acquainted with every little scandal in the
neighbourhood." Gavard was a leading spirit in the revolutionary circle
which met in Lebigre's wine-shop, and was the means of bringing Florent
to attend the meetings there. He was arrested at the same time as
Florent and was transported. Le Ventre de Paris.

GAVAUDAN (JOSEPHINE), a market-woman of Plassans who married Antoine
Macquart in 1826. She was much addicted to drink, but worked in order to
keep her husband in idleness. She died in 1850. La Fortune des Rougon.

GEDEON, an ass which belonged to Mouche. It was very mischievous, and
on one occasion got access to a vat of new wine, with the result that it
became extremely drunk. La Terre.

GEORGES, a young man whose acquaintance Renee Saccard made by chance
while walking one day on the Quai Saint-Paul. Her fancy for him passed
without her ever having asked his family name. La Curee.

GERALDINE, a character in _La Petite Duchesse_, played by Clarisse
Besnus at the Theatre des Varietes. It was originally intended that the
part should be played by Nana. Nana.

GILQUIN (THEODORE), a lodger at Madame Correur's hotel at the same
time as Eugene Rougon and Du Poizat. A man of shady character, he was
frequently employed by Rougon, and by a fortunate accident was able to
give him warning of the Orsini plot against the life of the Emperor. He
was rewarded with the appointment of Commissary of Police at Niort. On
the order of Rougon, he arrested Martineau, Madame Correur's brother. He
was removed from his position on account of having compromised himself
by taking a bribe to procure a conscript exemption from service. Son
Excellence Eugene Rougon.

GIRAUD (TATA) kept at Plassans a boarding-school for children, where the
sculptor Mahoudeau had known Pierre Sandoz and other comrades who met
later in Paris. L'Oeuvre.

GODARD (ABBE), cure of Bazoches-le-Doyen. The authorities of Rognes,
which was in his parish, refused to provide for a priest of their own,
and Abbe Godard, in order to perform Mass, had to walk each Sunday the
three kilometres which separated the two communes. He was a short,
stout man of hasty temper, who was disgusted with the indifference and
irreligion of his parishioners, and his services were the shortest and
baldest possible. In spite of his temper, he had, however, a passion for
the miserable, and to these he gave everything--his money, his linen,
almost the clothes off his back. La Terre.

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