her invalid husband, to whom she was devoted, and
wept at the thought that he was soon to die. La Terre.

G

GABET (MERE), an old woman who assisted the Huberts with their washing.
She became ill, and being in great poverty, was assisted by Angelique,
and later by Felicien. Le Reve.

GAGA, an elderly _demi-mondaine_ who had flourished in the reign of
Louis Philippe, and was still notorious in the Second Empire. She had
a daughter named Lili, who became the mistress of the Marquis Chouard.
Nana.

GAGEBOIS, glass-works at Montsou. The strike of miners led to the fires
being extinguished. Germinal.

GAGNIERE, an artist, one of the band of Claude Lantier. He belonged to
Melun, where his well-to-do parents, who were both dead, had left him
two houses; and he had learned painting, unassisted, in the forest
of Fontainebleau. His landscapes were conscientious and excellent in
intent, but his real passion was music. Becoming more and more engrossed
in this, he took lessons in playing the piano from a middle-aged lady
whom he married soon afterwards. He established himself at Melun in one
of his two houses, going to Paris two or three times a month to attend a
concert, and he continued to exhibit each year at the _Salon_ one of his
little studies of the banks of the Seine. L'Oeuvre.

GALISSARD, a haberdasher of Plassans, whose daughter married Professor
Lalubie. She was a pretty girl to whom Claude Lantier and Sandoz used to
sing serenades.

GARCONNET, a Legitimist who was Mayor of Plassans at the time of the
_Coup d'Etat_. He was taken prisoner by the insurgents. La Fortune des
Rougon.

GARTLAUBEN (VON), captain in the Prussian Army. During the occupation of
Sedan he was billeted on Delaherche. He was a person of some importance,
as his uncle had been made Governor-General at Rheims, and exercised
sovereign power over the district. Fascinated by Gilberte Delaherche,
his chief wish was to be taken for a man of refinement, and not for
a barbarous soldier. He was able to render some services to the
Delaherches, and to make the Prussian occupation easier for them. La
Debacle.

GASC, proprietor of a racing-stable. One of his horses, named Boum, ran
in the Grand Prix de Paris. Nana.

GASPARINE, a tall, handsome girl of Plassans, with whom Achille
Campardon fell in love. She had no money, however, and he married her
cousin Rose Domergue, who had a dowry of thirty thousand francs. Tears
and recriminations followed,