to better advantage later
on. The death of his son, who was killed in the battle, cost him a few
tears, but he was quickly consoled by some good purchases of horses
stolen from the battlefield. He took Prosper Sambuc as farm-worker,
because the soldier, being liable to imprisonment by the Prussians,
could not ask him for any wages. He began to do a considerable trade
in butcher-meat with the conquering army, selling them all the diseased
animals that he could secure. A suspicion of being concerned in the
death of Goliath Steinberg led to his arrest, but he was released soon
afterwards, thanks to the intervention of Captain von Gartlauben, a
friend of the Delaherches. La Debacle.

FOUCHARD (HONORE), only son of the preceding. At twenty years of age, in
1867, he drew a good number for the conscription, but on account of
the opposition of his father to his marriage with Silvine Morange, he
enlisted, and was sent to Africa, in the artillery. When he heard that
Silvine had become the mistress of Goliath Steinberg he became so
ill that he had to remain in hospital for three months. He afterwards
received a letter from Silvine saying that she had never loved any one
but him, and when passing through Remilly on his way to the front, he
saw her and forgave everything. His battery was among those which on 1st
September, 1870, defended the Calvary d'Illy, but was cut to pieces by
the terrible fire of the Prussians. Honore was killed, and fell
across his gun, firmly grasping the letter from Silvine, which in his
death-struggle he had drawn from his bosom. La Debacle.

FOUGERAY (MADEMOISELLE DE), eldest daughter of the Baronne de Fougeray.
She entered a convent, because it was said, a young man with whom she
was in love had died. The event created much talk in all classes of
society in Paris. Nana.

FOUQUE (ADELAIDE), generally known as Aunt Dide, the common ancestress
of the Rougon-Macquarts, born at Plassans in 1768, was the last
representative of a family who had owned a market-garden there for
several generations. "This girl, whose father died insane, was a long,
lank, pale creature, with a scared look and strange gait." In 1786,
six months after the death of her father, she married one of her own
workmen, named Rougon, "a rough-hewn peasant from the Basses Alpes."
Rougon died fifteen months after his marriage, leaving a son named
Pierre. Scarcely a year had elapsed before the widow took as her lover a
man named Macquart, wh