not last a week. By his lack of decided action
he forfeited to some extent the confidence of his directors, but he
regained this by the subsequent measures taken by him for bringing the
strike to an end, and ultimately received the decoration of an officer
of the Legion of Honour. His domestic life was, however, once more
embittered by the discovery of a liaison between his wife and his
nephew, Paul Negrel. Germinal.

HENNEBEAU (MADAME), wife of the preceding, was the daughter of a rich
spinner at Arras. She did not get on well with her husband, whom she
despised for his small success, and after she accompanied him to
Paris she entered into a notorious liaison with a man whose subsequent
desertion nearly killed her. For a time after their removal to
Montsou she seemed more contented, but this did not last long, and she
ultimately consoled herself with her husband's nephew, Paul Negrel.
She was angry at the strikers, as they interfered with the arrival
of provisions for a dinner-party which she was giving; but she was
incapable of understanding the sufferings of the miners and their
families in the hardships they were forced to undergo. Germinal.

HEQUET (CAROLINE), a well-known _demi-mondaine_ in Paris. Her father,
who was a clerk in Bordeaux, was long since dead, and her mother,
accepting the situation, looked after Caroline's financial affairs with
the strictest regularity. She bought the estate known as _La Mignotte_
after Nana tired of it. Nana.

HEQUET (MADAME), mother of the preceding. She was a model of
orderliness, who kept her daughter's accounts with severe precision. She
managed the whole household from some small lodgings two stories above
her daughter's, where, moreover, she had established a work-room for
dressmaking and plain sewing. Nana.

HERBELIN, a great chemist whose discoveries revolutionized that
science. Lazare Chanteau, who was for some time in his laboratory as an
assistant, got from him the idea of extracting chemicals from seaweed by
a new process. La Joie de Vivre.

HERMELINE, a student of rhetoric at the college of Plassans. He was in
love with Sister Angele, and once went the length of cutting his hands
with his penknife to get an opportunity of seeing and speaking to her
while she dressed his self-inflicted hurts. In the end the student and
the Sister ran off together. L'Oeuvre.

HIPPOLYTE, valet to Duveyrier. Pot-Bouille.

HIPPOLYTE, valet to Hennebeau, the manager of the Montsou