hting on opposite sides, and it
was the hand of Jean that was fated to inflict the fatal wound upon his
friend. He had killed the brother of the woman he loved, and henceforth
there could be nothing between them, so he passed from her life,
returning to assist in that cultivation of the soil which was needed to
rejuvenate his country. La Debacle.

He settled at Valqueyras, near Plassans, where he married Melanie Vial,
the only daughter of a peasant farmer in easy circumstances, whose land
he cultivated. Calm and sensible, always at his plough, his wife
simple and strong, he raised a large and healthy family to assist
in replenishing the soil exhausted by the horrors of war. Le Docteur
Pascal.

MACQUART (MADAME JEAN), first wife of the preceding. See Francoise
Mouche. La Terre.

MACQUART (MADAME JEAN), second wife of Jean Macquart. See Melanie Vial.
Le Docteur Pascal.

MACQUART (LISA), born 1827, daughter of Antoine Macquart. When a child
of seven she was taken as maid-servant by the wife of the postmaster at
Plassans, whom she accompanied to Paris on her removal there in 1839. La
Fortune des Rougon.

The old lady became very much attached to the girl, and when she died
left her all her savings, amounting to ten thousand francs. Gradelle, a
pork-butcher, who had become acquainted with Lisa by seeing her in the
shop with her mistress, offered her a situation. She accepted, and soon
the whole place seemed to belong to her; she enslaved Gradelle, his
nephew Quenu, and even the smallest kitchen-boy. She became a beautiful
woman, with a love of ease and the determination to secure it by steady
application to duty. After the sudden death of Gradelle, she married
Quenu, who had succeeded to the business, and they had one daughter,
Pauline. Soon their affairs became so prosperous that Lisa induced her
husband to remove to a larger shop. On Florent's return from exile, she
received him kindly, and at once proposed to hand over to him his share
of the money and property left by Gradelle, his uncle, which, however,
he refused to accept. After a time she became tired of always seeing
her brother-in-law about the house doing nothing, and was the means of
making him accept the situation as Inspector at the Fish Market. When
she heard of the Revolutionary meetings in Lebigre's wine-shop and of
the leading part taken by Florent, she became greatly alarmed, more
especially as Quenu had begun to accompany his brother occasionally. S