Saccard, whose brother Eugene Rougon was a Minister of State. To secure
this he agreed to a marriage between his daughter and Maxime Saccard. He
was a man of solemn and imposing appearance, but was absolutely without
brains. La Curee.

MAREUIL (MADAME HELENE DE), wife of the preceding. She came of a noble
and wealthy family, but lived such a fast life that she died young, worn
out by pleasure. La Curee.

MAREUIL (LOUISE DE), daughter of a retired sugar-refiner of Havre.
Slightly deformed and plain-looking, but with fascinating manners, she
married Maxime Saccard, to whom she brought a large dowry. Six months
afterwards she died of consumption in Italy. La Curee.

MAREUIL (COMTESSE), employed Clara Prunaire in her house to attend to
the mending of linen. Au Bonheur des Dames.

MARGAILLAN, a great building contractor, many times a millionaire, who
made his fortune out of the great public works of Paris, running
up whole boulevards on his own account. He was a man of remarkable
activity, with a great gift of administration, and an instinctive
knowledge of the streets to construct and the buildings to buy. Moved by
the success of Dubuche at the School of Art, and by the recommendations
of his masters there, Margaillan took the young architect into
partnership, and agreed to his marriage with his daughter Regine.
Unfortunately, Dubuche showed deplorable incapacity in carrying into
practice the theories which he had learned at the School of Art, and
Margaillan, after losing considerable sums, returned to his original
methods of construction, thrusting his son-in-law to one side. He
possessed a magnificent estate named _La Richaudiere_, near Bennecourt.
L'Oeuvre.

MARGAILLAN (MADAME), wife of the preceding. She was a girl of the
middle-classes, whose family history was a bad one, and after suffering
for years from anemia, she ultimately died of phthisis. L'Oeuvre.

MARGAILLAN (REGINE), daughter of the preceding, and wife of Louis
Dubuche. She was very delicate, and suffered from a phthisical tendency
derived from her mother, which in turn she handed to her two children,
Gaston and Alice. It was frequently necessary for her to leave home for
the benefit of her health, and during her absences the children were
left at _La Richaudiere_ in charge of their father. L'Oeuvre.

MARIA, an actress at the Theatre des Varietes. Nana.

MARJOLIN, a boy who was found in a heap of cabbages at the Paris market.
It was never known who