, 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 f