he 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 bec