re 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
a