one of Bontoux, of Union General notoriety,
just as Hamelin the engineer reminds one of Feder, Bontoux's
associate. Indeed, the history of M. Zola's Universal Bank is much the
history of the Union General. The latter was solemnly blessed by the
Pope, and in a like way Zola shows us the Universal receiving the
Papal benediction. Moreover, the second object of the Union General
was to undermine the financial power of the Jews, and in the novel we
find a similar purpose ascribed to Saccard's Bank. The union, we know,
was eventually crushed by the great Israelite financiers, and this
again is the fate which overtakes the institution whose meteor-like
career is traced in the pages of /L'Argent/."


La Reve.

Written as a "passport to the Academy," this novel stands alone among
the Rougon-Macquart series for its pure, idyllic grace. Angelique, a
daughter of Sidonie Rougon (/Le Curee/), had been deserted by her
mother, and was adopted by a maker of ecclesiastical embroideries, who
with his wife lived and worked under the shadow of an ancient
cathedral. In this atmosphere the child grew to womanhood, and as she
fashioned the rich embroideries of the sacred vestments she had a
vision of love and happiness which was ultimately realized, though the
realization proved too much for her frail strength, and she died in
its supreme moment. The vast cathedral with its solemn ritual
dominates the book and colours the lives of its characters.


La Conquete de Plassans.

The heroine of this book is Marthe Rougon, the youngest daughter of
Pierre and Felicite Rougon (/La Fortune des Rougon/), who had
inherited much of the neurasthenic nature of her grandmother Adelaide
Fouque. She married her cousin, Francois Mouret. Plassans, where the
Mourets lived, was becoming a stronghold of the clerical party, when
Abbe Faujas, a wily and arrogant priest, was sent to win it back for
the Government. This powerful and unscrupulous ecclesiastic ruthlessly
set aside every obstacle to his purpose, and in the course of his
operations wrecked the home of the Mourets. Marthe having become
infatuated with the priest, ruined her family for him and died
neglected. Francois Mouret, her husband, who by the machinations of
Faujas was confined in an asylum as a lunatic, became insane in fact,
and having escaped, brought about a conflagration in which he perished
along with the disturber of his domestic peace.

The book contains a vivid picture of the petty jealousies and
intrigues of a country town, and of the political movements which
followed the /Coup d'Etat/ of 1851.


Pot-Bouille.

A study of middle-class life in Paris. Octave, the elder son of
Francois Mouret, has come to the city, where he has got a situation in
"The Ladies' Paradise," a draper's shop carried on by Madame Hedouin,
a lady whom he ultimately marries. The interest of the book centres in
a house in Rue de Choiseul which is let in flats to various tenants,
the Vabres, Duvreyiers, and Josserands among others. The inner lives
of these people, their struggles, their jealousies and their sins, are
shown with an unsparing hand. Under the thin skin of an intense
respectability there is a seething mass of depravity, and with
ruthless art Zola has laid his subjects upon the dissecting-table. Of
plot there is little, but as a terrible study in realism the book is a
masterpiece.


An Bonheur des Dames.

Octave Mouret, after his marriage with Madame Hedouin, greatly
increased the business of "The Ladies' Paradise," which he hoped would
ultimately rival the /Bon Marche/ and other great drapery
establishments in Paris. While an addition to the shop was in progress
Madame Mouret met with an accident which resulted in her death, and
her husband remained a widower for a number of years. During this time
his business grew to such an extent that his employees numbered many
hundreds, among whom was Denise Baudu, a young girl who had come from
the provinces. Mouret fell in love with her, and she, after resisting
his advances for some time, ultimately married him. The book deals
chiefly with life among the assistants in a great drapery
establishment, their petty rivalries and their struggles; it contains
some pathetic studies of the small shopkeepers of the district,
crushed out of existence under the wheels of Mouret's moneymaking
machine.


La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

Serge Mouret, the younger son of Francois Mouret (see /La Conquete de
Plassans/), 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. The
Abbe fell in love with Albine, and, oblivious of his vows, broke them.
A meeting with Archangias, a Christian Brother with whom he had been
associated, and a chance glimpse of the world beyond the Paradou,
served to restore his memory, and, filled with horror at himself, he
fled from that enchanted garden. A long mental struggle followed, but
in the end the Church was victorious, and the Abbe returned to her
service with even more feverish devotion than before. Albine, broken-
hearted, died among her loved flowers in the Paradou.

The tale is to some extend an indictment of the celibacy of the
priesthood, though it has to be admitted that the issue is not put
quite fairly, inasmuch as the Abbe was, at the time of his lapse, in
entire forgetfulness of his sacred office. As a whole, the book
contains some of Zola's best work, and is both poetical and
convincing.


Une Page d'Amour.

A tale of Parisian life, in which the principal character is Helene
Mouret, daughter of Mouret the hatter, and sister of Silvere Mouret
(/La Fortune des Rougon/) and Francois Mouret (/La Conquete de
Plassans/). Helene married M. Grandjean, son of a wealthy sugar-
refiner of Marseilles, whose family opposed the marriage on the ground
of her poverty. The marriage was a secret one, and some years of
hardship had followed, when an uncle of M. Grandjean died, leaving his
nephew a substantial income. The couple then moved to Paris with their
young daughter Jeanne, but the day after their arrival Grandjean was
seized with illness from which he died. Helene remained in Paris,
though she had at first no friends there except Abbe Jouve and his
half-brother M. Rambaud. Jeanne had inherited much of the family
neurosis, along with a consumptive tendency derived from her father,
and one of her sudden illnesses caused her mother to make the
acquaintance of Doctor Deberle. An intimacy between the two families
followed, which ripened into love between the doctor and Helene.
Events were precipitated by an attempt on the part of Helene to save
Madame Deberle from the consequences of an indiscretion in arranging
an assignation with M. Malignon, with the result that she was herself
seriously compromised in the eyes of Doctor Deberle and for the first
and only time fell from virtue. Jeanne, whose jealous affection for
her mother amounted to mania, was so affected by the belief that she
was not longer the sole object of her mother's love that she became
dangerously ill and died soon afterwards. This bitter punishment for
her brief lapse killed Helene's love for Doctor Deberle, and two years
later she married M. Rambaud. As Mr. Andrew Lang has observed, Helene
was a good and pure woman, upon whom the fate of her family fell.

In writing the book Zola announced that his intention was to make all
Paris weep, and there is no doubt that, though a study in realism, it
contains much that is truly pathetic. The descriptions of Paris under
varying atmospheric aspects, with which each section of the book
closes, are wholly admirable.


Le Ventre de Paris.

A study of the teeming life which surrounds the great central markets
of Paris. The heroine is Lisa Quenu, a daughter of Antoine Macquart
(/La Fortune des Rougon/). She has become prosperous, and with
prosperity her selfishness has increased. Her brother-in-law Florent
had escaped from penal servitude in Cayenne and lived for a short time
in her house, but she became tired of his presence and ultimately
denounced him to the police. The book contains vivid pictures of the
markets, bursting with the food of a great city, and of the vast
population which lives by handling and distributing it. "But it also
embraces a powerful allegory," writes Mr. E. A. Vizetelly in his
preface to the English translation (/The Fat and the Thin/. London:
Chatto & Windus), "the prose song of the eternal battle between the
lean of this world and the fat--a battle in which, as the author
shows, the latter always come off successful. M. Zola had a distinct
social aim in writing this book."


La Joie de Vivre.

Pauline Quenu (/Le Ventre de Paris/), having been left an orphan, was
sent to live with relatives in a village on the Normandy coast. It was
a bleak, inhospitable shore, and its inhabitants lived their drab,
hopeless lives under the morbid fear of inevitable death. The
Chanteaus, Pauline's guardians, took advantage of her in every way,
and Lazare Chanteau, her cousin, with whom she fell in love, got from
her large sums of money to carry out wild schemes which he devised.
The character of Pauline is a fine conception; basely wronged and
treated with heartless ingratitude, her hopes blighted and her heart
broken, she found consolation in the complete renunciation of herself
for the sake of those who had so greatly injured her.

"The title selected by M. Zola for this book," says Mr. E. A.
Vizetelly in his preface to the English translation (/The Joy of
Life/. London: Chatto & Windus), "is to be taken in an ironical or
sarcastic sense. There is no joy at all in the lives of the characters
whom he portrays in it. The story of the hero is one of mental
weakness, poisoned by a constantly recurring fear of death; whilst
that of his father is one of intense physical suffering, blended with
an eager desire to continue living, even at the cost of yet greater
torture. Again, the story of the heroine is one of blighted
affections, the wrecking of all which might have made her life worth
living."


L'Assommoir.

A terrible study of the effects of drink on the moral and social
condition of the working-class in Paris. There is probably no other
work of fiction in which the effects of intemperance are shown with
such grimness of realism and uncompromising force.

Gervaise Macquart, daughter of Antoine Macquart (/La Fortune des
Rougon/), having accompanied her lover Lantier to Paris, taking with
her their two children, was deserted by him a few weeks after their
arrival in the city. She got employment in the laundry of Madame
Fauconnier, and a few months later married Coupeau, a zinc-worker,
who, though the son of drunken parents, was himself steady and
industrious. For a while everything prospered with the Coupeaus; by
hard work they were able to save a little money, and in time a
daughter (Nana) was born to them. Then an accident to Coupeau, who
fell from the roof of a house, brought about a change. His recovery
was slow, and left him with an unwillingness to work and an
inclination to pass his time in neighbouring dram-shops. Meantime
Gervaise, with money borrowed from Goujet, a man who loved her with
almost idyllic affection, had started a laundry of her own. She was
successful for a time, in spite of her husband's growing intemperance
and an increasing desire in herself for ease and good living; but
deterioration had begun, and with the reappearance of Lantier, her old
lover, it became rapid. Coupeau was by this time a confirmed loafer
and drunkard, while Gervaise was growing careless and ease-loving.
Lantier, having become a lodger with the Coupeaus, ceased doing any
work, and as he never paid anything for his board, his presence not
unnaturally hastened the downfall of his hosts. Circumstances
conspired to renew the old relations between Gervaise and Lantier, and
by easy stages she descended that somewhat slippery stair which leads
to ruin. The shop was given up, and she again got employment in the
laundry of Madame Fauconnier, though she was no longer the capable
workwoman of former times. Nana, her daughter, vicious from childhood,
had taken to evil courses; her husband had at least one attack of
delirium tremens; and she herself was fast giving way to intemperance.
The end was rapid. Coupeau died in the asylum of Sainte-Anne after an
illness the description of which is for pure horror unparalleled in
fiction; while Gervaise, after sinking to the lowest depths of
degradation and poverty, died miserably in a garret. The tragedy of it
all is that Gervaise, despite her early lapse with Lantier, was a good
and naturally virtuous woman, whose ruin was wrought by circumstances
and by the operation of the relentless laws of heredity.

It may be useful to note here that though Zola states in /L'Assommoir/
that Gervaise and Lantier had two sons (Claude, born 1842, and
Etienne, born 1846), he makes a third son (Jacques, born 1844), not
elsewhere mentioned, the hero of /La Bete Humaine/, a subsequent work
in the Rougon-Macquart series.


L'Oeuvre.

A novel dealing with artistic life in Paris towards the close of the
Second Empire.

Claude Lantier, the eldest son of Auguste Lantier and Gervaise
Macquart (/La Fortune des Rougon/ and /L'Assommoir/), had been
educated at Plassans by an old gentleman who was interested in his
childish skill in drawing. His benefactor died, leaving him a sum
which yielded an annual income of a thousand francs, and he came to
Paris to follow an artistic career. There he met Dubuche, Pierre
Sandoz, and others of his former schoolboy friends, and the little
band formed a coterie of revolutionary spirits, whose aim was to
introduce new ideas and drastic changes into the accepted canons of
art. Claude attempted to embody his theories in a picture which he
called /Plein Air/ ("Open Air") in which he went direct to nature for
inspiration, and threw aside all recognized conventions. The picture
was refused by the committee of the /Salon/, and when subsequently
shown at a minor exhibition was greeted with derision by the public.
The artist was in despair, and left Paris with Christine Hallegrain, a
young girl between whom and himself a chance acquaintanceship had
ripened into love. They lived happily in a little cottage in the
country for several years, a son being born to them, but Claude became
restless, and they returned to Paris. Here he gradually became
obsessed by an idea for a great picture, which would show the truth of
his theories and cover his detractors with confusion. By this time
there is no doubt that his mind was becoming affected by repeated
disappointments, and that the family virus was beginning to manifest
itself in him. Everything was now sacrificed to this picture; his
little fortune was gradually encroached on, and his wife and child (he
had married Christine some time after their return to Paris) were
frequently without the necessaries of life. Christine was, however,
devoted to her husband, and did all she could to induce him to leave
the picture, which she saw was increasing his mental disturbance. This
was becoming more serious, and in the death of his child he saw only
the subject of a picture, /L'Enfant Mort/, which was exhibited at the
/Salon/ and was received with even more contempt than /Plein Air/.
Despite all the efforts of Christine, Claude returned to his intended
masterpiece, and one morning, in despair of achieving his aims, hanged
himself in front of the fatal picture.

As a study of artistic life the novel is full of interest. There is
little doubt that the character of Claude Lantier was suggested by
that of Edouard Manet, the founder of the French Impressionist school,
with whom Zola was on terms of friendship. It is also certain that
Pierre Sandoz, the journalist with an idea for a vast series of novels
dealing with the life history of a family, was the prototype of Zola
himself.


La Bete Humaine.

A novel dealing with railway life in France towards the close of the
Second Empire. The hero is Jacques Lantier, the second son of Gervaise
Macquart and August Lantier (/La Fortune des Rougon/ and
/L'Assommoir/). When his parents went to Paris with his two brothers,
he remained at Plassans with his godmother, "Aunt Phasie," who
afterwards married Misard, a railway signalman, by whom she was slowly
poisoned to secure a small legacy which she had concealed. After
Jacques had passed through the School of Arts and Crafts at Plassans
he became a railway engine-driver, and entered the service of the
Western Railway Company, regularly driving the express train between
Paris and Havre. He was a steady man and a competent engineer, but
from his early youth he had been affected by a curious form of
insanity, the desire to murder any woman of whom he became fond. "It
seemed like a sudden outburst of blind rage, an ever-recurring thirst
to avenge some very ancient offences, the exact recollection of which
escaped him." There was also in the employment of the railway company,
as assistant station-master at Havre, a compatriot of Lantier named
Roubaud, who had married Severine Aubry, the godchild of President
Grandmorin, a director of the company. A chance word of Severine's
roused the suspicions of Roubaud regarding her former relations with
the President, and, driven to frenzy by jealousy, he compelled her to
become his accomplice in the murder of Grandmorin in an express train
between Paris and Havre.

Though slight suspicion fell upon the Roubauds, they were able to
prove an alibi, and as, for political reasons, it was not desired that
Grandmorin's character should be publicly discussed, the inquiry into
the murder was dropped. By a singular chance, however, Jacques Lantier
had been a momentary witness of the crime, and the Roubauds became
aware of his suspicions. To secure his silence they invited him
constantly to their house, and a liaison with Severine followed. For
the first time Lantier's blood lust was not aroused; the knowledge
that this woman had killed seemed to constitute her a being apart and
sacred. After the murder of Grandmorin a gradual disintegration of
Roubaud's character set in, and he became in time a confirmed gambler.
His relations with his wife were ultimately so strained that she
induced Lantier to promise to murder him, in order that they might fly
together to America with the proceeds of a small legacy she had
received from Grandmorin. The arrangements were made, but at the last
moment Lantier's frenzy overtook him, and it was Severine who was
struck down by the knife destined for her husband. Lantier escaped
without suspicion; but Roubaud, who was found on the scene of the
crime under circumstances considered compromising, was tried, and
along with a companion equally innocent, was sentenced to penal
servitude for life. But Nemesis was not distant; Jacques had aroused
the jealous fury of his fireman, Pecqueux, who, one night in 1870,
attacked him as they were driving a train loaded with soldiers bound
for the war. A fierce struggle followed, and in the end the two men
fell from the engine and were cut in pieces beneath the wheels of the
train, which, no longer under control, rushed on into the darkness
with its living freight.


Germinal.

A novel dealing with the labour question in its special relation to
coal-mining. The scene of the book is laid in the north of France at a
time preceding and during a great strike; the hero is Etienne Lantier
(/La Fortune des Rougon/ and /L'Assommoir/). In a moment of passion
Lantier had struck one of his superiors, and having been dismissed
from his employment as an engineer, found it difficult to get work,
till, after drifting from place to place, he eventually became a coal-
miner. The hardships of the life and its miserable remuneration
impressed him deeply, and he began to indoctrinate his comrades with a
spirit of revolt. His influence grew, and he became the acknowledged
leader of the strike which followed. The result was disastrous. After
weeks of misery from cold and hunger the infuriated workmen attempted
to destroy one of the pits, and were fired upon by soldiers sent to
guard it. Many were killed, and the survivors, with their spirits
crushed, returned to work. But worse was yet to come. Souvarine, an
Anarchist, disgusted with the ineffectual struggle, brought about an
inundation of the pit, whereby many of his comrades were entombed.
Among them was Lantier, who was, however, eventually rescued.

As a study of the ever-lasting struggle between capital and labour the
work has no rival in fiction; the miseries and degradation of the
mining class, their tardy revolt against their employers, and their
sufferings from hunger during its futile course, these are the theme,
and the result is a picture of gloom, horrible and without relief.


Nana.

A novel dealing largely with theatrical life in Paris. Nana, the
daughter of Coupeau and Gervaise Macquart his wife (/L'Assommoir/),
has been given a part in a play produced at the Theatre des Varietes,
and though she can neither sing nor act, achieves by the sheer force
of her beauty an overwhelming success. All Paris is at her feet, and
she selects her lovers from among the wealthiest and best born. But
her extravagance knows no bounds, and ruin invariably overtakes those
who yield to her fascination. After squandering vast sums she goes to
the East, and stories spread that she had captivated a viceroy and
gained a great fortune in Russia. Her return to Paris is speedily
followed by her death from small-pox. In this novel the life of the
courtesan class is dealt with by Zola with unhesitating frankness;
there are many vivid studies of theatrical manners; and the racecourse
also comes within its scope. The work was intended to lay bare the
canker which was eating into the social life of the Second Empire and
ultimately led to the /debacle/ of 1870.


La Terre.

This is a novel which treats of the conditions of agricultural life in
France before the war with Prussia, and the subsequent downfall of the
Second Empire. It is, in some respects, the most powerful of all
Zola's novels, but in dealing with the subject he unfortunately
thought it necessary to introduce incidents and expressions which,
from their nature, must always render it impossible to submit the book
in its entirety to the general English reader.

Its connection with the Rougon-Macquart series is somewhat slight.
Jean Macquart, son of Antoine Macquart and brother of Gervaise (/La
Fortune des Rougon/), having served his time in the Army, came to the
plain of La Beauce, and became an agricultural labourer on the farm of
La Borderie, which belonged to Alexandre Hourdequin. He fell in love
with Lise Mouche, who, however, married Buteau, and Macquart
subsequently married her sister Francoise. Constant quarrels now arose
between the two sisters as to the division of their father's property,
and in the end Francoise was murdered by her sister. Macquart, tired
of the struggle, decided to rejoin the army, which he did immediately
after the outbreak of war.

The interest of the book is, however, largely connected with the
history of the Fouans, a family of peasants, the senior member of
which, having grown old, divided his land among his three children.
The intense and brutish rapacity of these peasants, their utter lack
of any feeling of morality or duty, their perfect selfishness, not
stopping short of parricide, form a picture of horror unequalled in
fiction. It is only to be regretted that the author, in leaving
nothing to the imagination, has produced a work suitable only for the
serious student of sociology.


La Debacle.

In the earlier volumes of the Rougon-Macquart series Zola had dealt
with every phase of life under the Second Empire, and in this novel he
tells the story of that terrific land-slide which overwhelmed the
regime. It is a story of war, grim and terrible; of a struggle to the
death between two great nations. In it the author has put much of his
finest work, and the result is one of the masterpieces of literature.
The hero is Jean Macquart, son of Antoine Macquart and brother of
Gervaise (/La Fortune des Rougon/). After the terrible death of his
wife, as told in /La Terre/, Jean enlisted for the second time in the
army, and went through the campaign up to the battle of Sedan. After
the capitulation he was made prisoner, and in escaping was wounded.
When he returned to active service he took part in crushing the
excesses of the Commune in Paris, and by a strange chance it was his
hand that killed his dearest friend, Maurice Levasseur, who had joined
the Communist ranks. /La Debacle/ has been described as "a prose epic
of modern war," and vast though the subject be, it is treated in a
manner that is powerful, painful, and pathetic.

In the preface to the English translation (/The Downfall/. London:
Chatto & Windus) Mr. E. A. Vizetelly quotes from an interview with
Zola regarding his aim in writing the work. A novel, he says,
"contains, or may be made to contain, everything; and it is because
that is my creed that I am a novelist. I have, to my thinking, certain
contributions to make to the thought of the world on certain subjects,
and I have chosen the novel as the best way of communicating these
contributions to the world. Thus /La Debacle/, in the form of a very
precise and accurate relation of a series of historical facts--in
other words, in the form of a realistic historical novel--is a
document on the psychology of France in 1870. This will explain the
enormous number of characters which figure in the book. Each character
represents one /etat d'ame psychologique/ of the France of the day. If
my work be well done, the reader will be able to understand what was
in men's minds and what was the bent of men's minds--what they thought
and how they thought at that period."


Le Docteur Pascal.

In this, the concluding novel of the Rougon-Macquart series, Zola
gathers together the threads of the preceding volumes and makes a
vigorous defence of his theories of heredity. The story in the book is
both simple and sad. Doctor Pascal Rougon, a medical man at Plassans
and a distinguished student of heredity, had brought up his niece
Clotilde (daughter of Aristide Rougon alias Saccard) from childhood.
Years afterwards they found that they passionately loved one another,
but they did not marry, as Pascal, who had lost money, thought that by
doing so she would sacrifice her interests. (In this connection it is
right to mention that marriage between an uncle and a niece is legal
in France, and is not uncommon.) With fine self-sacrifice Pascal
persuaded Clotilde to go to Paris to live with her brother who was
wealthy and wanted her to nurse him. Soon after her departure Pascal
showed symptoms of a fatal affection of the heart, and after some
weeks of great suffering telegraphed for Clotilde to come back. One
hour before her return he died. His mother, Madame Felicite Rougon,
who feared that his researches on heredity might bring scandal on the
family, burned all his papers, and in one hour destroyed the work of a
lifetime. A child was born to Clotilde seven months after the death of
Doctor Pascal; a child which he intensely desired, in the hope that
through it might come the regeneration and rejuvenation of his race.

Zola, in an interview quoted by Mr. E. A. Vizetelly in the preface to
his translation of /Le Docteur Pascal/ (London: Chatto & Windus),
states that in this book he has been able to defend himself against
all the accusations which have been brought against him. "Pascal's
works on the members of his family," says Zola, "is, in small, what I
have attempted to do on humanity, /to show all so that all may be
cured/. It is not a book which, like /La Debacle/, will stir the
passions of the mob. It is a scientific work, the logical deduction
and conclusion of all my preceding novels, and at the same time it is
my speech in defence of all that I have done before the court of
public opinion."





                         THE ZOLA DICTIONARY



                                  A

ADELE, the girl for whom Auguste Lantier deserted Gervaise Macquart.
They lived together for seven years, a life of constant bickerings and
quarrels, accompanied, not infrequently, by blows, until the
connection was ended by Adele running away. Her sister was Virginie,
with whom Gervaise fought in the public washing-house on the day of
her desertion by Lantier. L'Assommoir.

ADELE, maid-servant to the Josserands, and one of Hector Trublot's
friends. Pot-Bouille.

ADELE, an assistant in the shop of Quenu, the pork-butcher. It was she
who took charge of the shop on the sudden death of her master. And
subsequently sent Pauline Quenu to Madame Chanteau. La Joie de Vivre.

ADOLPHE, an artillery driver in the same battery as Honore Fouchard.
In accordance with a rule of the French artillery, under which a
driver and a gunner are coupled, he messed with Louis, the gunner,
whom, however, he was inclined to treat as a servant. At the battle of
Sedan, before the Calvary d'Illy, where the French were almost
exterminated by the Prussian artillery, Adolphe fell, killed by a
wound in the chest; in a last convulsion he clasped in his arms Louis,
who had fallen at the same moment, killed by the same shot. La
Debacle.

ALBINE, niece of Jeanbernat, keeper of the Paradou, a neglected
demesne in Provence. Her father had ruined himself and committed
suicide when she was nine years old, and she then came to live with
her uncle. She grew up in that vast garden of flowers, herself its
fairest, almost in ignorance of the world outside, and when Abbe
Mouret came to the Paradou forgetful of his past, she loved him
unconsciously from the first. As she nursed him towards health, and
his mind began again to grow from that fresh starting-point to which
it had been thrown back, there developed an idyll as beautiful and as
innocent as that which had its place in another and an earlier garden.
The awakening of Abbe Mouret to the recollections of his priesthood
ended the romance, for the call of his training was too strong for his
love. One effort Albine made to bring him back, and it was successful
in so much that one day he returned to the Paradou. Again there
followed the struggle between the flesh and the Church, and again the
Church prevailed. Broken-hearted, Albine passed for the last time
through her loved garden, gathering as she went vast heaps of flowers.
More and more she gathered, till her room was nearly full; then,
closing the door and windows, she lay down amongst the flowers, and
allowed herself to be suffocated by their overpowering perfume. La
Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

ALEXANDRE, a porter at the Halles Centrales, where he became a friend
of Claude Lantier. He was involved along with Florent and Gavard in
the revolutionary meetings at Lebigre's wine-shop, and was sentenced
to two years' imprisonment. Le Ventre de Paris.

ALEXANDRE, one of the warders at the asylum of Les Tulettes. He was a
friend of Antoine Macquart, and at his request allowed Francois Mouret
to escape from the asylum, with disastrous results to Abbe Faujas and
his relations. La Conquete de Plassans.

ALEXANDRE, a boy employed in the shop known as /Au Bonheur des Dames/.
Pot-Bouille.

AMADIEU, a speculator on the Paris Bourse who made a fortune by a rash
purchase of mining stock. He went into the affair without calculation
or knowledge, but his success made him revered by the entire Bourse.
He placed no more orders, however, but seemed to be satisfied with his
single victory. L'Argent.

AMANDA, one of the singers at a cafe concert in Boulevard
Rochechouart. L'Assommoir.

AMELIE, a /demi-mondaine/ who lodged at the Hotel Vanneau, which was
kept by Madame Correur. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

AMELIE, wife of a journeyman carpenter who occupied a little room at
the top of Vabre's tenement-house in Rue Choiseul. Pot-Bouille.

ANDRE (LE PERE), an old countryman at Chavanoz, the village where
Miette spent her childhood. La Fortune des Rougon.

ANGELE (SISTER), a nun attached to the infirmary of the college of
Plassans. Her Madonna-like face turned the heads of all the older
pupils, and one morning she disappeared with Hermeline, a student of
rhetoric. L'Oeuvre.

ANGELIQUE MARIE, born 1851, was the daughter of Sidonie Rougon, by an
unknown father. Soon after her birth she was taken to the Foundling
Hospital by a nurse, Madame Foucart, and no further inquiries were
ever made about her. She was at first boarded with Francoise Hamelin,
by whom she was not unkindly treated, and subsequently went to Paris
with Louis Franchomme and his wife, who wished to teach her the trade
of artificial-flower making. Franchomme having died three months
later, his widow went to reside at Beaumont with her brother, Rabier,
taking Angelique with her. Unfortunately, Madame Franchomme died a few
months afterwards, leaving Angelique to the care of the Rabiers, who
used her badly, not even giving her enough to eat. In consequence of
their treatment, she ran away on Christmas Day, 1860, and the
following morning was found in a fainting condition by Hubert, the
chasuble-maker, who noticed her lying in the snow within the porch of
the cathedral of Beaumont. Hubert and his wife took the child into
their home, and, becoming attached to her, ultimately adopted her as
their daughter, teaching her the art of embroidering vestments, in
which she became very skilful. Angelique, though an amiable girl, was
at first liable to violent attacks of temper, and it was only by the
exercise of much patience and tact on the part of Madame Hubert that
this tendency was overcome. The girl was always a dreamer, and her
cloistered life with the Huberts, along with constant reading of the
lives of the saints, brought out all that was mystic in her nature. A
chance meeting between Angelique and a young man named Felicien led to
their falling in love, she being in entire ignorance of the fact that
he was the son of Monseigneur d'Hautecoeur, and a member of one of the
oldest and proudest families in France. Felicien's father having
refused his consent to a marriage, and a personal appeal to him by
Angelique having failed, the lovers were separated for a time. The
girl gradually fell into ill-health, and seemed at the point of death
when Monseigneur himself came to administer the last rites of the
Church. Having been miraculously restored to a measure of health,
Angelique was married to Felicien d'Hautecoeur in the great cathedral
of Beaumont. She was very feeble, and as she was leaving the church on
the arm of her husband she sank to the ground. In the midst of her
happiness she died; quietly and gently as she had lived. Le Reve.

ANGLARS (IRMA D'), a /demi-mondaine/ of former times who had been
celebrated under the First Empire. In her later years she retired to a
house which she owned at Chamont, where she lived a simple yet stately
life, treated with the greatest respect by all the neighbourhood.
Nana.

ANNOUCHKA, mistress of Souvarine, and implicated with him in a
political plot. Disguised as a countryman, she assisted in the
undermining of a railway over which an imperial train was to pass, and
it was she who eventually lit the fuse. She was captured along with
others, and Souvarine, who had escaped, was present at her trial
during six long days. When she came to be executed, she looked in vain
among the crowd for her lover, till Souvarine mounted on a stone, and,
their eyes having met, remained fixed in one long gaze till the end.
Germinal.

ANTONIA, waiting-maid to Clorinde Balbi, with whom she was on familiar
terms. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

ARCHANGLAS (BROTHER), a Christian Brother, who lived at Les Artaud,
and taught children there. He was a coarse-minded man of violent
temper, whose hatred of women led him to make the gravest charges
against them. He constituted himself a spy on the actions of Abbe
Mouret, and was partly the means of calling back the priest's memory
of his sacred calling. He insulted Jeanbernat and Albine so grossly,
that after the girl's death the old man attacked him and cut off his
right ear with a pocket-knife. La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

AUBERTOT (MADAME ELIZABETH), sister of M. Beraud du Chatel, and aunt
of Renee and Christine. She gave a large sum of money to Saccard on
his marriage to Renee. La Curee.

AUBRY (SEVERINE), youngest daughter of a gardener in the employment of
Grandmorin. Her mother died when she was in infancy, and she was only
thirteen when she lost her father also. President Grandmorin, who was
her godfather, took charge of her, and brought her up with his
daughter Berthe. The two girls were sent to the same school at Rouen,
and spent their holidays together at Doinville. Ignorant and facile,
Severine yielded to the designs of the old President, who subsequently
arranged a marriage for her with Roubaud, an employee of the Western
Railway Company. For three years the couple lived happily, but a
moment of forgetfulness, a trifling lie which she neglected to
sustain, revealed everything to Roubaud. In an accession of jealous
fury he forced his wife to become his accomplice in the murder of
Grandmorin, and it was she who threw herself across the limbs of the
President while her husband struck the fatal blow. Suspicions fell
upon the Roubauds, and indeed the truth was known to M. Camy-Lamotte,
but political considerations made it desirable that the character of
President Grandmorin should not be publicly discussed, and the inquiry
into the murder was dropped. The domestic relations between the
Roubauds were becoming more and more strained, and Severine became
entirely enamoured of Jacques Lantier. In order to free herself from
her husband, she persuaded Lantier to murder Roubaud and fly with her
to America. The arrangements were completed when Lantier was seized
with one of the homicidal frenzies to which he was subject, and it was
Severine herself who fell under his knife instead of their intended
victim. La Bete Humaine.

AUGUSTE, keeper of an eating-house known as /Le Moulin d'Argent on
Boulevard de la Chapelle. The wedding party of Coupeau and Gervaise
was given there. L'Assommoir.

AUGUSTE, a waiter at the Cafe des Varietes. Nana.

AUGUSTE, a young swine-herd at La Borderie. He assisted Soulas, the
old shepherd, to look after the sheep. La Terre.

AUGUSTINE, a young girl who assisted Gervaise Coupeau in her laundry.
She was squint-eyed and mischievous, and was always making trouble
with the other employees. As she was the least qualified and therefore
the worst-paid assistant in the laundry, she was kept on after
decreasing business caused the others to leave. L'Assommoir.

AUGUSTINE, an artificial-flower maker who was employed by Madame
Titreville. L'Assommoir.

AURELIE (MADEMOISELLE), an elderly friend of Madame Deberle, at whose
house she was a frequent visitor. She was in straitened circumstances.
Une Page d'Amour.

AURELIE (MADAME). See Madame Aurelie Lhomme. Au Bonheur des Dames.

AURIGNY (LAURE D'), a celebrated /demi-mondaine/ of the Second Empire.
At a sale of her effects, Aristide Saccard bought a diamond necklace
and aigrette for his second wife. La Curee.



                                  B

BABET, one of the peasant girls of Les Artaud, who came to decorate
the church for the festival of the Virgin. She was a hunchback. La
Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

BACHELARD (PERE), brother of Narcisse Bachelard and uncle of Madame
Josserand. He conducted for forty years a boarding-school known as the
Institution-Bachelard. Pot-Bouille.

BACHELARD (ELEONORE). See Madame Josserand. Pot-Bouille.

BACHELARD (NARCISSE), a commission agent, whose keen business
instincts were not blunted by his intemperate habits. He was a brother
of Madame Josserand, and had at one time promised to give a dowry to
her daughter Berthe; this promise he was unwilling to implement, and
when spoken to on the subject usually feigned intoxication; eventually
he suggested the somewhat dishonest plan by which Berthe's intended
husband was hoodwinked into the belief that the dowry would be duly
forthcoming. His protegee, Fifi, having compromised herself with
Gueulin, his nephew, he insisted on their marriage, and presented the
girl with a dowry. Pot-Bouille.

BADEUIL (CHARLES), married Laure Fouan, and went to live at Chartres.
He tried commerce without much success, and, haunted by a desire for
rapid fortune, acquired a /maison publique/ which had fallen into bad
repute through mismanagement. Thanks to the firm control of Badeuil,
and the extraordinary activity of his wife, the establishment
prospered, and in less than twenty-five years the couple had saved
three hundred thousand francs. They were then able to realize the
dream of their life, and to retire to the country, where they
purchased a property named Roseblanche, near Madame Badeuil's native
place. M. Badeuil was a handsome man, sixty-five years of age, with a
solemn face, and the air of a retired magistrate. He was respected by
his neighbours, and held the strictest views on morality. The old
couple lived in complete happiness, their only worry being that
Vaucogne, who had married their daughter Estelle and taken over the
property in Chartres, was not managing it properly. La Terre.

BADEUIL (MADAME LAURE), wife of the preceding, was the youngest
daughter of Joseph Casimir Fouan. She was the sister of La Grande, of
Pere Fouan, and of Michel Fouan, known as Mouche. When her father's
estate was divided, she got no land, but received an indemnity in
money instead. After she and her husband acquired the establishment in
Chartres, she assisted ably in its management. At the time of their
retirement to the country, she was a woman of sixty-two years of age,
of respectable appearance and an air of religious seclusion. She set a
good example by going regularly to Mass, and paid great attention to
the education of her granddaughter, Elodie, whom she endeavoured to
bring up in entire ignorance of life. She had, however, still a
passion for active life, and in busy seasons frequently returned to
Chartres to assist her daughter, who had taken over the establishment
there. Madame Badeuil received the greatest surprise of her life when
she found that her granddaughter whom she had brought up in the
innocence of ignorance, was quite aware of the source of the family
fortune, and was ready to take up the work begun by her grandparents.
La Terre.

BADEUIL (ESTELLE), daughter of the preceding, was educated by the
Sisters of the Visitation at Chateaudun, and at eighteen was married
to Hector Vaucogne, by whom she had one daughter, Elodie. She was
thirty years of age before she had any suspicion of the calling of her
parents, and at that time she took over the management of their
establishment. She proved a capable manager, and in spite of the
laziness of her husband, was able to keep up the reputation of the
house, though in a few years she killed herself with hard work. La
Terre.

BADINGUET, a popular nickname for Napoleon III. It was the name of the
workman whose clothes he wore when he escaped from the fortress of
Ham. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

BAILLEHACHE, a notary at Cloyes, was born in 1805, and succeeded to
several generations of lawyers. He had a large business amongst the
peasantry, in whose quarrels he mediated with professional calmness.
He arranged the division of Fouan's property between the various
members of the old man's family. La Terre.

BAILLEHACHE (MADEMOISELLE), eldest sister of the preceding, was born
in 1799. She was plain-looking, but good-natured, and at thirty-two
married Alexandre Hourdequin, to whom she brought a considerable
dowry. She had two children, a son and a daughter, and died in 1855.
La Terre.

BALBI (CLORINDE), daughter of Comtesse Balbi, was a lady of great
beauty, but of eccentric habits. Her position in society being
precarious, she determined to establish it by a good marriage, and
used every endeavour to induce Eugene Rougon to make her his wife.
Having become fascinated by her beauty and charm, he made overtures
which she resisted in the belief that he would be the more certain to
marry her. He practically decided to do so, but reflection convinced
him that marriage with Clorinde Balbi would only injure his prospects
of political success. He suggested to her that she should marry his
friend Delestang, who was a man of wealth and position, and had
expressed admiration for her. Though naturally piqued at such a
suggestion coming from Rougon, she consented, and soon after was
married. She remained on outwardly friendly terms with Rougon, who was
still infatuated by her, but was determined to make him regret the
slight he had put upon her. After Rougon's return to office,
Delestang, her husband, was, at her request, appointed Minister of
Commerce and Agriculture. She had not, however, forgiven Rougon, and
privately took a leading part in the agitation against his
administration. Having become on somewhat equivocal terms with the
Emperor, she was able to secure the acceptance of Rougon's second
resignation, and the office of Minister of the Interior for her
husband. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

BALBI (COMTESSE LENORA), an Italian lady who lived in Paris with her
daughter Clorinde. Little was known of her past, and it was generally
believed that she was in the employment of the Sardinian Government.
After her daughter's marriage to Delestang, she left Paris for some
time, the eccentricity of her habits having begun to excite remark. M.
De Plouguern, who had originally met her in Italy, remained her lover
for thirty years. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

BALTHAZER, the old horse driven by Madame Francois between Nanterre
and Paris. Le Ventre de Paris.

BAMBOUSSE, mayor of the commune of Les Artaud, was more prosperous
than the others of his class, as he owned several fields of corn,
olives, and vines. His daughter Rosalie having become compromised with
Fortune Brichet, Abbe Mouret strongly urged him to consent to a
marriage between them, but this he at first refused, as he would lose
the services of his daughter, and Fortune was too poor to make him any
return. He ultimately consented, and the marriage was solemnized by
Abbe Mouret. La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

BAMBOUSSE (CATHERINE), younger daughter of the preceding, was always
in disgrace with Brother Archangias on account of her idle habits and
her friendship for Vincent Brichet. La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

BAMBOUSSE (ROSALIE), elder daughter of the preceding. As she had
become compromised by Fortune Brichet, Abbe Mouret urged her father to
consent to their marriage, but this he refused to do, though he
ultimately consented and the wedding took place. Her child died, and
was buried on the same day as Albine. La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

BAPTISTE, Aristide Saccard's footman. La Curee.

BAPTISTIN, a clerk in the employment of Larsonneau, who made him play
the part of principal in a scheme whereby he intended to blackmail
Aristide Saccard. La Curee.

BAQUET (LA MERE), a wine dealer who sold the wines of Orleans at a
cheap rate. L'Assommoir.

BARILLOT, "call-boy" at the Theatre des Varietes, where he had been
for thirty years. He was a little, sallow man, with a shrill voice.
Nana.

BASTIAN, a drummer in the 106th regiment of the line, commanded by
Colonel de Vineuil. During the retreat on Sedan, after the battle was
over, he had the misfortune to be struck by a stray bullet. He was
removed to an ambulance at the house of M. Delaherche, where he died
during the division of treasure of the Seventh Army Corps. The gold
coins which the sergeant put into his dying hands rolled on to the
ground, and were picked up by a wounded companion. La Debacle.

BATAILLE, an old white horse, which had been for six years in the
coal-pit at Voreux. It was killed by the flooding of the mine.
Germinal.

BAUDEQUIN, a draughtsman who lived on the first floor of the house in
which lived the Coupeaus and the Lorilleux. He was a confirmed sponger
who was in debt all round, but spent his time in smoking and talking
with his friends. L'Assommoir.

BAUDEQUIN, the proprietor of a cafe in the Boulevard des Batignolles,
which was the resort on Sunday evenings during many years of Claude
Lantier, Pierre Sandoz, Dubuche, Mahoudeau, and their friends, a band
of youths devoted to art and determined to conquer Paris. Gradually,
however, the little company became submerged by a flood of newcomers,
and in time the meetings ceased. The cafe changed hands three times,
and when, after some years, Claude and Sandoz chanced to return, they
found everything completely altered. L'Oeuvre.

BAUDU (M.), proprietor of a drapery shop opposite "The Ladies'
Paradise." The business had been in existence for many years and M.
Baudu conducted it on such old-fashioned lines that in competition
with Mouret's great establishment it was rapidly disappearing. He had
acquired it from his father-in-law, and in turn he proposed to hand it
to Colomban, his shopman, who was engaged to be married to Genevieve,
his only daughter. Baudu postponed the marriage, however, from time to
time, as he did not wish to hand over the business in a worse state
than that in which he himself got it. Meanwhile Colomban had become
infatuated with Clara Prunaire, who ultimately induced him to run off.
Genevieve, who was in bad health, died soon afterwards, and before
long her mother died also. The business had gone from bad to worse,
and, in the end, Baudu lost everything, only avoiding bankruptcy by a
complete surrender. Like many of his neighbours, he was crushed out of
existence by Octave Mouret's triumphant success. Au Bonheur des Dames.

BAUDU (MADAME ELIZABETH), wife of the preceding, was the daughter of a
draper whose business she brought to her husband. Her health was
broken down by worry, and by anxiety regarding her daughter Genevieve,
whose death she did not long survive. Au Bonheur des Dames.

BAUDU (CAPTAIN), son of Baudu, the draper. He went to Mexico. Au
Bonheur des Dames.

BAUDU (DENISE) was the daughter of a dyer at Valognes. The death of
her father left her with two young brothers dependent on her, and, the
elder having got a situation in Paris, she determined to accompany
him. M. Baudu, her uncle, had formerly promised assistance, but when
Denise arrived she found that his business was rapidly being ruined by
the steady extension of "The Ladies' Paradise," an enormous drapery
establishment belonging to Octave Mouret. In these circumstances she
could not be dependent on her uncle, and, to his annoyance, she
applied for and got a situation in this rival business. On account of
petty jealousies, her life there was not happy, and, having incurred
the enmity of Jouve, one of the inspectors, she was dismissed on a
false accusation. A time of great hardship followed, only lightened by
the kindness of old Bourras, in whose house she had rented a room for
herself and her young brother Pepe. She next got a situation with
Robineau, who had bought a silk merchant's business and she remained
there for some time. While Denise was at "The Ladies' Paradise" she
had attracted the attention of Octave Mouret, and, chancing to meet
her one day, he asked her to return. As she found that Robineau's
business was not prospering, she consented, and from that time her
position in "The Ladies' Paradise" was assured. Mouret had fallen in
love with her, and she with him, but she had sufficient strength of
mind to refuse his proposals. Ultimately he asked her to marry him,
and to this she agreed. Au Bonheur des Dames.

Madame Denise Mouret had two children, the elder being a girl and the
younger a boy. These resembled their mother, and grew magnificently.
Le Docteur Pascal.

BAUDU (GENEVIEVE), daughter of Baudu, the draper. She was engaged for
a number of years to Colomban, her father's shopman, but in
consequence of the state of trade the marriage was put off from time
to time. Genevieve ultimately learned that her fiance had become
infatuated with Clara Prunaire, one of the shop-girls in "The Ladies'
Paradise." Her health, never good, suffered greatly, and soon after
Colomban's disappearance she died. Au Bonheur des Dames.

BAUDU (JACQUELINE). See Blanche de Sivry.

BAUDU (JEAN), the elder brother of Denise. He worked for a time with a
cabinet-maker in Valognes, but earned nothing, though he learned to
carve so well that a gentleman promised to find a place for him with
an ivory-carver in Paris. He accepted the offer, and came to the city
with his sister and young brother. At first he earned only his board
and lodging, and, as he was good-looking and a favourite with women,
he made heavy inroads on his sister's small purse. Ultimately, when he
did get a wage, he took the earliest opportunity of getting married,
inducing his sister, as usual, to give him what little money she had
been able to save. Au Bonheur des Dames.

BAUDU (PEPE), the youngest brother of Denise. He was a mere child when
the family came to Paris, and it was only by the greatest self-
sacrifice that Denise was able to support him. When she went to "The
Ladies' Paradise" he was boarded with Madame Gras, and after his
sister's dismissal he went with her to Bourras, who showed great
kindness to both of them. After Denise returned to "The Ladies'
Paradise," Pepe again went to live with Madame Gras for a time. Au
Bonheur des Dames.

BAUDU (THERESE), wife of Jean Baudu. Au Bonheur des Dames.

BAUGE, who was the younger son of a grocer at Dunkerque, came to Paris
and got a situation in the linen department of the "Bon Marche," where
he was able to make a fairly good income. He became the lover of
Pauline Cugnot, whom he afterwards married, and, in order to be near
her, left the "Bon Marche" and took an appointment in "The Ladies'
Paradise." Au Bonheur des Dames.

BAUGE (MADAME), wife of the preceding. See Pauline Cugnot. Au Bonheur
des Dames.

BAVOUX, a salesman in Octave Mouret's shop. Au Bonheur des Dames.

BAZOUGE, an undertaker's assistant who lived in an attic of the same
tenement-house as the Coupeaus and the Lorilleux. He was generally
drunk and made ribald jests about his dismal calling. It was he who
buried Gervaise Coupeau after she was found dead in an attic adjoining
his own. L'Assommoir.

BEAUCHAMP (FLORE), an artist's model, who lived in Rue de Laval. She
was fresh in colouring, but too thin. L'Oeuvre.

BEAUDOIN, a friend of the Hamelins whom they had known at Beyrout,
where he lived. He promised to marry Caroline Hamelin after the death
of her husband, but instead of waiting for that event he obtained the
hand of a young and rich girl, the daughter of an English Consul.
L'Argent.

BEAUDOIN, Captain of the 106th regiment of the line, commanded by
Colonel de Vineuil. He was educated at Saint-Cyr, and having a fine
tenor voice and good manners, along with Bonapartist principles, he
was early marked for advancement. With his men he was unpopular, and,
not caring for his profession, he did not readily adapt himself to the
necessities of war. In the march to the Meuse he lost his baggage, and
arrived at Sedan in a pitiable condition, his uniform soiled, his face
and hands dirty. In former days at Charleville he had been on intimate
terms with Gilberte Maginot, whom he now found at Sedan, married to
Jules Delaherche. Their former relations were renewed for the moment,
and next day Beaudoin rejoined his company, astonishing every one by
the neatness of his attire. At the attack on the Calvary d'Illy he was
severely wounded, and having been removed to the ambulance at
Delaherche's house, his arm was amputated; but the hemorrhage had been
too great, and he did not survive. La Debacle.

BEAU-FRANCOIS (LE), chief of a band of brigands, whose terrible
exploits were still recounted at La Beauce. La Terre.

BEAURIVAGE (DUC DE), a character in /La Petite Duchesse/, a piece
staged by Fauchery at the Theatre des Varietes. The part was taken by
Bosc. Nana.

BEAUVILLIERS (COMTE CHARLES DE), a man of dissipated habits, who
succeeded to the immense fortune of the Beauvilliers, which he
completely squandered in a few years. He was killed in an accident of
the chase, some said by the vengeance of a keeper. They found later a
document signed by him in 1854 undertaking to pay ten thousand francs
to a girl named Leonie Cron. L'Argent.

BEAUVILLIERS (COMTESSE DE), an old lady who lived with her daughter
Alice in a house in the Rue Saint-Lazare, adjoining the Orviedo
mansion. The family had at one time possessed large estates, but these
had all gone, and the Comtesse and her daughter had barely sufficient
to live upon, though they endeavoured to keep up before their
neighbours as much as possible of their ancient state. Having made the
acquaintance of Saccard, the Comtesse invested a small sum in the
Universal Bank, increasing it from time to time until her whole means
were involved. By the failure of the bank she was entirely ruined,
and, to complete the catastrophe, Busch, who had become possessor of
some papers compromising the honour of her dead husband, took the
opportunity of blackmailing her. When she had handed over her jewels
to him, she was left penniless. L'Argent.

BEAUVILLIERS (ALICE), daughter of Comtesse de Beauvilliers. The
extravagance of her father had dissipated the family estates, and she
and her mother were left with barely sufficient to keep up
appearances. She was plain-looking, and had reached the age of twenty-
five years without any offers of marriage. It was, however, in the
hope of providing a suitable dowry for her, that the Comtesse invested
her money in the Universal Bank, with disastrous results. Alice, who
had few amusements, interested herself in charities, and frequently
visited the institutions founded by Princess d'Orviedo. On a visit to
/L'Oeuvre du Travail/ she was attacked and robbed of a small sum by
Victor Saccard, who was at that time an inmate. Her injuries were
severe, and a serious illness followed. The failure of the Universal
Bank left her and her mother in poverty. L'Argent.

BEAUVILLIERS (FERDINANDE DE), son of Comte Beauvilliers. He was for a
time the cause of anxiety to his mother on account of some youthful
extravagances, but early settled down, and having received a
commission in the Papal troops, served with distinction. He was
delicate, however, and died of fever in Rome. L'Argent.

BECKER, a jeweller in Paris. He supplied a set of sapphires for the
mistress of Comte de Muffat. Nana.

BECOT, a grocer in Rue Montorgueil. Having become a widower, he took
to dissolute courses, and his shop was gradually swallowed up, with
its dried vegetables, jars, and drawers of sweetstuff. Eventually the
place was sold up and Becot died of apoplexy soon afterwards.
L'Oeuvre.

BECOT (IRMA), daughter of the preceding. After her father's death she
went to live with an aunt, but soon afterwards ran off with a young
fellow who lived across the street. She did not remain long with him,
but, having a passion for artists, experienced in turn a caprice for
Fagerolles, Gagniere, and many others. A young and foolish Marquis
furnished a flat for her, and later she occupied a house in Rue de
Moscou, the rent of which was twenty thousand francs. In the end she
realized her dream of a princely house in the Avenue de Villiers; the
site was bought by one lover, the house built by another, and the
furniture provided by a third. But fortune did not alter her tastes;
behind the backs of her serious lovers she still retained her fancy
for Art, in the person of Henri Fagerolles, one of her early admirers.
L'Oeuvre.

BEC-SALE, alias BOIT-SANS-SOIF, a rivet-maker employed in the same
factory as Goujet. He drank enormous quantities of brandy, and was a
boon companion of Coupeau. On the occasion of Gervaise Coupeau's first
visit to the factory to see her son Etienne, Bec-Sale entered into a
contest of strength with Goujet in which he was beaten. L'Assommoir.

BECU, gamekeeper and bell-ringer at Rognes, was a man of fifty years
of age who had at one time been in the army. He was an intense
Bonapartist, and pretended that he had met the Emperor. Himself a
confirmed drunkard, he was on friendly terms with Hyacinthe Fouan,
whose poaching expeditions he overlooked. La Terre.

BECU (LA), wife of the preceding, was on intimate terms with Hyacinthe
Fouan. Her chief amusement was to throw Celine Macqueron and Flore
Lengaigne against one another under the pretext of reconciling them.
Though she was not devout, she made ardent intercessions to Heaven to
reserve for her son a lucky number in the drawing for the
conscription, but, after the event, turned her anger against the Deity
because her prayers had not been answered. La Terre.

BECU (DELPHIN), son of the preceding, was a strong lad who, on leaving
school, went to work as a farm labourer. He was much averse to leaving
home, and, having drawn an unlucky number for the conscription, he
chopped off with a cleaver the first finger of his right hand, in
order that he might be unfit for service. La Terre.

BECU (MICHEL), uncle of Delphin. He died at Orleans. La Terre.

BEDORE, a hosier in Rue Gaillon, whose business was ruined by the
extension of "The Ladies' Paradise." Au Bonheur des Dames.

BEJUIN (LEON), a Member of the Corps Legislatif, and a supporter of
Eugene Rougon. He was proprietor of the Saint-Florent Cut-Glass Works.
"A very worthy fellow, votes straight, never speaks, is very patient
and waits contentedly till you think of him, but he is always on the
spot to take care that you don't forget him." He received the Cross of
the Legion of Honour after Rougon's return to office, and an
appointment as Inspector. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

BEJUIN (MADAME), wife of the preceding. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

BELLOMBRE, a neighbour of Doctor Pascal at La Souleiade. He was a
retired Professor, sixty-six years of age, who lived in his little
house with no other company than his gardener, a man as old and
crabbed as himself. His interests were solely centred in himself, and
his egotism was a constant subject of irritation with Doctor Pascal.
Le Docteur Pascal.

BELLOQUE (LE PERE), the first art-master of Claude Lantier. A retired
infantry captain, with one arm, he had for a quarter of a century
taught drawing to the youths of Plassans, in one of the galleries of
the museum. L'Oeuvre.

BENARD, one of the tenants of the house in which Madame Coupeau
carried on her laundry business. Benard and his wife were of
intemperate habits, and few days passed without their fighting with
one another. L'Assommoir.

BERAUD DU CHATEL (M.) was the last representative of an old middle-
class family. A staunch Republican, he had grown old in the
Magistracy, which he resigned at the time of the /Coup d'Etat/. Since
then he lived in retirement in his house on the Ile Saint-Louis with
his sister Madame Aubertot and his young daughter Christine. His elder
daughter Renee, who was educated at a convent, was married to Aristide
Saccard, and the circumstances which led to her marriage came as a
severe blow to the stern old man. Though on nominally friendly terms
with his daughter after her marriage, he never visited her, but when
she died he paid her debts. La Curee.

BERAUD DU CHATEL (CHRISTINE), the second daughter of M. Beraud du
Chatel, and sister of Madame Renee Saccard. La Curee.

BERAUD DU CHATEL (RENEE). See Madame Renee Rougon, alias Saccard.

BERGASSE, a second-hand dealer in Plassans. He supplied the old
furniture bought by Madame Faujas. La Conquete de Plassans.

BERGERET (MADAME), concierge of the house at Plassy occupied by Helene
Grandjean. Une Page d'Amour.

BERLINGOT, a horse which belonged to M. Mechain and gained the Prix
d'Ispahan. Nana.

BERLOQUE, alias CHICOT, a miner who was killed by a landslip in the
pit at Voreux. Germinal.

BERNHEIM (LES FRERES), proprietors of the glass-works of Saint-Joseph
where Josserand was employed as cashier. Pot-Bouille.

BERTHIER (MADAME), was a friend of Madame Deberle, and took part in
the amateur theatricals arranged by that lady. Une Page d'Amour.

BERTHIER, authorized clerk to Mazaud, the stockbroker. L'Argent.

BERTHOU, the celebrated painter of /Nero in the Arena/. Claude Lantier
took lessons from him for six months, but their ideas were not in
sympathy, and repeatedly the master told Claude that he would never do
anything good. L'Oeuvre.

BERTRAND, a large dog which belonged to Sandoz. It barked furiously at
visitors, until it recognized a friend of its master, whom it would
greet with joyous welcome. L'Oeuvre.

BESNUS (CLARISSE), an actress at the Theatre des Varietes, where she
played the part of Iris in the /Blonde Venus/, and Geraldine in the
/Petite Duchesse/. She was mistress of Hector de la Faloise for a
time. Nana.

BESSIERE, station-master at Barentin. He saw the Roubauds in the Havre
express on the evening of the murder of President Grandmorin, and his
evidence confirmed their alibi. La Bete Humaine.

BEULIN-D'ORCHERE (M.) was a member of a legal family. After being
public prosecutor at Orleans and advocate-general at Rouen, he came to
Paris as counsellor at the Appeal Court, of which he afterwards became
president. His sister Veronique married Eugene Rougon. He was
appointed first president of the Court of Paris after Rougon's return
to office. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

BEULIN-D'ORCHERE (VERONIQUE), a quiet, subdued woman about thirty-six
years of age, who lived with her brother and seldom went out except to
attend Low Mass at Saint-Sulpice. She married Eugene Rougon, to whom
she brought a considerable fortune. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

BIBI-LA-GRILLADE, the sobriquet of one of Coupeau's fellow-workmen,
with whom he was on intimate terms. He was one of the party at
Coupeau's wedding with Gervaise Macquart. L'Assommoir.

BIJARD, a drunken locksmith, who killed his wife by systematic ill-
usage. On the rare occasions when he worked, he always had a bottle of
alcohol beside him, from which he took large draughts every half-hour.
After the death of his wife, he transferred his cruelty to his little
daughter Lalie, who did not long survive. L'Assommoir.

BIJARD (MADAME) lived with her husband and their children in the same
tenement as the Coupeaus and Lorilleux. She was a hard-working woman
who did washing for Gervaise Coupeau's laundry, but her husband, a
drunken brute, abused her to such an extent that she ultimately died
of injuries received at his hands, or, more accurately, feet. The poor
woman, in order to save her husband from the scaffold, said before she
died that she had hurt herself by falling on the edge of a tub.
L'Assommoir.

BIJARD (LALIE), daughter of the preceding, a child of eight when her
mother died, had acted as the little mother of the family. "Without a
word said, quite of her own accord, she took the dead woman's place,
to such an extent that her foolish brute of a father, to make the
likeness complete, battered about the daughter now as he had battered
the mother before. When he came in drunk, he felt the need of a woman
to attack. He did not even notice what a tiny little thing Lalie was;
he hit her as he would have hit a grown woman. He beat her
shamelessly, he kicked her for a yes or no; and she took it all with a
resigned look in her beautiful eyes, without a murmur. Then when her
father was tired of kicking her from corner to corner of the room, she
waited until she had the strength to pick herself up, and then went
back to her work. It was part of her daily task to be beaten." As the
result of this infamous treatment the child died, but again the man
unfortunately escaped punishment. L'Assommoir.

BIJARD (HENRIETTE), second daughter of Bijard. She was five years old
at the time of her mother's death. L'Assommoir.

BIJARD (JULES), third child of Bijard. When his mother died he was
three years old. L'Assommoir.

BIJOU, the pet dog of Nana. He excited the jealousy of Comte de
Muffat. Nana.

BILLECOQ (HERMINIE), a protegee of Madame Correur, who induced Eugene
Rougon to provide a dowry, in order that she might marry an officer
who had compromised her. The officer did not, however, fulfill his
promise, but went off with the dowry, of which he had obtained
possession. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

BLACHET, a deputy. He desired leave of absence. Son Excellence Eugene
Rougon.

BLAISOT, a banker at Paris. L'Argent.

BLANCHETTE, a cow which belonged to Lise and Francoise Fouan. La
Terre.

BLERIOT (M. DE), prefect of the department in which Plassans is
situated. He accompanied Colonel Masson and the troops which crushed
the Republican rising in 1851. La Fortune des Rougon.

BLEUZE, a rope-walk at Montsou which was ruined by the miners' strike.
Germinal.

BLOND (MARIA), a young girl of fifteen who had grown up on the
pavements of Paris. She frequented the restaurant kept by Laure
Piedefer. Nana.

BOCHE (M.) the concierge of the large tenement-house in which resided
the Coupeaus, Lorilleux, and others. He and his wife were friendly
with the various tenants in turn, sometimes siding with one and
sometimes with another in the quarrels which so frequently arose. In
the presence of the landlord, of whom they were afraid, they assumed
an air of great importance, and affected not to know the tenants. They
were present at Gervaise Coupeau's birthday party. L'Assommoir.

BOCHE (MADAME), wife of the preceding. L'Assommoir.

Nana informed Satin that Madame Boche is dead. Nana.

BOCHE (PAULINE), daughter of the preceding, was a girl of about the
same age as Nana Coupeau, whose companion she was in all kinds of
mischief. L'Assommoir.

BOCQUET (MADAME), mother of Clarisse. Pot-Bouille.

BOCQUET (CLARISSE), a woman on whom Duveyrier squandered large sums of
money. She ultimately gained such complete influence over him, and
made him so unhappy, that he attempted to commit suicide. Pot-Bouille.

BODIN (DOCTOR) was the regular medical attendant of Madame Helene
Grandjean and her daughter Jeanne. A sudden illness of Jeanne made it
necessary to call in Doctor Deberle, who subsequently met the older
man in consultation from time to time. Une Page d'Amour.

BOHAIN (MARQUIS DE), an elderly nobleman whose presence and manners
were of a kind to adorn a board of directors, and whose illustrious
name was of value on a prospectus. He was in consequence always in
demand by new companies. Since he began living by speculation, he and
his wife had been legally separated, so far as estate went, and he
lived with her only as a lodger, with nothing of his own except his
clothes. "On two occasions already he had refused to pay up what he
owed; he pocketed as long as he won, but as soon as he lost he did not
pay." At the request of Saccard, the Marquis became a director of the
Universal Bank. When the great gamble in the shares of the bank began,
the Marquis followed his usual plan; having played through Mazaud for
a rise, he refused to pay his losses, though he had gained two million
francs through Jacoby, through whom he had played for a fall.
L'Argent.

BONGRAND, a great artist, painter of the /Village Wedding/. He was a
stout man, forty-five years old, with an expressive face and long grey
hair; recently he had become a member of the Institute and an officer
of the Legion of Honour. The grandson of a farmer in the Beauce
country, the son of a man risen to the middle classes, with peasant
blood in his veins, owing his culture to a mother of very artistic
tastes, he was rich, had no need to sell his pictures, and retained
many tastes and opinions of Bohemian life. His masterpiece, the
/Village Wedding/, had brought about a revolution in art only parallel
with Courbet, and he was acknowledged as Master by all the artists of
the young school. The picture remained, however, his greatest work,
though he objected to have it so designated, in the fear that it might
be thought his powers were failing. A later picture called the
/Village Funeral/ was intended to surpass it, but failed to arrest
attention, and was indeed only an echo of the earlier work. He was one
of the few mourners at the funeral of Claude Lantier. L'Oeuvre.

BONHOMME, the horse which for a quarter of a century had carried
Doctor Pascal on his visits to his patients. Latterly the old Bonhomme
became blind, and was no longer being driven, but being much loved by
his master, was tenderly cared for until his death. Le Docteur Pascal.

BONNAUD, formerly head of the counting-house of a railway company.
Pot-Bouille.

BONNEHON (MADAME), sister of President Grandmorin. She was married to
a wealthy manufacturer, who left her a widow at the age of thirty. In
the mansion-house of Doinville, which belonged to her, she led a
pleasant life, not without occasional affairs of the heart, but so
correct in every way that she remained a leader of society in Rouen.
She was a handsome woman, and in spite of her fifty years still
retained much of her former charm. Among her friends she included
Chaumette and Desbazeilles, both officials of the court at Rouen.
Madame Bonnehon had a good opinion of the Roubauds, and did not
approve of the position taken up by her niece Berthe regarding the
legacy left to them by President Grandmorin. For the honour of her
family she desired that the inquiry as to the murder of the President
should not be continued. La Bete Humaine.

BONNEMORT, the sobriquet of Vincent Maheu. His family had been miners
for generations, and he himself had worked in the pit since he was
eight years old. After forty-five years of work underground he was
given a post as fireman, and for five years worked each night at the
Voreux pit for a wage of forty sous. He suffered greatly from
rheumatism, which eventually turned into a form of dropsy, while his
mind became affected to some extent by the sufferings occasioned by
the great strike which took place at Voreux and other neighbouring
pits. After the terrible scenes at Montsou, he could only sit in his
chair before the fireless grate, with fixed and unseeing eyes, but in
a sudden accession of madness he found strength to strangle Cecile
Gregoire, who chanced to be left alone with him for a few moments.
Germinal.

BONNET. See De Mareuil.

BORDENAVE, manager of the Theatre des Varietes. He was a coarse man,
with cynical views as to the stage, and cared nothing as to the means
by which a popular success might be secured. Though he was well aware
that Nana could neither sing nor act, he saw that her beauty was of a
type likely to attract the Parisian public, and accordingly gave her
the chief part in the /Blonde Venus/. It was he who showed H.R.H. The
Prince of Scots the honours of "behind the scenes." Nana.

BORGNE-DE-JOUY, one of the band of brigands which was led by Beau-
Francois. He betrayed his companions. La Terre.

BOSC, an old actor at the Theatre des Varietes, where he played the
part of Jupiter in the /Blonde Venus/, and the Duc de Beaurivage in
the /Petite Duchesse/. He had a good-natured but somewhat drunken
appearance. He treated women with disdain, and the idea that any man
should trouble himself about them raised in him the only indignation
of which he was capable. Nana.

BOUCHARD (M.), head-clerk in the office of the Minister of Interior.
His house was the first thrown open to Eugene Rougon on his arrival in
Paris. Later on, Bouchard inherited his father's property, and at
fifty-four years of age married Adele Desvignes. He was appointed head
of a department after Rougon's return to office. Son Excellence Eugene
Rougon.

BOUCHARD (MADAME), wife of the preceding, was the daughter of a
respectable family at Rambouillet. M. Bouchard "had been anxious to
marry a young lady from the provinces, because he made a point of
having a steady wife. However, the fair and adorable little Adele,
with her innocent blue eyes, had in less than four years proved to be
a great deal more than a mere flirt." Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

BOULAND(MADAME), the nurse who attended Madame Lazare Chanteau. La
Joie de Vivre.

BOUM, a horse which belonged to M. Gasc and ran in the Grand Prix de
Paris. Nana.

BOURDELAIS, an upper clerk in the office of the Minister of Finance.
Au Bonheur des Dames.

BOURDELAIS (MADAME) was a short, fair woman of thirty, with a delicate
nose and sparkling eyes, who had married a chief clerk in the
Treasury. She was an old schoolfellow of Madame Desforges. Belonging
to a good middle-class family, she managed her household and three
children with an excellent knowledge of practical life. Au Bonheur des
Dames.

BOURDEU (M.), formerly Prefect of the Drome, but turned out of office
by the Revolution of 1848. Politically he was a Legitimist, and he was
a friend of M. Rastoil, at whose house his party was in the habit of
meeting. At one time he was suggested as a likely candidate for the
representation of Plassans, but he retired after Delangre had been
brought forward through the machinations of Abbe Faujas. Madame de
Condamin promised him, however, that through her influence he would be
rewarded with a prefecture. La Conquete de Plassans.

BOURDONCLE, the son of a poor farmer near Limoges, started at "The
Ladies' Paradise" at the same time as Octave Mouret. He was very
active and intelligent, but he lacked that touch of genius possessed
by his companion, before whom he had bowed from the first. Acting on
Mouret's advice, he put all his savings into the business, and, after
passing through the various grades, he became in time one of the six
persons who assisted Mouret to govern "The Ladies' Paradise,"
exercising a general control of the whole staff. Au Bonheur des Dames.

BOURGAIN-DESFEUILLES (GENERAL). During the war of 1870 he was at the
head of a brigade of infantry, of which the 106th regiment of the
line, commanded by Colonel de Vineuil, formed part. Like so many other
officers he proved himself incompetent, and after the capitulation he,
alone among the generals, took advantage of the pretext of illness to
sign an undertaking to the Germans not to take any further part in the
war. La Debacle.

BOURGUIGNON, a master zinc-worker from whom Coupeau got employment.
L'Assommoir.

BOUROCHE (SURGEON-MAJOR), of the 106th regiment of the line, commanded
by Colonel Vineuil. During the battle of Sedan he installed an
ambulance in a factory belonging to Jules Delaherche, where he was
soon overwhelmed with work. With untiring energy he performed one
operation after another until the place became like a slaughter-house.
Behind a clump of trees were thrown the bodies of the dead, and the
limbs amputated from the living. Depressed for a moment by the
vastness of his task, Bouroche nearly lost heart, exclaiming, "What is
the use?" but his instincts of discipline recalled him to work, and he
continued to operate even after the supply of chloroform was
exhausted. During the insurrection at Paris he served with the army of
Versailles, but consented to treat one of his old soldiers, Maurice
Levasseur, who had been mortally wounded in the ranks of the Commune.
La Debacle.

BOURRAS, an old man who sold umbrellas and walking-sticks in a tumble-
down house which adjoined "The Ladies' Paradise." His business was
ruined by the growth of that concern, and he expressed bitter hatred
towards Octave Mouret, its proprietor. Denise Baudu rented a room from
him after her dismissal from "The Ladies' Paradise," and he showed
much kindness to her and Pepe, her young brother. He refused several
offers by Mouret, who wished to purchase his lease in order to extend
his own shop, and ultimately, having become bankrupt, was forced to
leave without a penny. Au Bonheur des Dames.

BOURRETTE (ABBE), one of the clergy of the church of Saint-Saturnin at
Plassans. He did duty as vicar during the illness of Abbe Compan, and
had been led to expect the reversion of the appointment. Pressure
brought to bear on Bishop Rousselot led to the selection of Abbe
Faujas, and Bourrette was put off with vague promises for the future.
He was a simple-minded, amiable man, who accepted his disappointment
without murmuring, and continued on friendly terms with Faujas. La
Conquete de Plassans.

BOUTAREL, a doctor who attended Nana. He was a handsome man, still
young, who had a large practice in the demi-monde. Always gay and
laughing, he was popular with his patients, but took care not to
compromise himself with any of them. Nana.

BOUTAREL (MADAME), a lady who lived in the country and economized for
months at a time, only coming to Paris occasionally. When she came,
she made straight for "The Ladies' Paradise" and spent all her savings
in an afternoon. Au Bonheur des Dames.

BOUTELOUP (LOUIS), a workman at the Voreux pit. He lodged with Madame
Levaque, whose lover he became. Germinal.

BOUTEROUE (HILARION), second child of Vincent Bouteroue, and grandson
of Marianne Fouan (La Grande). The latter had never forgiven the
marriage of her daughter, and would do nothing to assist the two
children after the death of their parents. Hilarion, who was of weak
intellect, was looked after from childhood by his sister Palmyre, who
wore herself out in his service. After Palmyre's death his grandmother
gave him shelter, but took advantage of his great strength by
employing him at work of the hardest kind. Ultimately Hilarion
committed a serious assault on the old woman, and in defending herself
she struck him on the head with a bill-hook, inflicting a wound from
which he died. La Terre.

BOUTEROUE (PALMYRE), sister of the preceding, worked like a slave to
support her brother, and died completely worn out by toil and hardship
at the age of thirty-five. La Terre.

BOUTEROUE (VINCENT), a poor peasant, whom the daughter of the Pechards
insisted on marrying despite the opposition of her mother. They both
died of want, leaving two children, Palmyre and Hilarion. La Terre.

BOUTEROUE (MADAME VINCENT), see Mademoiselle Pechard.

BOUTHEMENT PERE, a shopkeeper at Montpellier, who sent his son to
Paris to learn business. He was disgusted to find that the simple
salesman in Paris could earn three times as much as he himself could
make, and he was stupefied on seeing the vast emporium in which his
son served. Au Bonheur des Dames.

BOUTHEMONT, manager of the silk department at "The Ladies' Paradise."
Noisy and too fond of company, he was not much good for sales, but for
buying he had not his equal. Nearly every month he went to Lyons,
living at the best hotels, with authority to treat the manufacturers
with open purse. He had, moreover, liberty to buy what he liked,
provided he increased the sales of his department in a certain
proportion settled beforehand; and it was on this proportion that his
commission was based. Eventually, however, his position was
undermined, and Madame Desforges, having become jealous of Mouret, and
wishing to injure him, introduced Bouthemont to Baron Hartmann, who
lent him money to start an opposition establishment called "The Four
Seasons." This was burned down three weeks after its opening, but the
enormous loss was covered by insurance. Au Bonheur des Dames.

BOUTIGNY, Lazare Chanteau's partner in the chemical business, into
which he put thirty thousand francs. After the failure of the venture,
he took over the whole concern, and began to manufacture potash from
seaweed by the old methods. He was very successful in this, and by
degrees began to employ on a small scale the scientific systems which
had before proved disastrous. In a few years he amassed a considerable
fortune. La Joie de Vivre.

BOUTIN, a retired artist's-model who kept a studio in Rue de la
Huchette, which was frequented by Claude Lantier, who went there for
purposes of study. A subscription of twenty francs enabled young
artists to have the free use of models. L'Oeuvre.

BOUTIN, an old epileptic attended by Doctor Pascal at Plassans. He
died in one of his fits. Le Docteur Pascal.

BOVES (COMTE DE), Inspector-General of the Imperial Stud, a tall,
handsome man who had married his wife for her great beauty.
Notwithstanding this, he carried on a liaison with Madame Guibal,
whose demands upon his purse were so heavy that he was obliged to
economize in his own establishment. Au Bonheur des Dames.

BOVES (COMTESSE DE), wife of the preceding, was a beautiful woman of
about forty years of age. She was a constant customer at "The Ladies'
Paradise," but as her husband kept her very short of money, was seldom
able to buy anything. Eventually temptation proved too strong for her,
and she was caught in the act of stealing some valuable lace. The
matter was, however, kept quiet, and a scandal avoided. Au Bonheur des
Dames.

BOVES (BLANCHE DE), daughter of the preceding. She usually accompanied
her mother on her shopping expeditions to "The Ladies' Paradise," and,
it is to be feared, was not unaware of the theft of lace by her. She
married Paul de Vallagnosc. Au Bonheur des Dames.

BRAMAH, an English horse which won the Grand Prix de Paris. It
belonged to Lord Reading. Nana.

BRAMBILLA (SIGNOR), a Venetian political refugee, and a friend of
Comtesse Balbi. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

BRETIGNY (COMTESSE DE). Auguste Lantier, reading the news from a
journal to his friends Coupeau and Mes-Bottes, announced that the
eldest daughter of the Comtesse de Bretigny was to be married to Baron
de Valencay, aide-de-camp to His Majesty the Emperor. L'Assommoir.

BRETON-LE-CUL-SEC, one of the band of brigands led by Beau-Francois.
La Terre.

BRICHET, the father of Fortune, Rosalie Bambousse's lover. He was a
little man, withered by age, and with a cringing manner. He tilled a
small piece of stony land near Les Artaud, and was very poor. La Faute
de l'Abbe Mouret.

BRICHET (MADAME), wife of the preceding, a tall, lachrymose woman, was
the one solitary devotee of the village of Les Artaud. Whenever she
had been to communion, she hung about the parsonage, knowing that the
priest's servant always kept a couple of loaves for her from the last
baking. La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

BRICHET (FORTUNE), son of the preceding, was a largely built, bold-
looking young fellow of about twenty-five years of age, who had been
the lover of Rosalie Bambousse for some time before Abbe Mouret was
able to induce the girl's parents to consent to her marriage. La Faute
de l'Abbe Mouret.

BRICHET (VINCENT), brother of Fortune, was the boy who assisted Abbe
Mouret in serving Mass. He was an idle young scamp, and constantly
incurred the chastisement of Brother Archangias, who predicted a bad
end for him on account of his friendship for Catherine Bambousse. La
Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

BRIQUET, a peasant of Rognes. His son drew the number 13 for the
conscription. La Terre.

BRON (MADAME), concierge at the Theatre des Varietes. She sold liquor
to the employees at the theatre. Nana.

BRU, an old house-painter who lived in a garret in the same tenement-
house as the Coupeaus, where he starved with cold and hunger. He had
lost three sons in the Crimea, and he lived on what he could pick up,
now that for two years past he could hold a brush no longer. Gervaise
Coupeau showed him some kindness and asked him to her famous birthday
party. Things having gone from bad to worse with him, he was found one
morning lying dead in his garret. L'Assommoir.

BRULE (LA), mother of La Pierronne. She was the widow of a miner who
had been killed in the pit, and lived with her daughter at the
settlement known as the Deux-Cent-Quarante. A terrible old woman,
frantic to revenge on the masters the death of her husband, she was
the leader in the outrages perpetrated by the strikers in the Montsou
district. It was she who gave the signal for the attack on the troops,
but at the first volley fired by the soldiers she fell back stiff and
crackling like a bundle of dry faggots, stammering one last oath in
the gurgling of blood. Germinal.

BRUNET (LES), a bourgeois family in the new quarter of Plassans, of
whom Madame Felicite Rougon was jealous. La Fortune des Rougon.

BUDIN (LES), peasants of Rognes, whose daughter was said to have been
cured of a fever by Sourdeau, who cut a live pigeon in two, and
applied the halves to her head. La Terre.

BUQUIN-LECOMTE, a deputy at the Corps Legislatif. He desired leave of
absence. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

BURGAT, a blacksmith, one of the band of insurgents which entered
Plassans in December, 1851. La Fortune des Rougon.

BURNE, an English jockey who rode a horse called Spirit in the Grand
Prix de Paris. Nana.

BUSCH, a man of German origin who came to Paris, and engaged in
business of a shady character on the fringe of the Bourse. "In
addition to usury and a secret traffic in jewels and precious stones,
he particularly occupied himself with the purchase of 'bad debts.'" In
pursuit of creditors he was unsparing, and his methods were not
infrequently of the nature of blackmail. Jordon, Madame de
Beauvilliers, and Saccard himself fell into his power, though Saccard
refused to submit to extortion. Another of Busch's lines of business
was the purchase of depreciated shares and debentures, thousands of
which he collected together, selling them to bankrupts who found
difficulty in accounting for real or imaginary losses. His one
redeeming feature was his extraordinary love for his brother
Sigismond, whom he nursed with the greatest care until his death.
L'Argent.

BUSCH (SIGISMOND), brother of Busch, the money-lender, was an able
man, educated at a German University, and speaking several languages.
He had met Carl Marx at Cologne in 1849, and became a contributor to
the /New Rhenish Gazette/. "From that time he professed Socialism with
an ardent faith, giving his entire being to the idea of an approaching
social renovation, which would assure the happiness of the poor and
humble." After his master was banished from Germany, Sigismond,
engrossed in his dreams, was so careless of his material affairs that
he would have perished of hunger had his brother not taken him to live
with him. From this time the elder Busch, ferocious as a wolf towards
a debtor, looked after his brother with almost maternal care, and was
heart-broken when Sigismond died of consumption a few years later.
L'Argent.

BUTEAU, second son of Pere Fouan; brother of Hyacinthe and of Fanny
Delhomme; cousin and husband of Lise Mouche; father of Jules and
Laure. From early youth he was of violent temper, and having drawn a
lucky number in the conscription, he went away from home, and got
work, first at the farm of La Borderie and later at La Chamade. He was
a true son of the soil, knowing nothing of the world beyond the narrow
district in which he was born, and possessing that fierce passion for
the land which is the characteristic of so many peasants. When Pere
Fouan made a division of his property among his family, Buteau was
dissatisfied with the lot which he drew, and refused to take
possession of it. In this attitude he persisted for two years, until
the formation of a new road gave a greatly increased value to his
share. In the same way he refused to marry his cousin Lise Mouche, by
whom he already had a son, until, after her father's death, she had
inherited a share of his property. Buteau's chief anxiety then became
to prevent a division of this land between his wife and her sister
Francoise, and when, after the girl's marriage to Jean Macquart, this
became imminent, he and his wife eventually murdered her. His father
had been a witness of the crime, and as his silence was essential, he
too was cruelly done to death. After these terrible events Buteau was
able to sleep calmly, for the land, his overwhelming passion in life,
was his beyond possibility of dispute. La Terre.

BUTEAU (MADAME), wife of the preceding. See Lise Mouche. La Terre.

BUTEAU (JULES), the eldest child of the preceding, who were not
married till three years after his birth. At nine years old he was the
sole friend of old Fouan, but he soon came to neglect the old man. La
Terre.

BUTEAU (LAURE), the second child of the Buteaus. At four years old she
had already the hard eyes of her family, and was hostile to her
grandfather, old Fouan. By jealousy she detached from him her brother
Jules. La Terre.



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CABASSE, a franc-tireur of the woods of Dieulet. He was the favourite
companion of Ducat, and along with Guillaume Sambuc formed part of the
band which so greatly embarrassed the Prussians in the neighbourhood
of Sedan. He took part in the execution of Goliath Steinberg, the
German spy. La Debacle.

CABIN (MADAME), the woman who looked after the bedrooms occupied by
the saleswomen in "The Ladies' Paradise." In consideration of small
bribes, she allowed numerous breaches of the strict rules of the
establishment. Au Bonheur des Dames.

CABIROCHE (SIMONNE), an actress at the Theatre des Varietes. She was
the daughter of a furniture dealer in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and
had been educated at a boarding-school in order that she might become
a governess. She played the part of Isabelle in the /Petite Duchesse/.
Nana.

CABUCHE, a quarryman at Becourt, who lived alone in a hut in the
middle of the forest. He was condemned to five years' imprisonment for
having killed a man in a tavern brawl, but on account of his good
conduct was liberated at the end of four years. From that time he was
avoided by every one, and lived like a savage in the woods. Louisette,
the younger daughter of Madame Misard, who was then fourteen years
old, met him one day in the forest, and a strange friendship was
formed between them, the rough man almost adoring this child, who
alone was not afraid to speak to him. The girl afterwards went as a
servant to Madame Bonnehon, but one evening Cabuche found her at his
door, half mad with fright and on the verge of brain fever. He nursed
her tenderly, but she died a few days later. The conduct of President
Grandmorin was believed to be the cause of Louisette's flight from
Doinville, and Cabuche was overheard to say in ungovernable rage that
he would "bleed the pig." This remark led Denizet, the examining
magistrate, to attribute to him the murder of the President, which was
committed soon afterwards by the Roubauds, and still later he had the
misfortune to be found beside the body of Severine Roubaud, who had
been murdered by Jacques Lantier. He was found guilty of the two
crimes, neither of which he committed, and was sentenced to
imprisonment for life. It was Cabuche's wagon, loaded with huge blocks
of stone, that Flore stopped in front of an express train in order to
cause an accident. La Bete Humaine.

CADET-CASSIS, the sobriquet of Coupeau. L'Assommoir.

CADINE, a young girl who when only two years old was found by Madame
Chantemesse and adopted by her. She was brought up along with
Marjolin, and the two became inseparable companions and lovers. When
she was eleven years old she set up as a dealer in birds' food, but in
a year or two became a flower-seller. After the accident to Marjolin
by which his intellect was affected, Cadine looked after him, and the
two were seldom found apart. Le Ventre de Paris.

CAFFIN (ABBE), the predecessor of Abbe Mouret as cure at Les Artaud.
He was originally from Normandy, and had a large face which always
seemed laughing. His history was bad, and he had been sent in disgrace
to this hot and dusty corner of Provence. La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

CAMPARDON (ACHILLE), an architect, in whose house Octave Mouret
boarded when he first came to Paris. His views on religion were
somewhat free, but having been appointed diocesan architect he
gradually became orthodox, though this did not prevent him from
carrying on an intrigue with Gasparine, his wife's cousin, who
ultimately came to live with the family. Pot-Bouille.

CAMPARDON (MADAME), wife of the preceding, nee Rose Domergue. Born at
Plassans, she was an old friend of Madame Mouret, and when Octave
Mouret came to Paris he boarded with the Campardons. After the birth
of her child, Madame Campardon was an invalid, and was obliged to
spend much of her time in bed, amusing herself by reading the works of
Dickens. She tacitly accepted the liaison between her husband and
Gasparine, her cousin, whom she ultimately asked to live with the
family and manage the household affairs. Pot-Bouille.

CAMPARDON (ANGELE), daughter of the preceding. She was brought up at
home by her parents, in order that she might remain ignorant of the
realities of life, but intercourse with the servants in a large
tenement-house early developed her unnatural precocity. Pot-Bouille.

CAMPENON, an incapable person to whom M. de Marsy gave a post as
prefect, which Eugene Rougon had promised to Du Poizat. Son Excellence
Eugene Rougon.

CAMY-LAMOTTE, secretary to the Minister of Justice, an office of great
influence. It was his duty to prepare the list of promotions, and he
was in constant communication with the Tuileries. He was a handsome
man, who started his career as a substitute; but through his
connections and his wife he had been elected deputy and made grand
officer of the Legion of Honour. In examining the papers of President
Grandmorin, he discovered the identity of the murderers, but knowing
the probability of serious scandal arising in the event of public
inquiry, he said nothing, and later, struck by the courage and charm
of Severine Roubaud, who threw herself on his protection, he gave
instructions that all proceedings were to be stopped. He rewarded
Denizet, the examining magistrate, with a decoration and the promise
of early promotion. La Bete Humaine.

CANIVET, an old peasant, of whom Zephyrin Lacour announced the death
to Rosalie Pichon. Une Page d'Amour.

CARNAVANT (MARQUIS DE), a nobleman of Plassans. Said to have been
intimate with the mother of Felicite Puech during the early period of
her married life. He visited Pierre Rougon and his wife occasionally,
and after their retirement from business he interested them in
politics. La Fortune des Rougon.

CAROLINE, an artificial-flower maker employed by Madame Titreville.
She was very unhappy at home. L'Assommoir.

CAROLINE (MADAME). See Caroline Hamelin.

CAROUBLE, a baker at Montsou. His business was threatened by the
competition of Maigrat. Germinal.

CASIMIR, a liquor-dealer on the road to Montsou. Germinal.

CASSOUTE, an inhabitant of Plassans, who formed one of the group of
insurgents which accompanied Antoine Macquart to the Rougons' house.
He was left there to signal the return of Pierre Rougon, but not being
very intelligent, allowed himself to be sent by Rougon to the Town
Hall, where he was arrested. La Fortune des Rougon.

CATHERINE, servant to Granoux. She talked for a long time before
letting in Pierre Rougon and Roudier, who came to seek her master to
save Plassans. La Fortune des Rougon.

CAUCHE, the commissary of police attached to the railway station at
Havre. He was a former officer who considered his present occupation
as practically a sinecure, spending much of his time at the cafe. He
was a confirmed gambler, who could lose or win without change of
expression. A room on the first floor of the Cafe du Commerce was his
usual haunt, and there Roubaud frequently spent half the night playing
cards with him. Later, it fell to him to arrest Roubaud on the charge
of murdering President Grandmorin. La Bete Humaine.

CAZENOVE (DOCTOR), a man of fifty-four years of age, of a vigorous and
lean habit, who after thirty years' service in the navy settled down
at Arromanches, where an uncle of his had left him a house. He
affected scepticism of the power of medicine, but was unremitting in
the care of his patients. Among the earliest of these was Madame
Chanteau, and he became on intimate terms with the family, for some
time acting as trustee to Pauline Quenu. La Joie de Vivre.

CECILE (MADEMOISELLE), daughter of a butcher in the neighbourhood of
the /Halles Centrales/. Le Ventre de Paris.

CELESTE, lady's maid and confidante of Madame Renee Saccard. La Curee.

CELESTINE, a friend of Clemence. She was neurotic, and had a horror of
the hair of cats, seeing it everywhere, and even turning her tongue in
the belief that some of it had got into her mouth. L'Assommoir.

CESAR, a bull at the farm of La Borderie. La Terre.

CHADEUIL (MADAME), a milliner in the Rue Sainte-Anne. Octave Mouret's
shop, "The Ladies' Paradise," ruined her within two years. Au Bonheur
des Dames.

CHAINE, the companion of Mahoudeau, the sculptor. He was born at
Saint-Firmin, a village about six miles from Plassans, where he served
as a cowboy until he was drawn in the conscription. Unfortunately for
him, a gentleman of the district who admired the walking-stick handles
which he carved out of roots with his knife, persuaded Chaine that he
was a rustic genius, and with extreme foolishness persuaded him to go
in for painting. Having forty pounds, he went to Paris, where his
small fortune lasted him for a year. Then, as he had only twenty
francs left, he took up his quarters with his friend Mahoudeau. He had
no talent, but had a certain skill in copying pictures with extreme
exactness. The relations of Chaine and Mahoudeau with Mathilde
Jabouille led to a coldness between the two friends, and ultimately
they ceased to be on speaking terms, though they continued to live
together, and even to sleep in the same bed. Some time afterwards
Chaine gave up art, and started a booth at country fairs, in which he
ran a wheel-of-fortune for trifling prizes. The booth was decorated
with some of his alleged masterpieces. L'Oeuvre.

CHAMBOUVARD, a celebrated sculptor. He was said to be the son of a
veterinary surgeon of Amiens, and at forty-five had already produced
twenty masterpieces. He had, however, a complete lack of critical
acumen, and was unable to distinguish between the most glorious
offspring of his hands and the detestably grotesque figures which he
happened to put together now and then. At one /Salon/ he exhibited a
/Sower/, admirable in every way, while at another he showed an
execrable /Reaping Woman/, so bad that it seemed like a hoax; but he
was no less pleased with the later work, feeling sure that he had
turned out yet another masterpiece. L'Oeuvre.

CHAMPION, a master hatter at Montrouge. Auguste Lantier pretended to
have left his employment because they had not the same political
views. L'Assommoir.

CHAMPION, a retired sergeant, who was afterwards delivery manager at
"The Ladies' Paradise." Au Bonheur des Dames.

CHANTEAU PERE, came originally from the south of France, beginning his
life as a journeyman carpenter. He created a considerable timber
business at Caen, but being somewhat daring in his speculation, he
left it rather embarrassed at the time of his death. La Joie de Vivre.

CHANTEAU (M.), a cousin of M. Quenu, by whom he was nominated guardian
of his daughter Pauline Quenu. On the death of his father, he
succeeded to the timber business at Caen. Being an inactive man,
unaspiring and careful, he contented himself with putting his affairs
on a safe basis, and living on a moderate but sure profit. He married
Eugenie de la Vigniere, who was an ambitious woman and hoped to rouse
his indolent nature. Her schemes were, however, frustrated by the ill-
health of her husband, who suffered from gout to such a degree that he
ultimately sold his business to Devoine, and retired to Bonneville,
where he had a house. His sufferings from gout gradually became more
and more severe until he was a complete invalid. His ward Pauline
Quenu showed him much kindness, and the Abbe Horteur played draughts
with him regularly. La Joie de Vivre.

Until the end of his life he was taken care of by Pauline. Le Docteur
Pascal.

CHANTEAU (MADAME), wife of the preceding, nee Eugenie de la Vigniere,
was the orphan of one of the ruined squireens of the Cotentin. An
ambitious woman, she hoped to induce her husband to overcome his
indolent nature, but her plans were upset by the ill-health into which
he fell, and she transferred to her son her hopes for the family's
rise in life. From this source she had nothing but disappointment, as
one after another of Lazare's schemes failed. To enable him to get
money to start his chemical works, she encouraged the idea of marriage
between him and Pauline Quenu, her husband's ward, who thereupon lent
him thirty thousand francs. Little by little, Madame Chanteau got
possession for the family use of nearly all Pauline's fortunes, but
with each fresh loan her feelings towards the girl became more
embittered until her affection for her had turned to hate. From this
time, she discouraged her son's marriage with Pauline, and endeavoured
to turn his thoughts towards Louise Thibaudier, who had a considerable
fortune. She died of dropsy after a short illness. La Joie de Vivre.

CHANTEAU (LAZARE), born 1844, son of M. Chanteau, was educated at the
college of Caen, where he took his bachelor's degree. He was undecided
as to what profession he would adopt, and for some time his
inclination turned towards music. Under the influence of Pauline Quenu
he decided on medicine, and went to Paris, where at first he made good
progress in his studies. Unfortunately he tired of this, and led a
life of extravagance and dissipation, failing to pass his
examinations. Having chanced to make the acquaintance of Herbelin, a
celebrated chemist, Lazare entered his laboratory as an assistant.
From him he got the idea of turning seaweed to profitable account by
the extraction of chemicals by a new method. With a view to the
commercial employment of this process he borrowed thirty thousand
francs from Pauline Quenu, and entered into partnership with an old
college friend named Boutigny who invested a similar sum in the
business. Lazare was quite carried away by his enthusiasm, and the
works were built on much too large a scale, the cost greatly exceeding
the original estimates. More money was required, and a marriage having
already been arranged between Lazare and Pauline Quenu, she at once
lent him another ten thousand francs. Some slight success was at first
attained, but this only led to fresh extravagances in the way of
apparatus, and before long a hundred thousand francs of Pauline's
money had been expended. By this time it was evident that the process
could not be worked on a commercial scale, and Lazare, utterly
discouraged, handed over his share to Boutigny for a trifling sum. A
scheme for the protection of Bonneville against the inroads of the sea
was the next subject to attract him, and he entered into it with his
usual enthusiasm. More money was, of course, required, and, as before,
this was found by Pauline. Failure again met his efforts; the
barricade was washed away by the first high sea. All along Lazare had
been subject to fits of morbid depression, accompanied by a frenzied
fear of death, and after the death of his mother this mental
disturbance became even more acute. The marriage with Pauline had been
put off on one excuse or another, and ultimately she saw that his
affections had been transferred to Louise Thibaudier. With noble self-
sacrifice, she released him from his engagement, and his marriage to
Louise followed. He went to Paris as manager of an insurance company,
but soon tiring of business, he returned to Bonneville, where he lived
so tormented by the fear of death that life itself had little charm
for him. La Joie de Vivre.

Having become a widower, he left his son with Pauline Quenu, and went
to America to seek his fortune. Le Docteur Pascal.

CHANTEAU (MADAME LAZARE), wife of the preceding. See Louise
Thibaudier. La Joie de Vivre.

CHANTEAU (PAUL), the infant son of Lazare Chanteau. La Joie de Vivre.

CHANTECAILLE (i.e. SINGSMALL), an usher at the college of Plassans. He
was so good-natured that he allowed the pupils to smoke when out
walking. L'Oeuvre.

CHANTEGREIL, a poacher, who was sent to the galleys for shooting a
gendarme. He was the father of Miette. La Fortune des Rougon.

CHANTEGREIL (MARIE), known as Miette, born 1838, daughter of
Chantegreil, the poacher, who was sentenced to the galleys for murder.
She went to live with her aunt, the wife of Rebufat, farmer at
Plassans. Here she met Silvere Mouret, and an idyllic love affair
followed. When Silvere joined the Republican Insurrection in 1861,
Miette, fired by his enthusiasm, accompanied him, and carried the
banner of revolt. In the attack by the regular troops, which soon
followed, she fell mortally wounded. La Fortune des Rougon.

CHANTEGREIL (EULALIE). See Madame Eulalie Rebufat.

CHANTEMESSE (MADAME), a customer of Madame Francois, the market-
gardener. It was she who brought up the two foundling children,
Marjolin and Cadine. Le Ventre de Paris.

CHANTEREAU (MADAME), wife of an ironmaster. She was a cousin of the
Fougerays, and a friend of the Muffats. With Madame du Joncquoy and
Madame Hugon she gave an air of severe respectability to the drawing-
room of Comtesse Sabine de Muffat. Her husband owned a foundry in
Alsace, where war with Germany was feared, and she caused much
amusement to her friends by expressing the opinion that Bismarck would
make war with France and would conquer. Nana.

CHARBONNEL (M.), a retired oil-merchant of Plassans. His cousin
Chevassu, a lawyer, died leaving his fortune of five hundred thousand
francs to the Sisters of the Holy Family. Charbonnel, being next heir,
contested the will on the ground of undue influence; and the
Sisterhood having petitioned the Council of State to authorize the
payment of the bequest to them, he went to Paris, accompanied by his
wife, in order to secure the influence of Eugene Rougon. The matter
dragged on for some months, and was then indefinitely delayed by
Rougon's resignation of the Presidency of the Council of State. After
Rougon's appointment as Minister of the Interior, he induced the
Council of State to refuse the petition of the Sisterhood, and M.
Charbonnel accordingly succeeded to the estate. Subsequently the
Charbonnels accused the Sisters of having removed some of Chevassu's
silver plate, and Rougon ordered the police to make a search in the
convent. This caused a scandal in the town, and brought the
Charbonnels, as well as Rougon, into popular disfavour. Son Excellence
Eugene Rougon.

CHARBONNEL (MADAME), wife of the preceding. She accompanied her
husband to Paris to assist him in looking after their interests in the
estate of his cousin Chevassu. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

CHARDON (ABBE), the candidate favoured by Abbe Fenil for the vacancy
in the church of Saint-Saturnin at Plassans. La Conquete de Plassans.

CHARDON (MADAME), a protegee of Madame Melanie Correur. The State
having refused to accept some furnishings supplied by her, Eugene
Rougon, the Minister, arranged the matter. Son Excellence Eugene
Rougon.

CHARLES, a waiter at the Cafe Riche. It was he who served supper to
Maxime Saccard and Renee in the White Salon. La Curee.

CHARLES, the attendant at the public washing-house where Gervaise
Macquart had her great fight with Virginie. L'Assommoir.

CHARLES, a butcher whose shop was in Rue Polonceau. The Coupeaus dealt
with him. L'Assommoir.

CHARLES, coachman in the service of Nana. He left her after a violent
scene, in the course of which he called her a slut. Nana.

CHARLES, a cousin of the little soldier Jules from Plogof. Germinal.

CHARLES, coachman to Aristide Saccard. He was discovered stealing
oats, and was dismissed. In revenge, he disclosed to Madame Caroline
the relations between his master and the Baroness Sandorff. L'Argent.

CHARLES, (MONSIEUR AND MADAME), see Badeuil.

CHARPIER, a grain merchant at Vendome. He became bankrupt, and his
papers having been purchased by Fayeux on behalf of Busch, the latter
found among them a document signed by Comte de Beauvilliers,
undertaking payment of a large sum to Leonie Cron. L'Argent.

CHARRIER, a bricklayer who amassed a fortune by speculations in
building-sites during the early days of the Second Empire. Along with
Mignon, his partner, he had many business dealings with Aristide
Saccard. La Curee.

CHARVET, one of the party which met at Lebigre's wine-shop to discuss
revolutionary subjects. He was the best educated of the coterie, and
his flood of bitter words generally crushed his adversaries. Le Ventre
de Paris.

CHASSAGNE (DOCTEUR), director of the asylum at Moulineaux, where
Saturnin Josserand was confined for a time. Pot-Bouille.

CHAUMETTE, counsellor at the court of Rouen. At the trial of Roubaud
he acted as assessor to the assizes. La Bete Humaine.

CHAUMETTE FILS, son of the preceding, was a substitute at Rouen. He
was the latest fancy of Madame Bonnehon, who did all she could to
secure his advancement. La Bete Humaine.

CHAVAILLE (ROSALIE), cousin of La Mechain, and mother of Victor
Saccard. She fell into a life of vice and poverty, and died at the age
of twenty-six. L'Argent.

CHAVAL, a miner employed at the Voreux pit. From the first he had an
instinctive hatred towards Etienne Lantier, caused partly by jealousy
regarding Catherine Maheu, whose lover he became. He treated the girl
very badly, and she ultimately left him. During the strike he took up
a position antagonistic to Lantier, who was one of the leaders, and
even undertook the direction of a party of Belgians brought in by the
mine-owners to work the pits. By a strange chance, Chaval met Lantier
and Catherine in a gallery of the pit after a terrible accident, which
resulted in its being flooded; a struggle followed, and Chaval was
killed, his body being thrown into the water. But the rise of the
flood brought him back time after time to the feet of the others, as
if his jealousy continued even after death. Germinal.

CHAVE (CAPTAIN), brother of Madame Maugendre, and uncle of Madame
Jordan. He was a petty gambler of a class who frequent the Bourse
daily, in order to make an almost certain profit of fifteen or twenty
francs, which must be realized before the day's operations are over.
He said he was forced to speculate, as the pension which he received
from the Government was not sufficient to keep him from starvation.
L'Argent.

CHAVIGNAT, an employee at the Ministry of Public Education. Pot-
Bouille.

CHEDEVILLE (DE), deputy for Eure-et-Loire under the Empire. He was an
old beau who had flourished in the reign of Louis Philippe, and was
still supposed to have Orleanist sympathies, though his reputed
friendship with the Emperor was sufficient to secure his success at
the polls. He had gone through all his money, and had now only the
farm of La Chamade left. His political career was cut short by a
scandal which gave offence at the Tuileries, and he was defeated by
Rochefontaine, who was nominated by Government as the official
candidate. La Terre.

CHERMETTE (MADAME DE), a friend of Madame Deberle. Une Page d'Amour.

CHEVASSU, a lawyer at Faverolles, who died leaving his fortune to the
Sisters of the Holy Family. His cousin, M. Charbonnel, got the will
reduced on the ground of undue influence. Son Excellence Eugene
Rougon.

CHEZELLES (MADAME LEONIDE DE), a school friend of Comtesse Muffat, who
was five years her senior. She was the wife of a magistrate. "It was
rumoured that she deceived him quite openly, but people pardoned her
offence, and received her just the same, because, said they, 'She's
not answerable for her actions.'" Nana.

CHIBRAY (COMTE DE), aide-de-camp to the Emperor. He was for a time the
lover of Renee Saccard. La Curee.

CHOUARD (MARQUIS DE), father of Comtesse Sabine Muffat de Beuville. He
was a Councillor of State and Chamberlain to the Empress, but,
notwithstanding this, had kept up his relations with the Legitimist
party; he was known for his piety, and expressed the belief that his
class should show an example in morals to the lower orders. In secret,
however, his life was vicious, and many damaging stories were known of
him. He was one of Nana's admirers, and after a visit to her he was
struck by sudden imbecility and semi-paralysis, the result of sixty
years of debauchery. Nana.

CHOUARD (SABINE DE), daughter of the preceding and wife of Comte
Muffat de Beuville. She was married at seventeen, and ever since had
led a cloistered existence with a pious husband and a dictatorial
stepmother. The death of her stepmother made little difference, and
the family continued to live in an atmosphere of frigid
respectability. At thirty-four Sabine looked little older than her own
daughter, and would not have been taken for more than twenty-eight.
About this time Comte Muffat fell entirely under the influence of
Nana, and a change came over the household. Sabine accepted the
attentions of Fauchery, whose mistress she became, and soon after
launched into a course of extravagance which in the end went far to
complete the ruin to which her husband was himself contributing. Other
lovers followed Fauchery, and in the end she ran off with the manager
of a large drapery store. Ultimately she returned, and was pardoned by
her husband, who had lost his own self-respect as a result of his
intrigue with Nana. Nana.

CHOUTEAU, an old man of over ninety years of age, who with his wife
lived in a little hut in Beaumont, furnished for them by Angelique
with articles taken from the attic of her adopted parents. She, as
well as Felicien d'Hautecoeur, showed them much kindness. Le Reve.

CHOUTEAU, a soldier in the 106th regiment of the line, commanded by
Colonel de Vineuil. He belonged to the squad of Corporal Jean
Macquart. Originally a housepainter of Montmartre, his time was almost
expired when the outbreak of war prevented his leaving the army. A
revolutionary in his ideas, he was the leader in every breach of
discipline among his companions, suggesting to them that they should
throw away their knapsacks and guns; on the plateau of Floing, in
front of the enemy, he declared that as he had not eaten he would not
fight. Sergeant Sapin having been severely wounded, Chouteau offered,
along with Loubet, to remove him to the ambulance, and the two men
disappeared from the battlefield. After the defeat of the French Army
he was made prisoner at Iges, where he continued to advise his
companions in committing all kinds of excesses, going the length of
handing a knife to Lapoulle in order that he might kill Pache, who had
hidden some provisions from him. Along with Loubet he made an attempt
to escape from the Germans, and in this he attained success by
treacherously sacrificing his comrade. During the Commune he took an
active part in the excesses which were then committed; but during the
sanguinary repression which followed he was seen in the blouse of an
honest workman applauding the massacre which ensued. La Debacle.

CHRISTINE. See Christine Hallegrain.

CHUCHU (MADEMOISELLE), an actress at the Varietes. A liaison between
her and Flory led to the ruin of the latter on the Stock Exchange.
L'Argent.

CLARISSE, waiting-maid in the service of Baroness Sandorff. She
betrayed to Delcambre the confidences of her mistress. L'Argent.

CLEMENCE, a clerk at the fish auction. She attended the meetings in
Lebigre's wine-shop along with Charvet, with whom she lived. Le Ventre
de Paris.

CLEMENCE (MADEMOISELLE), occupied a room in the same tenement-house as
the Coupeaus and Lorilleux, where she took in ironing, as well as
added to her income by less reputable means. When Gervaise Coupeau's
laundry was at the height of its success Clemence got regular
employment there, but when business began to go she had to leave.
L'Assommoir.

CLEMENCE, lady's maid to Madame Duveyrier. Pot-Bouille.

CLORINDE. See Clorinde Balbi.

CLOU, Municipal Councillor at Rognes. He played the trombone at choral
services in church. La Terre.

COEUR (GERMAINE), a /demi-mondaine/ who was on intimate terms with
many members of the Paris Bourse. L'Argent.

COGNET, a roadman at Rognes. He was an old drunkard, who beat his
daughter unmercifully. La Terre.

COGNET (JACQUELINE), alias LA COGNETTE, daughter of the preceding. She
went to La Borderie at the age of twelve years, and before long had
several lovers. She made her fortune, however, by resisting her
master, Alexandre Hourdequin, for six months, and when she ultimately
became his mistress she had made her position so secure that he was
afterwards unable to part with her. Notwithstanding her relations with
Hourdequin, she had other lovers, and the old shepherd Soulas, from
motives of revenge, informed Hourdequin of her intimacy with one of
them, a man named Tron. The latter, having been dismissed, killed
Hourdequin and burned down the farm, so that Jacqueline was compelled
to leave La Borderie no richer than she had come. La Terre.

COLICHE (LA), a fine cow which belonged to the Mouche family and was a
great favourite with them. La Terre.

COLIN, a notary at Havre. It was in his presence that the Roubauds
made a mutual will, leaving everything to the last survivor. La Bete
Humaine.

COLOMBAN PERE, a veterinary surgeon known to all in the district of
Seine-et-Oise. He was of dissolute habits. Au Bonheur des Dames.

COLOMBAN, a shopman who had been for many years in the employment of
M. Baudu. He was engaged to his master's daughter Genevieve, but the
marriage was put off from time to time as Baudu's business was not
prosperous. Meantime, Colomban had become infatuated by Clara
Prunaire, a girl employed in "The Ladies' Paradise," and his affection
for Genevieve rapidly cooled. Ultimately he went off with Clara,
thereby hastening the death of Genevieve, who had been in bad health
for some time. Au Bonheur des Dames.

COLOMBE. See Pere Colombe.

COMBELOT (M. DE), an Imperial Chamberlain whom the Department of the
Landes had chosen as deputy upon the formally expressed desire of the
Emperor. He was a tall, handsome man, with a very white skin, and an
inky black beard, which had been the means of winning him great favour
among the ladies. He was married to a sister of Delestang. Son
Excellence Eugene Rougon.

COMBELOT (MADAME DE), see Henriette Delestang.

COMBETTE, a chemist at Chene-Populeux. He was assessor to the mayor,
and the information which he received on the night of 27th August,
1870, satisfied him of the unhappy state of the Army of Chalons, which
was then on its way to the front. La Debacle.

COMBETTE (MADAME), wife of the preceding. It was she who on the
evening of 27th August, 1870, offered hospitality to the soldier
Maurice Levasseur, who was worn out with fatigue and with the pain of
his foot, which had been injured by the long march. La Debacle.

COMBEVILLE (DUCHESSE DE), mother of Princess d'Orviedo. L'Argent.

COMBOREL ET CIE, a firm of ship-owners who entered into the great
transport syndicate founded by Aristide Saccard. L'Argent.

COMPAN (ABBE), vicar of the church of Saint-Saturnin at Plassans. He
was on bad terms with Abbe Fenil, and consequently the other priests
were afraid to have any intercourse with him, Abbe Bourrette alone
visiting him during his last illness. La Conquete de Plassans.

CONDAMIN (M. DE), commissioner of woods and rivers for the district of
Plassans. He was an elderly man, whose morality was looked upon with
some suspicion by the respectable inhabitants of Plassans. He married
a young wife, whom he brought from no one knew where, but who had
evidently influential friends at Paris, as it was she who got her
husband and Dr. Porquier decorated. La Conquete de Plassans.

CONDAMIN (MADAME DE), wife of the preceding. She was at first received
with some suspicion at Plassans, nothing being known of her past
history, but by the charm of her manner she soon overcame prejudice.
Madame Mouret having asked her assistance in connection with the Home
for Girls proposed by Abbe Faujas, she entered heartily into the
scheme and used her influence on its behalf. Acting on advice from her
influential friends at Paris, she assisted Faujas in the schemes which
resulted in the election of M. Delangre as deputy for Plassans. La
Conquete de Plassans.

CONIN, a stationer at the corner of Rue Feydeau, who supplied note-
books to most members of the Bourse. He was assisted in the business
by his wife, and seldom came out of the back shop. L'Argent.

CONIN (MADAME), wife of the preceding. She was on too friendly terms
with many of her customers, but was so discreet that no scandal arose.
L'Argent.

COQUART (LES), proprietors of the farm of Saint-Juste, which, however,
they were forced by bad times to sell. The family consisted of the
father, mother, three sons and two daughters. La Terre.

COQUETS, neighbours of the Lorilleux in Rue de la Goutte-d'Or. They
took a fancy to light their cooking-stove on the stair-landing, and,
as they also owed their term's rent, they were given notice to quit.
L'Assommoir.

CORBIERE (COMTE DE), proprietor of the Paradou, an estate near Artaud.
When he died, the care of the property was confided to Jeanbernat, a
foster-brother of the Comte. La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

CORBREUSE (DUC DE), proprietor of a racing-stable. Nana.

CORNAILLE, the principal draper in Valognes. Denise Baudu served her
apprenticeship to him. Au Bonheur des Dames.

CORNEMUSE, a racehorse which was the prize of the City of Paris. Nana.

CORNILLE, a member of the firm of Cornille and Jenard, who held in the
eighteenth century the mineral concession of Joiselle, which was
joined in 1760 to two neighbouring concessions, those of Comte de
Cougny and of Baron Desrumaux, in order to form the Company of the
Mines of Montsou. Germinal.

CORNILLE (ABBE), one of the clergy of the cathedral of Beaumont. He
accompanied Monseigneur d'Hautecoeur when the latter came to
administer the last rites of the Church to Angelique. Le Reve.

CORREUR (MADAME MELANIE), was the daughter of a notary of Coulonges, a
town in the district of Niort. When she was twenty-four years old she
eloped with a journeyman butcher, and thereafter lived in Paris,
ignored by her family. For some time she kept a boarding-house at the
Hotel Vanneau in the Rue Vanneau, where among her lodgers were Eugene
Rougon, Du Poizet, and Theodore Gilquin. She established a claim on
Rougon's gratitude, and he assisted a number of her friends in
obtaining pensions and appointments. Having ascertained that her
brother, M. Martineau, had made a will by which she would benefit,
she, knowing him to be in bad health, denounced him to Rougon as a
dangerous Republican. His arrest and sudden death followed. Son
Excellence Eugene Rougon.

COSINUS, a racehorse which ran in the Grand Prix de Paris. Nana.

COSSARD (LE PERE), prompter at the Theatre des Varietes. He was a
little hunchback.

COUDELOUP (MADAME), a baker in Rue des Poissonniers. She supplied the
Coupeaus until Lantier decided that they must have finer bread from a
Viennese bakery. L'Assommoir.

COUGNY (COMTE DE), owner in the eighteenth century of the mining
concession of Cougny, which in 1760 was joined to two neighbouring
concessions to form the Company of the Mines of Montsou. Germinal.

COUILLOT (LES), peasants at Rognes. Their son got the number 206 in
the drawing for the conscription. La Terre.

COUPEAU, a zinc-worker, who married Gervaise Macquart after her
desertion by Lantier. He was the son of a drunken father, but was
himself steady and industrious until a serious accident caused by a
fall from a roof brought about a change. After that he became
unwilling to work and began to spend his time in public-houses; his
days of work became fewer and fewer, until, a confirmed drunkard, he
lived entirely on his wife's earnings. Attacks of delirium tremens
followed, and in the end he died in the Asylum of Sainte-Anne after an
attack of more than usual violence. L'Assommoir.

COUPEAU (MADAME GERVAISE), wife of the preceding. See Gervaise
Macquart. L'Assommoir.

COUPEAU (ANNA, known as NANA), born 1852, was the only child of
Coupeau and Gervaise Macquart, his wife. Almost from infancy she was
allowed to run wild in the gutters of Paris, and even in childhood her
instincts were vicious. At thirteen years of age she was sent to learn
artificial-flower making in the establishment of Madame Titreville,
whose forewoman was Madame Lerat, Nana's aunt. She had been there some
time when she began to receive attentions from an elderly gentleman
who had noticed her going to work. Meantime her father and mother had
taken to drink so seriously that home life had become intolerable,
and, after one of innumerable quarrels, Nana ran away to her venerable
admirer. After a few months she tired of him and left, to spend her
time amongst the low-class dancing-halls, in one of which she was
found by her father, who brought her home, where she remained for a
fortnight, and then ran off again. From time to time she returned, but
her visits gradually became less frequent till they ceased.
L'Assommoir.

At sixteen years of age she had a child by an unknown father, and two
years later was installed in a flat in Boulevard Haussmann by a rich
merchant of Moscow, who had come to pass the winter in Paris.
Bordenave, the director of the Theatre des Varietes, gave her a part
in a play called /La Blonde Venus/, and though her voice was poor and
she was ignorant of acting, she was by the sheer force of her beauty
an immediate and overwhelming success. All Paris was at her feet;
Comte Muffat, Steiner, the Prince of Scots himself, came in turn to
offer homage. It seemed as if this girl, born of four or five
generations of drunkards and brought up on the pavements of Paris, was
to revenge her race upon the idle rich by the wild extravagances into
which she dragged them. Muffat and Steiner were her lovers, and ruined
themselves by the vast sums which she squandered; Georges Hugon killed
himself from jealousy of his brother Philippe, who embezzled for her
sake, and brought himself to imprisonment and disgrace; Vandeuvres
too, after courting dishonour, met death at his own hand; and
Foucarmont, stripped bare and cast off, went to perish in the China
seas. The procession was unending; more money was always required.
After a successful appearance in a play called /Melusine/, Nana
suddenly left Paris and went to the East. Strange stories were told of
her--the conquest of a viceroy, a colossal fortune acquired in Russia
--but nothing definite was known. When she returned to Paris in 1870
she found that her son Louiset had been attacked by small-pox, and she
herself contracted the disease from him. A few days later she died in
a room in the Grand Hotel, nursed only by Rose Mignon, who had come to
her in her trouble. The war with Germany had just broken out, and as
she lay dying the passing crowds were shouting ceaselessly, "A Berlin,
A Berlin." Nana.

COUPEAU (LOUIS). See Louiset.

COUPEAU (MADAME), mother of Coupeau the zinc-worker. She was an old
woman, and, her sight having given way, was unable to support herself.
Her daughter, Madame Lorilleux, refused anything but the most trifling
assistance, and ultimately Gervaise Coupeau took the old woman into
her own home and supported her till her death, which occurred some
years later. L'Assommoir.

COURAJOD, a great landscape painter, whose masterpiece, the /Pool at
Gagny/, is in the Luxembourg. Long before his death he disappeared
from the world of art, and lived in a little house at Montmartre
surrounded by his hens, ducks, rabbits, and dogs. He refused to speak
of his former fame, and when Claude Lantier called on him the old man
seemed to be entering into a second childhood, forgetful of his past.
L'Oeuvre.

COUTARD, a soldier of infantry who belonged to the Second Division of
the First Army Corps, which was defeated at Wissembourg on 4th August,
1870. He and his companion Picot were slightly wounded, and were left
behind, not being able to rejoin their regiments for three weeks, most
of which they spent tramping the country through wet and mud,
endeavouring to overtake the vanquished army of France. La Debacle.

CRASSE (LA), i.e. "The Dirty." Sobriquet of a professor at the college
of Plassans, so called by the pupils as he marked by the constant
rubbing of his head the back of every chair he occupied. L'Oeuvre.

CREVECOEUR, a lace merchant in Rue Mail. Henri Deloche left his
employment, and entered Octave Mouret's shop on the same day as Denise
Baudu. Au Bonheur des Dames.

CRON, a carter at Vendome. He was the father of Leonie Cron. L'Argent.

CRON (LEONIE), the girl to whom the Comte de Beauvilliers gave the
document which afterwards came into the hands of Busch, and was used
by him as a means of blackmailing the widow of the Comte. L'Argent.

CUCHE, a family of fisher people who resided at Bonneville. They were
ruined by their house being washed away by the sea. The father and
mother lived extremely dissolute lives, and their son grew up little
better than a savage. Pauline Quenu made great efforts to reform him,
but he refused all attempts to make him settle down. La Joie de Vivre.

CUDORGE (MADAME), a seller of umbrellas in the Rue Neuve de la Goutte
d'Or, where she was a neighbour of Gervaise Lantier. L'Assommoir.

CUGNOT (PAULINE), daughter of a miller at Chartres who was ruined by a
lawsuit. She came to Paris, and eventually got a situation at "The
Ladies' Paradise," where she showed much kindness to Denise Baudu, who
was at first badly treated by the other employees there. Later on she
married Bauge, her lover, but was allowed to retain her situation. Au
Bonheur des Dames.



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DABADIE, chief station-master at Havre. He was a handsome man, with
the bearing of a commercial magnate engrossed in business. Indeed, he
willingly left the passenger department of the station to his
assistants, in order that he might give particular attention to the
enormous transit of merchandise at the docks. It is said that he was
on friendly terms with Mademoiselle Guichon, the office-keeper at the
station. La Bete Humaine.

DAGUENET (PAUL), the favoured lover of Nana. His father who was highly
esteemed by Louis Philippe, occupied a prefecture up to the time of
his death. As for himself, he had gone through three hundred thousand
francs in eighteen months in the pursuit of pleasure, and was only
able to keep going by small speculations on the Stock Exchange.
Attracted by the fortune of Estelle Muffat, he decided to marry her,
and with the assistance of Nana obtained the consent of Count Muffat.
Become serious after marriage, Daguenet came under the influence of
Theophile Venot, and was ruled with a rod of iron by his wife, who now
exhibited a character entirely unsuspected before. He now went to
Mass, and was furious with his father-in-law, who was ruining the
family on account of Nana. Nana.

DAGUENET (MADAME). See Estelle Muffat de Beuville.

DAIGREMONT, a Paris financier who was possessed of an enormous
fortune. It was said that his fidelity was not quite reliable, and
that on one occasion at least he played his allies false and swept
away the profits. He was approached by Saccard before the foundation
of the Universal Bank, and being assured that Eugene Rougon was to
back up his brother, he agreed to become one of the directors. He
supported Saccard during the great gamble in the shares of the bank,
and even on the day of the collapse had promised to come on the market
and buy so heavily as to put up the price of the shares. Having
received information through Jacoby that Gundermann was determined at
any cost to break the market, Daigremont deserted Saccard, and instead
of buying, sold all the shares he had, thereby bringing about the
final collapse. L'Argent.

DAIGREMONT (MADAME), wife of the preceding. She was celebrated for her
beauty and for her fine singing. L'Argent.

DALICHAMP, a doctor at Raucourt, six kilometres from Remilly. He was a
man of brusque manner, but of excellent heart, who showed much
kindness to his patients. In the middle of August, 1870, he
established an ambulance at Raucourt, and after Jean Macquart,
severely wounded, had arrived at the house of Pere Fouchard, Dalichamp
attended him secretly till his recovery. It was through him that
Henriette Weiss and Jean gained their knowledge of the disasters which
were everywhere overtaking the French army. La Debacle.

DAMBREVILLE, a Government official who married in order to secure
promotion through the influence of his wife. Pot-Bouille.

DAMBREVILLE (MADAME), wife of the preceding. An elderly woman with a
passion for Leon Josserand, whose appointment as Maitre des Requetes
she procured by her influence. She promised to secure a wealthy wife
for him, but delayed to do so until he insisted on a match being
arranged between him and her niece Raymonde. Her friendly relations
with him continued to subsist even after his marriage. Pot-Bouille.

DAMBREVILLE (RAYMONDE), niece of Dambreville. See Madame Leon
Josserand.

DANSAERT, a head captain in the Voreux pit. He was brutal and
overbearing with the workmen, but humble in the presence of his
superiors. Though it was well known that he was the lover of La
Pierronne, he was friendly with her husband, and got information from
him regarding the progress of the strike. On the day of the accident
in the pit he became mad with fear, and leaped into one of the cages,
leaving his men at the bottom. This action, together with the scandals
regarding him, caused the company to decide on his dismissal.
Germinal.

DASTE (MADAME), a friend of the Saccards and of Madame de Lauwerens.
La Curee.

DAUVERGNE, deputy station-master for the main lines at the Gare Saint-
Lazare. He occupied with his family, Claire, Henri, and Sophie, a
house belonging to the railway company in the Impasse d'Amsterdam. La
Bete Humaine.

DAUVERGNE (CLAIRE), daughter of the preceding and sister of Sophie.
The two sisters were both charming blondes, one eighteen and the other
twenty, who, amidst a constant stream of gaiety, looked after the
housekeeping with the six thousand francs earned by the two men. The
elder one would be heard laughing, while the younger sang, and a cage
full of exotic birds rivalled one another in roulades. La Bete
Humaine.

DAUVERGNE (HENRI), a chief guard in the service of the Western Railway
Company. He was in love with Severine Roubaud, but was aware of her
liaison with Jacques Lantier. He was injured in the railway accident
at Croix-de-Maufras, and having been removed to a house which belonged
to Severine, he was nursed by her there. In a hallucination of
illness, he believed that he heard, outside his window, Roubaud
arranging with Cabuche for the murder of Severine: his mistaken
evidence was greatly instrumental in leading to the conviction of the
two men. La Bete Humaine.

DAUVERGNE (SOPHIE), the elder of the two sisters. La Bete Humaine.

DAVOINE, the purchaser of Chanteau's timber business at Caen. When
Chanteau became incapacitated by gout, he sold his business to Davoine
for a hundred thousand francs, of which one-half was to be paid in
cash and the balance to remain in the business. Davoine was, however,
constantly launching into speculations, and the consequence was that
the profits were drained away, and the balance sheet generally showed
a loss. He ultimately became bankrupt, and Chanteau lost all the money
he had left in the business. La Joie de Vivre.

DEBERLE (DOCTOR HENRI), a medical man of Passy who inherited from his
father a large fortune and an excellent practice. A chance call to
attend Jeanne Grandjean led to an intimacy with her mother, which
resulted in the fleeting love episode which forms the subject of the
novel. Deberle, deceived by the circumstances under which Helene
Grandjean prevented an assignation between his wife and M. Malignon,
believed that Helene had arranged an assignation with himself, and she
found it impossible to enlighten him without compromising his wife.
The brief liaison was terminated by the illness and death of Jeanne.
Une Page d'Amour.

DEBERLE (MADAME JULIETTE), wife of the preceding, was the elder
daughter of M. Letellier, a wealthy silk merchant of Paris. Empty-
headed and fond of gaiety, she was carried away by the attentions of
M. Malignon, an idle young man who went everywhere in Paris society,
and to whom she was foolish enough on one occasion to grant an
assignation. Madame Helene Grandjean, who was on intimate terms with
the family, warned Madame Deberle that her husband's suspicions had
been aroused, and that lady, seeing in time the folly of her action,
broke off the intrigue. Une Page d'Amour.

DEBERLE (LUCIEN), the young son of Doctor Deberle. He was a playmate
of Jeanne Grandjean. Une Page d'Amour.

DECKER (BARONNE), a friend of the Marquis de Chouard, who occasionally
visited her at Viroflay. Nana.

DEJOIE, a man who was appointed by Saccard to be attendant at the
offices of the newspaper purchased in the interest of the Universal
Bank. He had a small sum of money, intended for the dowry of his
daughter, and to increase this he invested it in shares of the bank.
On the rise of the shares he gained a large sum, but, refusing to
sell, he lost everything in the final catastrophe. L'Argent.

DEJOIE (JOSEPHINE), wife of Dejoie, who first knew her when she was
cook with Madame Leveque, sister-in-law of Durieu, the brewer. She was
afterwards with Dr. Renaudin, and then in a shop in Rue Rambuteau. The
husband and wife were never fortunate enough to get employment in one
place. Josephine died when her daughter was fourteen years old.
L'Argent.

DEJOIE (NATHALIE), daughter of the preceding. In order to provide a
dowry for her, her father invested all his savings in shares of the
Universal Bank, losing everything after its failure. She was a pretty
girl, but absolutely heartless, and after the downfall of the bank she
ran away from home, leaving her old father in his poverty. L'Argent.

DELAHERCHE (MADAME), mother of Jules Delaherche. Her husband's gay
life rendered her unhappy, and after she became a widow she trembled
lest her son should take to the same courses as his father; so, after
marrying him to a woman who was devout and of simple tastes, she
sought to keep him in a dependent state as though he were a mere
youth. At fifty years of age, his wife having died, Delaherche
determined to marry a young widow about whom there had been much
gossip, and did so in spite of all the remonstrances of his mother.
After that she only lived on in silent remonstrance, spending most of
her time shut up in her own room. The miseries of war told severely on
the old woman, and to these were added domestic troubles, for she
became aware of her daughter-in-law's relations with Captain Baudoin
and Edmond Lagarde. After the occupation of Sedan by the Prussians she
devoted herself to nursing her old friend Colonel Vineuil, who had
been brought to the house severely wounded. She remained with him till
his death, shut up from the world, and refusing to hear of the defeats
daily accumulating against their unhappy country. La Debacle.

DELAHERCHE (JULES), one of the principal cloth manufacturers of Sedan.
He owned a large factory in Rue Maqua, which had been the property of
the family for a hundred and sixty years; in the rear of the building
was a palatial courtyard shaded with old trees, gigantic elms dating
from the foundation of the establishment. Jules, married to a woman
dull and plain-looking, had been kept by his mother in the dependent
position of a mere boy, but at fifty years of age, his wife being
dead, he became enamoured of Gilberte Maginot, a pretty young widow of
Charleville, and married her in spite of the determined opposition of
his mother. An ardent Bonapartist, he was much excited by a chance
meeting with Napoleon III, but after the repeated defeats of the army
in the war with Prussia his loyalty cooled, and he ultimately charged
the Emperor with all the miseries which ensued. After the battle of
Sedan an ambulance was established in the courtyard of his factory,
and the wounded Colonel Vineuil was removed to his house. La Debacle.

DELAHERCHE (MADAME JULES). See Gilberte Vineuil. La Debacle.

DELANGRE (M.), mayor of Plassans. He was the son of a bricklayer, and
when he passed as a lawyer had to be content with petty suits that no
one else would take up. It was said that he became the lover of Madame
Rastoil, and it was certainly through her influence that he won his
first cases. He was shrewd enough to show no particular political
proclivities; so after the /Coup d'Etat/ of 1851, when they were
looking out for a mayor, his name was at once thought of. He was
elected, and from that time everything prospered with him. As a result
of much scheming by Abbe Faujas, Delangre was adopted as candidate for
the representation of Plassans, and was elected by a triumphant
majority over Maurin, the Republican candidate. After his election, he
voted steadily with the Government, thus accomplishing the object for
which Faujas was sent to the town. La Conquete de Plassans.

DELANGRE (MADAME), wife of the preceding. "She was a tame little woman
of a servant-like meekness, whose dissoluteness had remained a matter
of legend in Plassans." She was consulted by Madame Mouret regarding
the Home for Girls proposed by Abbe Faujas, and agreed to act on the
Committee. La Conquete de Plassans.

DELANGRE (LUCIEN), son of M. Delangre, mayor of Plassans. He was a
young barrister of four-and-twenty, short and sharp-eyed, with a
crafty brain, and pleaded with all the coolness of an old
practitioner. On the suggestion of Abbe Faujas he took a leading part
in starting the Club for Young Men at Plassans. La Conquete de
Plassans.

DELAROCQUE, a stockbroker who was married to the sister of Jacoby.
L'Argent.

DELCAMBRE, Public Prosecutor, afterwards Minister of Justice. Having
been for some time the lover of Baroness Sandorff, he was much annoyed
at her subsequent intimacy with Saccard, and after the failure of the
Universal Bank he instigated the proceedings which led to the
conviction of its officials. L'Argent.

DELESTANG (M.), son of a wine merchant at Bercy, was himself a retired
attorney and owner of a model farm. He was a man of great wealth, but
of foolish and shallow character. Having got into political trouble at
the time of the /Coup d'Etat/ of 1851, he was helped out of an awkward
position by Eugene Rougon. Acting on the suggestion of Rougon, he
married Clorinde Balbi, and soon after was appointed Minister of
Commerce and Agriculture. After Rougon's second retirement from office
Delestang was appointed to succeed him as Minister of the Interior.
Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

DELESTANG (MADAME), wife of the preceding. See Clorinde Balbi.

DELESTANG (HENRIETTE), sister of Delestang, the Minister, and wife of
M. de Combelot, Chamberlain to Napoleon III. She had a passion for the
Emperor, who, however, would not look at her. Son Excellence Eugene
Rougon.

DELEUZE founded, along with his brother, in 1822, the drapers' shop in
Paris known as /Au Bonheur des Dames/. When he died, his daughter
Caroline, who was married to Hedouin, succeeded to his share in the
business. Pot-Bouille.

The beginning of the business was exceedingly modest; there was only
one window in the shop, and the stock was a small one. At that time
the principal shop in the neighbourhood was the /Vieil Elbeuf/, of
which Baudu afterwards became proprietor. Au Bonheur des Dames.

DELEUZE (UNCLE), one of the founders of the shop known as /Au Bonheur
des Dames/. After the death of his elder brother he continued the
business along with his niece Madame Hedouin. He became much affected
by rheumatism, and left the management in the hands of Hedouin. Pot-
Bouille.

DELEUZE (CAROLINE). See Caroline Hedouin.

DELHOMME was the son-in-law of Pere Fouan, whose daughter Fanny he
married. He was the owner of a small farm, which he managed so well
that he became one of the richest of the peasant proprietors at
Rognes. He was a man of calm, upright nature, and was frequently
selected as arbiter in petty disputes. In his own affairs, however, he
allowed himself to be much influenced by his wife. He was a municipal
councillor, and ultimately became mayor. La Terre.

DELHOMME (MADAME), nee Fanny Fouan, wife of the preceding. At first a
not unamiable woman, she became hardened, and eventually the
cleanliness of her house became a mania with her. She was unkind to
her father, with whose little weaknesses she had no patience, and her
persecution of him was carried to such an extent that he ceased to
live with her and her husband. She was so annoyed at this that she
refused to speak to him again, and her ill-will was not even
terminated by his death. When her husband became mayor her conceit
knew no bounds. La Terre.

DELHOMME (ERNEST), known as Nenesse, son of the preceding. From
childhood he had a fancy for dressing himself up and aping the city
lads, and as he had always a horror of the land he went to Chartres to
assist in a restaurant, with which was connected a public dancing-
hall. His parents effected an insurance against him being drawn in the
conscription; but he drew a lucky number, and the loss of the money
caused his mother considerable annoyance. He proposed to take over the
/maison de tolerance/ at Chartres which belonged to his grand-aunt
Madame Badeuil and her husband, and he eventually did so by marrying
their granddaughter Elodie Vaucogne. La Terre.

DELOCHE, a bailiff in needy circumstances who resided at Briquebec. He
treated his son Henri very badly. Au Bonheur des Dames.

DELOCHE (HENRI), a young man who got employment at "The Ladies'
Paradise" at the same time as Denise Baudu. He fell in love with
Denise, but though she refused to marry him, they remained on friendly
terms, and on one occasion he threw a glass of wine at Favier, a
fellow-shopman, who repeated a slander about her. Au Bonheur des
Dames.

DELORME, a relation of the Quenus. On the suggestion of Madame
Chanteau he was nominated a member of the family council of Pauline
Quenu. He consented to her emancipation. La Joie de Vivre.

DENEULIN, a cousin of the Gregoires. Like his cousin, he inherited a
denier in the Montsou mines, but being an enterprising engineer,
tormented by the desire for a royal fortune, he had hastened to sell
out when the value of the denier reached a million francs. His wife
possessed through an uncle the little concession of Vandame, on which
were two abandoned pits--Jean-Bart and Gaston-Marie--and he invested
all his money in the reopening of these pits. He was a bad manager,
however, and after his wife's death he was pillaged by every one. The
great strike at Montsou completed his ruin, and he was ultimately
compelled to sell his pits to the great company which had already
acquired all the neighbouring mines, himself receiving a situation as
divisional engineer. Germinal.

DENEULIN (JEANNE), second daughter of the preceding. Having lost their
mother when very young, she and her sister were brought up alone,
somewhat badly, being spoiled by their father. Jeanne was fond of
painting, and had already had three landscapes refused by the /Salon/.
Her sister and she remained cheerful in the midst of their father's
loss of fortune, and proved themselves excellent managers. Germinal.

DENEULIN (LUCIE), elder daughter of Deneulin. She was fond of music,
and at one time talked of going on the stage. Like her sister, she
showed an admirable spirit at the time of her father's downfall.
Germinal.

DENIZET, examining magistrate (/juge d'instruction/) at Rouen. The son
of a cattle-breeder, he studied law at Caen, but had entered the
judicial department of the Government late in life; and his peasant
origin, aggravated by his father's bankruptcy, made his promotion
slow. After being substitute in various places he was sent to Rouen,
where he acted as examining magistrate. He was fond of his profession,
and at the beginning of the inquiry into the murder of President
Grandmorin allowed himself to be carried away by his desire to elicit
the facts of the case. He received, however, a hint from Camy-Lamotte,
the secretary to the Minister of Justice, that caution must be
exercised, and his desire to be decorated and removed to Paris was so
great that he sacrificed the interests of justice, and caused the case
to be hushed up. Later, the murder of Severine Roubaud reopened the
Grandmorin inquiry, and Denizet was allowed a free hand in dealing
with the affair. By a masterpiece of logical deduction he set out to
prove the complicity of Cabuche and Roubaud, a complicity, however,
which had no existence in fact, and the demonstration of which by
Denizet produced a gross error of justice. La Bete Humaine.

DEQUERSONNIERE, an architect with whom Louis Dubuche served his
apprenticeship. He was a former winner of the Grand Prize, and was
architect of the Civil Branch of Public Works, an officer of the
Legion of Honour, and a member of the Institute. His principal
production was the church of Saint-Mathieu, a building which shared
the characteristics of a pastry-cook's mould and a clock in the style
of the First Empire. L'Oeuvre.

DESBAZEILLES, President of the Assize Court at Rouen on the occasion
of the trial of Roubaud. He was a bachelor, and an old friend of
Madame Bonnehon; a friendship which still continued, notwithstanding
his sixty years. He was the literary glory of the Court, and his
cleverly turned sonnets were well known. La Bete Humaine.

DESFORGES, a stock-broker. The friendship of his wife with Hartmann,
the great financier, had been very useful to him. He died leaving a
fortune, the amount of which was minimized by some and exaggerated by
others. Au Bonheur des Dames.

DESFORGES (MADAME HENRIETTE), daughter of a Councillor of State and
widow of a stock-broker, who left her a small fortune. "Even during
her husband's lifetime, people said she had shown herself grateful
towards Baron Hartmann, whose financial tips had proved very useful to
them; and later on, after her husband's death, the acquaintance had
probably continued, but always discreetly." Octave Mouret, having met
her at the house of a mutual friend, made love to her, chiefly with a
view to gaining Baron Hartmann's assistance through her influence.
Madame Desforges was extremely jealous when she learned of Mouret's
affection for Denise Baudu and the probability of his marrying her. In
order to injure him, she introduced Bouthemont to Baron Hartmann, who
lent him money to start an opposition establishment called "The Four
Seasons." Au Bonheur des Dames.

DESIR (VEUVE), an elderly woman who kept a ball-room known as Bon-
Joyeux. She called all the miners her children, and grew tender at the
thought of the flood of beer which she had poured out for them during
the last thirty years. She gave her ball-room to the miners to hold a
meeting during the strike, and when the police arrived to break it up
she held the door long enough to allow those present to escape.
Germinal.

DESLIGNIERES, a toy-seller in Rue Saint-Roch. Au Bonheur des Dames.

DESMARQUAY, a money-changer in Rue Saint-Lazare. Trublot was employed
in his office. Pot-Bouille.

DESROCHES, a notary at Chene-Populeux. His house there was
requisitioned for the Emperor on 27th August, 1870, during the march
of the army of MacMahon. La Debacle.

DESROCHES (MADAME), mother of the preceding. Their house adjoined the
early home of Maurice Levasseur, and she had been good to him when he
was a child. When the house was requisitioned for the Emperor, she had
to give up her room to him and take refuge in the garret. La Debacle.

DESRUMAUX (BARON), one of the founders of the coal industry in the
north of France. For forty years he struggled without yielding, in the
midst of continual obstacles, and when at last his pits began to yield
a small profit, two neighbouring concessions, that of Cougny,
belonging to the Comte de Cougny, and that of Joiselle, belonging to
the Cornille and Jenard Company, nearly overwhelmed him with their
competition. Happily, on 25th August, 1760, a treaty was made between
the three concessions, uniting them into a single one known as the
Montsou Mining Company. Germinal.

DESVIGNES (ADELE), see Madame Bouchard.

DIDE (AUNT). See Adelaide Fouque.

DIEUDONNE (MADAME), wife of a small farmer at Seguiranne. She brought
up her niece Sophie, who was cured of phthisis by Doctor Pascal. Le
Docteur Pascal.

DOMERGUE was formerly Director of Roads and Bridges at Plassans. He
was the father of Madame Campardon. Pot-Bouille.

DOMERGUE (MADAME), wife of the preceding, lived a retired life at
Plassans with her husband. She introduced Octave Mouret to her
daughter, Madame Campardon, when he came to Paris. Pot-Bouille.

DOMERGUE (ROSE). See Madame Achille Campardon.

DROUARD (MADAME), an old actress at the Theatre des Varietes. She
played the part of Juno in the /Blonde Venus/. Nana.

DUBREUIL, a cousin of the Levasseurs. He was sub-manager of the sugar
refinery at Chene-Populeux at the time Weiss was employed there; then,
in 1868, he retired to a little property near Sedan which had come to
his wife as a legacy. On the evening before the battle, foreseeing the
disaster, he removed his wife and children to Bouillon, and next day
the house was completely destroyed during the struggle. La Debacle.

DUBRUEL, a pork-butcher at Plassans who took part in the attack on the
Town Hall. Three days later he was killed in the ambush arranged by
Pierre Rougon against the Republicans. La Fortune des Rougon.

DUBUCHE (ALICE), daughter of Louis Dubuche and of Regine Margaillan,
his wife. She was so delicate that at six years old she was still
unable to walk. Her father endeavoured to strengthen her muscles by
occasionally making her hold on to the bar of a trapeze for a few
moments, but the exercise only seemed to produce extreme terror in the
unfortunate child. L'Oeuvre.

DUBUCHE (GASTON), the elder child of Louis Dubuche and of Regine
Margaillan, his wife. At the age of ten he had the feeble limbs of a
little child, and though he regularly exercised on a trapeze, he was
unable to raise himself on his wrists, the least exertion producing
profuse perspiration. L'Oeuvre.

DUBUCHE (LOUIS), eldest son of a baker of Plassans, and companion from
childhood of Claude Lantier and Pierre Sandoz. His mother, who was
very ambitious, sent him to Paris, where he studied architecture at
the School of Art. His reverence for established formulas caused him
to be out of sympathy with the advanced school of painting advocated
by Claude Lantier and his friends, though he expressed large ideals
regarding his own profession. In time he became a first-class pupil at
the school, and with infinite trouble gained the regulation
"honourable mention." But his parents no longer sent him any money; it
became necessary for him to gain his living, and he was already tired
of earning a few francs by assisting an architect incapable of drawing
his own plans. By the aid of his master, Dequersonniere, he gained a
medal for a plan of a villa, and this brought him prominently under
the notice of Margaillan, a wealthy building contractor, whose
daughter Regine he married soon afterwards. The marriage was not a
success; his wife was always ailing, and the two children which were
born to them were so delicate as to cause constant anxiety. His
business relations with his father-in-law were a failure, some of his
ventures resulting in heavy loss, and Margaillan soon thrust him
aside. His only satisfaction was that he had been able to repay to his
parents the money they advanced for his education in Paris. L'Oeuvre.

DUBUCHE (MADAME LOUIS), wife of the preceding. See Regine Margaillan.
L'Oeuvre.

DUCAT, a franc-tireur of the woods at Dieulet. He was formerly a
bailiff at Blainville, but had to leave on account of a criminal
charge against him. He was a friend of Cabasse and of Guillaume
Sambuc, and took part in the murder of Goliath Steinberg. La Debacle.

DUCHESNE (GEORGES), a lover of Madame Bouchard, for whom she asked the
patronage of Eugene Rougon, which he refused on the ground of his
respect for her husband. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

DUCLOUX (LA), an old woman who lived in the neighbourhood of Croix de
Maufras, having formerly been servant in an inn. Misard was authorized
to employ her as gatekeeper on the railway after the death of Flore.
She was anxious to marry Misard, and seeing him constantly searching
for the little hoard of money which had been hidden by his deceased
wife, La Ducloux cleverly led him to believe that she knew where the
money was hidden. After she became the second Madame Misard she became
infected with the feverish anxiety of her husband, and joined with him
in his untiring search. La Bete Humaine.

DUMONTEIL, a rich silk manufacturer at Lyons. He supplied to Octave
Mouret a special make of silk with which he achieved great success. Au
Bonheur des Dames.

DU POIZAT PERE, an old bailiff at Coulonges. He was an old miser who
refused any money to his son Leopold, and even threatened him with a
pistol when he tried to borrow from him. He lived alone in an old
ruinous house with a loaded gun behind the door. His son, having
become a prefect, and wishing to dazzle the old man with his fine
position, attempted to force the door; then followed a drama
mysterious and without witness, at the end of which the old man was
found lying at the foot of his staircase, with his head split open.
Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

DU POIZAT (LEOPOLD), son of a process-server at Coulonges, a little
town in the district of Niort. His father, who had amassed a
considerable fortune by usury, sent him to study law in Paris, giving
him an allowance of only a hundred francs a month. Some months before
the revolution of February, 1848, he became acquainted with Eugene
Rougon, who, like himself, was boarding at that time with Madame
Correur at the Hotel Vanneau. During the Bonapartist intrigues he
assisted Rougon in some risky undertakings, and later on worked
energetically to secure his election to the Legislative Assembly as
member for Deux-Sevres. After the /Coup d'Etat/ Rougon used his
influence on behalf of Du Poizat, and got him appointed sub-prefect at
Bressuire. He resigned this appointment on the advice of Rougon after
the resignation of the latter as President of the State Council. After
Rougon's return to office he was appointed prefect at Niort. His
extreme harshness and overbearing conduct produced a public scandal,
and the sudden death of his father, under peculiar circumstances,
still further increased his unpopularity. He was at his own request
transferred to another prefecture by Delestang, who succeeded Rougon
as Minister of the Interior. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

DURIEU, a wealthy brewer who, carried away by the charm of Caroline
Hamelin, married her. He became an alcoholic maniac, and on one
occasion pursued his wife with a knife. A separation was arranged, and
Durieu ultimately died in an asylum. L'Argent.

DURIEU (MADAME). See Caroline Hamelin.

DURIEU (LE PERE), a messenger at Plassans. He was a taciturn old
Provencal. Le Docteur Pascal.

DUTILLEUL. A flour-miller at Montsou whose mills were stopped by the
strike. Germinal.

DUVEYRIER (ALPHONSE), a counsellor at the Court of Appeal; married
Clotilde, daughter of M. Vabre. He was a man of dissolute habits, to
whom his wife's cold nature and love of music were repugnant, and he
spent much of his time away from home. He squandered large sums of
money on a woman named Clarisse Bocquet, who afterwards left him.
Having found her again, he fell under her influence so completely as
to allow her to treat him abominably. So unhappy did he become, that
he attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself; the wound was,
however, not a serious one, and he recovered. Pot-Bouille.

DUVEYRIER (MADAME CLOTILDE), wife of the preceding, was the only
daughter of M. Vabre, a notary of Versailles. She did not get on well
with her husband, who found her cold nature irksome, and, perhaps even
more so, her love of piano-playing. Her musical evenings were attended
by Octave Mouret, the Josserands, and others of the same circle. Pot-
Bouille.

DUVEYRIER (GUSTAVE), son of the preceding, a thin, precocious boy of
sixteen, who was being educated at the Lycee Bonaparte. Pot-Bouille.

DUVILLARD, the owner of a large house bought by Octave Mouret for the
enlargement of his shop. Au Bonheur des Dames.



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ECOSSE (S.A.R. LE PRINCE D'), the son of a queen and heir to a throne.
He was tall and strong, with a fair beard and a fresh complexion. He
was an habitue of the Theatre des Varietes, and an admirer of Nana,
whom he wished to bring to London as a singer. Later, Nana spoke of
him with little respect. Nana.

ECREVISSE (L'), a celebrated /demi-mondaine/ of the Second Empire. La
Curee.

EMPEREUR, one of the dogs of the shepherd Soulas. He was a fierce
animal, and, like his master, hated Jacqueline Cognet. La Terre.

ERNESTINE, a woman who once occupied a room in Bourras's house, and
had written her name in candle-smoke on the ceiling. Au Bonheur des
Dames.

ESCORAILLES (MARQUIS D'), father of Jules d'Escorailles. "The
Escorailles family was one of the oldest in Plassans, where it was
treated with the utmost respect; and Rougon, who in former days had
often dragged his worn-down boots past the old Marquis's house, took a
pride in protecting and assisting the young man. The family retained
an enthusiastic devotion for Henri V, though it allowed its heir to
serve the Empire." The Marquis and his wife visited Paris specially to
ask the assistance of Rougon in furthering the interests of their son.
After Rougon's proceedings against the Sisters of the Holy Family, in
the interest of the Charbonnels, they again visited Paris to insist on
their son retiring from the administration, as they said they could
not allow him to be mixed up in any persecution of the Church. Son
Excellence Eugene Rougon.

ESCORAILLES (MARQUISE D'), wife of the preceding. Son Excellence
Eugene Rougon.

ESCORAILLES (JULES D'), son of the Marquis d'Escorailles, a nobleman
of Plassans, at whose request Rougon got Jules an appointment as
auditor at the Council of State. After Rougon's return to office he
appointed M. Escorailles his private secretary. He carried on an
intrigue with Madame Bouchard. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

ESPANET (MARQUIS D'), husband of the Marquise Adeline. He was made
aide-de-camp to the Emperor, but by his riotous conduct scandalized
the older nobility. He never appeared in society with his wife. La
Curee.

ESPANET (MARQUISE D'), one of the most prominent leaders of society of
the Second Empire, was the inseparable companion of Madame Haffner,
whose name was always associated with hers by the public. They were
both schoolfellows and friends of Madame Renee Saccard. La Curee.

EUGENIE, cook for a short time to Madame Theophile Vabre. Pot-Bouille.

EUGENIE, a child buried in the cemetery of Cayenne at Saint-Ouen,
where Bongard and Sandoz read the inscription on a poor cross, without
railing, set up slantingly across a path, "Eugenie, three days."
L'Oeuvre.

EUGENIE (EMPRESS), referred to in Son Excellence Eugene Rougon, and La
Debacle.

EULALIE, a laundress who lived in Rue Montmartre. Gilquin, when
visiting her, chanced to overhear in an adjoining room a conversation
between some Italians who had come to Paris to assassinate the
Emperor. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

EULALIE, a fish-seller, mistress of Bec-Sale, alias Boit-sans-soif.
L'Assommoir.

EULALIE (LA MERE), a vegetable seller at Montmartre. She lodged with
Madame Mechain. L'Argent.

EUSEBE, a choir-boy in the church of Saint-Saturnin at Plassans. He
accompanied Abbe Bourrette to the deathbed of Abbe Compan. La Conquete
de Plassans.



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FAGEROLLES PERE, a manufacturer of zinc objects of art who lived in a
gloomy old house in Rue Vieille-du-Temple. His workshop was on the
ground floor, above it was a warehouse, and still higher, facing a
courtyard, were the rooms in which he lived with his son Henri. He
intended to bring up Henri as a designer of ornaments for his own
trade, and when the boy showed higher ambitions, taking to painting
proper and talking about the School of Art, there were quarrels,
blows, a series of falling-outs and reconciliations. Even when the
young man had achieved some success, the manufacturer of artistic
zincwork, while resigned to letting him have his will, treated him
harshly, like a lad who was spoiling his career. Later, in the desire
of a decoration for himself, the merchant forgot his former
opposition; he held out his son, who had now arrived at notoriety, as
an additional claim for his own distinction. L'Oeuvre.

FAGEROLLES (HENRI), son of the preceding. In the gloomy house of his
father he grew up like a true child of the Paris pavements. Though his
father desired him to become a designer of ornaments for use in his
trade, the lad had higher ambitions, and desiring to study painting,
became a student at the School of Art. Notwithstanding this orthodox
training, he was a disciple of Claude Lantier and his somewhat
revolutionary band, whom he delighted by sly attacks upon his
professors and praise of themselves. He paid particular court to
Claude, under whose artistic influence he had come, and though he
continued to paint with tricky skill, he no longer talked in anything
but the jargon of the new open-air school. This did not prevent him,
however, from elsewhere making fun of the adepts of that school, whom
he accused of doing their work with a kitchen ladle. He made a success
with a picture of an actress before her glass, which caught the
popular taste, and afterwards appeared as an engraving. Taken up by
Naudet, the picture-dealer, he began to receive large prices for his
work, and by doing everything in his power to make his way in society
his position soon became secure. He was elected a member of the
Hanging Committee of the /Salon/, and secured the admission of Claude
Lantier's picture /L'Enfant Mort/. He made large sums of money, in the
spending of which he was assisted by Irma Becot. L'Oeuvre.

FANNY (MADEMOISELLE), a work-girl in the neighbourhood of Octave
Mouret's shop, who was sent there by her employer to match some
merinos. Au Bonheur des Dames.

FAUCHERY (LEON), a journalist and dramatic author, who wrote a piece
for the Theatre des Varietes called /La Petite Duchesse/. After
numerous liaisons he became for a time the lover of Comtesse Sabine
Muffat, and under the pressure of Comte Muffat was forced to give to
Nana a leading part in /La Petite Duchesse/. Fauchery's liaison with
the Comtesse Muffat merely interrupted for a time one of older
standing with Rose Mignon, whose husband appeared to be content with
the position of major-domo in a /menage a trois/. Nana.

FAUCHEUR (LE PERE) kept at Bennecourt a small country inn much
frequented by artists. In connection with the tavern he carried on a
small business in groceries. After the death of the Faucheurs the inn
was carried on by their niece Melie. L'Oeuvre.

FAUCHEUR (LA MERE), wife of the preceding. She was a daughter of old
Poirette. L'Oeuvre.

FAUCONNIER (MADAME), carried on a laundry business in Paris, and gave
employment to Gervaise Macquart after her desertion by Lantier. She
continued on friendly terms with Gervaise after the latter's marriage
to Coupeau, at which she was present. When drink had brought about the
Coupeaus' ruin, Madame Fauconnier again took Gervaise into her
employment, giving her work until her increasing carelessness and
intemperance made her dismissal necessary. L'Assommoir.

FAUCONNIER (VICTOR), the young son of Madame Fauconnier. He was an
idle scamp about four years older than Nana Coupeau, and was her
constant playfellow and companion in all kinds of mischief.
L'Assommoir.

Nana, in talking over with Satin the events of her childhood, referred
to Victor as a youth who had always shown vicious tendencies. Nana.

FAUJAS (ABBE), a priest of Besancon who, having got into some trouble
there, was sent to Plassans by the Government with the view of
undermining the political influence of the clergy, who were strongly
Legitimist in their views. At Plassans he took up his residence, along
with his mother, in the house of Francois Mouret. At first he kept
entirely in the background, but assisted by Madame Mouret, who had
fallen in love with him, and by Madame Felicite Rougon, acting under
instructions from her son Eugene, the Minister of State, Faujas soon
began to make himself felt in Plassans. He appeared to take no
interest in politics, but little by little he gained power, until "the
conquest of Plassans" was accomplished and a supporter of the
Government was elected as deputy. Meantime his influence over Madame
Mouret had become complete, and he had practically taken possession of
the Mourets' house, his sister and her husband, as well as his mother,
living there with him. Thrust aside and neglected, Francois Mouret was
wrongfully removed to the asylum at Les Tulettes, where confinement
soon unhinged his not over-strong intellect. The Abbe now became even
more arrogant, and Madame Mouret was barely tolerated in her own
house. Ultimately Francois Mouret escaped from the asylum, and
returning by night to his home, set fire to it; along with him, the
Abbe Faujas and all his relations perished in the flames. La Conquete
de Plassans.

FAUJAS (MADAME), mother of the preceding. She accompanied the Abbe to
Plassans and took up house with him there. Absolutely devoted to her
son, she made herself his slave, and sacrificed everything and every
one to his interests. It was largely through her that the gradual
ousting of the Mourets from their own home became possible; and to
accomplish her ends she stopped short at nothing; seldom speaking, but
always watching, she was ready to grasp each opportunity as it arose.
Retribution came with the escape of Francois Mouret from the asylum,
and Madame Faujas perished along with the other members of her family
in the conflagration raised by him. La Conquete de Plassans.

FAUJAS (OLYMPE). See Madame Olympe Trouche.

FAUQUENOIX, an associate of Baron Desrumaux in the department of the
mines of Montsou. Germinal.

FAUVELLE, a sugar-refinery at Montsou, which suffered on account of
the strike of miners. Germinal.

FAVIER, a salesman in the silk department of "The Ladies' Paradise."
He had for some reason an ill-will towards Denise Baudu and spread
scandalous stories about her. Henri Deloche, her friend, hearing him
do so on one occasion, threw a glass of wine in his face. Au Bonheur
des Dames.

FAYEUX, a collector of rents at Vendome. He did business in connection
with Busch, and also with La Mechain, whose cousin he was said to be.
He speculated on the bourse through Mazaud, and after the downfall of
the Universal Bank it was found that he had embezzled large sums from
persons employing him. L'Argent.

FENIL (ABBE), head of the theological seminary at Plassans. He was a
keen ecclesiastic, with strong Legitimist principles, and from the
first took up a position antagonistic to Abbe Faujas. Having great
influence with the Bishop of Plassans, he was for some time able to
prevent Faujas from receiving preferment; a hint from Government,
however, caused the Bishop to change his views, and Abbe Fenil was for
the time routed. It was suspected that he ultimately induced Antoine
Macquart to plan the escape of Francois Mouret from the asylum at Les
Tulettes; an escape which led to the death of Abbe Faujas. La Conquete
de Plassans.

FERAUD-GIRAUD FRERES, a firm of ship-owners who joined the great
transport syndicate formed by Aristide Saccard. L'Argent.

FERNAND, a student of chemistry with Combette at Chene Populeux. He
was a cowardly lad, whom fear of the Prussians drove into a fever. La
Debacle.

FERNANDE, a chorus-girl at the Theatre des Varietes. Nana.

FETU (MERE), an old woman whom Helene Grandjean visited at the request
of Abbe Jouve. At her house Helen frequently met Dr. Deberle, who was
attending her professionally at the same time. Below this house was
the flat taken by M. Malignon, who had appointed Mere Fetu caretaker,
and it was through her that Helene came to know of the assignation
between Malignon and Madame Deberle. Une Page d'Amour.

FIFI, the sobriquet of Fanny Menu, q.v. Pot-Bouille.

FINE, the sobriquet of Josephine Gavaudan. La Fortune des Rougon.

FINET (ARISTIDE), the founder of the drapery business known as the
/Vieil Elbeuf/, in Paris. He was the father-in-law and predecessor of
Hauchecorne. Au Bonheur des Dames.

FINET (DESIREE), daughter of the preceding. She married Hauchecorne,
her father's principal salesman, who carried on the business. Au
Bonheur des Dames.

FINET, a doctor of medicine who resided at Cloyes. He was disgusted by
the brutality of his patients, whom he accused of always sending for
him when it was too late. His indifference became such that he did not
make any inquiries about the death of Rose Fouan, whose end was
hastened by her son Buteau, or that of Pere Fouan, who was burned
alive. La Terre.

FIRMIN, chief huntsman to Napoleon III at Compiegne. Son Excellence
Eugene Rougon.

FLAMINIO, the Comtesse Balbi's man-servant, "with a face like a
brigand's, and a long black beard." Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

FLEUR D'EPINE, a celebrated chief of brigands who preceded Beau-
Francois. La Terre.

FLEURANCE, a putter in the Voreux pit who worked along with the
Maheus. She was found dead in her bed, and the vacancy created in the
pit was filled by Etienne Lantier. Germinal.

FLORE, the elder daughter of Madame Misard (Aunt Phasie). After
illness rendered her mother unfit for work, Flore replaced her as
gatekeeper at the railway crossing at Croix-de-Maufras. She was a tall
and strong girl of eighteen, with a magnificent head of fair hair;
disdainful of the male, she had thrashed at least one would-be lover.
When she was quite little she had loved Jacques Lantier, and now it
was to him alone she would have given herself. Jacques did not care
for her, however, and she came to know that he had a mistress,
Severine Roubaud. Convinced of her own right to be loved, for she was
stronger and handsomer than the other, the girl was tortured by
jealousy; and each Friday, as she saw the express rush past, bearing
the two lovers to Paris, was seized with an imperious desire to end
everything, and by causing their death prevent them from passing any
more. She accordingly brought about a terrible railway accident, in
which a large number of persons were killed; but the crime was
useless, for Severine and Jacques escaped with trifling injuries. The
thought that Jacques knew her guilt, and must in future regard her as
a monster, rendered life hateful to Flore, and to meet death she set
out on a walk of heroic determination through the tunnel of Malaunay,
allowing herself to be cut in pieces by an express train. La Bete
Humaine.

FLORENCE, an actress at the variety theatres. Marsy offered her a
valuable house. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

Pauline Letellier met her one day on the boulevards accompanied by
Malignon. Juliette Deberle, who was a little jealous, assured her that
Florence was at least forty and very plain-looking. Une Page d'Amour.

FLORENT, elder son of a widow who took as her second husband M. Quenu,
who, however, died three years later, leaving a son. Florent was a
gentle, studious youth, and his mother lavished all her affection on
him, dying in the end from hardships endured in her struggle to keep
him at college in Paris. After her death Florent took young Quenu, his
half-brother, to live with him in Paris, giving up all thought of
continuing to attend the Law School, and taking pupils in order to
find means of sustenance. Years of hardship followed, and Florent
became imbued with Republican ideas. Two days after the /Coup d'Etat/
of 1851, while the military were firing on the mob in the Boulevard
Montmartre, he was knocked down and stunned. When he recovered, he
found that he was lying beside the body of a young woman, whose blood
had oozed from her wounds on to his hands. He was horrified at the
sight, and rushed away to join a party of men who were throwing up
barricades in an adjoining street. Worn out with fatigue, he fell
asleep, and on awakening found himself in the hands of the police. His
hands were still stained with the blood of the young woman, and the
authorities assumed that he was a dangerous character. The semblance
of a trial followed; he was condemned and transported to Cayenne.
After incredible hardships and sufferings, he escaped and returned to
France. Famished and exhausted, he tramped towards Paris, and had
fallen in a faint on the road when he was overtaken by Madame
Francois, who took him the rest of the journey on her cart. During his
long absence his brother Quenu had at first been taken in by Gradelle,
a brother of his mother, to whose business of pork-butcher he
ultimately succeeded. Florent on his return from exile was warmly
received by his brother and Madame Quenu, who told him that Gradelle,
his uncle, had died, leaving a considerable sum, and that as there was
no will he was entitled to a half-share. He refused to accept this,
but agreed to live with the Quenus. This arrangement answered well at
first, but Madame Quenu got tired of seeing him always about the
house, and let him see that he must secure employment. After some time
he got an appointment as deputy inspector at the Fish Market. He was
introduced by Gavard to a small revolutionary circle which met nightly
in a cafe kept by M. Lebigre, and of which he soon became the leader.
Meantime, Mlle. Saget, who from a chance word of Pauline, the little
daughter of Quenu, had learned Florent's past history, spread the
story in the markets, and a strong feeling was awakened against him.
His sister-in-law, Lisa, alarmed lest her husband should be
compromised by the revolutionary conspiracy, thought it her duty to
inform the police. She learned, however, that Florent's history had
all along been known, Lebigre being a police spy, and that only a
favourable opportunity was being awaited to arrest the whole gang of
conspirators. The blow fell soon afterwards, and Florent was again
sentenced to transportation to Cayenne. Le Ventre de Paris.

FLORY was born at Saintes, his father being employed in the local
registry office. He came to Paris and entered the office of Mazaud,
the stockbroker. At first he did his duties well, but was soon led
astray and got into debt. Having started speculation on his own
account, he became deeply involved in the Universal bank, and on the
failure of that concern was left with a liability of a hundred
thousand francs, to meet which he had not a single sou. Subsequently
he was arrested and imprisoned for embezzling a large sum from Mazaud,
his employer. L'Argent.

FONTAN (ACHILLE), an actor at the Theatre des Varietes who played
parts in /La Blonde Venus/ and /La Petite Duchesse/. He became for a
time the lover of Nana, but treated her so abominably that she left
him. Nana.

FONTENAILLES (MLLE. DE), was descended from an aristocratic family,
but was in great poverty when a situation was found for her in "The
Ladies' Paradise" through the influence of Madame Desforges. She
proved incapable of anything but the most menial work, and ultimately
married Joseph, one of the porters in the establishment. Au Bonheur
des Dames.

FOUAN, alias BUTEAU. See Buteau.

FOUAN (FANNY). See Madame Delhomme.

FOUAN (HYACINTHE), the elder son of Pere Fouan and Rose Maliverne, his
wife. He was an idler and drunkard, who, when he had left the army,
after having seen service in Africa, had taken to tramp the fields,
refusing to do any regular work, but living by theft and poaching, as
though he were still looting a trembling nation of Bedouins. Withal
there looked out of his fine, sunken eyes a merriment that was not
altogether evil, the open heart of good-humoured drunkenness. He lived
with his daughter in a ruined hut amongst some rocks near Rognes.
After the division of land by his father, Hyacinthe soon mortgaged his
share and drank the proceeds, never paying to his parents any part of
the rent which had been agreed upon. For a time he sheltered his
father, but frightened the old man by searching for some bonds which
he had concealed. He had, however, neither the cold rapacity of his
sister Fanny nor the murderous instincts of his brother Buteau. La
Terre.

FOUAN (JOSEPH CASIMIR), the father of Marianne, Louis, Michel, and
Laure. Born in 1766, he belonged to a family of peasant proprietors
which for centuries had owned land, in varying quantities, in the
neighbourhood of Rognes. They were originally serfs of the Roques-
Bouqueval family. Bit by bit they acquired their land, until, when the
Revolution of 1789 arrived, the Fouan of that day, Joseph Casimir, was
the owner of twenty-one acres--the conquest of four centuries from the
seigneurial territory. When, in 1793, the rest of the estate was
declared national property and sold in lots by auction, he was too
timid to purchase any, and had the mortification to see La Borderie
sold to Isidore Hourdequin, a citizen of Chateaudun, for a fifth of
its value. When he became old he divided his twenty-one acres between
three of his family, Marianne, Louis, and Michel, and gave a
corresponding sum of money to his younger daughter Laure, who had been
brought up as a sempstress and was in service at Chateaudun. La Terre.

FOUAN (LAURE), younger daughter of the preceding. See Madame Charles
Badeuil.

FOUAN (LOUIS), known as Pere Fouan. He was the son of Joseph Casimir
Fouan, and married Rose Maliverne, by whom he had three children,
Hyacinthe, Buteau, and Fanny. He received seven acres of land from his
father, and his wife brought him twelve acres more. This land he
cultivated well, and with a passion for the soil, as such, which
amounted to frenzy. It alone had his love, and his wife and children
trembled before him under a rude despotism. At seventy years of age he
was still healthy, but his limbs were failing, and he reluctantly
decided to divide his land between his children. He retained his house
and garden, which had come to him with his wife, and his family
undertook to pay him a rent for the land handed over to them. Upon
this, along with a nest-egg of three hundred francs per annum, known
to no one, the old people would be able to live comfortably. The
division made, the family soon became rapacious; Hyacinthe never paid
anything, Buteau only a part, and Delhomme, Fanny's husband, alone
fulfilled his obligation. Mere Fouan died, and the old man lived alone
for a year; after that he went to his daughter Fanny Delhomme, but her
unkindness made his life miserable, and he accepted in turn the
hospitality of his two sons, Buteau and Hyacinthe, both of whom had
come to suspect the existence of his nest-egg and were anxious to
secure it. In this sordid aim Buteau was eventually successful, and
his subsequent treatment of the old man was even more infamous than it
had been before. From this time Pere Fouan lived in isolation; he
spoke to none and looked at none; as far as appearances went, he might
have been blind and dumb. But even worse was to follow. He had seen
the assault on Francoise Mouche which resulted in her death, and to
ensure his silence he was murdered by Buteau and Lise, his son and
daughter-in-law, who attempted to suffocate him, and subsequently
burned him alive in his bed. La Terre.

FOUAN (MADAME ROSE), wife of the preceding, nee Maliverne. She worked
on the farm like a man, rising first and going to bed last, her only
reward being that she had lived. Stupid, and reduced by labour to the
level of an animal, she had always trembled before the despotic
authority of her husband. She brought up her family without love, and
as if she resented their requiring even the simple necessaries of
life. She did not long survive the division of land by her husband.
Her favouritism for Hyacinthe, her elder son, excited the jealousy of
Buteau, who in the course of a quarrel threw her to the ground, when
she received such injuries that she died a few hours afterwards. La
Terre.

FOUAN (MARIANNE). See La Grande.

FOUAN (MICHEL). See Pere Mouche.

FOUAN (OLYMPE), daughter of Hyacinthe. Her mother, who was a tramp,
ran off when the child was three years old, leaving her to grow up as
best she could. She was passionately fond of geese, of which she had a
large flock. When little more than a child, she had as her lovers
Delphin Becu and Nenesse Delhomme. La Terre.

FOUCARMONT, a naval officer who in ten years saved some money which he
proposed to invest in the United States. He fell into the hands of
Nana, however, and was soon completely ruined. When she turned him out
of doors penniless, she merely advised him to go back to his ship. He
was drowned later in the China seas. Nana.

FOUCART, the owner of a cheap restaurant frequented by Jory,
Mahoudeau, and their band. L'Oeuvre.

FOUCART (MADAME), the nurse who attended Sidonie Rougon at the birth
of Angelique and left the child at the foundling hospital. She
assisted Sidonie both by taking her into her house and lending her
money, but when Madame Foucart herself fell into difficulties Sidonie
did nothing for her, not even paying back what she owed. It was from
Madame Foucart that Hubert subsequently got information regarding the
parentage of Angelique. Le Reve.

FOUCHARD, father of Honore Fouchard, and uncle, on the mother's side,
of Henriette and Maurice Levasseur. He was a small farmer at Remilly,
who to make money more quickly took up the trade of butcher also.
Avaricious to the last degree, and with a nature of unpitying
hardness, he opposed the marriage of Honore with his servant Silvine
Morange. At the end of two years of waiting Honore went off, after a
terrible scene with his father, though the old man still kept the
girl, with whom he was well pleased. When the French troops were
marching to Sedan, Fouchard concealed all the animals on his farm,
burying even his supply of bread and wine, in the hope of being able
to sell to better advantage later on. The death of his son, who was
killed in the battle, cost him a few tears, but he was quickly
consoled by some good purchases of horses stolen from the battlefield.
He took Prosper Sambuc as farm-worker, because the soldier, being
liable to imprisonment by the Prussians, could not ask him for any
wages. He began to do a considerable trade in butcher-meat with the
conquering army, selling them all the diseased animals that he could
secure. A suspicion of being concerned in the death of Goliath
Steinberg led to his arrest, but he was released soon afterwards,
thanks to the intervention of Captain von Gartlauben, a friend of the
Delaherches. La Debacle.

FOUCHARD (HONORE), only son of the preceding. At twenty years of age,
in 1867, he drew a good number for the conscription, but on account of
the opposition of his father to his marriage with Silvine Morange, he
enlisted, and was sent to Africa, in the artillery. When he heard that
Silvine had become the mistress of Goliath Steinberg he became so ill
that he had to remain in hospital for three months. He afterwards
received a letter from Silvine saying that she had never loved any one
but him, and when passing through Remilly on his way to the front, he
saw her and forgave everything. His battery was among those which on
1st September, 1870, defended the Calvary d'Illy, but was cut to
pieces by the terrible fire of the Prussians. Honore was killed, and
fell across his gun, firmly grasping the letter from Silvine, which in
his death-struggle he had drawn from his bosom. La Debacle.

FOUGERAY (MADEMOISELLE DE), eldest daughter of the Baronne de
Fougeray. She entered a convent, because it was said, a young man with
whom she was in love had died. The event created much talk in all
classes of society in Paris. Nana.

FOUQUE (ADELAIDE), generally known as Aunt Dide, the common ancestress
of the Rougon-Macquarts, born at Plassans in 1768, was the last
representative of a family who had owned a market-garden there for
several generations. "This girl, whose father died insane, was a long,
lank, pale creature, with a scared look and strange gait." In 1786,
six months after the death of her father, she married one of her own
workmen, named Rougon, "a rough-hewn peasant from the Basses Alpes."
Rougon died fifteen months after his marriage, leaving a son named
Pierre. Scarcely a year had elapsed before the widow took as her lover
a man named Macquart, who lived in a hovel adjoining her own property,
and two children were born. The legitimate son, Pierre Rougon, was
brought up along with his half brother and sister, Antoine and Ursule,
with whom, however, he was not on good terms. From her eighteenth year
Adelaide was subject to nervous fits, which brought on convulsions,
and though she was not yet insane, these repeated shocks produced
cerebral disorders. "She lived from day to day like a child; like a
fawning animal yielding to its instincts." These conditions continued
for about twenty years, till the death of Macquart, and the children
grew up as best they could. By this time Pierre realized the
situation, and playing upon his mother's mental weakness, he brought
her completely under his sway. On the death of Macquart, Adelaide went
to live in the hovel bequeathed to her by him, and Pierre sold the
family property, appropriating the price. Living at first entirely
alone, her intellect became more and more affected by the recurring
convulsive fits. Subsequently her grandson Silvere Mouret lived with
her, but after his execution, of which she was a witness, she became
quite insane. La Fortune des Rougon.

She was always under restraint, and remained a living sore to the
family. The little property which belonged to her son Antoine Macquart
was close to the asylum where she was confined, and Pierre Rougon
seemed to have placed him there to look after her. Adelaide seldom
spoke, and for twelve years had never moved from her chair. La
Conquete de Plassans.

At 104 years old she was still living in the asylum at Les Tulettes.
She was little better than a skeleton, and in her long, thin face it
was only in the eyes that there was any sign of life. Immovable in her
chair, she remained from year to year like a spectre, calling up the
horrors of her family history. A sudden accident, the death of little
Charles Saccard from nasal hemorrhage, wakened in her sleeping brain
recollections of years before; she saw again the murder of Silvere,
killed by a pistol-shot, and she saw also her lover Macquart, the
smuggler, killed like a dog by the gendarmes. The shock proved too
much for her feeble strength, and she died the following day (in
1873), aged 105 years, three months, and seven days. Le Docteur
Pascal.

FOUSSET (LE PERE), tenant of the farm of Millouard, in the Canton of
Orgeres. He was a victim of the band of brigands commanded by Beau-
Francois. La Terre.

FRANCHOMME (LOUIS), a cousin of Francoise Hamelin and her brother,
with whom he went to reside for a time when recovering from a fever.
His wife having become fond of Angelique Marie, who lived at that time
with Francoise Hamelin, he obtained permission to take her to Paris,
where she could be taught the trade of making flowers. Unfortunately,
however, he died three months later. Le Reve.

FRANCHOMME (THERESE), wife of the preceding. After the death of her
husband, she, being in delicate health, was obliged to leave the city
and go to live with her brother Rabier, a tanner, who was settled at
Beaumont. She died a few months afterwards, leaving to the care of the
Rabiers the child Angelique, whom she had brought with her from Paris.
Le Reve.

FRANCIS, the hairdresser of Nana. He was in the habit of lending money
to his customers, and on one occasion he found, with the assistance of
Labordette, a hundred thousand francs for Comte Muffat, who required
the money for Nana. Nana.

FRANCIS, coachman to the Gregoires. He also did the heavy work of the
household. Germinal.

FRANCOIS, a wine-merchant whose shop was situated at the corner of Rue
des Poissonniers and of Rue de la Goutte d'Or. Coupeau frequently
spent whole days there. L'Assommoir.

FRANCOIS, concierge and footman in Nana's establishment. He was the
husband of Victorine, the cook. He received visitors in the hall,
wearing a gorgeous livery. Nana.

FRANCOIS (MADAME), a market-gardener of Nanterre. She drove regularly
to Paris in the early morning with her vegetables, and on one occasion
found Florent lying on the road from want and exhaustion. She took him
to town in her cart, and subsequently showed kindness to him and
Claude Lantier. Le Ventre de Paris.

FRANCOISE, housemaid to Madame Theophile Vabre. Pot-Bouille.

FRANCOISE, the servant of M. and Madame Sandoz in their little house
in Rue Nollet. L'Oeuvre.

FRANGIPANE, a horse which belonged to Baron Verdier and ran in the
Grand Prix de Paris. Nana.

FREDERICK (MADAME), a widow who held the position of "second hand" in
the dress department of "The Ladies' Paradise." Au Bonheur des Dames.

FIRMAT, an old peasant of Rognes who was a neighbour of Mouche. He
became paralysed. La Terre.

FIRMAT (LA), wife of the preceding. She was well known in the village
for her knowledge of animals, and was frequently consulted when it
would otherwise have been necessary to call in a veterinary surgeon.
She worked hard to support her invalid husband, to whom she was
devoted, and wept at the thought that he was soon to die. La Terre.



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GABET (MERE), an old woman who assisted the Huberts with their
washing. She became ill, and being in great poverty, was assisted by
Angelique, and later by Felicien. Le Reve.

GAGA, an elderly /demi-mondaine/ who had flourished in the reign of
Louis Philippe, and was still notorious in the Second Empire. She had
a daughter named Lili, who became the mistress of the Marquis Chouard.
Nana.

GAGEBOIS, glass-works at Montsou. The strike of miners led to the
fires being extinguished. Germinal.

GAGNIERE, an artist, one of the band of Claude Lantier. He belonged to
Melun, where his well-to-do parents, who were both dead, had left him
two houses; and he had learned painting, unassisted, in the forest of
Fontainebleau. His landscapes were conscientious and excellent in
intent, but his real passion was music. Becoming more and more
engrossed in this, he took lessons in playing the piano from a middle-
aged lady whom he married soon afterwards. He established himself at
Melun in one of his two houses, going to Paris two or three times a
month to attend a concert, and he continued to exhibit each year at
the /Salon/ one of his little studies of the banks of the Seine.
L'Oeuvre.

GALISSARD, a haberdasher of Plassans, whose daughter married Professor
Lalubie. She was a pretty girl to whom Claude Lantier and Sandoz used
to sing serenades.

GARCONNET, a Legitimist who was Mayor of Plassans at the time of the
/Coup d'Etat/. He was taken prisoner by the insurgents. La Fortune des
Rougon.

GARTLAUBEN (VON), captain in the Prussian Army. During the occupation
of Sedan he was billeted on Delaherche. He was a person of some
importance, as his uncle had been made Governor-General at Rheims, and
exercised sovereign power over the district. Fascinated by Gilberte
Delaherche, his chief wish was to be taken for a man of refinement,
and not for a barbarous soldier. He was able to render some services
to the Delaherches, and to make the Prussian occupation easier for
them. La Debacle.

GASC, proprietor of a racing-stable. One of his horses, named Boum,
ran in the Grand Prix de Paris. Nana.

GASPARINE, a tall, handsome girl of Plassans, with whom Achille
Campardon fell in love. She had no money, however, and he married her
cousin Rose Domergue, who had a dowry of thirty thousand francs. Tears
and recriminations followed, and Gasparine went to Paris, where for
some time she had a situation in the shop of Madame Hedouin. Madame
Campardon having fallen into ill-health, her husband returned to his
first love, and a liaison existed between him and Gasparine for a
considerable time. Ultimately she went to live with the Campardons,
and managed their household affairs. Pot-Bouille.

GASTON was the son of a general, and was the same age as the Prince
Imperial, though much stronger than he. The Emperor frequently made
inquiries regarding the child. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

GAUDE, bugler in the 106th regiment of the line. "He was a big,
skinny, sorrowful, taciturn man, without a hair on his chin, and blew
his instrument with the lungs of a whirlwind." On the 1st September,
during the defence of the Hermitage, he became seized with the madness
of heroism, and continued to blow after his comrades had been slain
and until he himself was shot down. La Debacle.

GAUDIBERT (ISIDORE), Mayor of Barbeville since 1850, wrote some poetry
on political subjects, and was decorated by the Minister of State,
Eugene Rougon. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

GAUDRON, husband of Madame Gaudron. He was described as having the
sluggishness of a beast. L'Assommoir.

GAUDRON (MADAME), a wool-carder who lived with her husband and their
large family in the same tenement-house as the Coupeaus and the
Lorilleux. She was one of the guests at the Coupeaus' wedding.
L'Assommoir.

GAUDRON FILS, the eldest child of the Gaudrons, was a journeyman
carpenter. L'Assommoir.

GAUJEAN (M.), a silk manufacturer of Lyons who was dissatisfied with
the monopoly created by the large establishments, such as that of
Octave Mouret, and thought it could be broken by the creation of
special shops in the neighbourhood, where the public could find a
large and varied choice of articles. With this object he assisted
Robineau to purchase Vincard's business by giving him credit to a
large amount; the scheme was not successful, and he lost heavily. Au
Bonheur des Dames.

GAUTIER, a wine-grower at Saint-Eutrope, with whom Francois Mouret had
dealings at one time. La Conquete de Plassans.

GAVARD, originally kept a rotisserie or poultry-roasting establishment
in the Rue Saint-Jacques, at which time he became acquainted with
Florent and Quenu. In 1856 he retired from this business, and to amuse
himself took a stall in the poultry-market. "Thenceforth he lived
amidst ceaseless tittle-tattle, acquainted with every little scandal
in the neighbourhood." Gavard was a leading spirit in the
revolutionary circle which met in Lebigre's wine-shop, and was the
means of bringing Florent to attend the meetings there. He was
arrested at the same time as Florent and was transported. Le Ventre de
Paris.

GAVAUDAN (JOSEPHINE), a market-woman of Plassans who married Antoine
Macquart in 1826. She was much addicted to drink, but worked in order
to keep her husband in idleness. She died in 1850. La Fortune des
Rougon.

GEDEON, an ass which belonged to Mouche. It was very mischievous, and
on one occasion got access to a vat of new wine, with the result that
it became extremely drunk. La Terre.

GEORGES, a young man whose acquaintance Renee Saccard made by chance
while walking one day on the Quai Saint-Paul. Her fancy for him passed
without her ever having asked his family name. La Curee.

GERALDINE, a character in /La Petite Duchesse/, played by Clarisse
Besnus at the Theatre des Varietes. It was originally intended that
the part should be played by Nana. Nana.

GILQUIN (THEODORE), a lodger at Madame Correur's hotel at the same
time as Eugene Rougon and Du Poizat. A man of shady character, he was
frequently employed by Rougon, and by a fortunate accident was able to
give him warning of the Orsini plot against the life of the Emperor.
He was rewarded with the appointment of Commissary of Police at Niort.
On the order of Rougon, he arrested Martineau, Madame Correur's
brother. He was removed from his position on account of having
compromised himself by taking a bribe to procure a conscript exemption
from service. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

GIRAUD (TATA) kept at Plassans a boarding-school for children, where
the sculptor Mahoudeau had known Pierre Sandoz and other comrades who
met later in Paris. L'Oeuvre.

GODARD (ABBE), cure of Bazoches-le-Doyen. The authorities of Rognes,
which was in his parish, refused to provide for a priest of their own,
and Abbe Godard, in order to perform Mass, had to walk each Sunday the
three kilometres which separated the two communes. He was a short,
stout man of hasty temper, who was disgusted with the indifference and
irreligion of his parishioners, and his services were the shortest and
baldest possible. In spite of his temper, he had, however, a passion
for the miserable, and to these he gave everything--his money, his
linen, almost the clothes off his back. La Terre.

GODEBOEUF, a seller of herbs who occupied the shop in Rue Pirouette
which formerly belonged to Gradelle, the pork-butcher. Le Ventre de
Paris.

GODEMARD, a pupil of Dequersonniere, the architect. See Gorju.
L'Oeuvre.

GOMARD, the keeper of a working-man's cafe in Rue de la Femme-sans-
Tete, under the sign /Au Chien de Montargis/. Claude Lantier
occasionally took his meals there. L'Oeuvre.

GONIN, a family of fisher-folks who lived at Bonneville. It consisted
of Gonin, his wife, and one little girl. A cousin of the wife, named
Cuche, came to live with them after his house had been washed away by
the sea. Gonin soon after fell into bad health, and his wife and Cuche
treated him so badly that the police talked of an inquiry. Pauline
Quenu tried to reform the little girl, who had been allowed to grow up
wild. La Joie de Vivre.

GORJU, a pupil of Dequersonniere, and himself a future architect. On
one of the walls of the studio one could read this brief statement:
"The 7th June, Gorju has said that he cared nothing for Rome. Signed,
Godemard." L'Oeuvre.

GOUJET, a blacksmith from the Departement du Nord, who came to Paris
and got employment in a manufactory of bolts. "Behind the silent
quietude of his life lay buried a great sorrow: his father in a moment
of drunken madness had killed a fellow-workman with a crowbar, and
after arrest had hanged himself in his cell with a pocket-
handkerchief." Goujet and his mother, who lived with him, always
seemed to feel this horror weighing upon them, and did their best to
redeem it by strict uprightness. "He was a giant of twenty-three, with
rosy cheeks and blue eyes, and the strength of a Hercules. In the
workshop he was known as Gueule d'Or, on account of his yellow beard.
With his square head, his heavy frame, torpid after the hard work at
the anvil, he was like a great animal, dull of intellect and good of
heart." For a time the Coupeaus were his neighbours, and he came to
love Gervaise with a perfectly innocent affection, which survived all
disillusionments, and subsisted up to the time of her death. It was he
who lent her money to start a laundry, and afterwards repeatedly
assisted her when in difficulties. L'Assommoir.

GOUJET (MADAME), mother of the preceding, was a lace-mender, and lived
with her son in part of the house first occupied by the Coupeaus. She
showed much kindness to them, though she was distressed by her son's
infatuation for Gervaise, and did not altogether approve of his
lending her money to start a laundry. Notwithstanding this, she
continued to assist Gervaise until neglect of work entrusted made it
impossible to do so longer. She died in October, 1868, of acute
rheumatism. L'Assommoir.

GOURAUD (BARON), was made a Baron by Napoleon I, and was a Senator
under Napoleon III. "With his vast bulk, his bovine face, his
elephantine movements, he boasted a delightful rascality; he sold
himself majestically, and committed the greatest infamies in the name
of duty and conscience." La Curee.

GOURD (M.), at one time valet to the Duc de Vaugelade, and afterwards
doorkeeper in the tenement-house in Rue de Choiseul which belonged to
M. Vabre, and was occupied by the Campardons, the Josserands, and
others. He spent much of his time spying on the tenants, and posed as
guardian of the morals of the establishment. Pot-Bouille.

GOURD (MADAME), wife of the preceding. She was the widow of a bailiff
at Mort-la-Ville, and she and her present husband owned a house there.
She was exceedingly stout, and suffered from an affection of the legs
which prevented her from walking. Pot-Bouille.

GRADELLE, brother of Madame Quenu, senr., and uncle of Florent and
Quenu. He was a prosperous pork-butcher in Paris, and after Florent's
arrest he took young Quenu into his business. He died suddenly,
without leaving a will, and Quenu succeeded to the business, and to a
considerable sum of money which was found hidden at the bottom of a
salting-tub. Le Ventre de Paris.

GRAND-DRAGON (LE), one of the band of brigands led by Beau-Francois.
La Terre.

GRANDE (LA), elder daughter of Joseph Casimir Fouan, and sister of
Pere Fouan, Michel Mouche, and Laure Badeuil. Married to a neighbour,
Antoine Pechard, she brought to him seven acres of land against
eighteen which he had of his own. Early left a widow, she turned out
her only daughter, who, against her mother's will, wished to marry a
poor lad named Vincent Bouteroue. The girl and her husband died of
want, leaving two children, Palmyre and Hilarion, whom their
grandmother refused to assist. At eighty years of age, respected and
feared by the Fouan family, not for her age but for her fortune, she
exacted the obedience of all, and still directed the management of her
land. She bitterly reproached her brother Louis for dividing his
property between his children, and warned him that he need not come to
her when they had turned him into the street, a threat which she
carried into effect. She took delight in the squabbles of the Fouan
family, exciting their cupidity by promising them a share of her
property at her death. Meantime she made a will which was so
complicated that she hoped it would lead to endless lawsuits amongst
her heirs. La Terre.

GRANDGUILLOT, a notary at Plassans. He embezzled large sums belonging
to his clients, among whom was Dr. Pascal Rougon, and thereafter fled
to Switzerland. Le Docteur Pascal.

GRANDJEAN (M.), son of a sugar-refiner of Marseilles. He fell in love
with Helene Mouret, a young girl of great beauty, but without fortune;
his friends bitterly opposed the match, and a secret marriage
followed, the young couple finding it difficult to make ends meet,
till the death of an uncle brought them ten thousand francs a year. By
this time Grandjean had taken an intense dislike for Marseilles, and
decided to remove to Paris. The day after his arrival there he was
seized with illness, and eight days later he died, leaving his wife
with one daughter, a young girl of ten. Une Page d'Amour.

GRANDJEAN (MADAME HELENE), wife of the preceding. See Helene Mouret.

GRANDJEAN (JEANNE), born 1842, was the daughter of M. Grandjean and
Helene Mouret, his wife. She inherited much of the neurosis of her
mother's family along with a consumptive tendency derived from her
father, and from an early age had been subject to fits and other
nervous attacks. One of these illnesses, more sudden and severe than
usual, caused her mother to summon Doctor Deberle, and thus led to an
intimacy which had disastrous results. Jeanne's jealous affection for
her mother amounted almost to a mania, and when she came to suspect
that Dr. Deberle had become in a sense her rival, she worked herself
into such a nervous state that she exposed herself to a chill, and
having become seriously ill, died in a few days, at the age of
thirteen. Une Page d'Amour.

GRANDMORIN (LE PRESIDENT), one of the directors of the Western Railway
Company. "Born in 1804, substitute at Digne on the morrow of the
events in 1830, then at Fontainebleau, then at Paris, he had
afterwards filled the posts of procurator at Troyes, advocate-general
at Rennes, and finally first president at Rouen. A multi-millionaire,
he had been member of the County Council since 1855, and on the day he
retired he had been made Commander of the Legion of Honour." He owned
a mansion at Paris in Rue du Rocher, and often resided with his
sister, Madame Bonnehon, at Doinville. His private life was not
unattended by scandal, and his relations with Louisette, the younger
daughter of Madame Misard, led to her death. A somewhat similar
connection with Severine Aubry, a ward of his own, had less
immediately serious consequences, as he arranged for her marriage to
Roubaud, an employee of the railway company, whom he took under his
protection. Three years later Roubaud learned the truth by chance, and
murdered Grandmorin in the Havre express between Malaunay and
Barentin. The President left a fortune of over three and a half
million francs, among other legacies being one to Severine Roubaud of
the mansion-house of Croix-de-Maufras. La Bete Humaine.

GRANDMORIN (BERTHE), daughter of the preceding, was the wife of a
magistrate, M. de Lachesnaye. She was a narrow-minded and avaricious
woman, who affected ignorance of her father's real character, and the
influence of her husband tended to increase her meanness. After the
murder of President Grandmorin, when vague suspicions fell on Roubaud,
Berthe took up a position antagonistic to her old play-fellow Severine
Roubaud, in the hope that a legacy left by Grandmorin to her would be
cut down. La Bete Humaine.

GRANDSIRE (M.), the justice of peace who assisted the Huberts in
making the necessary arrangements for their adoption of Angelique. Le
Reve.

GRANOUX (ISIDORE), one of the group of conservatives who met in Pierre
Rougon's yellow room to declaim against the Republic. La Fortune des
Rougon.

GRAS (MADAME), an old lady living in the Rue des Orties, who boarded
and lodged young children for a small sum. When Denise Baudu got a
situation in "The Ladies' Paradise," she put her young brother Pepe
under the charge of Madame Gras for a time. Au Bonheur des Dames.

GREGOIRE (CECILE), daughter of Leon Gregoire. Her parents were devoted
to her, and brought her up in happy ignorance, allowing her to do much
as she liked. They taught her to be charitable, and made her dispense
their little gifts to the poor; these were always in kind, as they
held that money was likely to be misused. When the great strike broke
out at Montsou, Cecile could comprehend nothing of the revolt of the
poor, or the fury with which they regarded those better off than
themselves, and when she fell into the hands of a fierce crowd was
almost paralysed under the attack of La Brule and of Pere Bonnemort,
from which she escaped with difficulty. A little later she chanced to
call on a charitable errand at Maheu's house, and unfortunately was
left alone for a few moments with Bonnemort, who was now supposed to
be helpless. The sight of her seemed, however, to waken memories in
the old man, for in an accession of madness he found strength to throw
himself upon the poor girl and strangle her. Germinal.

GREGOIRE (EUGENE), grandfather of Leon Gregoire. He inherited the
share in the Montsou mine bought by his father, but the dividends at
that time were small, and as he had foolishly invested the remainder
of the paternal fortune in a company that came to grief, he lived
meanly enough. The share passed to his son Felicien. Germinal.

GREGOIRE (FELICIEN), son of the preceding and father of Leon Gregoire.
The family fortune began with him, for the value of the share in the
Montsou mine had greatly increased, and he was able to buy the
dismembered estate of Piolaine, which he acquired as national property
for a ludicrous sum. However, bad years followed; it was necessary to
await the conclusion of the revolutionary catastrophes, and afterwards
Napoleon's bloody fall. The little fortune of Felicien Gregoire passed
to his son Leon. Germinal.

GREGOIRE (HONORE), great-grandfather of Leon Gregoire. He was in 1760
steward on the estate of Piolaine, a property which belonged to Baron
Desrumaux. When the Montsou treaty was made, Honore, who had laid up
savings to the amount of some fifty thousand francs, yielded
tremblingly to his master's unshakable faith. He gave up ten thousand
francs, and took a share in the Montsou Company, though with the fear
of robbing his children of that sum. When he died his share passed to
his son Eugene. Germinal.

GREGOIRE (LEON), great-grandson of Honore Gregoire. It was he who
profited at a stupefying rate of progress by the timid investment of
his ancestor. Those poor ten thousand francs grew and multiplied with
the company's prosperity. Since 1820 they had brought in cent for cent
ten thousand francs. In 1844 they had produced twenty thousand; in
1850, forty. During two years the dividend had reached the prodigious
figure of fifty thousand francs; the value of the share, quoted at the
Lille Bourse at a million, had centrupled in a century. Six months
later an industrial crisis broke out; the share fell to six hundred
thousand francs. But Leon refused to be alarmed, for he maintained an
obstinate faith in the mine. When the great strike broke out he would
not be persuaded of its seriousness, and refused to admit any danger,
until he saw his daughter struck by a stone and savagely assaulted by
the crowd. Afterwards he desired to show the largeness of his views,
and spoke of forgetting and forgiving everything. With his wife and
daughter Cecile he went to carry assistance to the Maheus, a family
who had suffered sadly in the strike. Cecile was unfortunately left
alone with old Bonnemort, Maheu's father, who in a sudden frenzy
attacked the girl and strangled her. This terrible blow entirely
shadowed the lives of Gregoire and his wife. Germinal.

GREGOIRE (MADAME LEON), wife of the preceding, was the daughter of a
druggist at Marchiennes. She was a plain, penniless girl, whom he
adored, and who repaid him with happiness. She shut herself up in her
household, having no other will but her husband's. No difference of
tastes separated them, their desires were mingled in one idea of
comfort; and they had thus lived for forty years, in affection and
little mutual services. Germinal.

GRESHAM, a jockey who, it was said, had always bad luck. He rode
Lusignan in the Grand Prix de Paris. Nana.

GROGNET, a perfumer in Rue de Grammont, whose business was ruined by
the growth of Octave Mouret's great establishment. Au Bonheur des
Dames.

GROSBOIS, a Government surveyor who had also a small farm at
Magnolles, a little village near Rognes. Liable to be summoned from
Orgeres to Beaugency for purposes of survey, he left the management of
his own land to his wife, and in the course of these constant
excursions he acquired such a habit of drinking that he was never seen
sober. That mattered little, however; the more drunk he was the better
he seemed to see; he never made a wrong measurement or an error in
calculation. People listened to him with respect, for he had the
reputation of being a sly, acute man. La Terre.

GUENDE (MADAME DE), a friend of the Saccards. She was a woman well
known in the society of the Second Empire. La Curee.

GUEULE-D'OR, the sobriquet of Goujet. L'Assommoir.

GUEULIN, nephew of Narcisse Bachelard, was a clerk in an insurance
office. Directly after office hours he used to meet his uncle, and
never left him, going the round of all the cafes in his wake. "Behind
the huge, ungainly figure of the one you were sure to see the pale,
wizened features of the other." He said that he avoided all love
affairs, as they invariably led to trouble and complications, but he
was ultimately caught by his uncle in compromising circumstances with
Mademoiselle Fifi, who was a protegee of the old man. Bachelard
insisted on their marriage, and gave the girl a handsome dowry. Pot-
Bouille.

GUIBAL (MADAME), wife of a barrister well known at the Palais de
Justice, who led, it was said, a somewhat free life. The husband and
wife were never seen together, and Madame Guibal consoled herself with
M. De Boves, from whom she derived such large sums of money that he
found difficulty in carrying on his own establishment. She was a tall,
thin woman, with red hair, and a somewhat cold, selfish expression. Au
Bonheur des Dames.

GUICHON (MADEMOISELLE), the office-keeper at the railway station at
Havre. She was a slim, fair woman about thirty years of age, who owed
her post to M. Dabadie, the chief station-master, with whom it was
generally believed she was on intimate terms. Nevertheless Madame
Lebleu, who lived on the same corridor and kept perpetual watch, had
never been able to discover anything. La Bete Humaine.

GUIGNARD, a peasant who belonged to the same village as Zephyrin
Lacour. He desired to sell his house, and Zephyrin and Rosalie, his
sweetheart, looked forward to buying it. Une Page d'Amour.

GUILLAUME, a peasant of Rognes. He owned a piece of land beside the
hovel of Hyacinthe Fouan. La Terre.

GUILLAUME, a young swineherd at La Borderie. He afterwards became a
soldier. La Terre.

GUIRAUD (M. DE), a magistrate of Paris, who was a friend of Doctor
Deberle and visited at his house. Une Page d'Amour.

GUIRAUD (MADAME DE), wife of the preceding. She was on intimate terms
with Madame Deberle, and took part in the amateur theatricals arranged
by that lady. Une Page d'Amour.

GUIRAUDE (MADAME), mother of Sophie and Valentin, patients of Dr.
Pascal. Her husband died of phthisis, and she herself suffered from a
slow decomposition of the blood. She died soon after her son Valentin.
Le Docteur Pascal.

GUNDERMANN, the great Jew banker, master of the Bourse and of the
financial world. He was a man of over sixty years of age, who had long
suffered from ill-health. Constantly engaged in business of the
greatest magnitude, he never went to the Bourse himself; indeed, he
even pretended that he sent no official representatives there. He was
not on friendly terms with Saccard, and when the Universal Bank was
started he placed himself in antagonism towards it. The wild
speculation in the shares of the bank gave him his chance; his
principle was that when a share rose above its true value a reaction
was bound to follow. Accordingly, when the bank shares rose to two
thousand francs he began to sell, and though Saccard by steady buying
forced them to over three thousand francs, he continued to sell. His
losses meantime were, of course, enormous, but having got information
through Baroness Sandorff that Saccard's resources were at an end, he
made a final effort, with the result that a panic ensued, the price of
the shares broke, and Saccard, along with the bank, was ruined.
L'Argent.

GUNTHER (OTTO), captain in the Prussian Guard. He was a cousin of
Weiss on the mother's side. His feelings were strongly anti-French,
and he refused to give any assistance to Henriette Weiss after the
death of her husband, when she was searching for his body. La Debacle.

GUSTAVE, Maxime Saccard's hairdresser. La Curee.

GUTMANN, a soldier in the Prussian Army, who took part in the attack
on Bazeilles. It was he who tore Henriette Weiss from the arms of her
husband, who, being a civilian, was about to be executed for firing
upon the Prussian troops. Henriette found him later in the ambulance
at Remilly. He was unable to speak, a ball having carried away half
his tongue, and they could only guess from the sounds he made that his
name was Gutmann. Henriette, moved by pity, remained with him to the
end, and she alone followed him to the place of burial. La Debacle.

GUYOT (ABBE), a priest of Saint-Eutrope. He took duty temporarily at
Artaud while Abbe Mouret was ill. La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

GUYOT-LAPLANCHE, a man of considerable importance in the Second
Empire, whom Clorinde Balbi gained to the cause of Eugene Rougon. Son
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HAFFNER, a well-known manufacturer, at Colmar. He was a multi-
millionaire, and became a politician during the time of the Second
Empire. He was the husband of Suzanne Haffner. La Curee.

HAFFNER (MADAME SUZANNE), wife of a celebrated manufacturer of Colmar,
a millionaire twenty times over, whom the Empire was transforming into
a politician. She was the inseparable companion of the Marquise
d'Espanet, and had been a schoolfellow of Madame Renee Saccard. La
Curee.

HALLEGRAIN (CAPTAIN JACQUES), the father of Christine. He was a Gascon
from Montauban. A stroke of paralysis in the legs caused his
retirement from the army, and he settled at Clermont with his wife and
daughter. One day, when they were at church, he died of a second
attack of paralysis. L'Oeuvre.

HALLEGRAIN (MADAME), wife of the preceding. She survived him for five
years, remaining at Clermont, managing as well as she could on her
scanty pension, which she eked out by painting fans, in order to bring
up her daughter as a lady. During these five years Madame Hallegrain
became each day paler and thinner, until she was only a shadow; one
morning she could not rise, and she died, looking sadly at Christine,
with her eyes full of great tears. L'Oeuvre.

HALLEGRAIN (CHRISTINE), daughter of the preceding, was born at
Strasburg. Her father died when she was twelve years old, and her
mother, who had a severe struggle to make a living for herself and her
child, only survived him five years. Christine was left penniless and
unprotected, without a friend, save La Mere des Saints-Anges, the
Superior of the Sisters of the Visitation, who kept her in the convent
until she got a situation as reader and companion to Madame Vanzade,
an old lady who lived in Paris. Chance led to a meeting between
Christine and Claude Lantier on the evening of her arrival in the
city, and the acquaintanceship ripened into love. Ultimately she ran
off with him, and they took up house at Bennecourt, where they lived
happily for several years, a son being born to them in 1860. She was
devoted to Claude, who was engrossed in his art, and when she saw that
he was becoming discontented in the country she urged his return to
Paris. There he became obsessed by the idea of a masterpiece, by means
of which he was to revolutionize the world of art, and Christine
allowed him to sacrifice their child and herself to his hopes of fame.
They began to encroach on the principal of their small fortune, and
while this lasted were not unhappy, though Claude's increasing mental
disturbance already gave cause for anxiety. Their marriage had taken
place some time previously, and this had tended to make her position
more comfortable. The exhaustion of their means was followed by great
hardships, but Christine continued to sacrifice everything to her
husband. The death of their child drew him away from his task for a
time, but he again took it up, his mind becoming more and more
unhinged. Christine made a last effort to detach him, but the call of
his masterpiece was too strong, and one morning she found him hanging
in front of the picture, dead. She fell on the floor in a faint, and
lay there to all appearance as dead as her husband, both of them
crushed by the sovereignty of art. L'Oeuvre.

HAMELIN (CAROLINE), sister of Georges Hamelin, accompanied him to
Paris after the death of their father. She took a situation as
governess, and soon after married a millionaire brewer in whose house
she was employed. After a few years of married life, she was obliged
to apply for a separation in order to avoid being killed by her
husband, a drunkard who pursued her with a knife in fits of insane
jealousy. Living with her brother, in the flat of the Orviedo mansion
above that occupied by Saccard, she made the acquaintance of the
latter, becoming after a time his housekeeper and subsequently his
mistress. During the absence of her brother in the East, after the
foundation of the Universal Bank, she did everything she could to
protect his interests, and tried to persuade Saccard to discontinue
the gambling in the shares of the bank which ultimately led to its
ruin. Like her brother, she sold all her shares in the bank, and after
the final crash divested herself of all her means in the assistance of
ruined shareholders. She followed her brother in his flight to Rome.
L'Argent.

HAMELIN (GEORGES), son of a Montpellier physician, a remarkable
savant, an enthusiastic Catholic, who had died poor. After his
father's death he came to Paris, along with his sister Caroline, and
entered the Polytechnic school. He became an engineer, and having
received an appointment in connection with the Suez Canal, went to
Egypt. Subsequently he went to Syria, where he remained some years,
laying out a carriage road from Beyrout to Damascus. He was an
enthusiast, and his portfolio was full of schemes of far-reaching
magnitude. Having met Saccard in Paris, he joined with him in the
formation of the Universal Bank, which was intended to furnish the
means of carrying out some at least of his schemes. Against his wish,
Hamelin was made chairman of the bank, and he thus became liable for
the actions of the other directors, though he was himself absent in
the East forming the companies in which the bank was interested. He
was a man of high honour, and when the gamble in the shares of the
bank reached an excessive point, he did all he could to restrain it,
even selling his own shares. The money received for these was
subsequently used in relieving other shareholders who lost their all.
When the crash came, Hamelin was arrested along with Saccard, and,
after trial, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and a fine of
three thousand francs. By a technicality of law they were allowed a
month to appeal, during which they were at liberty. With the
connivance of Eugene Rougon, they fled the country, Hamelin going to
Rome, where he secured a situation as an engineer. L'Argent.

HAMELIN (FRANCOISE), sister of M. Hamelin, a farmer, who lived at
Soulanges. She brought up Angelique Marie, who was handed over to her
by the Foundling Hospital when only a few days old. Angelique remained
with her until she went to Paris with Madame Franchomme, some years
later. Le Reve.

HARDY, tax-collector at Cloyes. La Terre.

HARTMANN (BARON), Director of the Credit Immobilier, a concern which
had large interests in property immediately adjoining "The Ladies'
Paradise." The Baron had been a lover of Madame Desforges, and through
her influence he agreed to give financial support to Octave Mouret,
thereby enabling him to carry out the large schemes of extension to
which he had long looked forward. Au Bonheur des Dames.

HAUCHECORNE, principal assistant in the draper's shop known as /Vieil
Elbeuf/. He married Desiree, the daughter of his employer, and
succeeded to the business, which he ultimately handed over to Baudu,
his own son-in-law. Au Bonheur des Dames.

HAUCHECORNE (MADAME), wife of the preceding. See Desiree Finet.

HAUCHECORNE (ELIZABETH), daughter of the preceding. See Madame Baudu.

HAUTECOEUR (MONSEIGNEUR JEAN D') was a member of one of the oldest and
proudest families in France. He was for some time in the army, and
until he was forty years of age he led an adventurous life, travelling
everywhere and having many strange experiences. At last he chanced to
meet Mademoiselle Pauline, daughter of the Comte de Valencay, very
wealthy, marvellously beautiful, and scarcely nineteen years of age.
They were married, but at the end of a year Pauline had a son and
died. A fortnight later M. d'Hautecoeur entered into Holy Orders, and
soon became a priest; twenty years afterwards he was made a bishop.
During all that time he refused to see Felicien, his son, who had been
brought up by an old abbot, a relation of his wife. He intended to
have his son brought up as a priest, but the lad having no vocation,
he gave up the idea and brought him to live at Beaumont. There
Felicien met and fell in love with Angelique, but the Bishop sternly
forbade any thought of marriage between them, and even went the length
of arranging a marriage between his son and Claire de Voincourt. A
touching personal appeal by Angelique had no effect in gaining the
Bishop's consent, but he was secretly much moved, and when she fell
into ill-health he himself came to administer the last rites of the
Church. Her semi-miraculous recovery led to the Bishop consenting to
his son's marriage, which was celebrated a few months later in the
cathedral of Beaumont. Le Reve.

HAUTECOEUR (MARQUISE JEAN XII DE). See Paule de Valencay.

HAUTECOEUR (ANGELIQUE DE). See Angelique Marie.

HAUTECOEUR (FELICIEN D'), only child of Jean d'Hautecoeur, who was
afterwards Bishop of Beaumont. Felicien's mother having died at his
birth, his father took Holy Orders, and refused to see him for over
twenty years. Having ultimately come to live with his father at
Beaumont, Felicien met and fell in love with Angelique, the adopted
daughter of Hubert, the chasuble-maker. The Bishop having absolutely
refused to consent to the marriage, the Huberts endeavoured to
separate the lovers by persuading Angelique that Felicien no longer
cared for her. They were aided in this by a rumour that Felicien was
to marry Claire de Voincourt. A meeting between Angelique and Felicien
cleared away the mists, but by this time the girl had fallen into ill-
health and appeared to be dying. The Bishop, who had formerly been
secretly moved by an appeal made to him by Angelique, came to
administer to her the last rites of the Church. A semi-miraculous
recovery followed, and, the Bishop having consented, Felicien was
married to Angelique in the cathedral of Beaumont. The recovery had,
however, been a mere spark of an expiring fire, for as Felicien led
his new-made wife to the cathedral porch, she slipped from his arm,
and in a few moments was dead. Le Reve.

HAZARD, a horse in the Mechain stable. It ran in the Grand Prix de
Paris. Nana.

HEDOUIN (CHARLES), originally a salesman in the draper's shop known as
/Au Bonheur des Dames/, he became a partner by marrying Caroline
Deleuze, a daughter of one of the proprietors. He fell into ill-
health, but when he died the business was left in a flourishing
condition. Pot-Bouille.

HEDOUIN (MADAME CAROLINE), wife of M. Hedouin, the proprietor of a
draper's shop in Paris known as "The Ladies' Paradise." She was a
handsome woman with strong commercial capabilities, and during the
frequent absences of her husband she undertook the management of the
business. When Octave Mouret came to Paris, he first got employment at
"The Ladies' Paradise," and with a view to establishing his position
he conceived the idea of becoming Madame Hedouin's lover. She
discouraged his advances, however, and he gave up his situation. M.
Hedouin died soon afterwards, and his widow, finding the
responsibilities of business too heavy, invited Octave Mouret to
return; a few months afterwards they were married. Pot-Bouille.

After her marriage with Octave Mouret the business extended rapidly,
and an enlargement of the shop soon became necessary. While the work
was in progress she met with an accident which resulted in her death
three days later. Au Bonheur des Dames.

HELENE (DUCHESSE), the principal character in /La Petite Duchesse/, a
piece by Fauchery played at the Theatre des Varietes. The part was
originally given to Rose Mignon, but was played by Nana, who was a
complete failure in it. Nana.

HELOISE, an actress at the Folies. She was plain-looking, but very
amusing. Au Bonheur des Dames.

HENNEBEAU, general manager of the Montsou Mining Company, was born in
the Ardennes. In his early life he had undergone the hardships of a
poor boy thrown as an orphan on the Paris streets. After having
followed the courses of the Ecole des Mines, at the age of twenty-four
he became engineer to the Sainte-Barbe mine, and three years later he
became divisional engineer in the Pas-de-Calais, at the Marles mines.
When there he married the daughter of the rich owner of a spinning
factory at Arras. For fifteen years they lived in the same small
provincial town, and no event broke the monotony of existence, not
even the birth of a child. An increasing irritation detached Madame
Hennebeau, who was disdainful of this husband who gained a small
salary with such difficulty. The misunderstandings between them became
more pronounced, but with the view of pleasing his wife Hennebeau
accepted a situation in an office in Paris. But Paris only completed
their separation, for she immediately threw herself into all the
luxurious follies of the period. During the ten years spent there she
carried on an open intrigue with a man whose desertion nearly killed
her. It was then that her husband accepted the management of the
Montsou mines, still hoping that his wife might be changed down there
in that desolate black country. When the great strike of miners broke
out he at first minimized its seriousness, thinking that it would not
last a week. By his lack of decided action he forfeited to some extent
the confidence of his directors, but he regained this by the
subsequent measures taken by him for bringing the strike to an end,
and ultimately received the decoration of an officer of the Legion of
Honour. His domestic life was, however, once more embittered by the
discovery of a liaison between his wife and his nephew, Paul Negrel.
Germinal.

HENNEBEAU (MADAME), wife of the preceding, was the daughter of a rich
spinner at Arras. She did not get on well with her husband, whom she
despised for his small success, and after she accompanied him to Paris
she entered into a notorious liaison with a man whose subsequent
desertion nearly killed her. For a time after their removal to Montsou
she seemed more contented, but this did not last long, and she
ultimately consoled herself with her husband's nephew, Paul Negrel.
She was angry at the strikers, as they interfered with the arrival of
provisions for a dinner-party which she was giving; but she was
incapable of understanding the sufferings of the miners and their
families in the hardships they were forced to undergo. Germinal.

HEQUET (CAROLINE), a well-known /demi-mondaine/ in Paris. Her father,
who was a clerk in Bordeaux, was long since dead, and her mother,
accepting the situation, looked after Caroline's financial affairs
with the strictest regularity. She bought the estate known as /La
Mignotte/ after Nana tired of it. Nana.

HEQUET (MADAME), mother of the preceding. She was a model of
orderliness, who kept her daughter's accounts with severe precision.
She managed the whole household from some small lodgings two stories
above her daughter's, where, moreover, she had established a work-room
for dressmaking and plain sewing. Nana.

HERBELIN, a great chemist whose discoveries revolutionized that
science. Lazare Chanteau, who was for some time in his laboratory as
an assistant, got from him the idea of extracting chemicals from
seaweed by a new process. La Joie de Vivre.

HERMELINE, a student of rhetoric at the college of Plassans. He was in
love with Sister Angele, and once went the length of cutting his hands
with his penknife to get an opportunity of seeing and speaking to her
while she dressed his self-inflicted hurts. In the end the student and
the Sister ran off together. L'Oeuvre.

HIPPOLYTE, valet to Duveyrier. Pot-Bouille.

HIPPOLYTE, valet to Hennebeau, the manager of the Montsou Mining
Company. Germinal.

HOMME NOIR (L'), an apparition said to haunt the Voreux pit. It was
said to take the form of an old miner who twisted the necks of bad
girls. Germinal.

HONORINE, a maid-servant with the Gregoires. She was a girl of some
twenty years, who had been taken in as a child and brought up in the
house. Germinal.

HONORINE, a servant in the employment of the Badeuils. When dismissed
for misconduct she became insolent.

HORN (LEA DE), a Parisian /demi-mondaine/ whose drawing-room was
frequented by some of the old ministers of Louis Philippe. Nana.

HORTEUR (ABBE), parish priest of Bonneville, was a thick-set man of
peasant-like build whose red hair was still unsilvered by his fifty
years. Much of his time was spent in cultivating a small plot of
ground in the churchyard, which he had enclosed as a vegetable garden.
With regard to religion, he had come to be contented with the
observance of outward ceremonies, and his tolerance had degenerated
into a state of indifference as to the spiritual condition of his
flock. He was on good terms with Chanteau, with whom it was his custom
to play draughts every Saturday. La Joie de Vivre.

HOTON, a sugar-refinery at Montsou. Its prosperity was greatly
affected by the strike of miners. Germinal.

HOURDEQUIN (ALEXANDRE), born 1804, was the only son of Isidore
Hourdequin. He studied at the college of Chateaudun, but made little
progress, as his only interest was in farming, for which he had an
absolute passion. On the death of his father he became master of La
Borderie, which he cultivated on the latest principles of agriculture,
spending large sums upon it. He married a sister of Baillehache, the
notary, who brought him a considerable sum, which also went into the
land. His wife died in a few years, leaving him with two children, a
son named Leon, who to his great disappointment became a soldier, and
a daughter who died young. In spite of these misfortunes he retained
all his passion for the land, and in it he gradually sunk all his
fortune, getting little from it in return. A liaison with Jacqueline
Cognet, followed, and she gradually acquired complete influence over
him. He died as the result of an accident brought about by Tron, one
of his own servants, who was also a lover of Jacqueline. La Terre.

HOURDEQUIN (MADAME), wife of the preceding. See Mademoiselle
Baillehache. La Terre.

HOURDEQUIN (ISIDORE), born 1767, was the descendant of an old peasant
family of Cloyes, which had educated and elevated itself into a
middle-class position in the sixteenth century. They had all been
employed in the administration of the salt monopoly, and Isidore, who
had been left an orphan, was worth sixty thousand francs, when at
twenty-six, the Revolution cost him his post. As a speculation he
bought the farm of La Borderie for a fifth of its value, but the
depreciation of real estate continued, and he was unable to resell it
at the profit of which he had dreamed. He therefore determined to farm
it himself, and about this time he married the daughter of a
neighbour, who brought him an additional hundred and twenty acres of
land. He had one son, Alexandre, and died in 1831. La Terre.

HOURDEQUIN (LEON), son of Alexandre Hourdequin. He had an intense
hatred of the soil and became a soldier, being promoted Captain after
Solferino. He did not visit his home more than once a year, and was
much annoyed to discover the liaison between his father and Jacqueline
Cognet. He endeavoured to get the latter into disgrace, but the only
effect was to make a complete breach between his father and himself.
La Terre.

HOURDEQUIN (MADEMOISELLE), the second child of Alexandre Hourdequin.
She was a delicate and charming girl, tenderly loved by her father.
She died young, a short time after her mother. La Terre.

HOUTELARD, a fisherman of Bonneville, whose house was washed away
after the destruction by the sea of the barricade erected by Lazare
Chanteau. La Joie de Vivre.

HUBERT, a chasuble-maker who lived in a house immediately adjoining
the cathedral of Beaumont. "For four hundred years the line of
Huberts, embroiderers from father to son, had lived in this house." At
twenty years of age he fell in love with a young girl of sixteen,
Hubertine, and as her mother refused to give her consent to their
union they ran away and were married. On the morning after Christmas,
1860, he found the child Angelique lying in a fainting condition in
the snow outside the cathedral door. Having taken her into his house,
he and his wife soon became attached to her, and as they had no
children, ultimately adopted her as their daughter. Le Reve.

HUBERTINE, wife of the preceding. At the age of sixteen she fell in
love with Hubert, the chasuble-maker, and as her mother, widow of a
magistrate, would not give her consent, they ran away and were
married. A year later she went to the deathbed of her mother, who,
however, disinherited her and gave her her curse. "So affected was she
by the terrible scene that her infant, born soon after, died." The
Huberts had no other children, and after twenty-four years they still
mourned the little one they had lost. She warmly approved of the
adoption by her husband and herself of the foundling child Angelique,
whom she treated with the greatest kindness. From the bitterness of
her own experience she had a horror of disobedience to parents, and
when she found that the consent of Monseigneur d'Hautecoeur could not
be obtained to a marriage between his son Felicien and Angelique, she
did all she could to sever the lovers. In this she was successful for
a time, until the illness of Angelique, and her miraculous recovery,
induced the Bishop to give his consent. Le Reve.

HUE (M.) a retired Government official, who was a sincere lover of
art. He was unfortunately not rich enough to be always buying
pictures, and could only bewail the blindness of the public which
allowed a genius to die of starvation; for he himself, convinced, had
selected Claude Lantier's crudest works, which he hung by the side of
his Delacroix, predicting an equal fortune for them. L'Oeuvre.

HUGON (MADAME), mother of Philippe and Georges Hugon. She was the
widow of a notary, and lived quietly at Fondettes, an old family
property near Orleans, but had retained a house in Paris in Rue de
Richelieu. She had been an old friend of the Marquise de Chouard, and
was on intimate terms with her daughter, the Comtesse Sabine. A woman
of high principles, she believed that one should overlook much in
others in order that something might be pardoned in oneself. In this
she contrasted strongly with her old friend the Marquis de Chouard,
who professed the most rigorous virtue while he secretly lived a
shameful life. She was, however, unable to bear with equanimity the
eccentricities of Nana, her neighbour in the country, who led Philippe
Hugon into dishonour, and his brother Georges to suicide. Nana.

HUGON (GEORGES), the younger son of Madame Hugon. At seventeen years
of age he became infatuated with Nana, and a liaison with her
followed. His mother, having discovered the state of affairs,
interfered, and kept him at Fondettes for some months after Nana had
returned to Paris, but he ultimately followed her there. Though he was
not affected by the knowledge that Nana had other lovers, he was
driven to frenzy when he learned that his brother Philippe had become
one of the number. He implored Nana to marry him, and when she refused
to take his offer seriously he plunged a pair of her scissors into his
breast. The injury was not immediately fatal, but he died a few months
afterwards; some said as the result of the wound reopening, while
others spoke of a second and successful attempt at suicide. Nana.

HUGON (PHILIPPE), the elder son of Madame Hugon. A tall, handsome
youth, he quickly attained the rank of lieutenant in the army, and was
stationed first in the garrison at Bourges, and afterwards at
Vincennes. His mother imprudently sent him to endeavour to release
Georges from the toils of Nana, with the result that he was himself
ensnared. He had little money of his own, and, as the demands of Nana
were unceasing, he began to take small sums from the regimental funds,
of which he was treasurer. The thefts went on for a considerable time,
and when discovery was made they amounted to twelve thousand francs.
Philippe was arrested, and when he was released from prison some
months afterwards, dishonoured for ever, he was only in time to join
his mother at the death-bed of her other son, who was also a victim to
Nana's unhappy influence. Nana.

HUGUENIN, held a sinecure worth six thousand francs at the Ministry of
the Interior. When he died Eugene Rougon, the Minister, gave the post
to Leon Bejuin. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

HUPEL DE LA NOUE (M.), /prefet/ of the district for which M. Mareuil
was member. He arranged the /tableaux vivants/ at the great party
given by Aristide Saccard. La Curee.

HURET, a member of the Chamber of Deputies who obtained his election
through the influence of Eugene Rougon. His very existence depended on
the favour of the Minister of State, towards whom he conducted himself
as a sort of general servant. "By following this calling for a couple
of years he had, thanks to bribes and pickings, prudently realized,
been able to increase his estates." Having ascertained that Rougon
would not oppose the foundation of the Universal Bank, Huret became a
director; later on, when the shares had risen to their highest point,
he sold out in the knowledge that Rougon had decided to abandon his
brother and that a catastrophe would be inevitable. L'Argent.

HUTIN, a salesman in the silk department of "The Ladies' Paradise."
"He had managed after eighteen months' service to become one of the
principal salesmen, thanks to a natural flexibility of character, a
continual flow of caressing flattery under which was concealed a
furious rage for business." Having conspired against Robineau, the
"second hand" in his department, he succeeded him, only to be
conspired against in turn by his own subordinates. When Denise Baudu
first came to "The Ladies' Paradise" Hutin showed her some kindness,
for which she was grateful, but ultimately he made statements about
her which were entirely without foundation. Au Bonheur des Dames.

HUTIN (MADAME), a woman who lived in the vicinity of the /Halles
Centrales/, and was spied on by Mademoiselle Saget, whose penetrating
eyes allowed none of her neighbours to escape notice. Le Ventre de
Paris.



                                  I

ISABELLE, a character in /La Petite Duchesse/ a piece by Fauchery,
played at the Theatre des Varietes. The part was taken by Simonne
Cabiroche. Nana.



                                  J

JABOUILLE, an herbalist, whose shop was situated in Rue de Cherche-
Midi. He was a widower, and married for the second time a woman named
Mathilde. His shop was at one time prosperous, but business fell away
until what was left was only that of an equivocal character. He died
of syncope induced by phthisis. L'Oeuvre.

JABOUILLE (MADAME MATHILDE), wife of the preceding. She was a woman of
about thirty, plain-looking, and exceedingly thin. From the time of
her marriage to Jabouille, his business began to decrease, and this,
it would appear, was due to her reputation, which alarmed the more
respectable customers. Her liaisons were numerous, and included
Mahoudeau, Chaine, and Jory, but after the death of her husband she
married the last named, settling down into respectability and ruling
him with a rod of iron. L'Oeuvre.

JACOBY, a Jew from Bordeaux, between whom and Mazaud there was keen
rivalry. "Though of great experience and shrewdness, he was sorely
handicapped by his passion for speculation, and in spite of
considerable profits always seemed on the eve of a catastrophe. His
money melted away on settling days." He acted as broker for
Daigremont, and also for Gundermann. The great gamble in the shares of
the Universal Bank resolved itself into a duel between Jacoby and
Mazaud, the one selling on behalf of Gundermann, and the other buying
on behalf of Saccard; and the final catastrophe was hastened by Jacoby
warning Daigremont of Gundermann's determination to crush out the
bank. L'Argent.

JALAGUIER (MADAME), a protegee of Madame Correur, who induced Eugene
Rougon, the Minister, to increase the old lady's pension considerably.
Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

JALAGUIER FILS, son of the preceding. Madame Correur took an interest
in him, and asked Eugene Rougon to secure a scholarship for him. Son
Excellence Eugene Rougon.

JANTROU, an ex-professor of the University of Bordeaux, who in
consequence of some misconduct was obliged to leave for Paris, without
caste or position. At the age of twenty-eight, he landed at the
Bourse, where for ten years he dragged out existence as a /remisier/
or broker's tout. At the time of the foundation of the Universal Bank
he suggested to Saccard the purchase of a newspaper to be employed in
the interest of the company. The purchase was carried out, and Jantrou
was appointed editor. Subsequently other papers were acquired, which
he manipulated so as to keep the bank continually before the public.
He gave information to Baroness Sandorff which she repeated to
Gundermann, who was induced thereby to continue his attack on the
bank. L'Argent.

JEANBERNAT, the caretaker of the deserted estate of Paradou in
Provence. He lived by himself with his niece Albine in an old house on
the border of the demesne. In an attic he had found a large number of
books which had been saved from a fire in the old mansion, and these
he studied for twenty years, imbibing from them the rationalistic
theories of the eighteenth century. He had no respect for religion,
and particularly disliked Brother Archangias, who insulted both him
and his niece. After the death of Albine he attacked Archangias, and
cut off his right ear with a pocket-knife. La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

JENARD, a partner in the firm of Cornille and Jenard, which developed
in the eighteenth century the mineral concession of Joiselle.
Germinal.

JESUS CHRIST, the sobriquet of Hyacinthe Fouan. La Terre.

JEUMONT (M. AND MADAME), were well known in society during the Second
Empire. The Emperor admired Madame Jeumont, and her husband was
decorated by him. L'Argent.

JOBELIN (AUGUSTE), son of Colonel Jobelin. Contrary to regulations,
Eugene Rougon took him into the office of the Minister of the Interior
without the necessary bachelor's degree. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

JOBELIN (COLONEL), a friend of Eugene Rougon, through whose aid he
hoped to secure a nomination as commander of the Legion of Honour, and
an appointment for his son. He was a cousin of M. Bouchard. After
Rougon's return to office he received the appointment as commander.
Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

JOIRE (ABBE), Cure of Montsou. He pretended not to interest himself in
anything, so as not to vex either the workers or the masters. During
the strike he took his walks at night, to prevent himself from being
compromised by the miners. He obtained promotion, and was replaced by
Abbe Ranvier. Germinal.

JONCQUIER, a lover of Rose Mignon, who deserted her for a time in
favour of Laure. Nana.

JONCQUOY (MADAME DU), an old friend of the Muffats. Years ago she had
met Bismarck, who struck her as stupid; she was unable to understand
his later success. Nana.

JORDAN (PAUL), a journalist, whose father, a Marseilles banker, had
committed suicide in consequence of some disastrous speculations. He
married a daughter of M. Maugendre, to whom he had been betrothed in
more prosperous days. His wife brought him no dowry, as her parents
were against the marriage on the ground of Jordan's occupation and
want of means. Having made the acquaintance of Saccard, he received an
appointment on the staff of the newspaper purchased to support the
policy of the Universal Bank. He did not speculate, however, and
remained in comparative poverty, until the success of a novel which he
had written put him in more comfortable circumstances, and even
enabled him to give assistance to his wife's parents after they were
ruined by the failure of the bank. L'Argent.

JORDAN (MADAME MARCELLE), wife of the preceding. She was the only
child of M. Maugendre, who was ruined by the failure of the Universal
Bank. L'Argent.

JORY (EDOUARD), was the son of a magistrate of Plassans, whom he drove
crazy by his profligate conduct. In the end he ran off with a music-
hall singer under the pretext of going to Paris to follow the literary
profession. Notwithstanding the fact that his profligacy went to even
greater lengths in the city, he was successful in journalism, and soon
earned between seven and eight thousand francs a year as a leader-
writer and art critic. His first success was gained in a series of
articles in a little newspaper called /Le Tambour/, in which he fell
foul of the accepted canons of art, and hailed Claude Lantier and his
companions as the founders of a new school. Later he claimed to have
made Fagerolles by his articles, in the same manner as he formerly
took credit for making Lantier. He gradually dropped his old friends,
however, finding that the public only laughed at their productions,
and in excuse pleaded that he had not a journal in which he could
support their cause; but when, still later, he became director of a
great Art review, he preserved the same silence. After innumerable
love affairs, he ended by marrying Mathilde Jabouille. L'Oeuvre.

JORY (MADAME), wife of the preceding. See Mathilde Jabouille.

JOSEPH, a butler in the employment of Nana at La Mignotte. Nana.

JOSEPH, an old soldier who secured a situation in "The Ladies'
Paradise" through the influence of Lhomme, whose foster brother he
was. He married Mlle. de Fontenailles, a shop-girl in the
establishment. Au Bonheur des Dames.

JOSEPH (MADAME), the concierge of the house on Quay Bourbon where
Claude Lantier lived. L'Oeuvre.

JOSSE (MADEMOISELLE) kept a little school for young children in Rue
Polonceau. Anna Coupeau was her pupil, and made herself such a
nuisance that twice Mademoiselle Josse sent her away, taking her back
each time in order not to lose the small fees. L'Assommoir.

Nana in later years exchanged reminiscences with Satin, who, like
herself, had been a pupil at Mademoiselle Josse's school. Nana.

JOSSERAND PERE, the father of Josserand, the cashier at the Saint-
Joseph glass-works. He was originally a solicitor at Clermont. Pot-
Bouille.

JOSSERAND, cashier at the St. Joseph glass-works. His salary was not a
large one, and in consequence of the determination of his wife to keep
up a greater style than they could afford, he was engaged in a
continual struggle to make ends meet; to gain a few extra francs he
frequently spent much of the night addressing circulars for a firm of
publishers. Worn out by hard work and by the continual bickerings of
his wife and daughters, he was not in a condition to stand the
disgrace of his daughter Berthe's liaison with Octave Mouret, and he
was struck down by paralysis, which soon after resulted in his death.
Pot-Bouille.

JOSSERAND (MADAME ELEANORE), wife of the preceding. Her two objects in
life were to appear better off than she really was, and to secure
husbands for her daughters. In the latter quest she had many
disappointments, and her temper, never good, correspondingly suffered,
her unfortunate husband bearing the brunt. A marriage having
ultimately been arranged between Berthe Josserand and Auguste Vabre,
Madame Josserand made a strong effort to induce her brother, Narcisse
Bachelard, to pay the dowry which he had long ago promised to his
niece. As he refused to do so, Madame Josserand overcame the
difficulty by a subterfuge of doubtful honesty. Pot-Bouille.

JOSSERAND (BERTHE), second daughter of M. Josserand. After several
ineffectual efforts to secure a husband she became engaged to Auguste
Vabre, the elder son of her father's landlord. Difficulties as to a
dowry followed, but these were surmounted by somewhat shady means, and
the marriage took place. Vabre's health was not good, and Berthe soon
became discontented, a state of mind largely induced by the bad advice
of her mother. About this time Octave Mouret came to be assistant in
Vabre's shop, and Berthe, carried away by his attentions, entered upon
an unfortunate liaison with him. Discovery by Vabre led to Berthe's
return to her parents' home, and it was only after a considerable time
that a reconciliation was brought about by the efforts of Abbe
Mauduit. Pot-Bouille.

JOSSERAND (HORTENSE), elder daughter of M. Josserand. Her mother
endeavoured to secure a husband for her, but she made her own choice,
selecting one Verdier, a lawyer. The marriage was put off from time to
time as Verdier had got entangled with a woman from whom he found
separation difficult. Pot-Bouille.

JOSSERAND (LEON), elder son of M. Josserand. He was a young man of
ambition, who hoped to rise through the influence of Madame
Dambreville, whose lover he became. Ultimately she arranged a marriage
between him and her niece Raymonde, who brought him a large dowry.
Soon afterwards by the same means he was appointed /Maitre des
Requetes/. Pot-Bouille.

JOSSERAND (MADAME LEON), wife of the preceding. See Raymonde. Pot-
Bouille.

JOSSERAND (SATURNIN), younger son of M. Josserand. He was a powerful
young man of twenty-five, whose mind had been seriously affected by an
attack of brain fever; though not actually insane, he was subject to
fits of blind fury whenever anybody annoyed him. When his sister
Berthe was a little girl, he nursed her through a long illness, and
since he saved her life he adored her with a deep, passionate
devotion. The preparations for her marriage to Auguste Vabre affected
him so seriously that his removal to an asylum became necessary, and
he remained there for some time. On his release he went to live with
his sister and her husband, but domestic trouble having arisen, his
mind again became so unhinged that he made an attempt on the life of
his brother-in-law and had again to be taken to an asylum. Pot-
Bouille.

JOUVE (ABBE), an officiating priest at Notre Dame de Grace, the parish
church of Passy. He had known M. Grandjean at Marseilles, and showed
much kindness to Helene after the death of her husband, assisting her
in settling up her affairs. Along with M. Rambaud, his half-brother,
he was a regular visitor at Helene's house, and later endeavoured to
arrange a marriage between her and his brother. He was devoted to
Jeanne Grandjean, and helped to nurse her during her fatal illness. An
amiable, kind-hearted man, he was greatly beloved by his parishioners.
Une Page d'Amour.

JOUVE, a retired captain in the army, and afterwards one of the four
inspectors at "The Ladies' Paradise." In addition to acting as spy on
the staff he watched the customers, and it was he who detected Madame
de Boves in the act of stealing some fine lace. He made certain
advances to Denis Baudu which she resented, and in consequence he
afterwards showed considerable ill-will towards her. Au Bonheur des
Dames.

JUILLERAT (DOCTOR), an old physician who attended most of the
inhabitants of the Rue de Choiseul. He was a man of only average
abilities who had built up a large practice by hard work. His views
were somewhat advanced, and he had many arguments with Abbe Mauduit,
with whom he frequently came in contact at the bedsides of his
patients. Pot-Bouille.

JULES, the lover of La Sarriette. He lived on her earnings as a fruit-
dealer. Le Ventre de Paris.

JULES, one of the soldiers sent to Montsou during the strike. He was
born at Plogof, where his mother and sister still resided. One night
while he was on guard at the Voreux mine he was murdered by Jeanlin
Maheu, who with the assistance of Etienne Lantier carried the body to
a gallery of the mine, where they buried it under a fall of rock.
Germinal.

JULES (MADAME), Nana's dresser at the Theatre des Varietes. Nana.

JULIE, cook in the employment of the Duveyriers. Pot-Bouille.

JULIEN, butler in the employment of Nana in the Avenue de Villiers. He
left the house with a large sum, as Comte Muffat, being jealous,
wished to be freed from his presence. Nana.

JUSSELIN (PIERRE-FRANCOIS), a protege of M. de Marsy. Eugene Rougon
refused to nominate him as an officer of the Legion of Honour, and
gave the decoration which had been intended for him to Bejuin. Son
Excellence Eugene Rougon.

JEZEUR (MADAME), a neighbour of the Josserands in the Rue de Choiseul.
Her husband had left her after ten days of married life, and
thenceforth she lived alone in quiet lodgings. Very little was known
of her circumstances or mode of life. Pot-Bouille.



                                  K

KAHN (M.), son of a Jewish banker at Bordeaux; a deputy who was
engaged in a scheme for the construction of a railway from Niort to
Angers. He was chiefly anxious for this, as the proposed line would
pass through Bressure, where he had some blast-furnaces, the value of
which it would considerably increase. Rougon supported him
energetically, and had almost secured the grant when his retirement
from office delayed the scheme for some years. Soon after Rougon's
appointment as Minister of the Interior the grant was obtained, and he
accompanied Kahn to Niort to attend the inauguration of the scheme.
Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

KAHN (MADAME), wife of the preceding. She lived a very retired life at
Paris. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

KELLER (LES), well-known leaders of society in Paris. It was at their
house that Baroness Sandorff first met Gundermann. L'Argent.

KOLB (M.), a banker whose business consisted to a large extent in gold
arbitrage, buying foreign coins, and melting them into gold bars. He
was a man of Jewish origin, and having heard that Daigremont was to be
connected with the Universal Bank, he readily agreed to become a
director. Being a cautious man, however, he sold all his shares before
the final collapse. L'Argent.



                                  L

LABORDETTE, a young man who was well known in racing circles, and was
specially popular with women, as he was always ready to render them
little services. Through his relations with the world of trainers and
jockeys he had always the latest information as to races. He made
himself very useful to Nana when she was setting up a stable of her
own, and assisted her in the selection of servants. Nana.

LACAILLE, a customer of Madame Francois, the market gardener. He
attended the Revolutionary meetings in Lebrigre's cafe. Le Ventre de
Paris.

LACAMP. See Puech and Lacamp.

LACASSAGNE, a dealer in feathers and artificial flowers, whose
business was ruined by the competition of Octave Mouret's
establishment. Au Bonheur des Dames.

LACHESNAYE (DE), judge at the Rouen Court of appeal, was the husband
of Berthe Grandmorin, whom he somewhat resembled in character. He was
a little man, dry and yellow, who had been a judge at the Court of
Appeal from the age of thirty-six; he had been decorated, thanks to
the influence of his father-in-law, and to the services which his
father had rendered on the High Commissions at the time of the /Coup
d'Etat/. He was disliked by Denizet, the examining magistrate, in
whose eyes he represented the class of judicial functionary who
attained position by wealth and influence. Lachesnaye was incensed at
the will of his father-in-law, Grandmorin, who left fully half of his
fortune to women of all classes, most of them unknown to his family.
La Bete Humaine.

LACHESNAYE (MADAME DE), wife of the preceding. See Berthe Grandmorin.
La Bete Humaine.

LACOUR (ZEPHYRIN), a young lad from the same village as Rosalie, whose
sweetheart he was. He was drawn in the conscription and sent to Paris,
where, by permission of Madame Grandjean, he came to see Rosalie, her
maid, every Sunday. He was a good-hearted lad, whose ambition was to
get out of the army, marry Rosalie, and return to his native village.
Une Page d'Amour.

LADICOURT (BARONNE DE), a lady who lived at Vouziers. Captain Beaudoin
lunched at her house on 26th August, 1870, at the hour when the
Seventh Army Corps was taking up its position for battle. La Debacle.

LADRICOURT (COMTE DE), father of the Baroness Sandorff. He was a
confirmed gambler, and a man of brutal manners. He died of apoplexy,
completely ruined, after a series of disgraceful failures. L'Argent.

LA FALOISE (HECTOR DE), a youth who came from the country to Paris in
order to complete his education. Thanks to the death of an uncle, he
was very rich, and his chief ambition was to be in everything ultra
Parisian. He posed as a man who had experienced everything, and who no
longer thought anything worthy of being taken seriously. Introduced
behind the scenes of the Theatre des Varietes by his cousin Fauchery,
he met Nana, who did him the honour of ruining him without much loss
of time. When his money was done, he returned to the country in the
hope of marrying a distant relation who was both ugly and pious. Nana.

LAFOUASSE, a tavern-keeper in the neighbourhood of Plassans, between
the old demesne of Paradou and the village of Artaud. He was treated
by Dr. Pascal Rougon for ataxy, but died after a hypodermic injection
of a serum with which the doctor was experimenting. Le Docteur Pascal.

LAGARDE (EDMOND), a sergeant in the 6th Regiment of the line. At the
most his age was twenty-three, but he did not appear more than
eighteen. He took part in the battle of Sedan, and was wounded in the
left arm, which was broken by a bullet. His father, who was a
shopkeeper in Paris, was a customer of Delaherche, and he was removed
to the house of the manufacturer, where he was treated as one of the
family. A handsome lad, he aroused the pity of Gilberte Delaherche,
whose lover he became. La Debacle.

LAGRIFOUL (MARQUIS DE), the Legitimist Deputy for Plassans. His
election came as a severe blow to the Government, and to M. Pequeur
des Saulaies, the sub-prefect of Plassans, who was held responsible
for it. In reality, the election had been largely influenced by the
clergy, combined with the old nobility. It was to counteract this
influence that the Government sent Abbe Faujas to Plassans. The
Marquis being a man of poor abilities, whose public appearances were
disappointing, his overthrow was rendered easier and more complete. La
Conquete de Plassans.

LA JOLIE DAME, a customer at Octave Mouret's shop, /Au Bonheur des
Dames/. She was a favourite with all the salesmen, and as no one knew
her name she was always referred to as "The Pretty Lady." Au Bonheur
des Dames.

LALUBIE, teacher of the sixth form at the college of Plassans. He
found one day his room transformed into a /chapelle ardente/, thanks
to his pupils led by Pouillard. After he recovered from his fright he
set a heavy punishment for the whole class. He married the daughter of
Galissard, the haberdasher at Plassans. L'Oeuvre.

LAMBERTHIER, an assistant at the /Halles Centrales/. Josephine Dejoie
was at one time cook in his house. L'Argent.

LAMBERTHON (M. DE), a Deputy who discussed with M. La Rouquette the
wisdom of the Emperor conceding the privilege of presenting an address
to the Crown. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

LAMBOURDIEU, a shopkeeper at Cloyes, who sold Parisian novelties in
all the villages within a radius of five or six miles. La Terre.

LANDOIS (AUGUSTE), assistant in Quenu's business. He came to Paris
from Troyes to perfect himself in his trade, and having little money,
intended to set up for himself as a pork-butcher. He was engaged to
his cousin Augustine Landois, who was also employed by Quenu. He took
a dislike to Florent, and wrote an anonymous letter denouncing him to
the Prefect of Police. Le Ventre de Paris.

LANDOIS (AUGUSTINE) came to Quenu's establishment to learn shop
management. She was engaged to her cousin Auguste Landois. Le Ventre
de Paris.

LANGLADE (DE), Prefect of Deux-Sevres. He was accused of dissolute
conduct, and was superseded in his office by Du Poizat. Son Excellence
Eugene Rougon.

LANTIER (AUGUSTE), the lover of Gervaise Macquart; he accompanied her
to Paris, when she left home with their two children. La Fortune des
Rougon.

Soon after their arrival in Paris, he deserted Gervaise for a girl
named Adele, with whom he lived for several years, during which he
appears to have done little work. After Adele left him he renewed
friendship with Gervaise and Coupeau, her husband, and induced them to
take him into their home as a lodger. Once established there, he paid
nothing for his support, and soon Gervaise was supporting him as well
as her husband, who by this time was doing nothing. Gervaise, having
become disgusted with her husband's intemperance, resumed her old
relations with Lantier, and these continued till she was financially
ruined, and her shop was taken over by Virginie Poisson. Lantier,
having transferred his affections to Virginie, was allowed to retain
his old position as lodger, and soon resumed his former tactics of
paying no rent and living off his landlord. In course of time he
succeeded in eating the Poissons' stock of sweetmeats and bringing
them to ruin, and then began to look out for some one else to support
him. L'Assommoir.

LANTIER (CLAUDE), son of Gervaise Macquart and Auguste Lantier, was
born at Plassans in 1842. He was brought up by his paternal
grandmother, but when she died, in 1850, he was taken to Paris by his
parents. La Fortune des Rougon.

After Lantier's desertion of Gervaise, and her subsequent marriage to
Coupeau, Claude continued to reside with his mother, but a few years
later an old gentleman of Plassans, a lover of pictures, who had been
greatly struck by some daubs done by the child, offered to pay for his
education. The offer was accepted, and Claude returned to Plassans.
L'Assommoir.

Some years later his benefactor died, leaving him an income of a
thousand francs a year, enough to prevent him dying of hunger in the
artistic career which he had decided to follow. Having come to Paris
with an intense hatred of romanticism, he was struck by the artistic
possibilities of the /Halles Centrales/, the great provision markets
of Paris, which he haunted in search of subjects for his brush. He was
induced by Florent to attend one of the republican meetings in
Lebigre's cafe, but was not in sympathy with the movement, and
declined to take part in it. He occasionally visited his aunt, Madame
Lisa Quenu, but revolted against her complete indifference to art, and
her middle-class selfishness. Le Ventre de Paris.

He was appointed a member of the family council which nominally had
charge of Pauline Quenu's fortune. La Joie de Vivre.

He established himself in a studio near the roof of an old house close
to the river, and there lived the life of a Bohemian, with an absolute
disdain for everything not related to art. He revolted against the
canons of the schools, and tried to achieve truth in painting by
adopting an exaggerated realism. His hopes became centred in a large
painting, which he called /Plein Air/, intended for exhibition in the
/Salon/. The picture was rejected, and when shown at a minor
exhibition was greeted with derision by the public. About this period
began his connection with Christine Hallegrain, with whom he lived for
several years, and ultimately married. They took up house at
Bennecourt in an old cottage, and there some years passed happily
enough, a son named Jacques Louis being born in 1860. But Claude
gradually became discontented, and the family returned to Paris, where
there began a long struggle against poverty, a struggle beginning in
high anticipation and ending in despair. After a long search for a
subject for a picture which was to be his masterpiece, Claude selected
a stretch of the river near Notre Dame, and into this he intended to
put all those new theories of art with which he hoped to revolutionize
the world. Everything was sacrificed to this picture; the small
fortune left him by his early benefactor was gradually realized to
provide food, and when it was exhausted there was little but
starvation for the artist and his dependants. The work was begun in a
frenzy of genius, but was constantly interrupted by doubts and
indecision; it became a monomania, and under its influence Claude's
mind gradually became unhinged; the family virus was at last showing
itself. Christine was wholly taken up with her husband, and their
child died of an illness due greatly to neglect. By this time Claude
was incapable of any real feeling save for art, and the death of his
child only served to give him a subject for a picture. Having torn
himself away from his intended masterpiece for a time, he painted
/L'Enfant Mort/, which was exhibited in the /Salon/, and met with an
even more contemptuous reception from the public than his /Plein Air/.
Christine used all her influence to prevent her husband from returning
to his task, but his brain had become obsessed by the great idea,
which his hand proved powerless to execute as his mind became
increasingly deranged. At length, in a moment of delirium, he hanged
himself in front of the picture which had proved the means of his
undoing. His genius was incomplete, and he was unable to carry out his
own theories, but they were adopted by other and less able successors
with better results. He was buried in the cemetery of Cayenne at
Saint-Ouen. L'Oeuvre.

LANTIER (MADAME CHRISTINE), wife of the preceding. See Christine
Hallegrain. L'Oeuvre.

LANTIER (ETIENNE), the youngest son of Auguste Lantier and Gervaise
Macquart, was born in 1846, and accompanied his parents to Paris in
1850. La Fortune des Rougon.

After his mother had been married to Coupeau for some time, and had
started her laundry, Etienne was found somewhat in the way, and on the
suggestion of Goujet was sent to work in the rivet-making factory
where he himself was employed. Later the boy was sent to Lille, where
he was apprenticed to an old master of Goujet, an engineer in that
town. When Gervaise had fallen into poverty, Etienne, who was by that
time a stoker on an engine, was able to send his mother a five-franc
piece occasionally. L'Assommoir.

In a moment of passion Etienne struck his chief, and was at once
dismissed from his employment. An industrial crisis existed at the
time, and, finding it impossible to get work, he tramped from place to
place till eventually he arrived at Montsou, worn out with fatigue and
want. At the Voreux pit he chanced to get work in a gang led by Maheu,
and went underground for the first time. The work was hard and
distasteful to him, but he was unwilling to give it up, and was
perhaps influenced by the bright eyes of Catherine Maheu, who toiled
alongside him. He became more and more impressed with the sense of the
hardships of the miners' lives, and his mind was also influenced by
Souvarine, a confessed anarchist, beside whom he lodged. Gradually
Etienne began to indoctrinate his companions with a spirit of revolt,
and when the great strike broke out he became the leader. He did not,
however, accept the extreme doctrines of Souvarine, and endeavoured to
dissuade the strikers from doing damage to property. In this he was
not altogether successful, and his influence became considerably
lessened, until he was blamed by his comrades for the hardships they
had to endure during the strike, and for its ultimate collapse. He
returned to work, and in the terrible catastrophe brought about by
Souvarine he was cut off at the bottom of the pit with Chaval and
Catherine Maheu. He had always loved Catherine, and notwithstanding
their peril, an old jealousy revived, and in a struggle with Chaval,
Etienne killed him. Days elapsed before rescue came, and by that time
Catherine was dead. After six weeks in hospital, Etienne left for
Paris. Germinal.

At Paris, later on, he took part in the Communist rising, and was
condemned to death. He was respited, and transported to Noumea, where
he married, and became father of a little girl. Le Docteur Pascal.

LANTIER (JACQUES), the second son of Gervaise Macquart and Auguste
Lantier, was born at Plassans in 1844. He was six years old when his
parents went to Paris with his brothers, Claude and Etienne, leaving
him with his godmother, Aunt Phasie, who sent him to the School of
Arts and Crafts. After two years passed on the Orleans Railway, he
became an engineer of the first-class on the Western Railway. At
twenty-six he was a tall, handsome man, with dark hair and a clear
complexion. From childhood he had suffered from a complaint which the
doctors did not understand, a pain in the head, behind the ears,
accompanied by fever and an intense melancholy, which tempted him to
hide like a suffering animal. When about sixteen years of age he
became affected by a curious form of insanity, the desire to murder
any woman of whom he became fond. "On each occasion it seemed like a
sudden outburst of blind rage, an ever-recurring thirst to avenge some
very ancient offence, the exact recollection of which escaped him. Did
it date from so far back, from the harm women had done to his race,
from the rancour laid up from male to male since the first deceptions
in the depths of the caverns?" Even with his cousin Flore, who loved
him from childhood, the same terrible instinct arose, and could only
be stilled by flight.

By chance, Jacques was a momentary witness of the murder of President
Grandmorin, and when suspicion fell upon the Roubauds he came to be of
opinion that it was well-founded, a belief which was confirmed by a
subsequent confession to him by Severine. This avowal by Severine
placed her in his mind in a different category from all other woman;
she had killed, and was a person sacred and apart, a woman he could
love without his lust for blood being evoked. At the request of
Severine, Jacques promised to kill Roubaud, her husband, whom she had
come to hate; but, though all the preparations were made, it was
Severine herself whom he killed, in an accession of that homicidal
rage which he imagined he had conquered. He escaped all suspicion, and
calmly allowed Roubaud and Cabuche to be punished for the crime. In
order to see whether the murder of Severine had cured him of his blood
lust, he made love to Philomene Sauvagnat, thereby arousing the
jealousy of her lover, Pecqueux, who was stoker on the engine driven
by Lantier. A quarrel between the two men on the footplate of the
engine resulted in both of them falling off, and being cut in pieces
beneath the wheels. La Bete Humaine.

LANTIER (JACQUES LOUIS), born 1860, was the son of Claude Lantier and
Christine Hallegrain. He was allowed to grow up wild at Bennecourt
until he was two and a half years old, when his parents removed to
Paris, taking him with them. Life in the city did not agree with the
child, who to make matters worse was much neglected, his mother being
wholly taken up with her lover, and his father with art. He grew up
puny, serious like a little man; at five years his head had grown
quite out of proportion to his height, but as his skull increased in
size his intelligence diminished. His head alone continued to grow,
verging on cretinism, until, in 1869, the unfortunate child died of
some obscure form of malnutrition. L'Oeuvre.

LAPOULLE, a soldier in the 106th Regiment of the line, in the squad of
Corporal Jean Macquart. He came from the Marshes of Sologne, and was
so ignorant that when he joined the regiment he asked to be shown the
King. He had great strength, and consequently all the heavy work of
his company was assigned to him. After the battle of Sedan, he was one
of the prisoners on the Isle d'Iges, where driven frantic by famine,
and instigated by Chouteau, he killed Pache, who had hidden some bread
from his companions. The following night he attempted to escape by
swimming the Meuse, but was killed by a bullet fired by a Prussian
sentinel. La Debacle.

LAQUERRIERE (FLORENT), an unfortunate man who died of yellow fever in
Dutch Guiana in the arms of Florent. It was by the aid of his papers
that Florent, who had escaped from Cayenne, was able to return to
France, and to evade the notice of the police. Le Ventre de Paris.

LA ROUQUETTE (M.), a member of the Chamber of Deputies. His sister,
Madame de Llorentz, was one of the ladies-in-waiting of the Empress
Eugenie. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

LA ROUQUETTE (MADEMOISELLE DE). See Madame de Llorentz.

LARSONNEAU, formerly a clerk at the Hotel de Ville along with Aristide
Saccard; he was dismissed for prying into the prefet's private
drawers. He acted for Saccard in many of the shady transactions in
which he could not himself appear, and being entirely unscrupulous
ultimately amassed such a sum of money that he was able to start a
small banking establishment. La Curee.

He became immensely rich. It was through him that Busch came to know
the past life of Aristide Saccard. L'Argent.

LAURE, an actress for whom Joncquier had an infatuation. Nana.

LAURE, a performer in a singing-hall at Montmartre. Hutin, one of
Octave Mouret's salesmen, and his friend Lienard applauded her
performance so noisily that the police threatened to intervene. Au
Bonheur des Dames.

LAURENT, a peasant in easy circumstances who lived near Artaud. Pere
Bambousse was anxious to have him as son-in-law. La Faute de l'Abbe
Mouret.

LAURENT, the recorder at the court of Rouen who assisted Denizet at
the inquiry into the murder of Grandmorin. He was skilful in selecting
the essential parts of evidence, so as not to put down anything
useless. La Bete Humaine.

LAURENT, a gardener at Bazeilles. He was a man of thirty years of age
who had recently lost his mother and his wife, who had both died of
the same fever. During the battle of 1st September, 1870, he took part
in the defence of Weiss's house, and having only his own body to care
for, he determined to sell it dearly, and at each shot to bring down
one of the enemy. He continued firing till his ammunition was
exhausted, when he was taken prisoner by the Prussians, who finding
that he was a civilian removed him, along with Weiss, for instant
execution. In the face of the firing party he retained all his
calmness, standing with his hands in his pockets till the fatal shots
were fired. La Debacle.

LAUWERENS (DE), a well-known financier who was both wealthy and
avaricious. He went the length of refusing to pay his wife's
milliner's bill. La Curee.

LAUWERENS (MADAME DE), wife of the preceding. Notwithstanding certain
well-authenticated scandals, she managed to keep her high position in
society. She was a friend of Renee Saccard. La Curee.

LAVIGNIERE, was one of the auditors at the Universal Bank, Rousseau
being the other. Their duties were delicate, and in the circumstances
useless. Lavigniere was disposed to approve of everything, being
consumed with a desire to become a member of the board later on.
L'Argent.

LA VIGNIERE (CHEVALIER DE), grandfather of Madame Chanteau. La Joie de
Vivre.

LA VIGNIERE (EUGENIE DE). See Madame Chanteau.

LA VILLARDIERE (DE), deputy for the department of the Cote d'Or. He
was a friend of La Rouquette. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

LEA, a customer at the Cafe Anglais. Nana.

LEBEAU, a man of considerable influence in the Second Empire, whom
Clorinde Balbi was able to gain over to the cause of Eugene Rougon.
Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

LEBLEU, the cashier at Havre railway station. La Bete Humaine.

LEBLEU (MADAME), wife of the preceding, was a woman of forty-five, so
stout that she was in constant danger of choking. Between her and
Severine Roubaud there was ill-feeling of long standing, arising from
a question of their houses in the Station, the Lebleus occupying that
which should by rights have belonged to the Roubauds, who on account
of the generosity of their predecessor were relegated to rooms little
more cheerful than a prison. She had a mania for spying upon her
neighbours, and in the end caused so much irritation, that she was
ordered to exchange houses with the Roubauds, thus letting them have
the one to which they were entitled. The annoyance, and the change to
a dismal house, proved fatal to Madame Lebleu, and she died four
months afterwards. La Bete Humaine.

LEBIGRE, proprietor of the wine shop where Florent and his friends
held their meetings. He was a police spy. Ultimately he married Louise
Mehudin. Le Ventre de Paris.

LEBIGRE (MADAME). See Louise Mehudin.

LEBOUCQ, Counsellor at the Court of Rouen. He was assessor at the
trial of Roubaud and Cabuche. La Bete Humaine.

LEBOUCQ (MADAME), wife of the preceding. She was a handsome woman, for
whose receptions the barristers of Rouen were beginning to desert
those of Madame Bonnehon, her rival. It was said that to the influence
of Madame Leboucq was largely due the result of the trial of Roubaud,
a result not favourable to the family of President Grandmorin. La Bete
Humaine.

LECOEUR (MADAME), a butter and cheese merchant at the /Halles
Centrales/. She was sister-in-law to Gavard, and had an idea of
marrying him after the death of his wife. He made no advances,
however, and she subsequently regarded him with bitter ill-will. Along
with Mlle. Saget, she took an active share in the gossip which partly
led to the arrest of Florent and Gavard, and wrote an anonymous letter
denouncing them to the police. Accompanied by La Sarriette, her niece,
she went to Gavard's house after his arrest, and took possession of
his money, which they divided between them. Le Ventre de Paris.

LECOMTE (MADAME), an acquaintance of the Deberles. Une Page d'Amour.

LEFEVRE (MADAME), wife of a manufacturer at Raucourt, whose house was
pillaged by the Prussians after the battle of Beaumont. La Debacle.

LEGOUGEUX, a miner at Joiselle. He was an associate of Pluchart.
Germinal.

LEGRAIN (GENERAL), a deputy at the Corps Legislatif. He was devoted to
the Emperor, and notwithstanding a severe attack of gout, attended at
the Chamber in order to vote the funds for the baptism of the Prince
Imperial. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

LEHONGRE (LES), grocers in Rue Neuve de la Goutte-d'Or. L'Assommoir.

LEHUDIER, a child to whom Charvet gave lessons. Le Ventre de Paris.

LELORRAIN, a notary in Rue Sainte Anne. In his office was executed the
deed which established the joint-stock company of the Universal Bank.
L'Argent.

LEMBALLEUSE, a family who lived in a ruined mill near the cathedral of
Beaumont. It consisted of a grandmother, her daughter, and three
granddaughters, all of whom lived by begging. Angelique did all she
could for them, giving them food and even clothes. Le Reve.

LENFANT, the keeper of a dram-shop at Montsou. Germinal.

LENGAIGNE, a dealer in tobacco and tavern-keeper at Rogues. He
cultivated a small piece of land, while his wife weighed tobacco and
looked after the cellar. He also shaved and cut the hair of the
village, a trade learned by him when he was in the army. He professed
strong Republican principles, though he was afraid to express his
opinions too strongly, in case of losing his licence. An old rivalry
subsisted between him and Macqueron, a neighbouring tavern-keeper with
whom he was always on the point of blows. La Terre.

LENGAIGNE (MADAME FLORE), wife of the preceding. She was always
quarrelling with Coelina Macqueron. La Terre.

LENGAIGNE (SUZANNE), daughter of the two preceding. She was
apprenticed to a dressmaker at Chateaudun, but after six months ran
off to Paris where she led a gay life. Her return to her native
village clad in silks caused quite a sensation, of which her parents
were very proud. La Terre.

LENGAIGNE (VICTOR), brother of Suzanne. Before he was drawn in the
conscription he was an awkward youth, but he returned a swaggering
braggart, who could hardly be recognized with his moustache and beard.
La Terre.

LENORE, a racehorse; mother of Frangipane. Nana.

LEON, a lad of about fifteen years of age, apprentice to Quenu. He was
a gentle-looking lad, given to stealing stray bits of ham and sausage,
which he concealed under his pillow and ate during the night. Le
Ventre de Paris.

LEONCE (MADAME), the door-keeper of the house where Gavard lived in
the Rue de la Cossonnerie. She acted also as Gavard's housekeeper. Le
Ventre de Paris.

LEONIE, an artificial-flower maker employed by Madame Titreville. She
left her trade in order to be married. L'Assommoir.

LEONIE, aunt of Louise Thibaudier. Louise went to her house after
leaving Bonneville, driven away by Pauline Quenu. La Joie de Vivre.

LEPALMEC, a peasant at Plogof, in Brittany. Germinal.

LEQUEU, the schoolmaster at Rogues. His parents were peasants, and he
had an intense hatred of the class from which he had sprung, looking
upon them as little better than barbarians. In politics he had
advanced views, but in consequence of his position he concealed them
to a great extent. Disappointed in the hope which he had long
nourished of marrying Berthe Macqueron, he ended by preaching the
doctrines of anarchy. La Terre.

LERAT (MADAME), nee Coupeau, was a sister of Coupeau and Madame
Lorilleux. She was a widow of thirty-six years of age, and was
forewoman in the manufactory of artificial flowers carried on by
Madame Titreville. The eldest of the Coupeau family, she was "a tall,
skinny, mannish-looking woman, who talked through her nose"; she lived
a hard-working, cloisteral existence, but she had a perfect mania for
making improper allusions, so very obscure that only she herself could
understand them. L'Assommoir.

For a long time she lost sight of her niece Nana, but later she found
her in a position of apparent wealth. Madame Lerat had abandoned her
trade of artificial-flower-maker and lived upon her savings, scraped
together sou by sou. Nana rented a small house for her aunt, and gave
her an allowance of a hundred francs per month to look after her
little son Louiset. Nana.

LERENARD, the keeper of a cafe in the neighbourhood of Montsou.
Germinal.

LEROI, alias CANON, a journeyman carpenter, who deserted Paris on
account of some trouble, and preferred to live in the country,
tramping from village to village, doing a week here and a week there,
and offering his services from one farm to another when his employer
did not want him. When there was a scarcity of work he begged on the
high-roads, living partly on the vegetables he stole. He professed
strong revolutionary principles, which he was fond of airing in
village ale-shops. He was a friend of Hyacinthe Fouan. La Terre.

LETELLIER, father of Madame Deberle and her sister Pauline. He owned
an extensive silk warehouse on the Boulevard des Capucines. "Since his
wife's death he had been taking his younger daughter about everywhere,
in search of a rich husband for her." Une Page d'Amour.

LETELLIER (JULIETTE). See Madame Deberle.

LETELLIER (PAULINE), the younger daughter of M. Letellier, a wealthy
silk merchant, and sister of Madame Deberle. She was a giddy young
girl who went about everywhere with her father in the hope of securing
a rich husband, and was a constant visitor at the house of her sister.
Une Page d'Amour.

LETURC (MADAME), widow of a captain, was a protegee of Madame Correur,
who obtained a tobacco licence for her. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

LEVAQUE, a neighbour of the Maheus. He was of intemperate habits, and
beat his wife on little provocation. During the strike he was among
the most reckless, and at the assault on the Voreux pit he was taken
prisoner by the troops. His arrest made him a sort of hero, and by the
Paris newspapers he was credited with a reply of antique sublimity to
the examining magistrate. Germinal.

LEVAQUE (ACHILLE), the eldest child of Zacharie Maheu and of Philomene
Levaque. He was three years old when his parents were married.
Germinal.

LEVAQUE (BEBERT), son of the Levaques, was a little boy of twelve, who
already worked in the pit. Along with Lydie Pierron, he was a
companion of Jeanlin Maheu in many escapades. As Jeanlin became more
daring and unscrupulous, Bebert and Lydie were drawn together in an
affection born of their common fear of him. The three children were
present at the attack on the Voreux pit, and Bebert and Lydie, killed
by the volley fired by the troops, fell dead in one another's arms.
Germinal.

LEVAQUE (DESIREE), the youngest child of Philomene, aged nine months.
Germinal.

LEVAQUE (PHILOMENE), daughter of the Levaques, had two children to
Zacharie Maheu before her marriage to him. She had a delicacy of the
chest and was unable to work underground. After the death of her
husband she left Montsou with her two children, in the company of a
miner from the Pas-de-Calais. Germinal.

LEVAQUE (LA), wife of Levaque the miner, and mother of Philomene and
Bebert. She was a bad housekeeper, and was roughly treated by her
husband, who, however, did not take exception to her relations with
Bouteloup, their lodger. Germinal.

LEVASSEUR (MADAME), an acquaintance of Madame Deberle. Une Page
d'Amour.

LEVASSEUR, chief clerk at "The Ladies' Paradise." Au Bonheur des
Dames.

LEVASSEUR, a tax-collector at Chene Populeux. His father was one of
the heroes of the army of the first Napoleon. He married a peasant
woman named Fouchard, who died in bringing Maurice and his twin sister
Henriette into the world. He sacrificed everything to make his son a
gentleman, and the bad conduct of the lad hastened his end. La
Debacle.

LEVASSEUR (HENRIETTE), daughter of the preceding, and twin sister of
Maurice. After the death of her father she gave up the whole of her
share of his property in order to retrieve to some extent the foolish
conduct of her brother. Fortunately she had the chance soon after to
marry Weiss, with whom she lived happily. On the morning of the battle
of Sedan, Henriette, fearing that her husband was in danger at
Bazeilles, where he had gone to look after a house he had recently
bought, decided to follow him there. By this time the fighting was
going on fiercely, and when, after the greatest difficulties and
dangers, she arrived at Bazeilles, she was only in time to see her
husband shot before her eyes. She took refuge at Remilly, at the house
of her uncle Fouchard, and devoted herself to the care of the wounded
in the battle. Among these was Jean Macquart, who along with Maurice
had escaped from captivity. After the war with Prussia was over,
Maurice unfortunately threw in his lot with the Communists, and when
Henriette followed him to Paris it was to find that he had been
fatally wounded in the fighting there. By an extraordinary chance, the
wound was inflicted by his former comrade, Jean Macquart, who had
remained in the regular army when Maurice joined the Communist ranks.
The death of Maurice in this way put an end to the possibility of a
dawning love idyll between Henriette and Jean Macquart. La Debacle.

LEVASSEUR (MAURICE), twin brother of the preceding. Everything was
sacrificed by his father and sister in order that he might become an
advocate, but when he went to Paris to complete his education he took
part in every kind of foolishness and dissipation. In July, 1870, he
had just been admitted to the Bar, when the outbreak of war found him
full of enthusiasm, and he at once enlisted in the 106th Regiment of
the line, commanded by Colonel de Vineuil. He was put into the squad
of Jean Macquart, against whom he had at first an aversion. Later, the
kindness of Jean when he was worn out with fatigue practically saved
his life, and they became close comrades, Maurice in turn saving Jean
by carrying him, severely wounded, from the battlefield of Sedan.
Maurice was of a highly strung, nervous temperament, and the repeated
disasters of the campaign drove him to madness. He threw himself into
the Communist struggle, and sought for death when defeat became
certain. It was Jean Macquart, his old comrade, who, by an
extraordinary chance, was fated to deliver the fatal blow. La Debacle.

LEVEQUE (MADAME), sister-in-law of Durieu, the brewer. L'Argent.

LEVEQUE, a solicitor at Plassans. He interested himself in the affairs
of Dr. Pascal Rougon after Grandguillot absconded and was able to
recover a considerable sum which Pascal had believed to be entirely
lost. Le Docteur Pascal.

LEVEQUE (MADEMOISELLE), daughter of the preceding, was an old friend
of Clotilde Rougon, who was three years older than her. She married
Dr. Ramond. Le Docteur Pascal.

LHOMME (M.), chief cashier at "The Ladies' Paradise." "Son of a tax-
collector at Chablis, he came to Paris as a clerk in the office of a
merchant of the Port-aux-Vins. Then, while lodging in Rue Cuvier, he
married the daughter of his concierge, and from that day he bowed
submissively before his wife, whose commercial ability filled him with
respect. She earned more than twenty thousand francs a year in the
dress department of 'The Ladies' Paradise,' whilst he only drew a
fixed salary of five thousand francs." The loss of his right arm in an
omnibus accident did not interfere with his work, and did not prevent
him from playing upon a specially constructed French horn, an
instrument of which he was passionately fond. Au Bonheur des Dames.

LHOMME (MADAME AURELIE), wife of the preceding. The daughter of a
small tailor, she had keen business instincts, and, as head of the
dress department at "The Ladies' Paradise," was able to make a large
income. She was far from friendly to Denise Baudu, but seeing
ultimately that Mouret was in love with the girl, she changed her
methods in the hope of rendering her own position more secure. Au
Bonheur des Dames.

LHOMME (ALBERT), son of the preceding. He was an idle and vicious
youth, who could keep no position, and only got a post in the pay-desk
of "The Ladies' Paradise" through the influence of his mother. He was
careless in his work, and was repeatedly reprimanded, causing his
parents much anxiety; ultimately it was discovered that he had
conspired with some of the salesmen in a long series of frauds, and
his dismissal followed. Au Bonheur des Dames.

LIARDIN, a relation of the Quenus. He was a member of Pauline's family
council, and consented to her emancipation. La Joie de Vivre.

LIENARD, son of a rich Angers draper, came to Paris and got a
situation in "The Ladies' Paradise." His spare time was spent in
idleness and debauchery, and when his father recalled him to Angers he
refused to leave Paris. Au Bonheur des Dames.

LIEUTAUD (M.), the diocesan architect at Plassans. He was consulted by
Madame Mouret and Abbe Faujas regarding the Home for Girls which they
founded, and he subsequently prepared the plans for the building. La
Conquete de Plassans.

LIEVIN, a townsman of Plassans, who was amongst those enrolled and
armed by Pierre Rougon to rescue the Town Hall, which had been
occupied by the Republicans. He was so excited that he fired in the
air without intending to do so. La Fortune des Rougon.

LILI, pet name of Amelie, the daughter of Gaga. Nana.

LINGUERLOT (LES), neighbours of the Lorilleux in Rue de la Goutte-
d'Or. L'Assommoir.

LIOTARD (VEUVE HENRI), a firm of shipowners who joined the transport
syndicate formed by Aristide Saccard. L'Argent.

LISA, a peasant girl of Les Artaud. Like the others of her class, she
was void of any religious feeling, and when she came to decorate the
church for the festival of the Virgin, she engaged in all sorts of
irreverent pranks. La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

LISA, a workwoman employed by Madame Titreville, the artificial-flower
maker. L'Assommoir.

LISA, Madame Campardon's housemaid. She was active and intelligent,
and her conduct was regarded as irreproachable. This was, however, a
somewhat too favourable estimate, and her companionship was by no
means beneficial to the Campardons' young daughter, Angele. Pot-
Bouille.

LISON (LA), the name of the express engine driven by Jacques Lantier
up to the time of the terrible railway accident caused by Flore. La
Bete Humaine.

LLORENTZ (MADAME DE), one of the ladies-in-waiting of the Empress
Eugenie and sister of M. La Rouquette, was the widow of General de
Llorentz. She carried on an intrigue with De Massy, and was said to
hold three compromising letters from him regarding certain august
personages. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

LOGRE, a fish auctioneer at the /Halles Centrales/. He attended the
revolutionary meetings at Lebigre's wine shop, and made violent
speeches there, but was really an agent of the Police. Le Ventre de
Paris.

LOISEAU, a municipal councillor of Rognes. He was devoted to the
Mayor, Alexandre Hourdequin, on whose farm his son worked. He was an
uncle of Macqueron. La Terre.

LONJUMEAU, a member of the band of brigands led by Beau-Francois. La
Terre.

LORET (MADAME), a woman who lived in the neighbourhood of the /Halles
Centrales/. Mademoiselle Saget made ill-natured remarks regarding her.
Le Ventre de Paris.

LORILLEUX, a maker of gold chains, who was married to Coupeau's
sister. He was a little man who looked much older than his age, and
suffered from a constant cough. Miserly and spiteful, he was jealous
of the Coupeaus in their success, and rejoiced at their downfall.
L'Assommoir.

LORILLEUX (MADAME), wife of the preceding, was a sister of Coupeau,
who married Gervaise Macquart. Along with her husband, she worked at
the trade of gold chain-making; like him, she was so avaricious that
her custom was to examine the soles of her visitors' boots lest they
should depart with any adhering gold dust. From the first she resented
her brother's marriage, and took every opportunity of being
disagreeable to Gervaise. Though she was willing to accept the
Coupeaus' hospitality in their prosperous days, she refused to do
anything to assist them after their downfall. L'Assommoir.

LORILLON (LES), peasants at Rognes, who were said to have been cured
of illness by the bone-setter Sourdeau. La Terre.

LOUBET, a soldier in the 106th Regiment of the line; in the squad of
Corporal Jean Macquart. He was unwilling to fight, and during the
battle of 1st September, 1870, he assisted his comrade Chouteau to
carry Sapin to the ambulance, spending the rest of the day in a
tavern. After the capitulation of the French army, Loubet was made a
prisoner. Along with Chouteau he made a determined effort to escape,
and would have done so had not his companion treacherously tripped him
up in order to increase his own chance. La Debacle.

LOUHETTE, an elderly draper in Rue Neuve Saint-Augustin. He was the
father of Madame Theophile Vabre. Pot-Bouille.

LOUHETTE (MADAME), wife of the preceding, and mother of Madame
Theophile Vabre. Pot-Bouille.

LOUHETTE (VALERIE). See Theophile Vabre.

LOUIS, Irma Becot's butler at her house in the Avenue de Villiers.
L'Oeuvre.

LOUIS, cousin of Cabuche, and, like him, a quarryman. He drove
Cabuche's wagon on the evening of the murder of President Grandmorin.
La Bete Humaine.

LOUIS, an artillery gunner, in the same battery as Honore Fouchard and
Adolphe. He was mated with Adolphe, who was inclined to treat him as
an inferior. In the attack by the Prussians on the Calvary d'Illy
Louis fell, killed by the same shot as his comrade, and the two died
entwined in one another's arms. La Debacle.

LOUIS (LA MERE), a wine-seller, who was famous for her "hen feet."
L'Assommoir.

LOUISE, an actress at the Palais-Royal. Nana.

LOUISE, a young girl who was brought up in an Orphanage. At fifteen
she went as maid-servant to Madame Jazeur, but not proving
satisfactory, was sent back to the Orphanage. Pot-Bouille.

LOUISET, the pet name of Louis Coupeau, son of Nana, born 1867. Left
at first with a nurse in the country, he was afterwards taken charge
of by his aunt, Madame Lerat, who removed him to Batignolles. He was a
delicate child, pale and scrofulous, bearing a legacy of ill-health
derived from an unknown father. He died in July, 1870, of small-pox,
which he communicated to his mother, who had just returned from
Russia. Nana.

LOUISETTE, the younger daughter of Madame Misard (Aunt Phasie). She
was a fair and sweet child who had a strong affection for Cabuche, a
man who was regarded by nearly everyone as an outcast. As a maid-
servant in the house of Madame Bonnehon, she attracted the notice of
President Grandmorin, and fleeing from him, half-mad with fear, she
came to the hut of Cabuche, who tenderly nursed her till she died of
brain fever a few days later. La Bete Humaine.

LOULOU, a dog which belonged to Nana. Nana.

LULU, a dog which belonged to Nana. Nana.

LUSIGNAN, a racehorse in the stable of Vandeuvres. Mounted by Gresham,
it was the favourite in the race for the Grand Prix de Paris. Nana.



                                  M

MACQUART, a poacher and smuggler who lived at Plassans in a hovel
adjoining the Fouque property. His reputation was of the worst, and
"although no crimes had actually been brought home to him, the first
suspicions always fell upon him whenever a theft or murder had been
perpetrated in the country." He frequently disappeared for long
periods, but during his short sojourns in the town he drank to great
excess. He became the lover of Adelaide Fouque in 1789, less than a
year after the death of her husband, and had two children by her,
Antoine and Ursule Macquart. A man of violent and unrestrained
passions, and of incorrigibly lazy habits, he retained complete
influence over Adelaide, and they lived in the same relationship for
over twenty years. About 1810, Macquart was killed on the frontier by
a custom-house officer while he was endeavouring to smuggle a cargo of
Geneva watches into France. Adelaide was sole legatee, the estate
consisting of the hovel at Plassans and the carbine of the deceased,
which a smuggler loyally brought back to her. La Fortune des Rougon.

MACQUART (ANTOINE), born 1789, son of Macquart the smuggler and
Adelaide Fouque; was drawn in the conscription in 1809. On his return
to Plassans, he found that his half-brother Pierre had sold the family
property and had appropriated the proceeds. Being a confirmed
drunkard, he was averse from work of any kind, but in order to support
himself he learned the trade of basket-making. In 1826 he married
Josephine Gavaudan, a market-woman, whom he afterwards allowed to
support him. They had three children, Lisa, Gervaise, and Jean. His
wife died in 1850, and soon after his daughter Gervaise and his son
Jean, who had assisted to keep him in idleness, ran off. He had a
bitter ill-will towards his brother Pierre Rougon, and, chiefly with a
view to his annoyance, expressed strong Republican principles. For the
same reason he took every opportunity of teaching these principles to
his young nephew Silvere Mouret. After the /Coup d'Etat/ he took an
active share in the agitation which resulted in a Republican rising.
When the Insurgents left Plassans, he remained with a few men to
overawe the inhabitants. He and his whole band were, however, taken
prisoners by the citizens under the leadership of Pierre Rougon. He
was assisted to escape by Madame Felicite Rougon, who promised him a
sum of money on condition that he would bring about an attack on the
Town Hall by the Republicans. He did so the same night, and an ambush
having been prepared by the Rougons, a number of lives were
sacrificed. He thereafter left the country. La Fortune des Rougon.

Some time afterwards he returned to France, and bought a small house
at Les Tulettes, about three leagues from Plassans. He fitted up his
establishment by degrees, and even became possessed of a horse and
trap. Where the money came from no one knew, but it was believed that
his brother Pierre Rougon was keeping him. Notwithstanding this, he
had great ill-will towards the Rougons, and lost no opportunity of
annoying them. Partly with this object, and partly at the instigation
of Abbe Fenil, who wished to be revenged on Abbe Faujas, he contrived
the escape of Francois Mouret from the asylum at Les Tulettes; as
result, Mouret returned to Plassans, and setting fire to his house,
caused the death of Abbe Faujas, himself perishing in the flames. La
Conquete de Plassans.

Macquart lived to an old age at Les Tulettes, though he increasingly
gave way to drunkenness. His relations with the Rougons were friendly,
but he was hated by Felicite on account of his knowledge of the origin
of the family fortune. At eighty-four years of age he was still
healthy, but his flesh was so saturated with alcohol that it seemed to
be preserved by it. One day, as he was sitting helpless with drink and
smoking his pipe, he set fire to his clothes, and his body, soaked as
it was with ardent spirits, was burned to the last bone. Felicite
Rougon chanced to enter the house just as the conflagration began, but
she did nothing to stop it, and went silently away. The combustion was
so complete that there was nothing left to bury, and the family had to
content itself with having masses said for the repose of the dead.
When Macquart's will was opened, it was found that he had left all his
money for the erection of a magnificent tomb for himself, with weeping
angels at the head and foot. Le Docteur Pascal.

MACQUART (MADAME ANTOINE), wife of the preceding. See Josephine
Gavaudan.

MACQUART (GERVAISE), born 1828, was a daughter of Antoine Macquart,
and was slightly lame from birth. She was apprenticed to a laundress,
but at an early age had two children to a journeyman tanner named
Lantier.[*]

Soon after the death of her mother, in 1850, she ran off to Paris with
Lantier and her children, Claude, a boy of eight, and Etienne, aged
four. La Fortune des Rougon.

The party had only been in the city a few weeks when Lantier ran off
with a girl named Adele, leaving Gervaise and the children unprovided
for. She got work in the laundry of Madame Fauconnier, and not long
after received an offer of marriage from Coupeau, a respectable zinc-
worker, which after some hesitation she accepted. The marriage took
place, and for a considerable time things prospered, one child, a
daughter named Nana being born. An accident to Coupeau, who fell from
a roof and was seriously injured, led to a gradual change; formerly
temperate and industrious, he became unwilling to work, and began to
spend his time in public-houses. Gervaise had meantime taken a shop
with money borrowed from the Goujets, and had started a laundry in it.
She was at first successful, but in time grew lazy and fond of good
living, while Coupeau continued idle and became increasingly
intemperate. Business began to go, and Gervaise became more careless,
even taking more drink occasionally than she had been wont to do.
About this time Lantier, her former lover, appeared again, and made
friends with Coupeau, who agreed to take him into the house as a
lodger. After that, the descent of Gervaise was rapid. Lantier never
paid anything for his support, Coupeau drank more heavily than ever,
and Gervaise, who was gradually drifting into intemperance, resumed
her old connection with her lover. All the time work was being
neglected, and debts were accumulating with alarming rapidity.
Eventually Madame Virginie Poisson took over the shop, and with it
Lantier, who transferred his affections along with the lease, and the
Coupeaus removed into a small house high up in the same building.
Coupeau suffered from repeated attacks of delirium tremens, and
eventually died in an asylum. Gervaise continued to sink still lower,
until no work was too menial or too repulsive for her to undertake for
the price of drink, and one day in the winter of 1869 she was found
dead in a garret of that great tenement house where she had passed so
much of her life. L'Assommoir.

Her sister, Lisa Quenu, the pork-butcher, did not come to her
assistance. Lisa did not like people who were unfortunate, and she was
ashamed that Gervaise should have married a workman. Le Ventre de
Paris.

Her son Etienne sent her small sums of money from time to time while
he was in a situation at Lille. Germinal.

[*] These two are the only children of Gervaise and Lantier mentioned
    by M. Zola in /La Fortune des Rougon/, /L'Assommoir/, L'Oeuvre/,
    and /Germinal/. In /La Bete Humaine/, however, the hero, Jacques
    Lantier, is stated to have been a child of these parents.

MACQUART (JEAN), born 1811, son of Antoine Macquart, was apprenticed
to a carpenter. A quiet, industrious lad, Jean's father took advantage
of his simple nature and made him give up his whole earnings to assist
in keeping him in idleness. Like his sister Gervaise, he ran off soon
after the death of his mother. La Fortune des Rougon.

He entered the army, and, after seven years of soldiering was
discharged in 1859. When he had left the ranks he turned up at
Bazoches-le-Doyen with a comrade, a joiner like himself; and he
resumed his occupation with the latter's father, a master carpenter in
the village. But his heart was no longer in his work, and having been
sent to La Borderie to make some repairs, he stayed on to assist at
the harvest, and eventually became a regular farm servant. He was not
popular, however, with the peasants, who resented his having had a
trade before he came back to the soil. He became acquainted at Rognes
with Mouche and his daughters, Lise and Francoise, and eventually
married the latter, in spite of the determined opposition of her
brother-in-law, Buteau. Notwithstanding his marriage, he remained a
stranger, and, after the death of his wife, went away, leaving
everything in the hands of her relatives. The war with Germany had
just broken out, and Jean, disgusted with his life, again enlisted in
the service of his country. La Terre.

He was made corporal in the 106th Regiment of the line, commanded by
Colonel Vineuil. An excellent soldier, and invaluable by reason of his
former experience, his want of education prevented him being promoted
to higher rank. Maurice Levasseur was in his company, and between the
two men there was at first deep antagonism, caused by difference of
class and education, but little by little Jean was able to gain over
the other, till the two men became close friends. In the fierce
fighting at Sedan, each in turn saved the other's life. After the
battle, they were made prisoners, but escaped, Jean receiving a severe
wound during their flight. They took refuge at Remilly in the house of
Fouchard, and Jean was nursed by Henriette Weiss, Levasseur's sister.
Under her care, the wounded man came to dream of the possibility of a
life of happiness with this woman, so tender, so sweet, and so active,
whose fate had been so sad. But the chances of war were too hard;
Maxime returned to Paris, and after the conclusion of the war took
part in the Communist rising, which Jean assisted to quell. By an
extraordinary chance, the two men, loving one another as brothers,
came to be fighting on opposite sides, and it was the hand of Jean
that was fated to inflict the fatal wound upon his friend. He had
killed the brother of the woman he loved, and henceforth there could
be nothing between them, so he passed from her life, returning to
assist in that cultivation of the soil which was needed to rejuvenate
his country. La Debacle.

He settled at Valqueyras, near Plassans, where he married Melanie
Vial, the only daughter of a peasant farmer in easy circumstances,
whose land he cultivated. Calm and sensible, always at his plough, his
wife simple and strong, he raised a large and healthy family to assist
in replenishing the soil exhausted by the horrors of war. Le Docteur
Pascal.

MACQUART (MADAME JEAN), first wife of the preceding. See Francoise
Mouche. La Terre.

MACQUART (MADAME JEAN), second wife of Jean Macquart. See Melanie
Vial. Le Docteur Pascal.

MACQUART (LISA), born 1827, daughter of Antoine Macquart. When a child
of seven she was taken as maid-servant by the wife of the postmaster
at Plassans, whom she accompanied to Paris on her removal there in
1839. La Fortune des Rougon.

The old lady became very much attached to the girl, and when she died
left her all her savings, amounting to ten thousand francs. Gradelle,
a pork-butcher, who had become acquainted with Lisa by seeing her in
the shop with her mistress, offered her a situation. She accepted, and
soon the whole place seemed to belong to her; she enslaved Gradelle,
his nephew Quenu, and even the smallest kitchen-boy. She became a
beautiful woman, with a love of ease and the determination to secure
it by steady application to duty. After the sudden death of Gradelle,
she married Quenu, who had succeeded to the business, and they had one
daughter, Pauline. Soon their affairs became so prosperous that Lisa
induced her husband to remove to a larger shop. On Florent's return
from exile, she received him kindly, and at once proposed to hand over
to him his share of the money and property left by Gradelle, his
uncle, which, however, he refused to accept. After a time she became
tired of always seeing her brother-in-law about the house doing
nothing, and was the means of making him accept the situation as
Inspector at the Fish Market. When she heard of the Revolutionary
meetings in Lebigre's wine-shop and of the leading part taken by
Florent, she became greatly alarmed, more especially as Quenu had
begun to accompany his brother occasionally. She succeeded in
frightening her husband into giving up the meetings, and made it clear
to Florent that he was no longer welcome in her house. Alarmed by the
gossip of Mlle. Saget and others as to the progress of the conspiracy,
she determined, after consultation with Abbe Roustan, to secure the
safety of her husband and herself by informing the police of the plot.
On going to the prefect, however, she learned that he had all along
known of Florent's presence in Paris, and of the meetings, and was
only waiting a favourable opportunity of arresting the plotters. She
concealed the impending arrest from her husband and from Florent.
Notwithstanding her action in this matter, Lisa was not an ill-natured
or callous woman. She was only determined that nothing should come
between her and a life of ease. In her there was much of her father's
nature, though she did not know it. She was merely a steady, sensible
Macquart with a logical desire for comfort, and to procuring this she
gave all her time and thought. Le Ventre de Paris.

She died in 1863 from decomposition of the blood. La Joie de Vivre.

MACQUART (URSULE), born 1791, daughter of Macquart and Adelaide
Fouque; married in 1810 a hatter named Mouret and went to live at
Marseilles. She died of consumption in 1840, leaving three children.
La Fortune des Rougon.

MACQUERON, a grocer and tavern-keeper at Rognes. He was a municipal
councillor, and deputy Mayor. He made some money by speculating in
wines, and had since become incorrigibly lazy, spending his time in
fishing and shooting. Had his wife listened to him, they would have
shut up the shop, but she was so fiercely set on money-making that she
would not do so. There was a rivalry of long standing between the
Macquerons and the Lengaignes, which frequently broke out in open
quarrels. Having succeeded in undermining Hourdequin's position as
Mayor, Macqueron succeeded him, but his triumph was of short duration,
for some official scandal having arisen, he was obliged to resign. La
Terre.

MACQUERON (MADAME COELINA), wife of the preceding, had a true passion
for money-making. She was continually quarrelling with her neighbour,
Madame Lengaigne. La Terre.

MACQUERON (BERTHE), daughter of the preceding, was educated at a
boarding-school at Cloyes, and had learned to play the piano. She
tolerated the attentions of Lequeu, the schoolmaster, whom she
heartily disliked, as she felt flattered by the notice of the only man
of education whom she knew. She had a fancy for the son of a
neighbouring wheelwright, whom her parents would not allow her to see,
and she ultimately compromised herself so seriously with him that they
had to consent to her marriage. La Terre.

MADELEINE, a little girl of ten years of age who was an inmate of the
institute founded by Princess d'Orviedo. Her mother was unable to look
after her properly, and placed her there in the hope that she would be
well cared for. L'Argent.

MADELINE (ABBE), was sent to Rognes, when that commune decided to have
a cure to itself. He came from a mountainous district, and
disheartened by the flatness of the vast plain of La Beauce, and
especially by the religious indifference of his parishioners, he soon
fell into ill-health, on one occasion fainting while he was saying
Mass. At the end of two years and a half he left Rognes in a dying
state, and returned to his native mountains. La Terre.

MADINIER (M.) carried on business as a cardboard manufacturer in part
of the tenement occupied by the Coupeaus and the Lorilleux. The
business was not prosperous, as he spent all his earnings on drink. He
was one of Coupeau's witnesses on the occasion of his marriage to
Gervaise Macquart, and was present at the wedding dinner. L'Assommoir.

MAFFRE (M.), a magistrate of Plassans and honorary Canon of Saint-
Saturnin's church. Politically he was a Legitimist, and he was a
friend of M. Rastoil, at whose house the party was in the habit of
meeting. La Conquete de Plassans.

MAFFRE (ALPHONSE), second son of the magistrate at Plassans, aged
eighteen years. Restrained too much by their father, the two brothers
Maffre were especially intimate with Guillaume Porquier, who
frequently led them into mischief. La Conquete de Plassans.

MAFFRE (AMBROISE), elder son of the magistrate at Plassans, aged
twenty. La Conquete de Plassans.

MAGINOT, inspector of woods at Mezieres. He married Gilberte de
Vineuil, but died a few years afterwards. La Debacle.

MAGINOT (MADAME), see Gilberte de Vineuil.

MAHEU (ALZIRE), the fourth child of Toussaint Maheu, aged nine years.
She was deformed and delicate, but of precocious intelligence, and was
able to assist her mother in many ways, sacrificing herself always for
others. She died of cold and hunger during the strike at Montsou.
Germinal.

MAHEU (CATHERINE), second child of Toussaint Maheu, worked as a putter
in the Voreux pit along with the other members of her family. She
liked Etienne Lantier, but became the mistress of Chaval, who treated
her so abominably that she eventually returned home. As a result of
the terrible catastrophe brought about by Souvarine, she was
imprisoned at the bottom of the pit along with Chaval and Etienne. A
struggle between the two men ensued, and Chaval was killed. Days
elapsed before rescue arrived, but before then Catherine had died in
the arms of Etienne, whom she had really loved all along. Germinal.

MAHEU (ESTELLE), seventh child of Toussaint Maheu, aged three months.
Her constant crying disturbed the household. Germinal.

MAHEU (GUILLAUME), great-grandfather of Toussaint Maheu. When a boy of
fifteen, he found rich coal at Requillart, the Montsou Company's first
pit, and the seam he discovered was named after him. He died of old
age at sixty. Germinal.

MAHEU (HENRI), sixth child of Toussaint Maheu, aged four years.
Germinal.

MAHEU (JEANLIN), third child of Toussaint Maheu, aged eleven years. He
was employed at the Voreux pit, and earned twenty sous a day. His
nature was vicious, and he forced his companions Bebert Levaque and
Lydie Pierron to commit petty thefts, with the proceeds of which he
concealed himself in a disused mine. His criminal tendencies increased
until he was unable to resist the inclination to kill one of the
soldiers who guarded the Voreux pit during the strike. He accordingly
waited till night, and leaping on the shoulders of Jules, a little
soldier from Brittany, thrust a knife into his throat and killed him.
Germinal.

MAHEU (LENORE), fifth child of Toussaint Maheu, aged six years. She
was always fighting with her brother Henri, who was very like her in
appearance, both having large heads with light yellow hair. Germinal.

MAHEU (NICOLAS), grandfather of Toussaint Maheu. He was killed by a
landslip in the pit, when he was barely forty years old. Germinal.

MAHEU (TOUSSAINT), son of old Bonnemort, and husband of La Maheude. He
was considered one of the best workmen in the Voreux pit, did not
drink, and was liked and respected by all his companions. He had been
for a considerable time under the influence of the doctrines taught by
Etienne Lantier when he was selected by his comrades to place their
views before the officials of the company. In the great strike which
followed he took part, and in the attack on the troops sent to guard
the pit he was driven on by his wife to join the aggressors. He fell,
shot through the heart, after the fatal volley fired by the soldiers.
Germinal.

MAHEU (VINCENT). See Bonnemort.

MAHEU (ZACHARIE), eldest child of Toussaint Maheu. He worked in the
Voreux pit along with his father, but was lazy and seized any
opportunity of pleasure. He was married to Philomene Levaque, by whom
he already had two children. The strike interested him very little,
and he spent most of his time playing /crosse/ with Mouquet. But when
his sister Catherine was entombed in the pit he was one of the first
to come forward to the rescue, and he worked day and night with
frantic energy. The ninth day, in his haste, he was imprudent enough
to open his lamp, and a sudden explosion of gas reduced him to a
calcined, unrecognizable mass. Germinal.

MAHEUDE (LA), wife of Toussaint Maheu. She was at first against the
miners' strike, but moved by the hardship of her lot and the poverty
in which she was forced to bring up her family, she ultimately urged
her husband to take an active part. Even after she had seen him killed
by the bullets of the soldiers, she was furious with those who talked
of submitting. But further tragedies broke her spirit; her son
Zacharie was killed in an attempt to rescue his sister, entombed at
the bottom of the Voreux pit. Out of charity the company allowed the
afflicted woman to go underground again, though she was past the usual
age, and found employment for her in the manipulation of a small
ventilator. Germinal.

MAHOUDEAU, a sculptor. The son of a stonemason at Plassans, he
attained great success at the local art competitions, and came to
Paris as the /laureat/ of his town, with an allowance of eight hundred
francs per annum for four years. In the capital, however, he found his
level, failing in his competitions at the School of Arts, and merely
spending his allowance to no purpose; so that in order to live he was
obliged at the end of his term to enter the employment of a
manufacturer of church statues. Later, however, he met with Claude
Lantier and other companions from Plassans, and under their influence
his ambitions revived. He installed himself in a studio in Rue du
Cherche-Midi, and there set about the production of a colossal work
entitled /La Vendangeuse/ (the Vintage Girl), for which Madame
Mathilde Jabouille served as model. For a time Chaine, who also came
from Plassans, lived with Mahoudeau, but they quarrelled over
Mathilde, and ultimately separated. After this Mahoudeau lived alone,
in considerable poverty, until he got employment from a manufacturer
of artistic bronzes. He then began to produce work which suited the
popular taste, and his productions began to be seen on middle-class
chimney-pieces. L'Oeuvre.

MAIGRAT, the principal shop-keeper in Montsou. He was originally an
overseer at the Voreux pit, but, assisted by the company, started a
business which grew to such proportions that he ultimately crushed out
most of the other retail traders. He was a greedy, rapacious man, and
during the strike made the women furious by refusing credit. For other
reasons also they hated him, and his shop was one of the first places
attacked by the maddened strikers. In terror Maigrat took refuge on
the roof, but his foot slipped, and he was dashed to the ground, being
killed on the spot. Even this did not satisfy his assailants, for the
frenzied women, led by La Brule, rushed forward and mutilated the
still quivering body. Germinal.

MAIGRAT (MADAME), wife of the preceding. She was a pitiful creature
who passed all her days over a ledger without even daring to lift her
head. On the day of the attack by the strikers she was a witness of
the death of her husband and of the terrible events which followed. Up
at the window she stood motionless; but beneath the last gleams of the
setting sun the confused faults of the window-panes deformed her white
face, which looked as though it were laughing. Germinal.

MALGRAS (LE PERE), a picture-dealer with whom Claude Lantier had
frequent dealings. He was a thick-set old man, with close-cropped
white hair, and wore a dirty old coat that made him look like an
untidy cabman. Beneath this disguise was concealed a keen knowledge of
art, combined with a ferocious skill in bargaining. As a superb liar,
moreover, he was without an equal. He was satisfied with a small
profit, but never purchased in the morning without knowing where to
dispose of his purchase at night. He viewed with disdain the modern
methods of picture-dealing introduced by Naudet, and like a cautious
man he retired with a modest fortune to a little house at Bois-
Colombes. L'Oeuvre.

MALIGNON (M.), a young stockbroker who was supposed to have a large
fortune and accordingly was received everywhere in society. He posed
as a critic of art, literature, and the drama, and pretended to be
bored with everything. Madame Deberle, being carried away by his
attentions, was foolish enough to promise to meet him at a flat which
he had taken, but Madame Helene Grandjean having warned her that Dr.
Deberle had got wind of the affair, the intended liaison came to
nothing. Une Page d'Amour.

MALIVERNE (ROSE). See Madame Rose Fouan.

MALIVOIRE, a coach-hirer at Arromanches. He was the owner of the
omnibus which ran between Arromanches and Bayeux. La Joie de Vivre.

MALOIR (MADAME), a respectable-looking elderly woman, was Nana's
friend, chaperone, and companion, writing for her such letters as she
required. She was always ready to receive the secrets of others, but
never told anything about herself. It was said that she lived upon a
mysterious pension, but she never appeared to carry any money with
her. She had a mania for doing up all her hats afresh. Nana.

MAMAN NINI, the pet name given by Angelique to Francois Hamelin. Le
Reve.

MANGUELIN (MADAME), a young, retiring woman, who was to some extent
dependent on the bounty of Madame Deberle. Une Page d'Amour.

MANOURY, a salesman at the Central Markets in Paris. He was the
employer of Logre and Clemence. Le Ventre de Paris.

MARCEL, a vegetable-dealer at the Paris /Halles Centrales/. Le Ventre
de Paris.

MARDIENNE FRERES, manufacturers of church ornaments in Rue Saint-
Sulpice. Mademoiselle Menu worked in their establishment. Pot-Bouille.

MARECHAL, a bookmaker who had formerly been coachman to Comte de
Vandeuvres. As the result of a racing swindle by Vandeuvres, Marechal
lost a large sum over a filly named Nana, and, his suspicions having
been aroused, he caused such a scandal that the Comte was disqualified
by the racing committee. Nana.

MARESCOT (M.), a cutler in the Rue de la Paix, who had once turned a
grindstone in the streets and was now said to be worth several
millions. He was a man of fifty-five, large, bony, with the huge hands
of an old workman; one of his delights was to carry off the knives and
scissors of his tenants, which he sharpened himself for his own
amusement. He owned the large tenement-house on the Rue Goutte d'Or,
in which resided the Coupeaus, Lorilleux, and others, and though a
fair landlord, would brook no delay in payment of rent, turning out
defaulters without mercy. L'Assommoir.

MAREUIL (M. DE), a retired sugar-refiner of Havre whose real name was
Bonnet. After amassing a large fortune, he married a young girl of
good birth, whose name he assumed. He was ambitious and hoped to
become a member of the Corps Legislatif through the influence of his
friend Saccard, whose brother Eugene Rougon was a Minister of State.
To secure this he agreed to a marriage between his daughter and Maxime
Saccard. He was a man of solemn and imposing appearance, but was
absolutely without brains. La Curee.

MAREUIL (MADAME HELENE DE), wife of the preceding. She came of a noble
and wealthy family, but lived such a fast life that she died young,
worn out by pleasure. La Curee.

MAREUIL (LOUISE DE), daughter of a retired sugar-refiner of Havre.
Slightly deformed and plain-looking, but with fascinating manners, she
married Maxime Saccard, to whom she brought a large dowry. Six months
afterwards she died of consumption in Italy. La Curee.

MAREUIL (COMTESSE), employed Clara Prunaire in her house to attend to
the mending of linen. Au Bonheur des Dames.

MARGAILLAN, a great building contractor, many times a millionaire, who
made his fortune out of the great public works of Paris, running up
whole boulevards on his own account. He was a man of remarkable
activity, with a great gift of administration, and an instinctive
knowledge of the streets to construct and the buildings to buy. Moved
by the success of Dubuche at the School of Art, and by the
recommendations of his masters there, Margaillan took the young
architect into partnership, and agreed to his marriage with his
daughter Regine. Unfortunately, Dubuche showed deplorable incapacity
in carrying into practice the theories which he had learned at the
School of Art, and Margaillan, after losing considerable sums,
returned to his original methods of construction, thrusting his son-
in-law to one side. He possessed a magnificent estate named /La
Richaudiere/, near Bennecourt. L'Oeuvre.

MARGAILLAN (MADAME), wife of the preceding. She was a girl of the
middle-classes, whose family history was a bad one, and after
suffering for years from anemia, she ultimately died of phthisis.
L'Oeuvre.

MARGAILLAN (REGINE), daughter of the preceding, and wife of Louis
Dubuche. She was very delicate, and suffered from a phthisical
tendency derived from her mother, which in turn she handed to her two
children, Gaston and Alice. It was frequently necessary for her to
leave home for the benefit of her health, and during her absences the
children were left at /La Richaudiere/ in charge of their father.
L'Oeuvre.

MARIA, an actress at the Theatre des Varietes. Nana.

MARJOLIN, a boy who was found in a heap of cabbages at the Paris
market. It was never known who his parents were, and he became the
adopted child of the place, always finding a lodging with one or other
of the market-women. Later on he lived with Madame Chantemesse, who
had adopted Cadine, another foundling, and the two children grew up
together, becoming inseparable. Marjolin was always of slow intellect,
and as the result of an injury to his head he became practically an
idiot. Gavard gave him employment in the poultry market. Le Ventre de
Paris.

MARSOULLIER, proprietor of the Hotel Boncoeur, where Gervaise Macquart
and Lantier put up when they came to Paris. L'Assommoir.

MARTIN, coachman to Dr. Cazenove. He was an old man who formerly
served in the navy, and had his leg amputated by Cazenove. La Joie de
Vivre.

MARTINE, the old servant of Dr. Pascal, with whom she had been for
thirty years. She brought up Clotilde Rougon, whose affection for the
doctor excited her jealousy later on. Martine, who was devoted to her
master, desired to force him to be reconciled with the Church, but
Clotilde, at first her accomplice, escaped from religious influences
and gave herself entirely to Pascal, leaving Martine with no other
resource but prayer. She was extremely avaricious, but when the doctor
was ruined, her devotion was such that she used some of her own money
to purchase the necessaries of life for him. Distracted at the sudden
death of her master, and in the hope of saving him from damnation, she
assisted Madame Felicite Rougon to destroy his great work on heredity,
which in her narrow-minded bigotry she believed was intended to
subvert true religion. The work of destruction completed, she went
away to live by herself at Sainte-Marthe, as she refused to serve any
other master than the one she had been with so many years. Le Docteur
Pascal.

MARTINEAU (M.), a notary of Coulonges, and brother of Madame Correur.
He ignored his sister for many years, but his principles would not
allow him to disinherit her, and he made a will under which his
property would be divided between her and his wife. Soon thereafter,
Madame Correur, knowing him to be in bad health, denounced him as a
dangerous Republican to Rougon, then Minister of the Interior, and his
arrest followed. The shock, together with the unnecessary harshnesses
displayed by Gilquin, the commissary of police, caused Martineau's
death, and the subsequent popular outcry had much to do with Rougon's
second resignation of office. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

MARTINEAU (MADAME), wife of the preceding. Son Excellence Eugene
Rougon.

MARSY (COMTE DE), Minister of the Interior before Eugene Rougon, who
succeeded him on his appointment as President of the Corps Legislatif.
Marsy, who was said to be the son of a queen, was brilliant, immoral,
and unscrupulous. He was the chief political opponent of Eugene Rougon
and had great influence at the Court of Napoleon III. Son Excellence
Eugene Rougon.

MARTY (M.), a master at the Lycee Bonaparte, who was being ruined by
the extravagance of his wife, and was obliged to double his salary by
giving private lessons, in order to meet the constantly growing
household expenses. Au Bonheur des Dames.

MARTY (MADAME), wife of the preceding, was a woman of about thirty-
five years of age, whose face, never beautiful, was now much marked by
small-pox. She had a perfect mania for spending money on clothes, and
never visited "The Ladies' Paradise" without buying innumerable
articles for which she had no need. As a result of her extravagance,
her husband was nearly ruined, and was forced to increase his earnings
by giving private lessons. Au Bonheur des Dames.

MARTY (VALENTINE), daughter of the preceding, a young girl of fourteen
years of age, who was used by her mother as an excuse for some of her
extravagance, as she dressed her like herself, with all the
fashionable novelties of which she submitted to the irresistible
seduction. Au Bonheur des Dames.

MASCART (PERE), a blind paralytic to whom Angelique showed much
kindness. Le Reve.

MASSACRE, one of the dogs of old Soulas, the shepherd. It shared the
hatred of its master of La Cognette. La Terre.

MASSIAS, a frequenter of the Paris Bourse, where he gained a living by
bringing business to stockbrokers, from whom he received a commission
on each transaction. He was employed by Saccard after the foundation
of the Universal Bank, and by speculating in the shares he made a
considerable fortune. With the downfall of the institution, he lost
everything, and found himself in debt for a large sum. By borrowing
from friends, and pledging his entire life, he paid his debts and
started afresh. L'Argent.

MASSICOT, a tradesman of Plassans who was enrolled and armed by Pierre
Rougon to deliver the Town Hall from the Republicans who had occupied
it. He was so excited that when he got into the building he fired in
the air without knowing he had done so. La Fortune des Rougon.

MASSON (COLONEL), commander of the troops which crushed the Republican
rising in 1851. La Fortune des Rougon.

MATHIAS, an old hunchback who worked on the farm of La Borderie. La
Terre.

MATHIEU, a large dog which belonged to the Chanteaus at Bonneville and
was a great favourite of the family. The death of this animal greatly
accelerated the unreasoning fear of inevitable mortality with which
the mind of Lazare Chanteau was becoming obsessed. La Joie de Vivre.

MATHILDE, an actress at the Theatre des Varietes. Nana.

MATIGNON, a draper in Paris, whose shop was near that of Baudu. Au
Bonheur des Dames.

MAUDIT (ABBE), Vicar of Saint-Roch, Paris, he counted among his
parishioners the Josserands and the Duveyriers. Though well aware of
the immorality that went on in his parish, he recognized the
impossibility of stopping it, and did what he could to hide it under
the cloak of religion. When the scandal arose about Madame Auguste
Vabre, he was approached by her relations, and at their request acted
as intermediary between the husband and wife. Pot-Bouille.

MAUGENDRE (M.), father of Madame Jordan; was a retired awning
manufacturer who had made a considerable fortune from his business. He
disapproved of his daughter's marriage, and refused to give her any
dowry, on the pretext that she would have his fortune intact when he
was dead and gone. He was a careful man, averse from speculation, but
having on one occasion made a small venture, he gradually became
imbued with the craze. The phenomenal success of the Universal Bank
induced him to purchase its shares more and more wildly, until, when
the crash came, he was so deeply committed as to be ruined. Jordan,
who by this time had met with some success in literature, came to his
assistance. L'Argent.

MAUGENDRE (MADAME), wife of the preceding, was at first bitterly
opposed to the small speculations entered into by her husband. She
soon got infected with the craze, and became even more reckless than
he, urging him to involve himself more and more deeply in the fortunes
of the Universal Bank. L'Argent.

MAUGENDRE (MARCELLE). See Madame Marcelle Jordan.

MAURIAC (BARON DE), starter at the racecourse of Longchamp. Nana.

MAURIN, a hatter of Plassans, who was selected by the Republicans of
that town as their candidate. At the election he only received about
fifteen hundred votes against the rival candidate. M. Delangre. La
Conquete de Plassans.

MAURIN, a notary at Tulettes, who was also Mayor of the Commune. It
was he who drew up the certificate of death of Antoine Macquart from
spontaneous combustion.

MAZAUD, a broker on the Paris Bourse, who succeeded on the death of
his uncle to one of the largest businesses in the city. He was young
and pleasant-looking, with such remarkable activity and intuition that
he soon came into the first rank. He was also assisted by the fact
that he did business with all the great bankers, and was reputed to
have a second cousin employed at the Havas News Agency. After the
foundation of the Universal Bank, he became the official broker of
that institution, and the great gamble in its shares resolved itself
into a duel between him and Jacoby, the one buying for Saccard and the
other selling for Gundermann. Mazaud did not speculate on his own
account, but the failure of the bank led to so many of his clients
being unable to meet their differences that he was ruined. After
putting his affairs in order so far as possible, he committed suicide.
L'Argent.

MAZAUD (MADAME), wife of the preceding. She married for love, and
brought to her husband a considerable fortune. She had two children, a
girl and a boy. The suicide of her husband completely overwhelmed her
with grief. L'Argent.

MAZEL, a famous master at the School of Arts, and the last rampart of
elegant conventionality. The first year that the Hanging Committee of
the /Salon/ was elected by the artists themselves, Mazel was chosen
president. In the selection of pictures he was susceptible to
influence, and was guided more by the name of the artist than by the
quality of the work. L'Oeuvre.

MECHAIN, proprietor of a racing-stable. Hazard, one of his horses, ran
in the Grand Prix de Paris. Nana.

MECHAIN (MADAME), a woman in the employment of Busch, the money-lender
and debt collector. She assisted him in tracing debtors, and in the
purchase of securities of bankrupt companies. She was a cousin of
Rosalie Chavaille, mother of Victor Saccard, on whose death she was
left with the boy to bring up. On discovering the paternity of Victor
some years later, she and Busch attempted to blackmail Saccard, but
without success, though they had previously got a considerable sum
from Caroline Hamelin, who wished to save Saccard from annoyance.
L'Argent.

MEGOT (JUSTINE), a young maid-servant of Renee Saccard. She had a son
to Maxime Rougon in 1857, and was sent to live in the country with the
child on a small annuity. La Curee.

Three years later she married Anselme Thomas, a harness-maker at
Plassans. They had two children, and would have lived happily but for
the husband's dislike to her eldest child, Charles Rougon. Her conduct
after marriage was exemplary in every way. Le Docteur Pascal.

MEHUDIN (MADAME), originally came from Rouen to Paris, where she ever
afterwards remained in the fish trade. As her two daughters, Louise
and Claire, got on badly together, she ultimately divided her business
between them, Louise going to the general fish-market, while Claire
installed herself among the fresh-water fish. "From that time the old
mother, although she pretended to have retired from business
altogether, would flit from one stall to the other, still interfering
in the selling of the fish, and causing her daughters continual
annoyance by the foul insolence with which she at times spoke to
customers." Le Ventre de Paris.

MEHUDIN (CLAIRE), the second daughter of Madame Mehudin, was an idle,
fair-complexioned girl, with a gentle manner. She had, however, a
strong will, and was invariably at loggerheads with others. When
Florent became Inspector at the Fish Market, Claire took his part
against her mother and sister, but afterwards went to the opposite
extreme when his relations with Louise had become friendly. It
appeared that she had a real affection for him, however, as after his
arrest she assaulted her sister in the belief that she had given
information to the police. Le Ventre de Paris.

MEHUDIN (LOUISE), commonly called La Normande. She was a beautiful
woman who had at one time been engaged to be married to a clerk in the
corn-market. He was, however, accidentally killed, leaving Louise with
a son, who was known in the market by the nickname of /Muche/. When
Florent was first appointed Inspector in the Fish Market, Louise, who
had quarrelled with his sister-in-law, Lisa, did everything she could
to annoy him. Afterwards, partly gratified by his kindness to her son,
and partly to annoy Madame Lisa Quenu, she became reconciled to him.
Le Ventre de Paris.

MEINHOLD (MADAME DE), a lady well-known in the Society of the Second
Empire. She was a friend of Madame de Lauwerens and of the Saccards.
La Curee.

MELANIE, cook in the employment of the Gregoires, with whom she had
been for thirty years. Germinal.

MELANIE, the servant of Denizet, the examining magistrate at Rouen.
The latter was anxious for promotion, in order that his old servant
might be better fed and consequently better tempered. La Bete Humane.

MELIE, niece of the Fancheurs. She was a girl from the village of
Bennecourt, who waited on Claude Lantier and Christine in their
cottage there, and greatly amused them by her stupidity. After the
death of the Fancheurs, the inn came into the possession of Melie, but
soon lost favour on account of its dirt and disorder. L'Oeuvre.

MENU (MADEMOISELLE), aunt of Fanny Menu, who lived with her. She had
been an embroideress for thirty years, but her sight failed and she
was obliged to give up work. Fortunately she received a small legacy
from a relative, and on this, added to the earnings of her niece, she
was able to live. Pot-Bouille.

MENU (FANNY), a young girl who was protected by Narcisse Bachelard. As
he on one occasion found her with Gueulin, his nephew, under
compromising circumstances, he insisted on their marriage, and gave
her a handsome dowry. Pot-Bouille.

MERLE, usher at the Council of State. He was appointed by Eugene
Rougon, through the influence of Madame Correur. Son Excellence Eugene
Rougon.

MES BOTTES, the sobriquet of one of Coupeau's companions. He was a
heavy drinker and an enormous eater, and on account of the latter gift
he was occasionally asked by his friends to join such parties of
pleasure as paid by contract for their entertainment, in order that
they might watch the landlord's face lengthen at the rapid
disappearance of food. Chiefly for this reason, he was asked to the
Coupeaus' wedding party. L'Assommoir.

MEYER, owner of a Viennese bakery in Faubourg Poissonniere. The
Coupeaus bought their bread from him in order to please Lantier.
L'Assommoir.

MICHELIN (M.), a surveyor of the Municipal Council. "His wife, a
pretty woman, occasionally called to apologize to her husband's chiefs
for his absence, when he stayed away through ill-health. He was often
ill, but he obtained promotion at each illness." In order to secure
Saccard's influence, Michelin assisted him in getting exorbitant
prices for land sold to the city. La Curee.

MICHELIN (MADAME), wife of the preceding. By means of her good looks
and a determination to get on at any cost, she secured the influence
of her husband's superiors, and got rapid promotion for him in the
office of the Municipal Council. La Curee.

MIETTE, the pet name of Marie Chantegreil. (q.v.).

MIETTE, one of the peasant girls of Les Artaud who assisted to
decorate the church for the festival of the Virgin. La Faute de l'Abbe
Mouret.

MIGNON, a man who, beginning life as a bricklayer, had amassed a
fortune by speculations in building land during the early days of the
Second Empire. Along with Charrier, his partner, he had many business
dealings with Aristide Saccard. La Curee.

MIGNON, husband of an actress at the Theatre des Varietes. When Rose
married him he was leader of the orchestra at a cafe concert where she
sang. They were the best of friends, and lived together on the
earnings of the wife, who exploited her beauty not less than her
talents. Mignon was always on the best of terms with his wife's
lovers, even assisting them occasionally to deceive her, with the view
of bringing them back in penitence later on. Nana.

MIGNON (CHARLES), younger son of the preceding. Nana.

MIGNON (HENRI), elder son of Mignon. Along with his brother Charles he
was educated at a boarding-school. Nana.

MIGNON (ROSE), wife of Mignon, was a star actress at the Theatre des
Varietes, being a fine comedienne and an admirable singer. She was
dark and thin with that charming ugliness which is peculiar to the
gamins of Paris. It was she who, annoyed by the rivalry of Nana, one
day made Comte de Muffat aware of the liaison between his wife and
Fauchery. She was, however, a good-hearted woman, and when she learned
that Nana had contracted small-pox she arranged for her removal to the
Grand Hotel, and nursed her there till she died. Nana.

MIGNOT, one of the salesmen in the glove department at "The Ladies'
Paradise." He entered into a conspiracy with Albert Lhomme to defraud
his employer, and this was successful to a considerable extent before
its discovery; his dismissal followed, but there was no prosecution,
as the firm preferred not to bring its internal affairs before the
public eye. He afterwards got a situation as a traveller, and had even
the boldness to call at "The Ladies' Paradise." Au Bonheur des Dames.

MIMI-LA-MORT, a pupil at the College of Plassans, who was also
nicknamed /Le Squelette-Externe/ (The Skeleton Day-Boarder) on account
of his extreme thinness. Against the regulations of the College, he
used to bring in snuff to the other scholars. L'Oeuvre.

MINOUCHE, a white cat which belonged to the Chanteaus. La Joie de
Vivre.

MISARD, signalman on the railway at Croix-de-Maufras, between Malaunay
and Barentin. He was a little puny man, with thin, discoloured hair
and beard, and a lean, hollow-cheeked face. His work was mechanical,
and he seemed to carry it through without thought or intelligence. His
wife, a cousin of Jacques Lantier, looked after the level-crossing
which adjoined their house until failing health prevented her from
leaving the house. For this little man, silently and without anger,
was slowly poisoning his wife with a powder which he placed in the
salt which she ate. This crime, patient and cunning, had for its cause
a legacy of a thousand francs left to Aunt Phasie by her father, a
legacy which she had hidden, and refused to hand over to Misard. But
the old woman triumphed in the end, for though Misard searched day and
night for the treasure, he was never able to find it; she died taking
her secret with her. An old woman of the neighbourhood, La Ducloux,
whom he had employed to attend to the level-crossing after the death
of his wife, induced him to marry her by pretending that she had
discovered the secret hoard. La Bete Humaine.

MISARD (MADAME), wife of the preceding. See Phasie (Aunt).

MORANGE (CHARLOT), son of Silvine Morange and of Goliath Steinberg.
Physically he resembled his father's race, whom, however, he was
brought up to hate. Hidden behind his mother, he was at three years
old a witness of the murder of his father by the francs-tireurs. La
Debacle.

MORANGE (SILVINE), servant with Fouchard at Remilly. Her mother, who
was a worker in a factory at Raucourt, died when she was quite young,
and her godfather, Dr. Dalichamp, got her a situation with Fouchard.
Honore Fouchard fell in love with her, and they became engaged, but
the opposition of the old man was so great that Honore went away from
home and enlisted in the army. During his absence Silvine fell a
victim to the wiles of Goliath Steinberg, and a child, Charlot, was
born, Steinberg having previously disappeared. She had all along loved
Honore, and when he passed through Remilly on his way to fight the
Prussians he forgave her, and promised to marry her on his return.
When she heard that he had been killed in the battle of Sedan, she
became nearly mad, and with Prosper Sambuc made a wild search of the
battlefield for her lover's body. They found it eventually, and
brought it back in a cart for burial. Goliath Steinberg, who was a
German spy, again made advances to her, and, to save herself and her
friends, she betrayed him to the francs-tireurs, who killed him in her
presence. La Debacle.

MORIZOT, a friend of Malignon, who took him to the children's party at
Deberle's house. Une Page d'Amour.

MOSER, a speculator on the Paris Bourse. He was a short, yellow-
skinned man, who suffered from liver complaint and was continually
lamenting, in constant dread of some imminent catastrophe. In
consequence of his views, he was known on the Bourse as "bear" Moser.
Speculating heavily against the rise in the shares of the Universal
Bank, he was at one time on the verge of ruin, but the collapse of
that institution left him with an enormous fortune. L'Argent.

MOUCHE (LE PERE), the sobriquet of Michel Fouan, the third son of
Joseph Casimir Fouan, and brother of La Grande, Pere Fouan, and Laure
Badeuil. When his father's estate was divided, he received the family
dwelling-house and some land, but was dissatisfied with his share and
continued to accuse his brother and sister, though forty years had
elapsed, of having robbed him when the lots were drawn. He had been
long a widower, and, a soured unlucky man, he lived alone with his two
daughters, Lise and Francoise. At sixty years of age he died of an
attack of apoplexy. La Terre.

MOUCHE (FRANCOISE), younger daughter of Michel Fouan, alias Mouche.
Her mother died early, and she was brought up by her sister Lise, to
whom she was devotedly attached. She had a passion for justice, and
when she had said "that is mine and that is yours," she would have
been prepared to go to the stake in support of her rights. This
execration of injustice gradually led to a change of feeling between
the two sisters, for after the marriage of Lise to Buteau a division
of the land should have been made. Buteau and his wife on various
pretexts put off this division, and it was only on the marriage of
Francoise to Jean Macquart that it was carried out. An entire
estrangement between the two families followed, and constant quarrels
took place. After a shameful assault by Buteau upon Francoise, his
wife threw her upon a scythe which lay upon the ground near by, and
the unfortunate girl received injuries from which she died a few hours
later. A sense of loyalty to her family induced her to conceal the
cause of these injuries, which were attributed to accident. La Terre.

MOUCHE (LISE), elder daughter of Pere Mouche, and sister of the
preceding. She had a son to her cousin Buteau, who, however, did not
marry her for three years afterwards, when the death of her father
made her heiress to some land. She was at first an amiable woman, but
grew hardened under the influence of her husband, and ultimately her
whole desire was to avoid the necessity of a division of her father's
estate between her sister and herself. Moved by these feelings, her
love for Francoise became transformed into a hatred so intense that
she did not hesitate to assist her husband in attempting to bring
about the girl's ruin. In the end, having assisted Buteau in a
shameful assault on Francoise, she afterwards threw her upon a scythe
which was lying on the ground near by, inflicting injuries which
proved fatal. Pere Fouan, having been a witness of the assault, was
subsequently murdered by Lise and her husband, to ensure his silence
and their own safety. La Terre.

MOULIN, an assistant station-master at Havre along with Roubaud. La
Bete Humaine.

MOULIN (MADAME), wife of the preceding. She was a little woman, timid
and weak, who was seldom seen. She had a large family of young
children. La Bete Humaine.

MOUNIER, a tenor singer at the Opera, who gave the cue to Madame
Daigremont at a performance in her house. L'Argent.

MOUQUE, father of Mouquet and of Mouquette. He had charge of the
horses in the Voreux pit, and also acted as caretaker at a ruined mine
known as the Requillart, where the company had given him two rooms to
live in. Almost every evening he received a visit from his old comrade
Bonnemort. Germinal.

MOUQUET, son of the preceding, was an inseparable companion of
Zacharie Maheu, along with whom he worked at the Voreux pit. During
the strike he went out of curiosity to see the attack by the strikers
on the soldiers who were guarding the mines, and was killed by a stray
ball which struck him in the mouth.

MOUQUETTE, daughter of Mouque. She was a putter in the Voreux pit, and
lived with her father at the ruined mine of Requillart, where he was
caretaker. She was present at the attack by the strikers on the
soldiers guarding the Voreux, and when the fatal volley was fired she
was killed, in an instinctive attempt to save Catherine Maheu, before
whom she placed herself. Germinal.

MOURET, a hatter of Plassans who married Ursule Macquart in 1810 and
went to live at Marseilles. He was devoted to his wife, and a year
after her death in 1839, he hanged himself in a cupboard where her
dresses were still suspended. He left three children, Helene,
Francois, and Silvere. La Fortune des Rougon.

MOURET (MADAME), wife of the preceding. See Ursule Macquart. La
Fortune des Rougon.

MOURET (DESIREE), born 1844, daughter of Francois Mouret, and sister
of Octave and Serge. La Fortune des Rougon.

She was of feeble intellect, and when a girl of sixteen was still
mentally like a child of eight. When her mother fell under the
influence of Abbe Faujas, and began entirely to neglect her family,
Francois Mouret removed Desiree to the home of her old nurse, in whose
custody she remained. La Conquete de Plassans.

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.

When seventeen years old she married M. Grandjean, the son of a sugar-
refiner of Marseilles, whose family were bitterly opposed to the match
on account of her poverty. The wedding was a secret one, and the young
couple had difficulty making ends meet until an uncle died, leaving
them ten thousand francs a year. "It was then that Grandjean, within
whom an intense hatred of Marseilles was growing, had decided on
coming to Paris, to live there for good." The day after their arrival
Grandjean was seized with illness, and after eight days he died,
leaving his wife with one daughter, a young girl of ten. Helene, who
was a woman of singular beauty, had no friends in Paris except Abbe
Jouve and his half-brother M. Rambaud, but from them she received much
kindness. Her daughter Jeanne was far from strong, having inherited
much of the hereditary neurosis of her mother's family, along with a
consumptive tendency from that of her father. A sudden illness of the
girl led to an acquaintance with Doctor Deberle, and this ripened into
love between him and Helene, though considerations of duty kept them
apart. Meantime, Helene had discovered the beginnings of an intrigue
between Madame Deberle and M. Malignon, and in order to break it off
was herself placed in such a compromising position towards Doctor
Deberle that he became her lover. The discovery of the fact by Jeanne,
whose jealous love of her mother amounted to a mania, led to the
child's illness and death, and to her mother's bitter repentance. Two
years later Helene married M. Rambaud, and went to live at Marseilles.
Une Page d'Amour.

She lived for many years, very happy, and idolized by her husband, in
a house which he owned near Marseilles, close to the seashore. She had
no children by her second marriage. Le Docteur Pascal.

MOURET (OCTAVE), born 1840, son of Francois Mouret. La Fortune des
Rougon.

A young man of high spirits and somewhat idle habits, he made little
progress at college, and failed to pass the examinations for a degree.
His father was much annoyed at this, and sent him off to Marseilles to
enter a commercial business. The reports regarding him were, however,
unsatisfactory, as it appeared that he showed no inclination to settle
to hard work and was living a dissolute life.[*] La Conquete de
Plassans.

After the death of his parents, Serge Mouret, who was about to take
Holy Orders, renounced his share of his father's fortune in favour of
his brother Octave. La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

He was appointed a member of the family council which nominally had
charge of Pauline Quenu's fortune. La Joie de Vivre.

After three years at Marseilles he came to Paris, where he secured an
appointment as assistant at "The Ladies' Paradise" through the
influence of the Campardons, who were old friends of his mother. He
formed the project of advancing his prospects by making love to Madame
Hedouin, wife of his employer, but she gave him no encouragement. He
resigned his situation, and went as salesman to Auguste Vabre, a
neighbouring silk merchant. Vabre's wife (nee Berthe Josserand) was
not on good terms with her husband, and a liaison was formed between
her and Octave Mouret, which subsisted for some time before it was
discovered by Vabre, who received information from Rachael, his maid-
servant. Mouret returned to his former employment at "The Ladies'
Paradise," and M. Hedouin having died in the interval, he married the
widow a few months afterwards. He had developed keen business ability,
with large ideas, and under his management the shop became one of the
most important in the district. Pot-Bouille.

In Mouret's hands the business of "The Ladies' Paradise" continued to
grow, and repeated extensions of the building became necessary. While
one of these was in progress, Madame Mouret, who was inspecting the
work, fell into a hole, and as a result of her injuries died three
days afterwards. Mouret remained a widower, and devoted himself to the
extension of his business, though it was believed that a liaison with
Madame Desforges was not the only entanglement of its kind. On the
introduction of Madame Desforges he came to know Baron Hartmann,
director of the Credit Immobilier, who became interested in him, and
eventually found the money necessary to carry out the vast schemes of
extension which he had long had in mind. By this time Denise Baudu had
come to "The Ladies' Paradise" as a saleswoman, and from the first
Mouret had taken an interest in her. This was probably increased by
the fact that she resisted all his advances, and refused all his
offers. Ultimately he became so infatuated by her that he asked her to
marry him, which she agreed to do. By this time the success of "The
Ladies' Paradise" had become triumphant, and the smaller traders of
the district were being crushed out of existence, and driven one by
one into bankruptcy. Au Bonheur des Dames.

He assisted at the burial of his cousin, Claude Lantier the artist. By
this time he had become very rich, was decorated with the Legion of
Honour, and was desirous of giving the impression of an enlightened
taste for art. L'Oeuvre.

Octave Mouret, whose immense fortune continued to increase, had
towards the end of 1872 a second child by his wife Denise Baudu, whom
he adored, though he again began to lead a somewhat irregular life.
Their little girl was puny, but the younger child, a boy, took after
his mother, and grew magnificently. Le Docteur Pascal.

[*] It is interesting to note that by a curious oversight M. Zola in
    /Pot-Bouille/ refers to Octave Mouret as having passed the
    examination for his bachelor's degree before leaving Plassans, and
    states that at Marseilles the lad showed a passion for business
    life, being able during his three years' stay there to make a sum
    of five thousand francs (two hundred pounds), which he took with
    him to Paris.

MOURET (MADAME CAROLINE), first wife of the preceding. See Madame
Caroline Hedouin.

MOURET (MADAME DENISE), second wife of Octave Mouret. See Denise
Baudu.

MOURET (SERGE), born 1841, son of Francois Mouret. La Fortune des
Rougon.

He was a young man of nervous temperament and of somewhat delicate
health. Educated at Plassans, he took his degree at the college there,
and it was intended that he should go to Paris to study for the bar.
The state of his health caused his departure to be delayed, and
meantime he, like his mother, fell under the influence of Abbe Faujas.
Ultimately he decided to abandon the study of the law in order to
become a priest, and against the wishes of his father he entered the
Seminary at Plassans. La Conquete de Plassans.

After being ordained to the priesthood he was appointed cure of Les
Artaud, a small village in Provence, to whose degenerate inhabitants
he ministered with small success. From his parents he had inherited
the family taint of the Rougon-Macquarts, which in him took the form
of morbid religious enthusiasm bordering on hysteria. Brain fever
resulted, and bodily recovery left the priest without a mental past.
Dr. Pascal Rougon, his uncle, in the hope of saving his reason,
removed him to Paradou, the neglected demesne of a ruined mansion,
where he left him in the care of Albine, the keeper's niece. Here
Serge slowly recovered his health, though the memory of his past was
gone, and his mental development was that of a boy. In that enchanted
garden, lush with foliage and with the scent of flowers, the drama of
life unfolded, and Serge, loving Albine, and oblivious of his vows
unwittingly broke them. A chance meeting with Brother Archangais, and
a glimpse of the world outside the Paradou, recalled to Serge the
recollection of his priesthood, and, filled with horror, he tore
himself from Albine and returned to his cure of souls. A fierce
struggle between love and duty followed, but in the end the Church
conquered, and Albine was left to die, while Serge threw himself even
more feverishly than before into the observances of his faith. La
Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

Sent later to Saint-Eutrope, at the bottom of a marshy gorge, he was
cloistered there with his sister Desiree. He showed a fine humility,
refusing all preferment from his bishop, waiting for death like a holy
man, averse to remedies, although he was already in the early stage of
phthisis. Le Docteur Pascal.

MOURET (SILVERE), born 1834, son of Mouret, the hatter, and Ursule
Macquart, his wife. After the death of his father, Silvere went to
live with his grandmother Adelaide Fouque. Though poorly educated, he
was fond of reading, and his lonely life with this old half-imbecile
woman increased his own tendency to visionary dreamings. "He was
predisposed to Utopian ideas by certain hereditary influences; his
grandmother's nervous disorders became in him a chronic enthusiasm,
striving after everything that was grandiose and impossible." His
Uncle Antoine Macquart, who hoped through him to annoy the Rougons,
encouraged him in his Republican views, and after the /Coup d'Etat/ he
joined the insurrection which then arose. Miette Chantegreil, a young
girl to whom he was tenderly devoted, accompanied him, but was shot in
the attack by regular troops. He was taken prisoner, and having been
brought back to Plassans, was executed there. La Fortune des Rougon.

MOUSSEAU (ABBE), a priest at Plassans. La Conquete de Plassans.

MOURGUE, a peasant of Poujols, who, armed with a fork, had taken part
in the insurrectionary rising against the /Coup d'Etat/. He was made
prisoner, and was led to Plassans, tied by the arm to Silvere Mouret,
who had also been arrested. He was shot at the same time as Silvere by
Rengade, the gendarme. La Fortune des Rougon.

MOUTON, a cat which belonged to the Quenus, and was a favourite of
little Pauline. Le Ventre de Paris.

MUCHE, the name by which Louise Mehudin's son was known in the market.
He was befriended by Florent, who taught him to read and write. Le
Ventre de Paris.

MUFFAT (MAMAN), wife of General Muffat de Beuville, who was created
Comte by Napoleon I. She was an insufferable old woman, who was always
hand-in-glove with the priests, and had an authoritative manner, which
bent every one to her will. Her daughter-in-law, Comtesse Sabine, was
entirely under her dominion, and was forced by her to lead an almost
cloistered existence. Nana.

MUFFAT DE BEUVILLE (COMTE), son of the preceding and of General Muffat
de Beuville. Brought up in the strictest manner by his mother, his
life was one of cold and severe propriety, and being regarded with
favour at the Court, he was appointed Chamberlain to the Empress. He
married Sabine de Chouard, by whom he had one daughter, Estelle. For
seventeen years of married life his career was a pattern of all the
virtues, until a chance meeting with Nana led to an infatuation
amounting to mania. Everything was sacrificed to her, and no
degradation to his self-respect seemed too high a price to pay for her
favour. Disgusted for a time by her liaison with Fontan, he left her,
and turned for amusement to Rose Mignon, but the infatuation for Nana
reasserted itself, and he recovered her good graces by inducing
Bordenave to give her a part which she greatly desired in /La Petite
Duchesse/, a play by Fauchery. He spent vast sums upon Nana, giving
her a magnificent house in the Avenue de Villiers. Her influence over
him became complete, and he even accepted Daguenet, her former lover,
as his son-in-law. He overlooked too his wife's numerous liaisons, as
he required her signature to enable him to raise still more money for
Nana. Muffat's means were coming to an end, however, and the scandal
reached such a height that he was forced to resign his position at the
Tuileries. It was only when he learned that Nana was carrying on a
liaison with his own father-in-law, the aged Marquis de Chouard, that
he finally broke with her, and coming once more under the influence of
Venot, he sought forgetfulness of the past in an exaggerated devotion
to the service of the Church. Nana.

MUFFAT DE BEUVILLE (COMTESSE), wife of the preceding. See Sabine de
Chouard. Nana.

MUFFAT DE BEUVILLE (ESTELLE), daughter of the preceding. At sixteen
she was thin and insignificant, seldom speaking, but after her
marriage to Daguenet, she exhibited a will of iron, and completely
dominated her husband. Nana.

MULLER (BLANCHE), a favourite actress at the Theatre des Varietes. La
Curee.

MUSSY (M. DE) was an admirer of Renee Saccard, and aspired to be her
lover. He received an appointment on the staff of the London embassy.
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NANA. See Anna Coupeau.

NANA, name of a filly in the racing stable of Vandeuvres. She had been
beaten in several races, and when run for the Grand Prix de Paris was
looked on as an outsider. The success of the filly by fraudulent means
led to the disqualification of the owner. Nana.

NAPOLEON III, Emperor of the French. Referred to in /Son Excellence
Eugene Rougon/ and in /La Debacle/.

NATHANSOHN, a stockbroker. He came from Besancon, where his father was
a watchmaker. He was very fortunate in his speculations, and soon
became a man of consequence. His Jewish caution prevented him from
becoming involved with Saccard in the affairs of the Universal Bank,
and when that institution collapsed he was in a position to snatch a
fortune from its ruin. L'Argent.

NAUD, a shoemaker in Rue d'Antin who felt severely the competition of
Octave Mouret's great shop. Au Bonheur des Dames.

NAUDET, a cousin of the Quenus. He was a member of Pauline's family
council, and consented to her emancipation. La Joie de Vivre.

NAUDET, a picture-dealer who for some years had been revolutionizing
the trade. He put aside the old cautious methods, the watching for
pictures by beginners, bought for ten francs and sold for fifteen. To
judge by his appearance he might have been a nobleman, and his habits
were in keeping; he was, in fact, a pure speculator in pictures,
caring nothing for art. But he unfailingly scented success; he guessed
what artists ought to be taken up, not the ones likely to develop the
genius of a great painter, but the one whose deceptive talent, set off
by a pretended display of audacity, would command a premium in the
market. He speculated, in fact, on the ignorance and vanity of
amateurs. It was he who invented Fagerolles as a fashion, and made
large sums out of his works. His success in forcing up the prices of
pictures turned his head to some extent, and he even talked of
crushing out all the other dealers. The exaggerated rise in the price
of pictures came, as was inevitable, to an end, and in the fall which
followed Naudet was practically ruined. L'Oeuvre.

NEGREL (MADAME), sister of M. Hennebeau, the manager of the Montsou
mines. She was married to a captain, and after she became a widow
lived at Avignon on a small income, contenting herself with little in
order that she might properly educate her son Paul. Germinal.

NEGREL (PAUL), son of the preceding. He was an engineer at the Voreux
pit, an appointment which he received from his uncle, M. Hennebeau,
with whom he lived, being treated as one of the family. Madame
Hennebeau, notwithstanding a liaison which subsisted between her and
Negrel, planned for him a marriage with Cecile Gregoire, an
arrangement which was only prevented by the murder of the girl by old
Bonnemort. Negrel posed as taking no interest in the affairs of
practical life, but in the terrible disaster at the Voreux pit he
threw himself into the work of rescue with an ardour beyond praise.
Germinal.

NOEMI, an actress at the Vaudeville. Madame Deberle admired the
realistic manner in which she died in a piece she played. Une Page
d'Amour.

NORINE, a vendor of salted provisions, who went around the
neighbourhood of Cloyes. La Terre.

NORMANDE (LA), the sobriquet of Louise Mehudin. Le Ventre de Paris.

NOUGAREDE, an old senator who was on the point of asking the hand of
Clorinde Balbi after having seen her at a ball in the character of
Diana the huntress. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.



                                  O

OCTAVE, the favourite lover of Blanche de Sivry. Nana.

ORVIEDO (PRINCE D'), came to Paris from Spain with an immense fortune
made on the Stock Exchange. There were strange stories told regarding
the sources of his wealth; stories not more creditable than those told
of the armed bandits of former days, for his robberies, though less
open, were more dangerous. For twenty years he took his share of booty
in all the great financial swindles. He ultimately died of apoplexy.
L'Argent.

ORVIEDO (PRINCESS D'), was for a time one of the most curious
notabilities of the Second Empire. At the command of her mother, the
Duchesse de Combeville, she married the Prince in ignorance of the
source of his regal fortune, estimated at three hundred millions of
francs (twelve millions sterling). It was said that for twenty years
the Prince had appropriated the lion's share of every great piece of
financial rascality on the Bourses of France and Spain. After his
sudden death from a stroke of apoplexy, the Princess shut up the great
house in the Rue Saint-Lazare and retired with a maid to three rooms
on the second floor, where she lived the life of a recluse. From
thenceforth she lived solely for deeds of charity on a colossal scale.
During five years she founded the St. Mary's Infant Asylum, the St.
Joseph's Orphan Asylum, an Asylum for the aged at Chatillon, a
hospital in the suburbs of Paris, and an institution known as
/L'Oeuvre du Travail/, in which were boarded three hundred waifs and
strays from the streets of Paris. On these foundations, and on other
charities, she spent in five years over a hundred millions of francs.
For some time Saccard assisted her in a disinterested way in carrying
out her schemes, and later he rented from her the premises in which he
started the Universal Bank. As time went on, the Princess seemed to be
swayed more and more by the desire of restitution to the poor of the
uttermost remnants of her husband's fortune. In the end, when she had
divided it all, she retired to a convent of Carmelites, walled off
from the world. L'Argent.

OZIL, a pointsman at the junction for Dieppe, between the tunnel and
the station of Malaunay. He was in love with Flore, who for a time
seemed to encourage him. He was dismissed from his post on account of
grave negligence caused by Flore, who distracted his attention in
order that he might allow the Havre express to dash into a train
loaded with ballast. The accident was only averted by a new automatic
signalling apparatus. La Bete Humaine.



                                  P

PACHE, a soldier in the 106th regiment of the line, in the squad of
Corporal Jean Macquart. He brought from his native village strong
religious principles, and was in the regular habit of saying his
prayers outside his tent. The example of his companions, however, made
him a bad soldier, and during the battle of 1st September, 1870, he
left the ranks, and took refuge in a tavern. After the capitulation of
Sedan, he was imprisoned along with his regiment on the promontory of
Iges. Moved by famine, he concealed some bread from his companions;
but having been denounced by Chouteau, he refused to share the spoil,
and was murdered by Lapoulle, who stabbed him with a knife. La
Debacle.

PAILLOT, a farmer in the neighbourhood of Montsou. Germinal.

PALETTE (LA MERE), a poultry-seller at the Central Markets in Paris.
Le Ventre de Paris.

PALOQUE, a judge. He and his wife were said to be the ugliest couple
in Plassans, and in addition were far from popular. Madame Mouret
having asked the assistance of Madame Paloque in connection with the
Home for Girls proposed by Abbe Faujas, she agreed to act on the
Committee, and became Treasurer. At the opening ceremony, however, the
Bishop omitted to make reference to her services, and she took great
offence, becoming afterwards very irregular in her work, and declining
to perform any duties that she did not fancy. This ultimately led to
the appointment of a paid Secretary for the institution, Honore
Trouche, the brother-in-law of Abbe Faujas being selected. The
Paloques were antagonistic to Faujas, but on getting a hint from
Madame de Condamin that he had the backing of the Government and would
see that they were rewarded, they came over to his side, and assisted
him in "the conquest of Plassans" by the Bonapartist candidate. La
Conquete de Plassans.

PARABOULOMENOS, a name given by the pupils of the college of Plassans
to the youth who served in the kitchen. L'Oeuvre.

PARALLELUCA, the sobriquet given by the pupils of the College of
Plassans to a scullery-maid employed there. It was alleged that there
was a love-idyll between her and Paraboulomenos, both of whom were
extremely ugly. L'Oeuvre.

PASCAL (LE DOCTEUR). See Pascal Rougon.

PATOIR, a veterinary surgeon at Cloyes. La Terre.

PAUVRE ENFANT, a young trooper of the 5th regiment of the line, who
was fatally wounded at the battle of Sedan, and died in the ambulance
at Remilly. He received the name because he continually repeated the
words regarding himself, saying that his mother had always called him
so. He died in the arms of Henriette Weiss, whom in his delirium he
named "Mother." La Debacle.

PAYAN, a stone-cutter from the South, whose friends had views of
making him an artist. He was a lover of Clarisse Bocquet, and pilfered
from her a large quantity of furniture given her by Duveyrier.
Pot-Bouille.

PECHARD (ANTOINE), a neighbour of the Fouans. He owned eighteen acres
of land when he married La Grande, who brought him seven acres more.
He died young, leaving one daughter. La Terre.

PECHARD (MADAME), wife of the preceding. See La Grand. La Terre.

PECHARD (MADEMOISELLE), daughter of Antoine Pechard and Marianne
Fouan, his wife. As she insisted on marrying a poor youth named
Vincent Bouteroue, her mother cast her out. Misfortunes pursued the
young couple, both of whom died within a few years, leaving two
children in profound misery. La Terre.

PECQUEUX, a stoker in the employment of the Western Railway Company.
He was married to Mere Victoire, the old nurse of Severine Aubry. His
original intention was to qualify as an engine-driver, but time passed
without advancement, and later there was an insuperable barrier in his
own conduct, for he was given to drinking bouts which converted him
for the time into a savage animal, capable of any violence. His wife
lived at Paris, while Philomene Sauvagnat helped him to pass the hours
he was compelled to spend at Havre, an arrangement which had the
concurrence of Victoire. Pecqueux had the devotion of a dog for his
comrade Jacques Lantier, who concealed his vices and shared with him a
love for their engine, "La Lison." Philomene, however, excited his
jealousy by her attentions to Lantier, and the former friendship of
the two comrades became changed to fierce enmity. At length it
happened that one night, as their engine was drawing eighteen trucks
of soldiers towards the seat of war in Prussia, Pecqueux in a sudden
access of madness attacked Lantier, and, after a fierce struggle on
the narrow foot-plate, the two fell off, and were cut in pieces
beneath the wheels. La Bete Humaine.

PEIROTTE, receiver of taxes at Plassans. He was taken as a hostage by
the Republican insurgents and was inadvertently shot by the troops
which crushed the rising. La Fortune des Rougon.

PEQUEUR DES SAULAIES (M.), sub-prefect of Plassans. He fell into
disfavour with the Government on account of the election of a
Legitimist Deputy. For some time he was afraid to compromise himself
with Abbe Faujas, but having received a hint from Madame de Condamin,
who had influential friends in Paris, he allied himself with the Abbe.
The result was the election of Delangre, who though nominally
independent, was actually the Government candidate. La Conquete de
Plassans.

PEQUIGNOT, a friend of the Lorilleux. He was a furniture dealer.
L'Assommoir.

PERDIGUET, a singer known to Malignon, who promised to take him to the
children's party at Deberle's house. Une Page d'Amour.

PERE COLOMBE, owner of the /Assommoir/, a public-house which was
largely the scene of the downfall of Coupeau and Gervaise Macquart,
his wife. L'Assommoir.

PEROU (LA MERE), an old woman employed by Gourd, the concierge, to do
cleaning work. Terrorized by his brutality she agreed to accept less
wages. Pot-Bouille.

PHASIE (AUNT), was the wife of Misard, and the mother of Flore and
Louisette. She was a cousin of the Lantiers and was godmother to
Jacques, who was left in her charge when his parents went to Paris.
Her first husband died, leaving her with two daughters, and she
married for a second time Misard, a little man, cunning and
avaricious, who was five years her senior. Jacques found them later,
living in Normandy at Croix-de-Maufras on the line to Havre, where
Misard was signalman, and his wife had charge of the level crossing.
It was a miserable existence, without neighbours or any one to speak
to, without even anything to look at, except the trains constantly
rushing past. Aunt Phasie, as she had always been called by Jacques
Lantier, was a tall, handsome woman, but since her second marriage she
had aged so rapidly that at forty-five she looked over sixty. The
truth was that between her and Misard there was going on a duel to the
death; Aunt Phasie had received a legacy of a thousand francs from her
father, and this she obstinately refused to allow her husband to
share, having indeed hidden the money to prevent him from taking it.
Misard, overcome by avarice, slowly killed his wife with poison placed
in the salt, but, though she had the strongest suspicions, she would
nether take action against him nor tell him the hiding-place of her
little hoard. And so she died, carrying the secret with her; but in
the end she triumphed, for search as he might, Misard never discovered
the hidden treasure. La Bete Humaine.

PICHINETTE, a horse entered for the Grand Prix de Paris. It was
withdrawn before the race. Nana.

PICHON (JULES), a clerk who lived in the house in Rue de Choiseul
occupied also by Octave Mouret. His means were small, and he was
obliged to work hard, frequently till late at night, his wife being
necessarily left much alone. Pot-Bouille.

PICHON (MARIE), wife of the preceding. She was a daughter of M. and
Madame Vuillaume, by whom she was strictly brought up. A dreamy
unpractical woman, she fell under the influence of Octave Mouret, her
next-door neighbour, and a liaison existed between them for a
considerable time, with results which caused much annoyance to her
parents. Pot-Bouille.

PICHON (LILITTE), infant daughter of the preceding. Pot-Bouille.

PICHON (ROSALIE), Madame Helene Grandjean's maid-servant. She was an
honest country girl who had been brought to Paris by Abbe Jouve on the
recommendation of a village priest, in whose house she had been
brought up. She served her mistress faithfully, and ruled Zephyrin
Lacour, her sweetheart, with a hand of iron. Une Page d'Amour.

PICOT, a soldier of infantry who belonged to the first division of the
seventh Army Corps. After the defeats of Wissenbourg and
Froeschwiller, Picot, half dead with fatigue and slightly wounded, was
left behind in a ditch with his comrade Coutard of the first corps.
They were only able to rejoin the army at Rheims on 22nd August, 1870,
arriving with their clothes worn out and covered with mud, and having
more the appearance of bandits than of soldiers. La Debacle.

PICOU (M.), a townsman of Plassans who expressed disbelief in the
success of the /Coup d'Etat/. La Fortune des Rougon.

PIED-DE-CELERI, a friend of Coupeau. He had a wooden leg, from which
he received his nickname. L'Assommoir.

PIEDEFER (LAURE), kept a cheap restaurant in Rue des Martyrs, which
was much frequented by a certain class of demi-mondaines. Laure
appeared to be on intimate terms with her customers, as they usually
kissed her when they entered. Nana.

PIEDEFER (ZOE), an artist's model who lived in Rue Campagne-Premiere.
She was a tall brunette. L'Oeuvre.

PIERRE, Dr. Deberle's butler. Une Page d'Amour.

PIERRE, an employee at /Au Bonheur des Dames/. He was waiter in the
dining-room of the shop assistants. Au Bonheur des Dames.

PIERRON, a miner employed at the Voreux pit. He was a widower with a
little girl aged eight, Lydie, when he married for the second time,
the daughter of La Brule. Though he took part in the strike he
betrayed his companions, giving information to the company through
Dansaert, his wife's lover. After the attack on the pit Pierron was
arrested by mistake, and was taken off with handcuffs at his wrists as
far as Marchiennes, to the great amusement of his mates. He was
subsequently promoted to be captain of a gang, but his excessive zeal
made him disliked by his men. Germinal.

PIERRON (LYDIE), daughter of the preceding, was a fragile child, who
when ten years old was already working in the pit. Her constant
companions were Jeanlin Maheu and Bebert Levaque, with whom she made
many raids in search of food during the strike. She was killed by the
volley fired by the troops at the strikers attacking the Voreux pit.
Germinal.

PIERRONNE (LA), the second wife of Pierron, was a daughter of La
Brule. She was allowed by the Company to sell sweetmeats and biscuits,
which were a considerable source of revenue. Dansaert, the head
captain of the Voreux pit, was her lover, and through him she obtained
various favours, giving him in exchange information as to the
intentions of the strikers. After the strike she was enabled to
acquire the little /Estaminet du Progres/. Germinal.

PIFARD, an usher at the college of Plassans, whose wonderful nose kept
betraying his presence behind doors when its owner went eavesdropping.
L'Oeuvre.

PILLERAULT, a speculator on the Bourse, whose guiding principle was
recklessness; he declared that he plunged into catastrophes whenever
he paused to reflect. He was ruined by the failure of the Universal
Bank. L'Argent.

PIOT AND RIVOIRE, a firm of furniture-dealers, whose business was
seriously affected when Octave Mouret added a furniture department to
"The Ladies' Paradise." Au Bonheur des Dames.

PIQUETTE kept an /estaminet/ at Montsou, where Chaval lodged.
Germinal.

PLOUGUERN (M. DE) was a member of the Chamber of Deputies during the
reign of Louis Philippe. After the Revolution of February, 1848, he
manifested a sudden affection for the Republic, and later, when the
Emperor granted him the refuge of the Senate, he was a Bonapartist. He
was a man of high birth and breeding, and though a sceptic, defended
religion and family life. During a journey in Italy he met Comtesse
Balbi, whose lover he remained for thirty years. According to some,
Clorinde Balbi was his daughter. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

PLUCHART, a former workman who was now secretary of a branch of the
International Association of workers. He had been Etienne Lantier's
foreman at Lille, and at his request came to Montsou to address the
miners there. As a result of his visit ten thousand miners joined the
International Association. Germinal.

POIRETTE (LE PERE), a countryman of Bennecourt, with small eyes and
the face of a wolf. He was the owner of an old cottage, which Claude
Lantier and Christine rented from him for two hundred and fifty francs
a year. L'Oeuvre.

POISSON (M.), who was originally a cabinet-maker, served his time as a
soldier, and ultimately got a place as a policeman, which he
considered more certain and respectable. He married Virginie, who
afterwards went into business as a dealer in groceries and sweetmeats
in the shop previously occupied by Gervaise Coupeau. Auguste Lantier,
who had for some time lodged with the Coupeaus, remained with the
Poissons, and lived at their expense. M. Poisson affected not to
observe the resulting liaison between his wife and Lantier.
L'Assommoir.

POISSON (MADAME), wife of the preceding. See Virginie. L'Assommoir.

POLAND, a pet rabbit which belonged to Rasseneur, and was a favourite
of Souvarine. Germinal.

POMARE (LA REINE), a rag-picker, who had formerly been one of the
handsomest women in Paris. Now, for the sake of a laugh, the women of
the district made her drink absinthe, after which the street boys
would chase her and throw stones. Nana.

PORQUIER (DR.) the fashionable medical man of Plassans. He had
considerable influence, and this was secured by Abbe Faujas on behalf
of the Government's candidate for the representation of Plassans by
the promise of an appointment for his son, Guillaume, a young man who
had hitherto given him much trouble. La Conquete de Plassans.

PORQUIER (GUILLAUME), son of Dr. Porquier, had been sent to Paris to
study, but did nothing there but get into debt. He caused his father
much distress, and was supposed to afford the worst possible example
to the youth of Plassans, whom he was believed to lead into all kinds
of mischief. Ultimately, as a reward to his father, who had supported
Delangre as representative of Plassans, Porquier was appointed chief
clerk at the post office. La Conquete de Plassans.

POUILLAUD, a fellow-pupil of Claude Lantier and Pierre Sandoz at the
college of Plassans. While there he was an inveterate practical joker,
one of his escapades being the transformation of Professor Lalubie's
room into a /chapelle ardente/. L'Oeuvre.

POWELL (MISS), second assistant in the corset department at /Au
Bonheur des Dames/. She was able to play the piano, a talent of which
the other assistants were jealous. Au Bonheur des Dames.

POZZO (LUIGI), Secretary to the Sardinian Minister at Paris.
"Diplomatist, painter, musician, and lover." A friend of Clorinde
Balbi. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

PRICE, an English jockey who mounted the filly Nana in the Grand Prix
de Paris. Nana.

PRINCE IMPERIAL. Referred to in /Son Excellence Eugene Rougon/.

PROUANE, a retired non-commissioned officer in the navy, who acted as
beadle to Abbe Harteur, as well as fulfilling the duties of Mayor's
clerk. He eked out a livelihood by gathering shell-fish, but when he
had any money he was usually in a state of intoxication. La Joie de
Vivre.

PRULLIERE, an actor at the Theatre des Varietes, where he played in
/La Blonde Venus/ and /La Petite Duchesse/. Nana.

PRUNAIRE (LE PERE), a maker of sabots, who lived at Vivet. Furious at
the conduct of his daughter Clara, he threatened to go to Paris and
break her bones with kicks of his sabots. Au Bonheur des Dames.

PRUNAIRE (CLARA), daughter of a clog-maker in the forest of Vilet,
came to Paris and got a situation in "The Ladies' Paradise." She lived
a fast life, and, after alluring Colomban away from Genevieve Baudu,
his intended wife, she ultimately disappeared. Au Bonheur des Dames.

PUECH, senior partner of the firm of Puech and Lacamp, oil-dealers in
Plassans; was father of Felicite Puech. La Fortune des Rougon.

PUECH AND LACAMP, a firm of oil-dealers in Plassans, who were in
financial difficulties when Pierre Rougon married Felicite, the
daughter of the senior partner. The money put into the business by
Rougon retrieved the position of the firm, and, the two partners
having retired soon afterwards, he acquired the sole interest in it.
La Fortune des Rougon.

PUECH (FELICITE). See Madame Felicite Rougon.

PUTOIS (MADAME), one of the workwomen employed by Gervaise Coupeau in
her laundry. She was a little, lean woman of forty-five, "who worked
at her ironing table without even taking off her bonnet, a black
bonnet trimmed with green ribbons turning yellow." In character she
was severely respectable. L'Assommoir.



                                  Q

QUANDIEU, the oldest captain of the Montsou mines. During the strike,
the energetic position taken up by him saved the Mirou pit from
destruction by the infuriated strikers. Germinal.

QUENU (MADAME) was a widow with one son when she married her second
husband, M. Quenu, a clerk in the sub-prefecture at Le Vigan. Three
years after, M. Quenu died, leaving a son. Madame Quenu lavished all
her affection on Florent, her elder son, and stinted herself to the
verge of starvation in order that he might continue his legal studies.
Before these were completed she succumbed to the hardship of her life.
Le Ventre de Paris.

QUENU, the half-brother of Florent. After the death of his mother, he
was taken to Paris by Florent, who supported him by teaching. He was
at first idle and unsettled, but after Florent's arrest he was taken
in by his uncle Gradelle, to whose business of pork-butcher, as well
as to a considerable sum of money, he ultimately succeeded. After his
uncle's death he married Lisa Macquart, who had previously assisted in
the shop, and they had a daughter, Pauline. Business prospered, and
the Quenus were soon in a position to remove to larger premises.
Florent on his return from exile was kindly received by Quenu, who
later on took no part in the efforts made by his wife to induce his
brother to leave voluntarily. He was ignorant of his wife's action
with reference to the subsequent arrest of Florent. Le Ventre de
Paris.

He died of apoplexy in 1863, six months after the death of his wife,
leaving a will under which M. Chanteau, his cousin became the guardian
of his daughter Pauline. La Joie de Vivre.

QUENU (MADAME LISA), wife of the preceding. See Lisa Macquart.

QUENU (PAULINE), born 1852, daughter of Quenu, the pork-butcher, and
Lisa Macquart, his wife. A quiet, amiable child, she unwittingly gave
Mlle. Saget, who bullied her, information regarding her uncle
Florent's history, which led to the clamour against him in the Market,
and ultimately to his arrest. Le Ventre de Paris.

After the death of her father, who left her a fortune of a hundred and
fifty thousand francs, Pauline went in 1863 to live at Bonneville with
M. Chanteau, her guardian. She soon endeared herself to her relatives,
and became much attached to her cousin Lazare. As she grew up and her
nature developed, it became more and more her pleasure to sacrifice
herself to her friends. She allowed her fortune to be squandered by
the Chanteaus, and though engaged to be married to Lazare, she
released him in order that he might marry another girl with whom he
had become infatuated. After his mania became acute, it was she who
endeavoured to comfort him, and to dispel his unreasoning fear of
death. She never married. La Joie de Vivre.

After the death of Chanteau, she remained at Bonneville, resolved
never to marry, in order that she might devote herself entirely to
Lazare's little son, Paul. Le Docteur Pascal.

QUINETTE, a glover in Rue Neuve Saint-Augustine, whose business was
seriously affected by the competition of "The Ladies' Paradise." Au
Bonheur des Dames.

QUITTARD (AUGUSTE), son of Francoise Quittard. He was a child of six
years of age, who was so ill of typhoid fever that he could not be
removed from Bazeilles when the place was attacked by the Prussians.
Early in the day, his mother was killed by a cannon ball, and the poor
child lay for hours tossing with fever and calling for her. He was
burned to death in his bed, as the Prussians, infuriated by the length
of the struggle, wantonly set fire to the village. La debacle.

QUITTARD (FRANCOISE), widow of a mason, and now caretaker of the dye-
works at Bazeilles, which belonged to Delaherche. Before the battle
all the workers made their escape into Belgium, but Francoise was
unable to leave on account of the illness of her little son. Early in
the attack by the Prussians, the unfortunate woman was killed by a
cannon ball. La Debacle.



                                  R

RABIER, a tanner of Beaumont. He was a brother of Madame Franchomme,
and after her death she left the child Angelique in the care of him
and his wife. They treated the girl with such cruelty that she
ultimately ran away, finding shelter with the Huberts. Le Reve.

RACHAEL, the maid-servant in Auguste Vabre's household. As Octave
Mouret and Madame Vabre did not bribe her sufficiently, she revealed
their intrigue to Vabre. She acted as his housekeeper for some time,
but had to leave after the reconciliation between him and his wife.
Pot-Bouille.

RAMBAUD (M.), half-brother of Abbe Jouve, had a large business in the
Rue de Rambuteau, where he sold oil and other southern produce. Along
with Abbe Jouve he showed much kindness to Helene Grandjean after the
death of her husband, and was a constant visitor at her house. Later
on, the Abbe tried to arrange a marriage between Rambaud and Helene,
but at her request the decision was delayed. Meantime the love episode
with Doctor Deberle intervened, followed by the death of Jeanne. Two
years afterwards the marriage took place, Rambaud having previously
sold his Paris business and removed to Marseilles. Une Page d'Amour.

He retired from business and went to live at Marseilles. Having by his
marriage become a cousin of Madame Lisa Quenu, he was appointed a
member of the family council which nominally had charge of her
daughter's fortune. La Joie de Vivre.

Rambaud led a happy life with his wife, whom he adored. Le Docteur
Pascal.

RAMBAUD (MADAME), wife of the preceding. See Helene Mouret.

RAMOND (DR.), a pupil and fellow-practitioner of Dr. Pascal. He wished
to marry Clotilde Rougon, but she refused him, and he subsequently
married Mademoiselle Leveque. When Doctor Pascal was seized with an
affection of the heart, Ramond diagnosed the nature of the illness,
and subsequently attended him with unremitting care until his death.
Le Docteur Pascal.

RAMOND (MADAME), wife of the preceding. See Mademoiselle Leveque. Le
Docteur Pascal.

RANVIER (ABBE), succeeded Abbe Jouve as cure at Montsou. He was of
socialistic tendencies, and blamed the middle classes, who he said
robbed the Church, for all the horrors produced by the strike at
Montsou. Upon the troops who had been called on to fire upon the
strikers, he called down the anger of God, predicting an hour of
justice in which fire would descend from heaven to exterminate the
bourgeoisie. He was finally removed by the Bishop as too compromising.
Germinal.

RASSENEUR kept a tavern with the sign /A l'Avantage/ between the
settlement of the Deux-Cent-Quarante and the Voreux pit. He was
formerly a good workman, but as he was an excellent speaker, and
placed himself at the head of every strike, he was dismissed by the
Mining Company. His wife already held a licence, and when he was
thrown out of work he became an innkeeper himself. It was in his house
that Etienne Lantier found lodgings when he first came to Montsou, and
Souvarine also lodged there. Rasseneur's readiness of speech gave him
great influence with the miners, but a rivalry arose between him and
Lantier, whose new theories caught the popular ear. This jealousy
caused him to take a side against the strike, solely because it had
been proposed by Lantier, and this attitude made him very unpopular.
But after the failure of the strike, which he had all along predicted,
the inconstancy of the crowd turned in his favour and he soon regained
his old popularity. Germinal.

RASSENEUR (MADAME), wife of the preceding. At the time her husband was
dismissed from the pit, she already held a licence, and they
subsequently worked together to extend the business, in which they had
considerable success. She was much more radical in politics than her
husband, but during the strike trouble was careful to show extreme
politeness to everyone. Germinal.

RASTOIL, a neighbour of Francois Mouret. He was a rich man about sixty
years of age, who had been president of the civil tribunal of Plassans
for over twenty years. He was a Legitimist, and his house was used as
a convenient meeting-place for the party. For some time he refused to
compromise his political position with Abbe Faujas, who had all along
concealed his opinions. Ultimately, however, he supported the
candidate for the representation of Plassans proposed by Faujas, for
which he was rewarded by an appointment for his son. La Conquete de
Plassans.

RASTOIL (MADAME), wife of the preceding, was a listless and somewhat
prudish woman whose old entanglement with M. Delangre was still
remembered with amusement in the cafes. She was consulted by Madame
Mouret regarding the Home for Girls proposed by Abbe Faujas, and
ultimately agreed to act on the committee. La Conquete de Plassans.

RASTOIL (ANGELINE), elder daughter of M. Rastoil, the president of the
civil tribunal of Plassans. Though twenty-six years old, and now very
yellow and shrewish-looking, she still adopted the role of a young
girl, and had hopes of securing a husband. La Conquete de Plassans.

RASTOIL (AURELIE), second daughter of M. Rastoil. Like her sister
Angeline, she was plain-looking, and posed as a girl fresh from
school, in the uncertain hope of gaining a husband. La Conquete de
Plassans.

RASTOIL (SEVERIN), son of M. Rastoil, the president of the civil
tribunal of Plassans. "He was a tall young man of five and twenty,
with a badly shaped skull and a dull brain, who had been just called
to the Bar, thanks to the position which his father held. The latter
was anxiously dreaming of making him a substitute, despairing of his
ever succeeding in winning any practice for himself." On the
suggestion of Abbe Faujas he took a share in starting the Club for
Young Men at Plassans. After the election of M. Delangre as
representative of Plassans, Rastoil received the appointment of
assistant public procurator at Faverolles. La Conquete de Plassans.

RAVAUD, a captain of the 106th Regiment of the line, commanded by
Colonel de Vineuil. A young soldier in his company was the first of
the wounded to be taken to the ambulance in Delaherche's house on 1st
September, 1870. In March, 1871, captain Ravaud was at Paris, in a
regiment of recent formation, the 124th of the line. Jean Macquart was
corporal in his company in this regiment. La Debacle.

READING (LORD), proprietor of a racing stable. Bramah, one of his
horses, once gained the Grand Prix de Paris. Nana.

REBUFAT, a farmer whose land adjoined that inherited by Adelaide
Fouque. He purchased the Fouque property when it was sold by Pierre
Rougon. After the death of his wife Rebufat and his son Justin treated
her niece Miette Chantegreil very harshly. La Fortune des Rougon.

REBUFAT (MADAME EULALIE), wife of the preceding; "a big, dark,
stubborn shrew." She was a sister of Chantegreil, and was therefore
the aunt of Miette, who lived with her after her father's conviction.
La Fortune des Rougon.

REBUFAT (JUSTIN), son of Rebufat. "A youth about twenty years old, a
sickly, squint-eyed creature, who cherished an implacable hatred
against his cousin Miette." La Fortune des Rougon.

REMANJOU (MADEMOISELLE), an old lady who lived in the same tenement
house in Rue de la Goutte d'Or as the Coupeaus and the Lorilleux,
where she made a scanty livelihood by dressing dolls. She was one of
the guests at the Coupeaus' wedding party. L'Assommoir.

RENAUDIN, a notary at Paris, who adjusted the Contract of Marriage
between Auguste Vabre and Berthe Josserand. He acted in concert with
Duveyrier in selling some heritable property to the loss of other
members of the family. Pot-Bouille.

RENAUDIN, a medical man at Grenelle. Josephine Dejoie was at one time
cook in his house. L'Argent.

RENGADE, a gendarme whose eye was accidentally destroyed by Silvere
Mouret during a struggle for possession of a carbine after the entry
of the insurgents into Plassans. La Fortune des Rougon.

REUTHLINGUER (BARON DE), a banker, and possessor of one of the largest
fortunes in Europe. He was a friend of Clorinde Balbi, and from her
received valuable information on political subjects. Son Excellence
Eugene Rougon.

RHADAMANTE, the sobriquet of a professor at the college of Plassans.
He was supposed never to have laughed. L'Oeuvre.

RICHOMME, one of the captains of the Voreux pit. He tried in vain to
prevent a collision between the strikers and the troops, and even when
bricks were being thrown he went between two parties, imploring one
and advising the other, careless of danger. He was one of the first to
fall when the troops ultimately fired. Germinal.

RIVOIRE, a member of the firm of Piot and Rivoire. Au Bonheur des
Dames.

ROBERT (MADAME), a regular customer at the restaurant Laure Piedefer.
She was jealous of Nana's relations with Satin, and revenged herself
by writing anonymous letters to Muffat and to other lovers of her
enemy. Nana.

ROBIN-CHAGOT (VISCOUNT DE), vice-chairman of the board of directors of
the Universal Bank. He was selected for the position in the belief
that he would sign anything put before him without making too many
inquiries. L'Argent.

ROBINEAU, "second hand" in the silk department at "The Ladies'
Paradise." As the result of a conspiracy among his subordinates, he
was dismissed, and soon afterwards bought the business of M. Vincard,
a silk merchant, with money belonging to his wife. His capital was
inadequate, but M. Gaujean, a silk manufacturer who had quarrelled
with Octave Mouret, promised to give him unlimited credit. Robineau's
intention was to break up the monopoly of the cheaper class of silks
which Mouret had secured, but he soon found that each reduction in
price which he made was met by a still larger one. As he had no other
departments out of which to average his profits, ruin inevitably
followed, and he attempted to commit suicide by throwing himself under
an omnibus; his injuries were not serious, however, and he ultimately
recovered. Au Bonheur des Dames.

ROBINEAU (MADAME), wife of the preceding. "Daughter of an overseer in
the Department of Highways, entirely ignorant of business matters, she
still retained the charming awkwardness of a girl educated in a Blois
convent." Her small fortune enabled her husband to buy the silk
business of M. Vincard, and she assisted him in carrying it on. Their
subsequent ruin affected her less than the attempted suicide of her
husband, to whom she was devoted. Au Bonheur des Dames.

ROBINE, a regular attender at the revolutionary meetings in Lebigre's
wine-shop. He sat for hours listening to arguments but never made any
remarks. He escaped arrest. Le Ventre de Paris.

ROBINE (MADAME), wife of the preceding, lived with her husband in Rue
Saint-Denis. No one ever entered their house, and even her personal
appearance was unknown to her husband's friends. Le Ventre de Paris.

ROBINOT (MADAME), an acquaintance of the Deberles. Une Page d'Amour.

ROBIQUET, farmer of La Chamade. Being near the end of his lease, he
ceased to manure the land, allowing it to go to ruin. He was
eventually turned out as he did not pay his rent. La Terre.

ROCHART (MONSEIGNEUR), Bishop of Faverolles. He upheld the Sisters of
the Holy Family in the matter of the succession to Chevassu's estate,
but was beaten by Eugene Rougon, the Minister of State, who supported
the claim of the Charbonnels. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

ROCHAS, lieutenant in the 106th Regiment of the line, commanded by
Colonel de Vineuil. The son of a journeyman mason from Limousin, he
was born in Paris, and not caring for his father's calling, enlisted
when he was only eighteen. He gained a corporal's stripes in Algeria,
rose to the rank of sergeant at Sebastopol, and was promoted to a
lieutenancy after Solferino. Fifteen years of hardship and heroic
bravery was the price he had paid to be an officer, but his education
was so defective that he could never be made a captain. He held the
old traditions that a defeat of the French army was impossible, and
all through the campaign against Germany in 1870 he refused to believe
in the repeated catastrophes. In the fierce attack by the Prussians on
the Hermitage, he fought desperately against an overwhelming force,
and up to the end encouraged his men by shouting that the victory was
theirs. In the end he fell, mowed down by a hail of bullets. La
Debacle.

ROCHEFONTAINE, proprietor of a large factory at Chateaudun. He was
desirous of serving as a Deputy, but did not secure the support of the
Government, and, standing as an independent candidate, was defeated.
Later, in consequence of the disgrace of M. de Chedeville, he became
the official candidate, and in spite of a brusqueness of manner which
made him unpopular, he was elected. La Terre.

RODRIGUEZ, a distant relative of the Empress, who made a claim upon
the State for a large sum, which he said had been due since 1808.
Eugene Rougon, the Minister of State, gave great offence to the
Empress by opposing the claim. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

ROGNES-BOUQUEVAL (LES), an ancient and noble family whose estate,
already much reduced by enforced sales, was declared national property
in 1793, and was purchased piece by piece by Isidore Hourdequin. La
Terre.

ROIVILLE (LES), members of Parisian society at whose house Baroness
Sandorff occasionally met Gundermann. L'Argent.

ROSALIE, an old chair-mender at Rognes. The poor woman lived all
alone, sick and without a copper. Abbe Godard came to her assistance.
La Terre.

ROSE, a waitress in Lebigre's wine-shop. Le Ventre de Paris.

ROSE, servant in the household of Francois Mouret, was an old woman of
crabbed nature and uncertain temper. She fell under the influence of
Abbe Faujas, and encouraged her mistress in the religious observances
which led to the neglect of her family. Later, when Madame Mouret's
health became impaired, and she became subject to fits, it was chiefly
Rose who threw suspicion on her master, encouraging the belief that he
was insane and had inflicted injuries on his wife. La Conquete de
Plassans.

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 a false motive for
the crime. The relations between him and his wife became more and more
strained, until they reached such a pitch that Lantier and she planned
his murder. The homicidal frenzy of Lantier, to which Severine fell a
victim, ended the plot, but Roubaud and Cabuche, who arrived on the
scene immediately after the murder, were arrested under what appeared
to be suspicious circumstances, and, after trial, were sentenced to
penal servitude for a crime which they did not commit. La Bete
Humaine.

ROUBAUD (MADAME), wife of the preceding. See Severine Aubry. La Bete
Humaine.

ROUDIER, a regular attender at the political meetings held in the
Rougons' yellow drawing-room. La Fortune des Rougon.

ROUGE D'AUNEAU (LE), lieutenant of Beau-Francois, leader of the band
of brigands. He wrote a complaint while in prison. La Terre.

ROUGETTE, a cow bought by the sisters Mouche at the market of Cloyes.
La Terre.

ROUGON, a young gardener who worked for the Fouque family, and
afterwards married Adelaide. Fifteen months afterwards he died from
sunstroke, leaving a son named Pierre. La Fortune des Rougon.

ROUGON, alias SACCARD (ARISTIDE), born 1815, youngest son of Pierre
Rougon, was educated, like his brothers, at Plassans and Paris, but
failed to pass his examinations. His character was a combination of
covetousness and slyness: his greatest desire was the acquisition of
rapid fortune, gained without work. In 1836 he married Angele
Sicardot, who brought him a dowry of ten thousand francs. As Aristide
did no work, and lived extravagantly, the money was soon consumed, and
he and his wife were in such poverty that he was at last compelled to
seek a situation. He procured a place at the Sub-Prefecture, where he
remained nearly ten years, and only reached a salary of eighteen
hundred francs. During that time "he longed, with ever-increasing
malevolence and rancour, for those enjoyments of which he was
deprived" by his lowly position. In 1848, when his brother Eugene left
for Paris, he had a faint idea of following him, but remained in the
hope of something turning up. In opposition to his father, he
expressed Republican principles, and edited a newspaper called the
/Independant/. At the time of the /Coup d'Etat/, he became alarmed at
the course of events, and pretended that an accident to his hand
prevented him from writing. His mother having given him private
information as to the success of the Bonapartist cause, he changed the
politics of his paper, and became reconciled to his parents. La
Fortune des Rougon.

Early in 1852 he went to Paris, taking with him his wife and daughter
Clotilde, then a child of four; his son Maxime he left at Plassans.
Through the influence of his brother Eugene, he got an appointment as
assistant surveying clerk at the /Hotel de Ville/, with a salary of
two thousand four hundred francs. Before entering on his duties,
however, he changed his name to Saccard on the suggestion of his
brother, who feared that he might be compromised by him. In 1853,
Aristide was appointed a surveying commissioner of roads, with an
increased salary. At this period great schemes of city improvement
were under discussion, and Aristide by spying and other shady means
got early information as to the position of the proposed new streets.
Great chances of fortune were arising, but he had no capital. The
death of his wife enabled him to enter into a plan proposed by his
sister Sidonie, who had heard of a family willing to make a
considerable sacrifice to find a not too inquisitive husband for their
daughter. He accordingly married Renee Beraud du Chatel, and gained
control of a considerable sum of ready money, in addition to the
fortune settled on his wife. By means of a cleverly contrived swindle,
in which he was assisted by his friend Larsonneau, he got a fabulous
price for some property acquired by him, and the foundation of his
fortune was laid. From this time, he lived a life of the wildest
extravagance, and, though his gains were frequently enormous, his
expenses were so great that it was only with difficulty that he was
able to prevent a catastrophe. La Curee.

He as appointed by Pauline Quenu's family council to be her "surrogate
guardian." La Joie de Vivre.

After a last and disastrous land speculation, Saccard was obliged to
leave his great house in the Parc Monceau, which he abandoned to his
creditors. At first undecided as to his movements, he took a flat in
the mansion in Rue Saint-Lazare, which belonged to Princess d'Orviedo.
There he met Hamelin, the engineer, and his sister Caroline, with whom
he soon became on intimate terms. Hamelin having spent much time in
the East, had formed many schemes for great financial ventures, and
Saccard was so impressed with these that he formed a syndicate for the
purpose of carrying some of them out. With this view the Universal
Bank was formed, and was at first very successful. By persistent
advertising, and other means, the shares of the Bank were forced to an
undue price, and then Saccard began to speculate in them on behalf of
the Bank itself. The great financier Gundermann, with whom Saccard had
quarrelled, then began a persistent attack on the Bank, selling its
shares steadily day after day. Saccard continued to buy as long as he
was able; but the end came, the price broke, and he, as well as the
Bank, which was now one of its own largest shareholders, was ruined.
Since his previous failure, Saccard had not been on friendly terms
with his brother Eugene Rougon, and, some time before the collapse of
the Bank, had made violent attacks upon him in his newspaper.
Consequently Rougon did nothing to assist him in the criminal
proceedings which followed the final catastrophe; he did not, however,
wish to have a brother in jail, and arranged matters so that an appeal
was allowed. Next day Saccard escaped to Belgium. L'Argent.

After the fall of the Second Empire, he returned to Paris, despite the
sentence he had incurred. Some complicated intrigue must have been at
work, for not only did he obtain a pardon, but once more took part in
promoting large undertakings, with a finger in every pie and a share
of every bribe. In 1872 he was actively engaged in journalism, having
been appointed Director of the /Epoque/, a Republican journal which
made a great success by publishing the papers found in the Tuileries.
Covetous of his son's fortune, he hastened a disease from which Maxime
suffered, by encouraging him in vicious courses, and in the end got
possession of the whole estate. By a singular irony, Aristide, now
returned to his original Republicanism, was in a position to protect
his brother Eugene, whom in earlier days he had so often compromised.
Le Docteur Pascal.

ROUGON (MADAME ANGELE), first wife of the preceding, was a daughter of
commander Sicardot. She brought her husband a dowry of ten thousand
francs. La Fortune des Rougon.

Along with her daughter Clotilde, she accompanied her husband to Paris
in 1852, and being an amiable woman without ambition she was quite
satisfied with the modest position he at first secured. She died in
1854 of inflammation of the lungs. La Curee.

ROUGON, alias SACCARD (MADAME RENEE), the second wife of Aristide
Rougon, alias Saccard, was the elder daughter of M. Beraud du Chatel,
the last representative of an old middle-class family. Having become
seriously compromised, she was hurriedly married to Saccard through
the agency of his sister Madame Sidonie, and a considerable sum of
money as well as land was settled upon her. Wholly given over to
pleasure and extravagance, she soon got deeply into debt, and her
husband took advantage of this from time to time by inducing her to
make over to him her property, in order that he might speculate with
it. She engaged in a shameful liaison with her husband's son Maxime,
which ultimately brought her great unhappiness, and she died of acute
meningitis at an early age. La Curee.

ROUGON (CHARLES), born 1857, son of Maxime Rougon, alias Saccard, and
of Justine Megot, a maid-servant of Madame Renee Saccard. The child
and his mother were sent to the country with a little annuity of
twelve hundred francs. La Curee.

At fifteen years of age he lived at Plassans with his mother, who had
married a saddler named Anselme Thomas. Charles was a degenerate who
reproduced at a distance of three generations his great-great-
grandmother, Adelaide Fouque. He did not look more than twelve years
old, and his intelligence was that of a child of five. There was in
him a relaxation of tissues, due to degeneracy, and the slightest
exertion produced hemorrhage. Charles was not kindly treated by his
stepfather, and generally lived with his great-grandmother Felicite
Rougon. He was frequently taken to visit the aged Adelaide Fouque in
the asylum at Les Tulettes, and on one occasion, in 1873, when he
chanced to be left alone with her he was seized with bleeding at the
nose, and, under the fixed eyes of his ancestress, he slowly bled to
death. Le Docteur Pascal.

ROUGON (CLOTILDE), born 1847, daughter of Aristide Rougon, accompanied
her father and mother to Paris in 1852. After the death of her mother
in 1854, she was sent to live with Dr. Pascal Rougon, her uncle, who
had frequently offered to take her to enliven his silent scientific
home. La Curee.

At Plassans Clotilde lived a quiet healthy life, much of it spent in
the open air. She was not highly educated, but having considerable
artistic talent was able to assist Doctor Pascal by making
illustrations for his great work on heredity. At one period she
developed strong religious tendencies under the influence of Martine,
the doctor's old servant, who took her to church, and imbued the girl
with her own bigoted ideas regarding the salvation of Pascal. Her
grandmother, Felicite Rougon, who wished, for family reasons, to
destroy Pascal's manuscripts on the subject of heredity, played on
Clotilde's feelings, and induced her to assist in a search for the
hated work. Rougon surprised them in the act, and subsequently laid
bare to Clotilde the whole facts of the terrible family history. In
time the mysticism of the Church gave place to passionate love between
Clotilde and Pascal. The doctor felt, however, that she was
sacrificing her youth for him, and sent her to Paris to live with her
brother Maxime. Soon afterwards, Pascal became ill, and died before
she was able to return. A child was born some months later. Le Docteur
Pascal.

ROUGON (EUGENE), born 1811, eldest son of Pierre Rougon, was educated
at Plassans and Paris, and was called to the Bar. He practised in the
local Court for a number of years, but with little success. Though of
lethargic appearance, he was a man of ability, who "cherished lofty
ambitions, possessed domineering instincts, and showed a singular
contempt for trifling expedients and small fortunes." With the
Revolution of February, 1848, Eugene felt that his opportunity had
come, and he left for Paris with scarcely five hundred francs in his
pocket. He was able to give his parents early information of the
designs of the Bonapartes, and so prepared the way for the events of
the /Coup d'Etat/ of 1851, when the family fortunes were made. La
Fortune des Rougon.

During his early days in Paris Rougon resided at the Hotel Vanneau,
kept by Madame Correur, and while there he made the acquaintance of
Gilquin and Du Poizet, both of whom assisted him in spreading the
Bonapartist propaganda. By his exertions in this cause he established
a claim for reward, and he was appointed a member of the State
Council, ultimately becoming its President. He fell into disfavour,
however, with the Court on account of his opposition to a claim for
two million francs by a distant relative of the Empress Eugenie.
Finding that his position was insecure, he tendered his resignation to
the Emperor, who accepted it. About this time he met Clorinde Balbi,
an Italian adventuress, who endeavoured to induce him to marry her.
Carried away for the time being, Rougon made overtures to her which
she resented, and he was on the point of offering her marriage.
Reflection on her somewhat equivocal position in society induced him
to think better of this, and he offered to arrange a marriage between
her and his friend Delestang. The offer was accepted, and the marriage
took place. Soon after, Rougon married Veronique Beulin-d'Orchere.
During his retirement Rougon was surrounded by a band of followers,
the Charbonnels, Du Poizet, Kahn, and others, who in the hope of
profiting by his return to office lost no chance of establishing a
claim upon him. After the Orsini plot against the life of the Emperor,
of which Rougon had prior information through Gilquin, the need for a
strong man arose, and he was again called to office, being appointed
Minister of the Interior. His harshness in carrying out reprisals
against the Republican party, and even more, his recklessness in
finding appointments for his friends, led to a public outcry, and his
position again became undermined. Clorinde, who had never forgiven him
for not marrying her, did much to foment the disaffection, and even
his own band of followers turned against him. Always quick to act,
Rougon again placed his resignation in the hands of the Emperor, who
to his surprise accepted it. Three years later he was once more a
member of the Corps Legislatif, and having brought his principles into
accordance with the more liberal views then professed by the Emperor,
he gave his strong support to the measures giving effect to them. In
consequence, he was appointed by the Emperor as a Minister without
department, and commissioned to defend the new Policy. Son Excellence
Eugene Rougon.

When his brother Aristide came to Paris, Eugene found a situation for
him, but, fearing to be compromised by him, suggested that he should
change his name to Saccard which he did. There was no intimacy between
the brothers, but Eugene occasionally visited Aristide at the great
house built by him in the Parc Monceau. La Curee.

After Saccard's bankruptcy, Eugene refused to have any further
connection with him, though he tacitly approved of the foundation of
the Universal Bank. The Bank having failed, however, he did nothing to
stay legal proceedings against his brother; but, after a sentence of
imprisonment had been passed, he connived at his escape from the
country while the sentence was under appeal. L'Argent.

He continued to take a lively interest in Plassans, and it was by him
that Abbe Faujas was sent there to counteract the clerical influence,
which at that time was strongly Legitimist. He kept up a
correspondence with his mother, whom he advised as to each step she
should take in political matters. La Conquete de Plassans.

After the fall of the Empire, Eugene became a simple Deputy, and in
the Assembly remained to defend the old order of things which the
downfall had swept away. Le Docteur Pascal.

ROUGON (MADAME EUGENE), wife of the preceding. See Veronique Beulin-
d'Orchere. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

ROUGON (MARTHE), born 1820, daughter of Pierre Rougon; married in 1840
her cousin Francois Rougon; had three children. La Fortune des Rougon.

She accompanied her husband to Marseilles, where by close attention to
business they accumulated a fortune in fifteen years, returning to
Plassans at the end of that period and settling down there. Her life
at Plassans was a happy one until the household fell under the
influence of Abbe Faujas. From the first she was in love with the
priest, and as he gave her no encouragement in this, she devoted
herself to church services to the entire neglect of her household and
family. As time went on, her passion for the Abbe grew more extreme,
and her health became undermined to a serious extent. She became
subject to fits of an epileptic nature, and having injured herself in
some of these, she allowed the injuries to be attributed to her
husband, whom she had now grown to regard as an encumbrance. Though
she was aware that he was not insane, she allowed him to be removed to
an asylum, where confinement soon completed the work begun by her own
conduct. The Abbe Faujas having resolutely resisted her advances, her
health became still worse, and she died in her mother's house on the
same night that her husband escaped from the asylum and burned down
their old home. La Conquete de Plassans.

ROUGON (MAXIME), born 1840, son of Aristide Rougon. La Fortune des
Rougon.

When his father went to Paris in 1852, Maxime remained at school at
Plassans, not going to Paris till after his father's second marriage.
From early youth he was of vicious character, and the idleness and
extravagance of the life in his father's house only completed the
training begun at Plassans. After carrying on a disgraceful liaison
with his father's second wife, he married Louise de Mareuil, through
whom he got a considerable dowry. La Curee.

After the death of his wife, six months after their marriage, he
returned to Paris, where he lived quietly upon the dowry brought to
him by her. He refused to join in any of his father's schemes, or to
assist him in any way, and was consequently not affected by the
failure of the Universal Bank. L'Argent.

After the war he re-established himself in his mansion in Avenue du
Bois-de-Boulogne, where he lived on the fortune left by his wife. "He
had become prudent, however, with the enforced restraint of a man
whose marrow is diseased, and who seeks by artifice to ward off the
paralysis which threatened him." In the fear of this impending
illness, he induced his sister Clotilde to leave Doctor Pascal, and go
to live with him in Paris, but in his constant fear of being taken
advantage of he soon began to be suspicious of her, as he did of every
one who served him. His father, who wished to hasten his own
inheritance, encouraged him in a renewal of his vicious courses, and
he died of /locomotor ataxy/ at the age of thirty-three. Le Docteur
Pascal.

ROUGON (MADAME MAXIME). See Louise de Mareuil.

ROUGON (PASCAL), born 1813, second son of Pierre Rougon, "had an
uprightness of spirit, a love of study, a retiring modesty which
contrasted strangely with the feverish ambitions and unscrupulous
intrigues of his family." Having acquitted himself admirably in his
medical studies at Paris, he returned to Plassans, where he lived a
life of quiet study and work. He had few patients, but devoted himself
to research, particularly on the subject of heredity, with special
reference to its results on his own family. In the hope of alleviating
suffering, he followed the Republican insurgents in their march from
Plassans in December, 1851. La Fortune des Rougon.

In 1854 his niece Clotilde, daughter of his brother Aristide, went to
live with him. He had frequently offered to take her, but nothing was
arranged till after the death of her mother, at which time she was
about seven years old. La Curee.

His practice as a medical man extended to Les Artaud, and he attended
his nephew Abbe Serge Mouret during an attack of brain fever. On the
priest's partial recovery, he removed him to the Paradou, and left him
in the care of Albine, niece of old Jeanbernat, the caretaker of that
neglected demesne. Dr. Pascal was much attached to Albine, and deeply
regretted the sad love affair which resulted from Mouret's
forgetfulness of his past. He had no religious beliefs himself, and he
urged Mouret to return to Albine, but the voice of the Church proved
too strong in the end. La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

At sixty years of age Pascal was so fresh and vigorous that, though
his hair and beard were white, he might have been mistaken for a young
man with powdered locks. He had lived for seventeen years at La
Souleiade, near Plassans, with his niece Clotilde and his old servant
Martine, having amassed a little fortune, which was sufficient for his
needs. He had devoted his life to the study of heredity, finding
typical examples in his own family. He brought up Clotilde without
imposing on her his own philosophic creed, even allowing Martine to
take her to church regularly. But this tolerance brought about a
serious misunderstanding between them, for the girl fell under the
influence of religious mysticism, and came to look with horror on the
savant's scientific pursuits. Discovered by him in an attempt to
destroy his documents, he explained to Clotilde fully and frankly the
bearing of their terrible family history on his theory of heredity,
with the result that her outlook on life was entirely changed; he had
opposed the force of human truth against the shadows of mysticism. The
struggle between Pascal and Clotilde brought them to a knowledge of
mutual love, and an illicit relationship was established between them.
He would have married her (this being legal in France), but having
lost most of his money he was unwilling to sacrifice what he believed
to be her interests, and persuaded her to go to Paris to live with her
brother Maxime. Soon after her departure he was seized with an
affection of the heart, and, after some weeks of suffering, died only
an hour before her return. Immediately after his death his mother,
Madame Felicite Rougon, took possession of his papers, and in an
immense /auto-da-fe/ destroyed in an hour the records of a lifetime of
work. Le Docteur Pascal.

ROUGON (PIERRE), born 1787, legitimate son of Adelaide Fouque, was a
thrifty, selfish lad who saw that his mother by her improvident
conduct was squandering the estate to which he considered himself sole
heir. His aim was to induce his mother and her two illegitimate
children to remove from the house and land, and in this he was
ultimately successful. Having sold the property for fifty thousand
francs, he induced his mother, who by this time was of weak intellect,
to sign a receipt for that sum, and was so able to defraud his half-
brother and sister of the shares to which they would have been
entitled. Soon thereafter he married Felicite Puech, the daughter of
an oil dealer in Plassans. The firm of Puech and Lacamp was not
prosperous, but the money brought by Pierre Rougon retrieved the
situation, and after a few years the two original partners retired.
Fortune, however, soon changed, and for thirty years there was a
continual struggle to make ends meet. Three sons and two daughters
were born, and their education was a heavy drain upon their parents'
means. In 1845 Pierre and his wife retired from business with forty
thousand francs at the most. Instigated by the Marquis de Carnavant,
they went in for politics, and soon regular meetings of the
reactionary party came to be held in their "yellow drawing-room."
Advised, however, by their son Eugene, they resolved to support the
cause of the Bonapartes, and at the time of the /Coup d'Etat/ of 1851
Pierre was the leader of that party in Plassans. Having concealed
himself when the Republican insurgents entered Plassans, he avoided
capture, and after they retired he led the band of citizens which
recaptured the town hall. This bloodless victory having been somewhat
minimized by the townspeople, Pierre and his wife, with a view to
establishing a strong claim for subsequent reward, bribed Antoine
Macquart to lead the Republicans left in Plassans to an attack on the
town hall. To meet this he prepared a strong ambuscade, and the
Republicans were repulsed with considerable loss. As a result of this
treachery, Pierre was regarded by his fellow-citizens as the saviour
of the town, and the Government subsequently appointed him Receiver of
Taxes, decorating him with the Cross of the Legion of Honour. La
Fortune des Rougon.

He settled down quietly and took little part in public affairs, though
his wife continued to hold weekly receptions at which members of the
different political parties were represented. La Conquete de Plassans.

He became so corpulent that he was unable to move, and was carried off
by an attack of indigestion on the night of 3rd September, 1870, a few
hours after hearing of the catastrophe of Sedan. The downfall of the
regime which he prided himself on having helped to establish seemed to
have crushed him like a thunderbolt. Le Docteur Pascal.

ROUGON (MADAME FELICITE), wife of the preceding, and daughter of
Puech, the oil-dealer. She was married in 1810, and had three sons and
two daughters. A woman of strong ambitions, she hoped to better her
social position by the aid of her sons, on whose education she spent
large sums. Disappointed in this hope for many years, she and her
husband retired from business with barely sufficient means to keep
themselves in comfort. She, instigated by the Marquis de Carnavant
(her putative father), urged her husband to take part in politics, and
meetings of the reactionary party were regularly held in her "yellow
drawing-room." While the success of the /Coup d'Etat/ was in some
doubt, she encouraged her husband in maintaining the position he had
taken up; and, having ascertained that the success of the Bonapartists
was assured she arranged with Antoine Macquart for the attack on the
town hall, the repulse of which led to the rise of the family
fortunes. La Fortune des Rougon.

After her husband's appointment as Receiver of Taxes, she continued
her weekly receptions, but endeavoured to give them a non-political
character by inviting representatives of all parties. Her son Eugene,
now a Minister of State, kept her advised as to the course she should
pursue, and on his instructions she gave some assistance to Abbe
Faujas in his political "conquest of Plassans." La Conquete de
Plassans.

In 1856 she interested herself in a lawsuit raised by M. Charbonnel, a
retired oil-merchant of Plassans, and requested her son Eugene, the
President of the Council of State, to use his influence on behalf of
her friend. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

After the disasters of the war, Plassans escaped from her dominion,
and she had to content herself with the role of dethroned queen of the
old regime. Her ruling passion was the defence of the glory of the
Rougons, and the obliteration of everything tending to reflect on the
family name. In this connection she welcomed the death of Adelaide
Fouque, the common ancestress of the Rougons and the Macquarts, and
she did nothing to save her old accomplice Antoine Macquart from the
terrible fate which overtook him. After these events, her only
remaining trouble was the work on family heredity which had for years
occupied her son Pascal. Assisted by his servant Martine, she
eventually succeeded in burning the whole manuscript to which Pascal
had devoted his life. Her triumph was then secure, and in order to
raise a monument to the glory of the family she devoted a large part
of her fortune to the erection of an asylum for the aged, to be known
as the Rougon Asylum. At eighty-two years of age, she laid the
foundation stone of the building, and in doing so conquered Plassans
for the third time. Le Docteur Pascal.

ROUGON (SIDONIE), born 1818, daughter of Pierre Rougon. La Fortune des
Rougon.

She married at Plassans an attorney's clerk, named Touche, and
together they went to Paris, setting up business in the Rue Saint-
Honore, as dealers in fruit from the south of France. The venture was
unsuccessful, and the husband soon disappeared. At the rise of the
Second Empire, Sidonie was thirty-five; but she dressed herself with
so little care and had so little of the woman in her manner that she
looked much older. She carried on business in lace and pianos, but did
not confine herself to these trades; when she had sold ten francs
worth of lace she would insinuate herself into her customer's good
graces and become her man of business, attending attorneys, advocates,
and judges on her behalf. The confidences she everywhere received put
her on the track of good strokes of business, often of a nature more
than equivocal, and it was she who arranged the second marriage of her
brother Aristide. She was a true Rougon, who had inherited the hunger
for money, the longing for intrigue, which was the characteristic of
the family. La Curee.

In 1851 she had a daughter by an unknown father. The child, who was
named Angelique Marie, was at once sent to the Foundling Hospital by
her mother, who never made any inquiry about her afterwards. Le Reve.

She attended the funeral of her cousin, Claude Lantier, the artist.
Arrived at his house, "she went upstairs, turned round the studio,
sniffed at all its bare wretchedness, and then walked down again with
a hard mouth, irritated at having taken the trouble to come."
L'Oeuvre.

"After a long disappearance from the scene, Sidonie, weary of the
shady callings she had plied, and now of a nunlike austerity, retired
to the gloomy shelter of a conventual kind of establishment, holding
the purse-strings of the Oeuvre du Sacrament, an institution founded
with the object of assisting seduced girls, who had become mothers, to
secure husbands." Le Docteur Pascal.

ROUGON (VICTOR), son of Aristide Saccard and Rosaline Chavaille.
Brought up in the gutter, he was from the first incorrigibly lazy and
vicious. La Mechain, his mother's cousin, after discovering his
paternity, told the facts to Caroline Hamelin, who, to save Saccard
annoyance, paid over a considerable sum and removed the boy to
/L'Oeuvre du Travail/, one of the institutions founded by the Princess
d'Orviedo. Here every effort was made to reclaim him, but without
success; vice and cunning had become his nature. In the end he made a
murderous attack upon Alice du Beauvilliers, who was visiting the
hospital, and having stolen her purse, made his escape. Subsequent
search proved fruitless; he had disappeared in the under-world of
crime. L'Argent.

"In 1873, Victor had altogether vanished, living, no doubt, in the
shady haunts of crime--since he was in no penitentiary--let loose upon
the world like some brute foaming with the hereditary virus, whose
every bite would enlarge that existing evil--free to work out his own
future, his unknown destiny, which was perchance the scaffold." Le
Docteur Pascal.

ROUGON (-----), the child of Doctor Pascal Rougon and of Clotilde
Rougon, born some months after his father's death. Pascal a few
minutes before he died, drew towards him the genealogical tree of the
Rougon-Macquart family, over which he had spent so many years, and in
a vacant space wrote the words: "The unknown child, to be born in
1874. What will it be?" Le Docteur Pascal.

ROUSSE (LA), a peasant girl of Les Artaud, who assisted to decorate
the church for the festival of the Virgin. La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

ROUSSEAU, one of the auditors of the Universal Bank, an office which
he shared with Lavigniere, under whose influence he was to a great
extent. L'Argent.

ROUSSELOT (MONSEIGNEUR), Bishop of Plassans, an amiable but weak man,
who was entirely under the influence of Abbe Fenil. Having got into
disfavour with the Government over the election of a Legitimist as
Deputy, he was anxious to retrieve his position, and with this object
agreed to appoint Abbe Faujas vicar of Saint-Saturnin's church. This
led to a quarrel with Abbe Fenil, who, of course, resented the
appointment. The Bishop being still in some doubt as to the standing
of Abbe Faujas with the Government, went to Paris, where he
interviewed Eugene Rougon, the Minister of State. Satisfied with the
information which he received, he threw himself heartily into the
political struggle then proceeding at Plassans, giving Faujas every
assistance in carrying out his schemes on behalf of the Bonapartist
candidate. La Conquete de Plassans.

ROUSSIE (LA), a woman who had formerly worked as a putter in the
Voreux pit. Germinal.

ROUSTAN (ABBE), one of the clergy of Sainte-Eustache church. Madame
Lisa Quenu consulted him as to her proposed course of action regarding
Florent. Le Ventre de Paris.

ROUVET, an old peasant who lived in the same village as Zephyrin
Lacour and Rosalie Pichon. One of her pleasures consisted in calling
to mind the sayings of the old man. Une Page d'Amour.

ROZAN (DUC DE), was a young man of dissolute life, who, after getting
the control of his fortune, soon went through the greater part of it.
He was the lover of Renee Saccard for a time. La Curee.

ROZAN (DUCHESSE DE), mother of the preceding. She kept her son so
short of money that, till he was thirty-five, he seldom had more than
a dozen louis at a time. Her death was largely occasioned by the
knowledge of the enormous amount of debts her son had incurred. La
Curee.

RUSCONI (CHEVALIER), the Sardinian Minister at Paris, a friend of
Comtesse Balbi, and her daughter. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.



                                  S

SABATANI, a native of the Levant, who appeared in Paris after
defaulting on some foreign Stock Exchange. He was a handsome man, and
little by little gained the confidence of the Bourse "by scrupulous
correctness of behaviour and an unremitting graciousness even towards
the most disreputable." He began doing business with Mazard by
depositing a small sum as "cover" in the belief that the
insignificance of the amount would in time be forgotten; and "he
evinced great prudence, increasing the orders in a stealthy gradual
fashion, pending the day when, with a heavy settlement to meet, it
would be necessary for him to disappear." When Saccard founded the
Universal Bank, he selected Sabatani as the "man of straw" in whose
name the shares held by the Bank itself were to be taken up. Sabatani
soon increased his speculations to an enormous extent, gaining large
sums, but after the collapse of the Universal Bank he disappeared
without paying his "differences," thereby contributing largely to the
ruin of Mazard. L'Argent.

SABOT, a vine-grower of Brinqueville. He was a renowned joker, who
entered into a competition with Hyacinthe Fouan, but was beaten by
him. La Terre.

SACCARD, the name assumed by Aristide Rougon, on the suggestion of his
brother Eugene. See Rougon (Aristide). La Curee.

SACCARD (VICTOR). See Victor Rougon.

SAFFRE (DE), secretary to Eugene Rougon, the Minister of State. La
Curee.

SAGET (MADEMOISELLE), an old lady who had lived in the Rue Pirouette
for forty years. She never spoke about herself, but she spent her life
in getting information about her neighbours, carrying her prying
curiosity so far as to listen behind their doors and open their
letters. She went about all day pretending she was marketing, but in
reality merely spreading scandal and getting information. By bullying
little Pauline Quenu, she got a hint of Florent's past history, which
she promptly spread through the markets, even going the length of
writing an anonymous letter to the Prefect of Police. Le Ventre de
Paris.

SAINT-FIRMIN (OSCAR DE), a character in /La Petite Duchesse/, a play
by Fauchery. The part was played by Prulliere. Nana.

SAINT-GERMAIN (MADEMOISELLE DE), was the owner of a princely house in
Rue Saint-Lazare, which after her death became the property of
Princess d'Orviedo. L'Argent.

SAINTS-ANGES (LA MERE DES), superior of the Convent of the Visitation
at Clermont. She saved from the cloister Christine Hallegrain, who had
not a religious vocation, and obtained for her a situation to Madame
de Vanzade. L'Oeuvre.

SALMON, a speculator on the Paris Bourse who passed for a man of
extraordinary acumen by listening to everyone and saying nothing. He
answered only by smiles, and one could never tell in what he was
speculating or whether he was speculating at all. L'Argent.

SALNEUVE (DE), a man of considerable importance in the Second Empire,
whose influence was secured for Eugene Rougon by Clorinde Balbi. Son
Excellence Eugene Rougon.

SAMBUC (GUILLAUME), one of the francs-tireurs who carried on a
guerilla warfare against the Germans in 1870. He was the worthy son of
a family of scoundrels, and lived by theft and rapine. He furnished
most valuable information to the French generals regarding the
movement of the Prussians to surprise Beaumont, but his information
was disregarded till too late. The francs-tireurs had a particular
hatred against Goliath Steinberg, the German spy, and, instigated by
Silvine Morange, Sambuc arranged for his capture, afterwards killing
him by cutting his throat. La Debacle.

SAMBUC (PROSPER), brother of the preceding. Of a nature docile and
hard-working, he hated the life of the woods, and would have liked to
be a farm labourer. He entered the army and became one of the
Chasseurs d'Afrique. Sent to France to take part in the war against
Germany, he shared in many weary marches, but saw no fighting, till
the battle of Sedan, when his horse, Zephir, which he loved like a
brother, was killed under him. He made his escape after the battle,
and having been able to change his uniform for the clothes of a
countryman, he returned to Remilly and got employment on the farm of
Fouchard. La Debacle.

SANDORFF, a member of the Austrian Embassy at Paris. He married Mlle.
de Ladricourt, who was much younger than he. He was very niggardly.
L'Argent.

SANDORFF (BARONESS), wife of the Councillor to the Austrian Embassy,
who was thirty-five years older than herself. She was an inveterate
speculator, and, as her husband refused to assist her, she found it
necessary to have recourse to her lovers when her losses were greater
than usual. She stopped at nothing to gain information, and at one
time was on intimate terms with Saccard. Having quarrelled with him,
she hastened the downfall of the Universal Bank, by giving information
to Gundermann which caused him to continue his attack on the Bank.
L'Argent.

SANDOZ (PERE), a Spaniard who took refuge in France in consequence of
a political disturbance in which he was involved. He started near
Plassans a paper mill with new machinery of his own invention. When he
died, almost heart-broken by the petty local jealousy that had sought
to hamper him in every way, his widow found herself in a position so
involved, and burdened with so many tangled lawsuits, that the whole
of her remaining means were swallowed up. L'Oeuvre.

SANDOZ MERE (MADAME), wife of the preceding, was a native of Burgundy.
Yielding to her hatred of the Provencals, whom she blamed for the
death of her husband, and even for the slow paralysis from which she
herself was suffering, she migrated to Paris, with her son Pierre, who
then supported her out of a clerk's small salary. In Rue d'Enfer she
occupied a single room on the same flat as her son, and there,
disabled by paralysis, lived in morose and voluntary solitude,
surrounded by his tender care. Later, Pierre, who was now married, and
was making a considerable income, took a house in Rue Nollet, and
there Madame Sandoz passed her remaining years. L'Oeuvre.

SANDOZ (PIERRE), a famous novelist whose youth was spent at Plassans,
where at school he was the inseparable companion of Claude Lantier and
Dubuche. The favourite amusement of the boys was walking, and together
they took long excursions, spending whole days in the country. After
the death of his father Sandoz went to Paris, where he got employment
at a small salary at the /Mairie/ of the fifth arrondissement, in the
office for registration of births; he was chained there by the thought
of his mother, whom he had to support, and to whom he was tenderly
attached. Presently he published his first book: a series of mild
sketches, brought with him from Plassans, among which only a few
rougher notes indicated the mutineer, the lover of truth and power. He
lived at this time with his mother in a little house in Rue d'Enfer,
and there he received each Thursday evening his old friends from
Plassans, Claude Lantier and Dubuche, and with them Fagerolles,
Mahoudeau, Jory, Gagniere, now reunited at Paris, and all animated by
the same passion for art. He was still obsessed by a desire for
literary glory, and had thoughts of writing a poem on some vast
subject, but at last he hit on a scheme which soon took form in his
mind. With reference to it he said, "I am going to take a family, and
I shall study its members, one by one, whence they come, whither they
go, how they react upon one another--in short, humanity in a small
compass, the way in which humanity grows and behaves. On the other
hand, I shall set my men and women in a determined period of history,
which will provide me with the necessary surroundings and
circumstances, a slice of history--you understand, eh? A series of
fifteen or twenty books, episodes that will cling together although
having each a separate framework, a suite of novels with which I shall
be able to build myself a house for my old age if they don't crush
me." The first of the novels met with some success, and Sandoz having
resigned his appointment, and put his trust entirely in literature,
married a young girl named Henriette, the daughter of middle-class
parents, and removed his house to Rue Nollet. In course of time his
circumstances became still more comfortable, and he again removed to a
large house in Rue de Londres. When Claude Lantier fell into misery
and despair, a gradual separation came about between him and his
friends, but Sandoz remained true to the old companionship. He was one
of the few mourners who attended the funeral of the unfortunate
artist. L'Oeuvre.

SANDOZ (MADAME HENRIETTE), wife of the preceding. She was an orphan,
the daughter of a small shop-keeper, without a penny, but pretty and
intelligent. She occupied herself much with the affairs of the
kitchen, being specially proud of some of her dishes. Even later, when
the family was more prosperous and had removed to a large flat in Rue
de Londres, Henriette continued to take personal charge, out of
affection for her husband, whose only fault was a tendency to
gluttony. L'Oeuvre.

SANQUIRINO (DUCHESSE), a lady of the Italian aristocracy, who resided
at Paris. She gave Eugene Rougon very unsatisfactory information
regarding Comtesse Balbi and her daughter Clorinde. Son Excellence
Eugene Rougon.

SANS-POUCE, one of the brigands of the band of Beau-Francois. La
Terre.

SAPIN, sergeant in Captain Beaudoin's company of the 106th Regiment of
the line. "The son of a Lyons grocer in a small way of business,
spoilt by his mother, who was dead, and unable to get on with his
father, he had remained in the regiment disgusted with everything, but
unwilling to be bought out." Later he became engaged to one of his
cousins, who had a small dowry, and began to take an interest in life.
During the march to Sedan, however, he became impressed with the idea
that he would be killed, and this belief was realized during the
fighting on 1st September, 1870. La Debacle.

SAPIN (LA), a disreputable old woman at Magnolles who performed
illegal operations and pretended to work magic.

SARRIET (MADAME), sister of Madame Lecoeur and of Madame Gavard;
mother of La Sarriette. Le Ventre de Paris.

SARRIET, usually called La Sarriette, was the niece of Madame Lecoeur.
She grew up in the markets and her sympathies were with the lower
ranks of the people. At twenty she set up in business as a fruit-
dealer, and took as her lover a young man named Jules, who was
employed by her aunt as a porter. After the arrest of Gavard, her
uncle by marriage, La Sarriette and her aunt divided his money between
them. Le Ventre de Paris.

SARTEUR, a journeyman hatter at Plassans. He was afflicted with
homicidal mania, and was confined for a time in the asylum at
Tulettes. While there he was treated by Doctor Pascal Rougon, who
affected a cure by hypodermic injections of a substance with which he
had long experimented. Sarteur was released from the asylum, but the
cure was not permanent, for a few months afterwards the unfortunate
man became conscious of a return of his homicidal mania, and, to
prevent its operation, hanged himself. Le Docteur Pascal.

SATIN, a friend of Nana from childhood, having, like her, attended the
school of Mademoiselle Josse. She was a regular customer at Laure
Piedefer's restaurant, where she met Madame Robert. She lived for a
time with Nana, of whom she was intensely jealous, and in time gained
control of the whole household. She died in the hospital of
Lariboisiere. Nana.

SAUCISSE (LA PERE), an old peasant of Rognes, who owned an acre of
land which he sold to Pere Fouan for an annuity of fifteen sous a day.
In order to dupe the old man, he pretended to be in bad health. Later,
terrorized by Buteau, he cancelled the agreement, and repaid half the
sums he had received. La Terre.

SAUVAGNAT, a friend of Pluchart. He lived at Marchiennes. Germinal.

SAUVAGNAT, chief of the depot at Havre, lived in a cottage near the
engine depot, which his sister Philomene kept for him, but greatly
neglected. He was an obstinate man and a strict disciplinarian,
greatly esteemed by his superiors, but had met with the utmost
vexation on account of his sister, even to the point of being
threatened with dismissal. If the Company bore with her now on his
account, he only kept her with him because of the family tie; but this
did not prevent him belabouring her so severely with blows whenever he
caught her at fault that he frequently left her half dead on the
floor. La Bete Humaine.

SAUVAGNAT (PHILOMENE), sister of the preceding, was a tall, thin woman
of thirty-two, who after numerous love-affairs had settled down with
Pecqueux, whose mistress she became. She had the reputation of
drinking. A subsequent intrigue between her and Jacques Lantier
excited the jealousy of Pecqueux to the point of murder. La Bete
Humaine.

SAUVEUR (MADAME), a dress-maker, who numbered Madame Desforges among
her customers. She frequented Mouret's shop, /Au Bonheur des Dames/,
on the occasions of great sales, purchasing large quantities of stuff
which she afterwards sold to her own customers at higher prices. Au
Bonheur des Dames.

SAUVIGNY (DE), judge of the race for the Grand Prix de Paris. Nana.

SCHLOSSER, a speculator on the Paris Bourse. He was secretly
associated with Sabatani, with whom he carried out many schemes to
their mutual advantage. L'Argent.

SCOTS (H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF). See Ecosse.

SEDILLE, a native of Lyons, who established himself in Paris, and
after thirty years' toil succeeded in making his silk business one of
the best known in the city. Unfortunately he acquired a passion for
gambling, and a couple of successful ventures made him altogether lose
his head. From that time he neglected his business, and ruin lay
inevitably at the end. On the invitation of Saccard he became a
Director of the Universal Bank. Like the other Directors, he
speculated largely in the shares of the Bank; but, unlike most of
them, he did not sell in time, with the result that he was completely
ruined, and his bankruptcy followed. L'Argent.

SEDILLE (GUSTAVE), son of M. Sedille, the silk merchant. To the
disappointment of his father, he despised commercial pursuits, and
cared only for pleasure. In the hope that he might take an interest in
finance, he was given a situation in the office of Mazard, the
stockbroker, where, however, he did little work, and soon engaged in
speculations on his own account. The failure of the Universal Bank
left him penniless, and deep in debt. L'Argent.

SICARDOT (COMMANDER), the father-in-law of Aristide Rougon. He had the
strongest intellect of the politicians who met in Pierre Rougon's
yellow drawing-room. He was taken prisoner by the insurgents at the
time of the /Coup d'Etat/. La Fortune des Rougon.

SICARDOT, the name of Aristide Rougon's wife's family. He adopted this
name when he went to Paris in 1851, using it for considerable time
before he again changed it to Saccard. L'Argent.

SICARDOT (ANGELE). See Madame Aristide Rougon.

SIDONIE (MADAME), the name by which Sidonie Rougon (q.v.) was
generally known. La Curee.

SIMON (LA MERE), an old woman who assisted Severine Roubaud in her
housework. La Bete Humaine.

SIMONNOT, a grocer at Raucourt. His premises were raided by the
Bavarians after the Battle of Beaumont. La Debacle.

SIMPSON, an American who was attache at his country's Embassy at
Paris. He was a frequent visitor at the house of Renee Saccard. La
Curee.

SIVRY (BLANCHE DE), the name assumed by Jacqueline Baudu, a girl who
came to Paris from a village near Amiens. Magnificent in person,
stupid and untruthful in character, she gave herself out as the
granddaughter of a general, and never owned to her thirty-two summers.
She was much annoyed at the outbreak of war with Germany, because her
lover, a young Prussian, was expelled from the country. Nana.

SMELTEN, a baker at Montsou. He gave credit for some time during the
strike, in the hope of recovering some of his business taken away by
Maigrat. Germinal.

SMITHSON (MISS), Lucien Deberle's English governess. Une Page d'Amour.

SONNEVILLE, a manufacturer at Marchiennes. His business was seriously
affected by the strike of miners at Montsou. Germinal.

SOPHIE, a workwoman employed at Madame Titreville's artificial flower-
making establishment. L'Assommoir.

SOPHIE, an old waiting-maid in the service of the Duchesse de
Combeville, whose daughter, Princess d'Orviedo, she brought up. When
the Princess shut herself up from the world, Sophie remained with her.
L'Argent.

SOPHIE, daughter of Guiraude. Predestined to phthisis by heredity, she
was saved, thanks to Dr. Pascal Rougon, who sent her to live with an
aunt in the country, where she was brought up in the open air. When
she was seventeen years old she married a young miller in the
neighbourhood. Le Docteur Pascal.

SOULAS, an old shepherd at La Borderie, where he had been for half a
century. At sixty-five he had saved nothing, having been eaten up by a
drunken wife, "whom at last he had the pleasure of burying." He had
few friends, except his two dogs, Emperor and Massacre, and he
especially hated Jacqueline Cognet with the jealous disgust of an old
servant at her rapid advancement. He was aware of her numerous
liaisons, but said nothing until she brought about his dismissal, when
he told everything to his master, Alexandre Hourdequin. La Terre.

SOURDEAU, a bone-setter at Bazoches-le-Doyen, who was supposed to be
equally good for wounds. La Terre.

SOUVARINE, an engine-man at the Voreux pit, who lodged with the
Rasteneurs. He was a Russian of noble family, who had at first studied
medicine, until, carried away by social enthusiasm, he learned a trade
in order that he might mix with the people. It was by this trade that
he now lived, after having fled in consequence of an unsuccessful
attempt against the Czar's life, an attempt which resulted in his
mistress, Annouchka, and many of his friends, being hanged. His
principles were those of the most violent anarchy, and he would have
nothing to do with the strike at Montsou, which he considered a merely
childish affair. Disgusted at the return of the miners to their work,
he resolved to bring about the destruction of the Voreux pit, by
weakening the timbers which kept out a vast accumulation of water. He
accomplished that work of madness in a fury of destruction in which he
twenty times risked his life. And when the torrent had invaded the
mine, imprisoning the unfortunate workers, Souvarine went calmly away
into the unknown without a glance behind. Germinal.

SPIRIT, an English horse which ran in the Grand Prix de Paris. Nana.

SPONTINI, a master at the College of Plassans. He came originally from
Corsica, and used to show his knife, rusty with the blood of three
cousins. L'Oeuvre.

SQUELETTE-EXTERNE (LE). See Mimi-la-Mort. L'Oeuvre.

STADERINO (SIGNOR), a Venetian political refugee, and a friend of
Comtesse Balbi. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

STEINBERG (GOLIATH), a Prussian spy who was engaged in 1867 as a farm
servant by Fouchard at Remilly. He became the lover of Silvine
Morange, promising her marriage, but disappearing before the ceremony.
It was said that he served also on other farms in the neighbourhood of
Beaumont and Raucourt. During the war he was able to give important
information to the German forces. In trying to regain his former
influence over Silvine, he threatened to remove their child to
Germany, and, to prevent his doing so, she betrayed him to Guillaume
Sambuc and the francs-tireurs of his band, who killed him in the house
of Fouchard, in the presence of Silvine, by cutting his throat, and
bleeding him in the same manner as a pig. La Debacle.

STEINER, a banker in Paris. He was a German Jew, through whose hands
had passed millions. He spent vast sums upon Rose Mignon and Nana.
Nana.

STERNICH (DUCHESSE DE), a celebrated leader of society in the Second
Empire. She dominated all her friends on the ground of a former
intimacy with the Emperor. La Curee.

STEWARD (LUCY), was the daughter of an engine-cleaner of English
origin who was employed at the Gare du Nord. She was not beautiful,
but had such a charm of manner that she was considered the smartest of
the /demi-mondaines/ in Paris. Among her lovers had been a prince of
the royal blood. She had a son, Ollivier, before whom she posed as an
actress. Nana.

STEWART (OLLIVIER), son of the preceding. He was a pupil at the naval
college, and had no suspicion of the calling of his mother. Nana.

SURIN (ABBE), secretary to the Bishop of Plassans, of whom he was a
great favourite. He was a constant visitor at the home of M. Rastoil,
with whose daughters he played battledore. La Conquete de Plassans.

SYLVIA, an actress who was admired by Maxime Saccard. La Curee.



                                  T

TABOUREAU (MADAME), a baker in the Rue Turbigo. She was a recognized
authority on all subjects relating to her neighbours. Le Ventre de
Paris.

TATIN (MADEMOISELLE), kept an under-linen warehouse in the Passage
Choiseul, and was so seriously affected by the competition of Octave
Mouret's great store that she became bankrupt. Au Bonheur des Dames.

TARDIVEAU (BARON DE), a character in /La Petite Duchesse/, a play by
Fauchery. The part was played by Fontan.

TATAN NENE, a young girl of great beauty who had herded cows in
Champagne before coming to Paris. She was one of Nana's friends. Nana.

TAVERNIER, an old doctor of Orleans, who had ceased to practise.
Georges Hugon made a pretext of visiting him, in order to be able to
join Nana at La Mignotte. Nana.

TEISSIERE (MADAME), a /mondaine/ of the Second Empire. She was a
friend of Madame de Lauwerens and of the Saccards. La Curee.

TESTANIERE (MADAME), a protegee of Madame Correur, who recommended her
to Eugene Rougon, the Minister of State. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

TEUSE (LA), an elderly woman who acted as servant to Abbe Mouret. In
addition, she cleaned the church and kept the vestments in order; on
occasion, it was said, she had even served the Mass for the Abbe's
predecessor. She was garrulous and ill-tempered, but was devoted to
Mouret, of whom she took the greatest care, and she was also kind to
his weak-minded sister, Desiree. La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

THEODORE, a Belgian who gave lessons on the piano to Clarisse Bocquet,
and afterwards became her lover. Pot-Bouille.

THEODORE, son of a paste-board maker. He was to have married Nathalie
Dejoie, but wishing to establish himself in business, demanded a
considerable dowry. He afterwards married the daughter of a workman,
who brought him nearly eight thousand francs. L'Argent.

THERESE, a former neighbour of the Lorilleux in Rue de la Goutte d'Or.
She died of consumption, and the Lorilleux thought they saw a
resemblance between Gervaise and her. L'Assommoir.

THIBAUDIER (M.), a banker at Caen. He had a daughter, Louise, but
having married again soon after the death of his first wife, he
troubled little about her, and was quite willing to consent to her
marriage with Lazare Chanteau. La Joie de Vivre.

THIBAUDIER (LOUISE), daughter of M. Thibaudier, a banker at Caen. She
was a slight, delicate girl, with an attractive manner, and Lazare
Chanteau fell in love with her, though he was at the time engaged to
Pauline Quenu. Pauline having magnanimously released him, they were
married. Lazare's morbid mania having become more acute, and Louise
being herself in poor health, their relations became strained, and the
marriage was not a happy one. They had a son who was named Paul. La
Joie de Vivre.

Louise died young. Le Docteur Pascal.

THOMAS, keeper of an eating-house at Montmartre. L'Assommoir.

THOMAS (ANSELME), a journeyman saddler at Plassans. He married Justine
Megot, tempted by the annuity of twelve hundred francs which she
received from Saccard. He disliked her child, the little Charles
Rougon, who was degenerate and weak-minded. Le Docteur Pascal.

THOMAS (MADAME ANSELME), wife of the preceding. See Justine Megot. Le
Docteur Pascal.

TISON, keeper of a dram-shop at Montsou. Germinal.

TISSOT (MADAME), a friend of Madame Deberle. Une Page d'Amour.

TITREVILLE (MADAME) carried on the business of an artificial-flower
maker, of which Madame Lerat was forewoman, and where Nana Coupeau was
a pupil. She was a tall woman who never unbent, and the girls were all
afraid of her, pretending to be engrossed in work whenever she
appeared. L'Assommoir.

TOUCHE (M.), a townsman of Plassans who expressed disbelief in the
success of the /Coup d'Etat/. La Fortune des Rougon.

TOUCHE, an Attorney's clerk at Plassans. He married Sidonie Rougon in
1838, and went with her to Paris, where he started business as a
dealer in the products of the South. He was not very successful, and
died in 1850. La Curee.

TOURMAL (LES), a family who resided at Bonneville and lived chiefly by
smuggling and stealing. The father and grandfather were sent to
prison, and the daughter, when shown kindness by Pauline Quenu,
rewarded her by attempting to steal such small articles of value as
she could conceal. La Joie de Vivre.

TOUTIN-LAROCHE (M.), a retired candle-manufacturer; now a municipal
councillor, and a director of the Credit Viticole, the Societe
Generale of the Ports of Morocco, and other companies of doubtful
standing. His ambition was to enter the Senate, and he clung to Baron
Gauraud and Saccard in the belief that they could assist him. La
Curee.

TRICON (LA), a well-known procuress, who numbered Nana among her
clients. She had a passion for racing, and at the Grand Prix seemed to
dominate the crowd.

TROMPETTE, one of the horses in the Voreux pit. It only lived a few
months after being taken underground. Germinal.

TRON, a labourer in the farm of La Borderie. He was one of Jacqueline
Cognet's lovers, and exhibited jealousy amounting to insanity
regarding her. Having been dismissed by his master, he opened a trap-
door through which Hourdequin fell and was killed. When he found that
Jacqueline would not forgive him for this stupid murder, which ruined
her prospects, he set fire to the farm buildings. La Terre.

TROUCHE (HONORE), brother-in-law of Abbe Faujas. Having been
unsuccessful in business at Besancon, he followed Faujas to Plassans,
where he went with his wife to live in rooms rented by the Abbe from
Francois Mouret. He was of bad character and quite unscrupulous, but
by the influence of Faujas he was appointed Secretary to the Girls'
Home started by Madame Mouret and other ladies of Plassans. Having got
a footing in the Mourets' house, he soon began to take advantage of
his position, and little by little got possession of the whole
premises. He did all he could to encourage the idea of Francois
Mouret's madness, and after the unfortunate man's removal to the
asylum was able with greater ease to carry out his schemes. Mouret
having ultimately escaped from the asylum, returned to his home and
set it on fire; Trouche perished in the flames. La Conquete de
Plassans.

TROUCHE (MADAME OLYMPE), wife of the preceding, and sister of Abbe
Faujas. She accompanied her husband to Plassans, and contributed
largely to the ruin of the Mouret family. Utterly heartless, she
stopped at nothing, robbing Madame Mouret of money, clothing,
everything that came within her power. Nemesis came with the return of
Francois Mouret, who set fire to his house, causing the death of
Madame Trouche as well as that of her husband. La Conquete de
Plassans.

TROUILLE (LA), the nickname of Olympe Fouan. La Terre.

TRUBLOT (HECTOR), a young man whom Madame Josserand hoped at one time
to secure as a husband for her daughter. He had, however, no thoughts
of marriage, and as he was averse to any risk of complications, his
habit was to select his female friends from among the maid-servants of
his acquaintances. He was employed as correspondent in the office of
Monsieur Desmarquay, a money-changer. Pot-Bouille.



                                  V

VABRE, a notary of Versailles who retired to Paris with a fortune,
part of which he invested in the house in Rue de Choiseul occupied by
the Duveyriers, the Josserands, and others. He had unfortunately a
hidden passion for gambling in stocks and shares, and when he died it
was found that his whole fortune had been dissipated, even his house
being heavily mortgaged. Pot-Bouille.

VABRE (AUGUSTE), eldest son of M. Vabre, carried on a silk merchant's
business in part of the premises which belonged to his father. He
married Berthe Josserand, but as he suffered much from neuralgia, and
was, in addition, of a niggardly disposition, the marriage was not a
happy one. An intrigue between Madame Vabre and Octave Mouret
followed, and on its discovery she returned to her parents. For a
considerable time Vabre refused to forgive his wife, but a
reconciliation was ultimately brought about through the intervention
of Abbe Mauduit. Vabre's fortunes were adversely affected by the
extension of Madame Hedouin's business, known as "The Ladies'
Paradise." Pot-Bouille.

The rapid success of Octave Mouret's business led to the ruin of
Vabre, a result to which the extravagance of his wife also
contributed. Au Bonheur des Dames.

VABRE (MADAME AUGUSTE), wife of the preceding. See Berthe Josserand.
Pot-Bouille.

VABRE (CAMILLE), son of Theophile Vabre and his wife Valerie Louhette.
Pot-Bouille.

VABRE (CLOTILDE), daughter of Vabre the notary, and wife of Duveyrier.
She did not get on well with her husband, whom she hated, and her only
passion was for music, which she practised to an inordinate extent.
Pot-Bouille.

VABRE (THEOPHILE), second son of M. Vabre, "a little old man of
twenty-eight, a victim to coughs and toothache, who first tried all
sorts of trades and then married the daughter of a neighbouring
haberdasher." His life was shadowed by suspicions of his wife, with
whom he constantly quarrelled. He was with difficulty prevented from
making a scene at the marriage of his brother Auguste to Berthe
Josserand. Pot-Bouille.

VABRE (MADAME VALERIE), wife of the preceding, nee Louhette, was the
daughter of a wealthy haberdasher. She did not get on well with her
husband, who accused her, not entirely without reason, of carrying on
a liaison with some one whose name he was unable to discover. Pot-
Bouille.

VADON (MARGUERITE), daughter of a linen-draper at Grenoble, found it
desirable to come to Paris for a time, and got a situation at "The
Ladies' Paradise." She as a well-conducted girl, and ultimately
returned to Grenoble to take charge of her parents' shop, and marry a
cousin who was waiting for her. Au Bonheur des Dames.

VALENCAY (BARON DE), aide-de-camp to the Emperor. He married the
eldest daughter of the Comtesse de Bretigny. L'Assommoir.

VALENCAY (MADEMOISELLE PAULE DE), was very rich and extremely
beautiful when at nineteen years old she married the Marquis Jean XII
de Hautecoeur. She died within a year, leaving a son named Felicien.
Le Reve.

VALENTIN, son of Guiraude, and brother of Sophie. His father, a
journeyman tanner, died of phthisis, and Valentin, who had been in
daily contact with him, developed the disease. Doctor Pascal Rougon
prolonged his life for some time by hypodermic injections of a
substance discovered by himself, but the respite was only temporary,
for at twenty-one years of age Valentine died of hereditary phthisis.
Le Docteur Pascal.

VALERIO II, a horse which belonged to M. Corbreuse and ran in the
Grand Prix de Paris. Nana.

VALLAGNOSC (MADAME DE), belonged to an old family of Plassans. Left a
widow with two daughters and one son, she found life difficult on the
small remains of a former fortune. In order to assist his mother, the
son, Paul, secured an appointment at Paris in a Government office. Au
Bonheur des Dames.

VALLAGNOSC (PAUL DE), an old friend of Octave Mouret, whom he had
known at Plassans. He belonged to an old family, but, being a younger
son without money, was obliged to select a profession. He studied law,
but meeting with no success, was obliged to accept an appointment in
the Ministry of the Interior. He married Mademoiselle de Boves. Au
Bonheur des Dames.

VALLAGNOSC (MADAME PAUL DE), wife of the preceding. See Blanche de
Boves.

VALQUEYRAS (COMTE DE), a relation of Marquis de Carnavant, who lived
in his house. La Fortune des Rougon.

He was a supporter of the Marquis de Lagrifoul, the Legitimist Deputy
for Plassans, who visited him for a fortnight before the election
which was dominated by Abbe Faujas. La Conquete de Plassans.

VALQUEYRAS (MARQUISE DE), in 1873, she was the only representative of
a very old family. She was a widow with a little daughter of six, very
rich, and equally parsimonious. When Doctor Pascal Rougon called on
her to ask payment of his fees, he allowed himself to be put off, and
even gave advice regarding the health of the child. Le Docteur Pascal.

VANDERGHAGEN, the medical man employed by the Mining Company of
Montsou. He was so much overworked that it was said he gave his
consultations while he was running from place to place. Germinal.

VANDEUVRES (COMTE XAVIER DE), the last member of a noble family, had
gone through a large fortune in Paris. His racing-stable was famous,
as were his losses at the Imperial Club, while his ruin was completed
by the vast sums which he spent on Nana. His final hope was centred on
the race for the Grand Prix de Paris in which he was running two
horses, Lusignan and a filly named Nana. Lusignan was the favourite,
but Vandeuvres, having arranged his betting, caused the horse to be
pulled, so that the filly might win. The ruse was successful, and
Vandeuvres gained a large sum, but suspicions having been aroused, he
was warned off the turf and expelled from the Imperial Club. Driven to
madness, the Comte shut himself up in his stable, and, having set it
on fire, perished among his horses. Nana.

VANDORPE, the head stationmaster of the Western Railway Company at
Paris. La Bete Humaine.

VANPOUILLE BROTHERS, a firm of furriers in Rue Neuve-des-Petits
Champs, who were practically ruined when Octave Mouret added a fur
department to "The Ladies' Paradise." Au Bonheur des Dames.

VANSKA (COMTESSE), a well-known and rich /mondaine/ of the Second
Empire. La Curee.

VANZADE (MADAME), the widow of a general. She was an old lady, rich,
nearly blind, and practically helpless. At Passy she lived, in a
silent old house, a life so retired and regular that it might have
been actuated by clockwork. As she required a companion, her old
friend, La Mere des Saints-Anges, recommended Christine Hallegrain to
her; but the girl, stifling in that dwelling of rigid piety, ended by
running off with her lover, Claude Lantier. Madame Vanzade died four
years later, and the bulk of her fortune went to charities. L'Oeuvre.

VAQUEZ (JUDITH), an artist's model who lived in Rue du Rocher. She was
a Jewess, fresh enough in colouring but too thin. L'Oeuvre.

VAUCOGNE (HECTOR), husband of Estelle Badeuil. At the time of his
marriage, Vaucogne was a junior officer of customs, but when his
wife's parents retired he took over their /maison publique/. He left
everything to the care of his wife, and after her death the
establishment ceased to be prosperous. In the end he was turned out by
his father-in-law, and the business was given to his daughter Elodie,
who showed all the family capacity for management. La Terre.

VAUCOGNE (MADAME HECTOR), wife of the preceding. See Estelle Badeuil.
La Terre.

VAUCOGNE (ELODIE), daughter of the preceding, and granddaughter of M.
and Madame Charles Badeuil. She was seven years old when her parents
took over the /maison publique/ of her grandfather, and she was then
sent to a convent at Chateaudun to be educated by the Sisters of the
Visitation. Her holidays were spent with her grandparents, and she was
supposed to be under the impression that her parents were carrying on
a large confectionery business, but Victorine, a servant who had been
dismissed for misconduct, had made her aware of the facts, and when,
at eighteen years of age, she was asked in marriage by her cousin
Ernest Delhomme, she astonished her grandparents by joining with him
in a desire to succeed to the family establishment. La Terre.

VAUGELADE (DUC DE), at one time the master of Gourd, who was his
valet. Pot-Bouille.

VENOT (THEOPHILE), an old lawyer who made a speciality of
ecclesiastical cases, and had acquired a fortune by serving the
Jesuits. He had retired with a comfortable sum, and led an existence
slightly mysterious; received everywhere, saluted very low, even a
little feared, as he represented a great and unknown force which he
had behind him. An intimate friend of the Muffats, he did everything
in his power to put an end to the liaison between the Comte and Nana,
and, though no success attended his efforts for a considerable time,
he was able when ruin seemed imminent to save Muffat from scandal and
to console him by a return to the practice of religion. Nana.

VERDIER (BARON), proprietor of a racing-stable. Frangipane, one of his
horses, ran in the Grand Prix de Paris. Nana.

VERDIER, a lawyer who had been for a long time engaged to Hortense
Josserand. The marriage was put off from time to time, as he had got
entangled with a woman from whom he found separation difficult. Pot-
Bouille.

VERDONCK, a grocer at Montsou. His business was much affected by the
competition of Maigrat, and he gave credit during the first week of
the strike in the hope of getting back some of his old customers.
Germinal.

VERLAQUE, an inspector in the fish-market at the /Halles Centrales/.
Having fallen into bad health, he was allowed to find a substitute to
keep the place open for him in case he should recover. Florent was
appointed, and paid a considerable portion of the salary to Verlaque.
Le Ventre de Paris.

VERLAQUE (MADAME), wife of the preceding. Florent assisted her after
the death of her husband. Le Ventre de Paris.

VERNIER, an art critic who published an article on Fagerolles the
artist. L'Oeuvre.

VERONIQUE, maid-servant to the Chanteau family, was a tall, stout
young woman of unattractive appearance and uncertain temper. She had
been in the service of the Chanteaus for twenty years, and having
become necessary to them, took advantage of her position. From the
first, Veronique resented Pauline Quenu's presence in the Chanteau
household, and treated her as an intruder. In course of time, however,
she came to see that Pauline was being despoiled of her means by
Madame Chanteau, and her sense of justice made her take the young
girl's part. The death of Madame Chanteau made a deep impression on
Veronique whose ill-will towards Pauline gradually returned. Her mind,
not strong at best, became unhinged, and in a fit of temper she went
into the orchard and hanged herself. La Joie de Vivre.

VIAL (ABBE), one of the clergy of Plassans. When his appointment
became vacant it was promised to Abbe Bourrette, but was eventually
given to Abbe Faujas. La Conquete de Plassans.

VIAL (MELANIE), second wife of Jean Macquart, to whom she was married
in 1871. She was the only daughter of a peasant in easy circumstances,
and was of a fine robust physique. She had three healthy children in
as many years. Le Docteur Pascal.

VIAN, a wheelwright of Plassans, to whom Silvere Mouret was
apprenticed. La Fortune des Rougon.

VICTOIRE, Madame Campardon's cook. She had been in the service of her
master's father when Campardon was a baby, and though now old, and not
over clean, they were unwilling to part with her. Pot-Bouille.

VICTOIRE (LA MERE), wife of Pecqueux, the railway stoker. She had been
the nurse of Severine Aubry, and later, as the wife of Pecqueux, who
spent all his earnings on drink, she was leading a wretched existence
in Paris by the aid of a little sewing, when, happening to meet her
foster-daughter, the former intimacy had been renewed, and President
Grandmorin took her under his protection, obtaining for her the post
of attendant at the ladies' cloakroom. She occupied a room in the
Impasse d'Amsterdam, which the Roubauds regarded as their head-
quarters when they spent a day in Paris. Having become helpless as the
result of a sprain, she was obliged to resign her post and seek
admittance to a hospital. La Bete Humaine.

VICTORINE, cook in the employment of Nana. She married Francois, the
footman. Nana.

VICTORINE, a servant in the employment of the Badeuils after they
retired to Rognes. She was dismissed for misconduct, and in revenge
told Elodie Vaucogne the occupation of her parents. La Terre.

VIGOUROUX, a coal merchant in Rue de la Goutte d'Or. He sold coke to
Gervaise at the same price as the Gas Company. L'Assommoir.

VIGOUROUX (MADAME), wife of the preceding. She was a little woman with
bright eyes who liked to laugh with the men. L'Assommoir.

VIMEUX, a miserable little sheriff officer, who was celebrated in the
Canton for the bad usage he got from the peasants when he was obliged
to serve summonses upon them. La Terre.

VINCARD, a silk merchant, who, seeing that his business was likely to
be seriously affected by the competition of "The Ladies' Paradise," he
sold it to Robineau, and took a restaurant at Vincennes. Au Bonheur
des Dames.

VINCENT, a tavern-keeper in the neighbourhood of Montsou. Germinal.

VINEUIL (COMMANDANT DE), father of Gilberte. Retired from active
service on account of his wounds, he was appointed Director of Customs
at Charleville. His wife died of consumption, and he sent his
daughter, about whose health he was alarmed, to reside for a time at a
farm near Chene-Populeux. He died soon after Gilberte's marriage to
Maginot, the Inspector of State Forests. La Debacle.

VINEUIL (COLONEL DE), brother of the preceding. In 1870 he commanded
the 106th Regiment of the line, which formed part of the Seventh Army
corps. He was a man of fine appearance and character, and bore his
part bravely through the disastrous campaign, until he was severely
wounded on the battlefield of Sedan. Notwithstanding his wound, he
remained on his horse till the end, when he was removed to the house
of Delaherche, the husband of his niece Gilberte. By December his
wound was cured, but crushed by his country's defeats, his mental
depression was so great that he remained in a darkened room, refusing
to hear news from the outer world, and associating only with his old
friend Madame Delaherche, the mother of his niece's husband. At the
end of December he died suddenly, horror-struck by an account of the
surrender of Metz, which he chanced to read in an old newspaper. La
Debacle.

VINEUIL (GILBERTE DE), daughter of Commandant de Vineuil. She was
first married to Maginot, and afterwards to Jules Delaherche. When she
was nine years old, her father, alarmed at a cough she had, sent her
to live at a farm, where she came to know Henriette Levasseur. Even at
that age she was a coquette, and when at twenty she married Maginot,
the Inspector of the State Forests at Mezieres, her character had not
changed. Mezieres she found dull, but her husband allowed her full
liberty, and she found all the gaiety she desired at Charleville.
There she lived solely for pleasure, and Captain Beaudoin became her
lover. In 1869 she became a widow, and in spite of the stories told
about her she found a second husband, Jules Delaherche. On the eve of
the battle of Sedan she resumed for the nonce her former relations
with Beaudoin. Gay and irresponsible by nature, she flirted with
Captain von Gartlauben, a Prussian officer, who was quartered on her
husband after the capitulation of Sedan, while at the same time she
carried on a liaison with Edmond Lagarde, a young soldier who had been
wounded, and whom she had assisted to nurse. La Debacle.

VIOLAINE (LOUISE), an actress at the Theatre des Varietes. She took
the part in the /Blonde Venus/ originally played by Nana, and secured
a great success. Nana.

VIRGINIE, sister of Adele, for whose sake Auguste Lantier deserted
Gervaise Macquart. Gervaise, meeting Virginie in a public washing-
house, was taunted by her on the subject of her lover, and a terrible
fight between the two women followed, Virginie being severely beaten.
Gervaise did not see her again for some years, by which time she had
married M. Poisson, an ex-soldier, who later became a policeman. She
professed to have overlooked the fight with Gervaise, but appears to
have been not without hope that an opportunity of repaying her
injuries might eventually arise. When the Coupeaus gave way to drink,
Lantier, who had again established friendly relations, suggested that
Virginie should take the Coupeaus' shop and buy a stock of groceries
and sweetmeats with a legacy she had received from an aunt. Partly
moved by a desire for revenge on Gervaise, she did so, and Lantier
retained with the Poissons the place as a lodger he formerly occupied
with the Coupeaus. Soon after, he became Virginie's lover, and, by
paying nothing for his support, while he gradually ate the contents of
the shop, he accomplished the downfall of the Poissons in much the
same manner as he had already ruined the Coupeaus. L'Assommoir.

VISCARDI (SIGNOR), a Venetian political refugee, and a friend of
Comtesse Balbi. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

VOINCOURT (COMTESSE DE), mother of Claire de Voincourt. She occupied
at Beaumont a house adjoining the bishop's palace. Le Reve.

VOINCOURT (CLAIRE DE), the daughter of an old family of great wealth
who lived at Beaumont. Monseigneur d'Hautecoeur wished to arrange a
marriage between her and Felicien, his son; his plans were assisted by
the belief of Felicien that Angelique, with whom he had fallen in
love, no longer cared for him. This belief having proved false, the
proposed marriage between Felicien and Claire de Voincourt did not
take place. Le Reve.

VORIAU, a large black dog which belonged to Bambousse, the Mayor of
Artaud. La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

VUILLAUME (M. and MADAME), the parents of Madame Pichon, whom they
visited every Sunday afternoon. They were, later, much annoyed with
the Pichons, whose family became, they considered, too large for their
means. Pot-Bouille.

VUILLAUME (MARIE). See Madame Marie Pichon.

VUILLET, a bookseller of Plassans, who published a biweekly journal,
the /Gazette de Plassans/, which was devoted exclusively to the
interests of the clergy. La Fortune des Rougon.



                                  W

WEISS, husband of Henriette Levasseur, and cousin of Otto Gunther. He
got a situation in the refinery at Chene-Populeux, almost in a menial
position, but he gradually educated himself, and by dint of hard work
raised himself to the position of accountant. A clear-headed man, he
early saw the causes that were to lead to the downfall of his country,
and expressed himself strongly regarding the unprepared state of the
army. Weiss lived at Sedan, but in 1870 he had just bought a little
house at Bazeilles, where he slept the night before the battle. He was
frantic at the idea that the Prussians might pillage and perhaps
destroy the dwelling so long desired and so hardly acquired, and when
the attack was made he took an active part in the fighting. Captured
by the Prussians, and being a civilian, he was at once condemned to be
shot, and the sentence was carried out before the eyes of his wife,
who had come from Sedan to look for him. La Debacle.

WEISS (MADAME), wife of the preceding. See Henriette Levasseur. La
Debacle.

WORMS, a famous costumier, before whom the ladies of the Second Empire
bowed the knee. Renee Saccard was one of his customers, and when she
died owed him an account of two hundred and fifty-seven thousand
francs. La Curee.



                                  Z

ZEPHIR, the horse ridden by Prosper Sambuc, who loved it like a
brother. The animal received a mortal wound at the battle of Sedan,
and fell on its rider, crushing under it his right leg. It lay upon
him for some hours, but eventually, on his speaking to it, moved with
a great effort sufficiently to allow him to escape. La Debacle.

ZEPHYRIN, a worker on the farm of La Borderie. He laughed at the
agricultural machinery introduced by Alexandre Hourdequin. La Terre.

ZIDORE, a youth of seventeen, who was an apprentice zinc-worker. He
was Coupeau's assistant at one time. L'Assommoir.

ZIZI, the pet name given by Nana to Georges Hugon. Nana.

ZOE, waiting-maid in the employment of Nana. She was entirely in
Nana's confidence, and was always ready with shrewd advice, though
there is no doubt she arranged matters so that a great deal of money
came into her own hands. She ultimately took over the establishment of
La Tricon, which she had long coveted, and, having large ideas,
proposed to extend the business by renting a larger house. Nana.



                ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PRINCIPAL SCENES

ARROMANCHES, a small town on the Normandy coast, not far from Caen. It
is about six miles from Bonneville, the scene of La Joie de Vivre.

ARTAUD (LES), a small village a few miles from Plassans (q.v.). Abbe
Mouret was its priest during the events related in La Faute de l'Abbe
Mouret.

ASSOMMOIR (Pere Colombe's) was situated at the corner of Rue des
Poissonniers and Boulevard de Rochechouart, which is a continuation of
Boulevard de Clichy, in the northern district of Paris. L'Assommoir.

AUGUSTIN (RUE NEUVE SAINT), a street which joins the Avenue de l'Opera
a short distance from the Opera House. It is intersected by Rue
Michodiere, at the corner of which is situated Octave Mouret's great
drapery establishment, known as "Au Bonheur des Dames." Au Bonheur des
Dames.

BARENTIN, a small town on the Western Railway of France, about twelve
miles from Rouen. It was at a point between Barentin and the previous
station, Malaunay, that President Grandmorin was murdered by Roubaud.
La Bete Humaine.

BAZEILLES, a village about three miles south-east of Sedan (q.v.). It
was the scene of some of the most important events in La Debacle.

BEAUCE (LA), a fertile agricultural plain stretching between Chartres
and Orleans, and intersected by the road from the latter town to
Chateaudun. The district is the scene of La Terre.

BEAUMONT, a town of about 3000 inhabitants, picturesquely situated on
a height on the left bank of the Oise about twenty-five miles north of
Paris. Its church, the scene of some of the principal events in Le
Reve, is an interesting building, dating from the thirteenth century.
Le Reve.

BONCOEUR (HOTEL) was situated in the Boulevard de la Chapelle (q.v.).
L'Assommoir.

BONNEVILLE, a village on the Normandy coast, about six miles from
Arromanches. It is in an extremely exposed position, and many houses
have been destroyed by the inroads of the sea. To prevent further
damage, Lazare Chanteau constructed a breakwater, which was, however,
washed away by the first storm. The inhabitants of the village were
mostly engaged in fishing. La Joie de Vivre.

BORDERIE (LA), a farm on the plain of La Beauce, which belonged to
Alexandre Hourdequin, whose father bought it after the Revolution. La
Terre.

CAEN, a town of about 40,000 inhabitants, situated on the River Orne,
about nine miles from the Normandy coast. Chanteau pere carried on
business there before he retired and went to live at Bonneville, and
his son Lazare received his education at its college. La Joie de
Vivre.

CHALONS, a town of about 24,000 inhabitants, is situated on the Marne
107 miles east of Paris. It is the head-quarters of the Sixth Army
Corps, and was occupied by the Prussians in August, 1870. La Debacle.

CHAPELLE (BOULEVARD DE LA) is a continuation of the Boulevard de
Clichy, in the Montmartre district of Paris. In it was situated the
Hotel Boncoeur, where Lantier and Gervaise Macquart found lodgings
when they first came to Paris. L'Assommoir.

CHARLEVILLE, a town of about 17,000 inhabitants, situated about ten
miles north-west of Sedan. It is close to Mezieres, of which it really
forms the commercial and industrial portion. La Debacle.

CHARTRES, an important and interesting town, situated on the left bank
of the Eure, fifty-five miles south-west of Paris. It is the principal
town in the grain-producing district of La Beauce, and reference is
frequently made to it in La Terre. In it M. and Madame Charles Badeuil
carried on business for a number of years with considerable success.
La Terre.

CHATEAUDUN, a town of 7000 inhabitants, situated on the left bank of
the Loire, about eighty-four miles south-west of Paris. It is in the
district of La Beauce, and is frequently referred to in La Terre.

CHOISEUL (RUE DE), a street which connects the Boulevard des Italiens,
and Rue Neuve Saint-Augustin. It is parallel to Avenue de l'Opera and
Rue Michodiere, being slightly to the east of the latter. Pot-Bouille.

CLOYES, a market-town in the district of La Beauce, about seven miles
from Chateaudun and ninety-one miles south-west of Paris. It is
frequently referred to in La Terre.

CROIX DE MAUFRAS (LE), a level crossing on the Western Railway of
France, between Malaunay and Barentin, about nine miles west of Rouen.
The crossing, which was looked after by Misard and his daughter Flore,
was the scene of a terrible railway accident, and it was in the same
vicinity that President Grandmorin was murdered by Roubaud. La Bete
Humaine.

EAUX (PASSAGE DES), a steep lane which runs from Rue Raynouard at
Passy down to the Seine. In an old house which abutted on the passage
lived Mere Fetu, and in the same building was the room where Helene
Grandjean went to meet Doctor Deberle. Une Pate d'Amour.

GOUTTE D'OR (RUE DE LA), a street in the Montmartre district of Paris.
It enters from Rue des Poissonniers and runs parallel to and behind
Boulevard de la Chapelle, which is a continuation of Boulevard de
Clichy. The Coupeaus and the Lorilleux lived in Rue de la Goutte d'Or.
L'Assommoir.

HALLES CENTRALES (LES), the great provision markets of Paris, are
situated on the right bank of the river, and are directly north of the
Pont Neuf, from which they are not far distant. Le Ventre de Paris.

HAUSSMANN (BOULEVARD) runs from east to west a short distance behind
the Opera House. Its eastern end connects with the Boulevard des
Italiens. Nana.

HAVRE (LE), an important seaport, which forms the terminus of the
Western Railway of France, the line upon which Jacques Lantier was
employed as an engine-driver. The Roubauds lived at Le Havre, and many
of the principal scenes in La Bete Humaine were enacted there. La Bete
Humaine.

LAZARE (RUE SAINT-), is in the neighbourhood of the railway station of
the same name. In it was situated the Orviedo mansion, in which
Aristide Saccard started the Universal Bank. L'Argent.

LILLE, an important manufacturing town in the north of France, near
the Belgian frontier. Etienne Lantier was at one time employed in the
railway workshop there. Germinal.

MALAUNAY, a station on the Western Railway of France, six miles from
Rouen, and about midway between that town and Barentin. It is referred
to in La Bete Humaine.

MARBEUF (RUE), a street which connects the Avenue des Champs Elysees
and the Avenue de l'Alma. Eugene Rougon lived there. Son Excellence
Eugene Rougon.

MARCHIENNES, a town in the mining district of the north of France,
about thirty miles south-east of Lille. It is frequently referred to
in Germinal.

METZ, a town of 55,000 inhabitants, is situated on the Moselle, about
263 miles east of Paris and about eighty miles south-east of Sedan. It
was surrendered to the Prussians on 27th October, 1870, and is now the
capital of German Lorraine. La Debacle.

MEZIERES, a small town of 7000 inhabitants, situated on a peninsula
formed by the Meuse about ten miles north-west of Sedan. Its situation
has prevented its extension, and the closely adjoining town of
Charleville has become its commercial and industrial quarter. Mezieres
was three times invested during the Franco-Prussian War, and
surrendered on 2nd January, 1871, after a bombardment of three days.
La Debacle.

MICHODIERE (RUE), a street which connects the Boulevard des Capucines
and the Rue Neuve Saint-Augustin. At the corner where it joins the
latter street was situated Octave Mouret's great drapery
establishment, known as "Au Bonheur des Dames," and in it also Baudu
carried on business. The street is almost parallel to the Avenue de
l'Opera. Au Bonheur des Dames.

MOINES (RUE DES) was situated at Batignolles, in the extreme north-
west of Paris. Madame Lerat lived there. L'Assommoir.

MONCEAU (RUE), a street which runs northward from Rue du Faubourg St.
Honore. It is a short distance to the north-east of the Arc de
Triomphe, and in it was situated Aristide Saccard's magnificent
mansion. La Curee.

MONTSOU, a mining village in the north of France, about ten kilometres
from Marchiennes (q.v.). It is the scene of many of the chief events
in Germinal.

ORLEANS, an important town situated on the Loire, seventy-five miles
south of Paris. It is referred to in La Terre and Nana.

PARADOU, the name of a neglected demesne near Plassans (q.v.). It was
the scene of a large part of La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.

PLASSANS, the name under which Zola disguised his native town of Aix.
It is a place of about 30,000 inhabitants, and is situated eighteen
miles north of Marseilles. Aix was at one time the capital of
Provence, is the seat of an archbishop, and contains a university and
an Ecole des Art et Metiers.

In the Rougon-Macquart novels Zola made Plassans the cradle of an
imaginary family, and throughout the whole series of books the town is
constantly referred to. La Fortune des Rougon, etc.

RAUCOURT, a small town about six miles south of Sedan. It is
frequently referred to in La Debacle.

REIMS, an important town of 98,000 inhabitants, situated about 100
miles to the north-east of Paris. In 1870-71 it was occupied by the
Prussians, who laid heavy requisitions upon it. The town is frequently
referred to in La Debacle.

REMILLY, a village about five miles south of Sedan. Old Fouchard's
farm was situated in its vicinity. La Debacle.

ROUEN, an important town of over 100,000 inhabitants, situated on the
Seine, about eighty-seven miles from Paris and fifty-seven miles from
Le Havre. It was the scene of the judicial inquiry regarding the
murder of President Grandmorin. La Bete Humaine.

SEDAN, a town of 20,000 inhabitants, situated on the Meuse, about 170
miles north-east of Paris. It was the scene of one of the chief
battles of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and capitulated to the
Prussian forces on 2nd September of that year. The town is frequently
referred to in La Debacle.

VALOGNES, a small town in Normandy, not far from Cherbourg. It was the
birthplace of Denise Baudu and her brothers. Au Bonheur des Dames.

VINEUSE (RUE DE), a street in the Passy district of Paris, at the
extreme west end of the city. It is near the Trocadero Palace. Madame
Helene Grandjean and Doctor Deberle both lived in this street. Une
Page d'Amour.

VOREUX, the name of a large coal-pit, situated about two kilometres
from Montsou, on the road between that village and Marchiennes (q.v.).
Germinal.





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