ducation whom she knew. She had a fancy for the son of a neighbouring
wheelwright, whom her parents would not allow her to see, and she
ultimately compromised herself so seriously with him that they had to
consent to her marriage. La Terre.

MADELEINE, a little girl of ten years of age who was an inmate of the
institute founded by Princess d'Orviedo. Her mother was unable to look
after her properly, and placed her there in the hope that she would be
well cared for. L'Argent.

MADELINE (ABBE), was sent to Rognes, when that commune decided to have a
cure to itself. He came from a mountainous district, and disheartened
by the flatness of the vast plain of La Beauce, and especially by
the religious indifference of his parishioners, he soon fell into
ill-health, on one occasion fainting while he was saying Mass. At
the end of two years and a half he left Rognes in a dying state, and
returned to his native mountains. La Terre.

MADINIER (M.) carried on business as a cardboard manufacturer in part
of the tenement occupied by the Coupeaus and the Lorilleux. The business
was not prosperous, as he spent all his earnings on drink. He was one
of Coupeau's witnesses on the occasion of his marriage to Gervaise
Macquart, and was present at the wedding dinner. L'Assommoir.

MAFFRE (M.), a magistrate of Plassans and honorary Canon of
Saint-Saturnin's church. Politically he was a Legitimist, and he was
a friend of M. Rastoil, at whose house the party was in the habit of
meeting. La Conquete de Plassans.

MAFFRE (ALPHONSE), second son of the magistrate at Plassans, aged
eighteen years. Restrained too much by their father, the two brothers
Maffre were especially intimate with Guillaume Porquier, who frequently
led them into mischief. La Conquete de Plassans.

MAFFRE (AMBROISE), elder son of the magistrate at Plassans, aged twenty.
La Conquete de Plassans.

MAGINOT, inspector of woods at Mezieres. He married Gilberte de Vineuil,
but died a few years afterwards. La Debacle.

MAGINOT (MADAME), see Gilberte de Vineuil.

MAHEU (ALZIRE), the fourth child of Toussaint Maheu, aged nine years.
She was deformed and delicate, but of precocious intelligence, and was
able to assist her mother in many ways, sacrificing herself always
for others. She died of cold and hunger during the strike at Montsou.
Germinal.

MAHEU (CATHERINE), second child of Toussaint Maheu, worked as a putter
in the Voreux pit along with the other members of her famil