company of a miner from
the Pas-de-Calais. Germinal.

LEVAQUE (LA), wife of Levaque the miner, and mother of Philomene and
Bebert. She was a bad housekeeper, and was roughly treated by her
husband, who, however, did not take exception to her relations with
Bouteloup, their lodger. Germinal.

LEVASSEUR (MADAME), an acquaintance of Madame Deberle. Une Page d'Amour.

LEVASSEUR, chief clerk at "The Ladies' Paradise." Au Bonheur des Dames.

LEVASSEUR, a tax-collector at Chene Populeux. His father was one of the
heroes of the army of the first Napoleon. He married a peasant woman
named Fouchard, who died in bringing Maurice and his twin sister
Henriette into the world. He sacrificed everything to make his son a
gentleman, and the bad conduct of the lad hastened his end. La Debacle.

LEVASSEUR (HENRIETTE), daughter of the preceding, and twin sister of
Maurice. After the death of her father she gave up the whole of her
share of his property in order to retrieve to some extent the foolish
conduct of her brother. Fortunately she had the chance soon after to
marry Weiss, with whom she lived happily. On the morning of the
battle of Sedan, Henriette, fearing that her husband was in danger
at Bazeilles, where he had gone to look after a house he had recently
bought, decided to follow him there. By this time the fighting was going
on fiercely, and when, after the greatest difficulties and dangers,
she arrived at Bazeilles, she was only in time to see her husband shot
before her eyes. She took refuge at Remilly, at the house of her uncle
Fouchard, and devoted herself to the care of the wounded in the battle.
Among these was Jean Macquart, who along with Maurice had escaped from
captivity. After the war with Prussia was over, Maurice unfortunately
threw in his lot with the Communists, and when Henriette followed him
to Paris it was to find that he had been fatally wounded in the fighting
there. By an extraordinary chance, the wound was inflicted by his
former comrade, Jean Macquart, who had remained in the regular army when
Maurice joined the Communist ranks. The death of Maurice in this way put
an end to the possibility of a dawning love idyll between Henriette and
Jean Macquart. La Debacle.

LEVASSEUR (MAURICE), twin brother of the preceding. Everything was
sacrificed by his father and sister in order that he might become an
advocate, but when he went to Paris to complete his education he took
part in every kind of foolishness