imately
caught by his uncle in compromising circumstances with Mademoiselle
Fifi, who was a protegee of the old man. Bachelard insisted on their
marriage, and gave the girl a handsome dowry. Pot-Bouille.
GUIBAL (MADAME), wife of a barrister well known at the Palais de
Justice, who led, it was said, a somewhat free life. The husband and
wife were never seen together, and Madame Guibal consoled herself with
M. De Boves, from whom she derived such large sums of money that he
found difficulty in carrying on his own establishment. She was a tall,
thin woman, with red hair, and a somewhat cold, selfish expression. Au
Bonheur des Dames.
GUICHON (MADEMOISELLE), the office-keeper at the railway station at
Havre. She was a slim, fair woman about thirty years of age, who owed
her post to M. Dabadie, the chief station-master, with whom it was
generally believed she was on intimate terms. Nevertheless Madame
Lebleu, who lived on the same corridor and kept perpetual watch, had
never been able to discover anything. La Bete Humaine.
GUIGNARD, a peasant who belonged to the same village as Zephyrin Lacour.
He desired to sell his house, and Zephyrin and Rosalie, his sweetheart,
looked forward to buying it. Une Page d'Amour.
GUILLAUME, a peasant of Rognes. He owned a piece of land beside the
hovel of Hyacinthe Fouan. La Terre.
GUILLAUME, a young swineherd at La Borderie. He afterwards became a
soldier. La Terre.
GUIRAUD (M. DE), a magistrate of Paris, who was a friend of Doctor
Deberle and visited at his house. Une Page d'Amour.
GUIRAUD (MADAME DE), wife of the preceding. She was on intimate terms
with Madame Deberle, and took part in the amateur theatricals arranged
by that lady. Une Page d'Amour.
GUIRAUDE (MADAME), mother of Sophie and Valentin, patients of Dr.
Pascal. Her husband died of phthisis, and she herself suffered from a
slow decomposition of the blood. She died soon after her son Valentin.
Le Docteur Pascal.
GUNDERMANN, the great Jew banker, master of the Bourse and of the
financial world. He was a man of over sixty years of age, who had long
suffered from ill-health. Constantly engaged in business of the
greatest magnitude, he never went to the Bourse himself; indeed, he even
pretended that he sent no official representatives there. He was not on
friendly terms with Saccard, and when the Universal Bank was started
he placed himself in antagonism towards it. The wild speculation in the
shares of the bank ga
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