n he was an awkward youth, but he returned a swaggering
braggart, who could hardly be recognized with his moustache and beard.
La Terre.

LENORE, a racehorse; mother of Frangipane. Nana.

LEON, a lad of about fifteen years of age, apprentice to Quenu. He was
a gentle-looking lad, given to stealing stray bits of ham and sausage,
which he concealed under his pillow and ate during the night. Le Ventre
de Paris.

LEONCE (MADAME), the door-keeper of the house where Gavard lived in the
Rue de la Cossonnerie. She acted also as Gavard's housekeeper. Le Ventre
de Paris.

LEONIE, an artificial-flower maker employed by Madame Titreville. She
left her trade in order to be married. L'Assommoir.

LEONIE, aunt of Louise Thibaudier. Louise went to her house after
leaving Bonneville, driven away by Pauline Quenu. La Joie de Vivre.

LEPALMEC, a peasant at Plogof, in Brittany. Germinal.

LEQUEU, the schoolmaster at Rogues. His parents were peasants, and he
had an intense hatred of the class from which he had sprung, looking
upon them as little better than barbarians. In politics he had advanced
views, but in consequence of his position he concealed them to a great
extent. Disappointed in the hope which he had long nourished of marrying
Berthe Macqueron, he ended by preaching the doctrines of anarchy. La
Terre.

LERAT (MADAME), nee Coupeau, was a sister of Coupeau and Madame
Lorilleux. She was a widow of thirty-six years of age, and was
forewoman in the manufactory of artificial flowers carried on by Madame
Titreville. The eldest of the Coupeau family, she was "a tall, skinny,
mannish-looking woman, who talked through her nose"; she lived a
hard-working, cloisteral existence, but she had a perfect mania for
making improper allusions, so very obscure that only she herself could
understand them. L'Assommoir.

For a long time she lost sight of her niece Nana, but later she found
her in a position of apparent wealth. Madame Lerat had abandoned her
trade of artificial-flower-maker and lived upon her savings, scraped
together sou by sou. Nana rented a small house for her aunt, and gave
her an allowance of a hundred francs per month to look after her little
son Louiset. Nana.

LERENARD, the keeper of a cafe in the neighbourhood of Montsou.
Germinal.

LEROI, alias CANON, a journeyman carpenter, who deserted Paris on
account of some trouble, and preferred to live in the country, tramping
from village to village, doing a week here and