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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 s