f Madame Theophile Vabre. Pot-Bouille.

LOUHETTE (MADAME), wife of the preceding, and mother of Madame Theophile
Vabre. Pot-Bouille.

LOUHETTE (VALERIE). See Theophile Vabre.

LOUIS, Irma Becot's butler at her house in the Avenue de Villiers.
L'Oeuvre.

LOUIS, cousin of Cabuche, and, like him, a quarryman. He drove Cabuche's
wagon on the evening of the murder of President Grandmorin. La Bete
Humaine.

LOUIS, an artillery gunner, in the same battery as Honore Fouchard and
Adolphe. He was mated with Adolphe, who was inclined to treat him as
an inferior. In the attack by the Prussians on the Calvary d'Illy Louis
fell, killed by the same shot as his comrade, and the two died entwined
in one another's arms. La Debacle.

LOUIS (LA MERE), a wine-seller, who was famous for her "hen feet."
L'Assommoir.

LOUISE, an actress at the Palais-Royal. Nana.

LOUISE, a young girl who was brought up in an Orphanage. At fifteen she
went as maid-servant to Madame Jazeur, but not proving satisfactory, was
sent back to the Orphanage. Pot-Bouille.

LOUISET, the pet name of Louis Coupeau, son of Nana, born 1867. Left at
first with a nurse in the country, he was afterwards taken charge of
by his aunt, Madame Lerat, who removed him to Batignolles. He was a
delicate child, pale and scrofulous, bearing a legacy of ill-health
derived from an unknown father. He died in July, 1870, of small-pox,
which he communicated to his mother, who had just returned from Russia.
Nana.

LOUISETTE, the younger daughter of Madame Misard (Aunt Phasie). She was
a fair and sweet child who had a strong affection for Cabuche, a man who
was regarded by nearly everyone as an outcast. As a maid-servant in
the house of Madame Bonnehon, she attracted the notice of President
Grandmorin, and fleeing from him, half-mad with fear, she came to the
hut of Cabuche, who tenderly nursed her till she died of brain fever a
few days later. La Bete Humaine.

LOULOU, a dog which belonged to Nana. Nana.

LULU, a dog which belonged to Nana. Nana.

LUSIGNAN, a racehorse in the stable of Vandeuvres. Mounted by Gresham,
it was the favourite in the race for the Grand Prix de Paris. Nana.

M

MACQUART, a poacher and smuggler who lived at Plassans in a hovel
adjoining the Fouque property. His reputation was of the worst, and
"although no crimes had actually been brought home to him, the first
suspicions always fell upon him whenever a theft or murder had been
perpetrated i