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 obtai