ently he was arrested
and imprisoned for embezzling a large sum from Mazaud, his employer.
L'Argent.

FONTAN (ACHILLE), an actor at the Theatre des Varietes who played parts
in _La Blonde Venus_ and _La Petite Duchesse_. He became for a time the
lover of Nana, but treated her so abominably that she left him. Nana.

FONTENAILLES (MLLE. DE), was descended from an aristocratic family, but
was in great poverty when a situation was found for her in "The
Ladies' Paradise" through the influence of Madame Desforges. She proved
incapable of anything but the most menial work, and ultimately married
Joseph, one of the porters in the establishment. Au Bonheur des Dames.

FOUAN, alias BUTEAU. See Buteau.

FOUAN (FANNY). See Madame Delhomme.

FOUAN (HYACINTHE), the elder son of Pere Fouan and Rose Maliverne, his
wife. He was an idler and drunkard, who, when he had left the army,
after having seen service in Africa, had taken to tramp the fields,
refusing to do any regular work, but living by theft and poaching, as
though he were still looting a trembling nation of Bedouins. Withal
there looked out of his fine, sunken eyes a merriment that was not
altogether evil, the open heart of good-humoured drunkenness. He lived
with his daughter in a ruined hut amongst some rocks near Rognes. After
the division of land by his father, Hyacinthe soon mortgaged his share
and drank the proceeds, never paying to his parents any part of the
rent which had been agreed upon. For a time he sheltered his father,
but frightened the old man by searching for some bonds which he had
concealed. He had, however, neither the cold rapacity of his sister
Fanny nor the murderous instincts of his brother Buteau. La Terre.

FOUAN (JOSEPH CASIMIR), the father of Marianne, Louis, Michel, and
Laure. Born in 1766, he belonged to a family of peasant proprietors
which for centuries had owned land, in varying quantities, in
the neighbourhood of Rognes. They were originally serfs of the
Roques-Bouqueval family. Bit by bit they acquired their land, until,
when the Revolution of 1789 arrived, the Fouan of that day, Joseph
Casimir, was the owner of twenty-one acres--the conquest of four
centuries from the seigneurial territory. When, in 1793, the rest of the
estate was declared national property and sold in lots by auction,
he was too timid to purchase any, and had the mortification to see La
Borderie sold to Isidore Hourdequin, a citizen of Chateaudun, for a
fifth of it