of Clorinde Balbi.
Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

PRICE, an English jockey who mounted the filly Nana in the Grand Prix de
Paris. Nana.

PRINCE IMPERIAL. Referred to in _Son Excellence Eugene Rougon_.

PROUANE, a retired non-commissioned officer in the navy, who acted as
beadle to Abbe Harteur, as well as fulfilling the duties of Mayor's
clerk. He eked out a livelihood by gathering shell-fish, but when he had
any money he was usually in a state of intoxication. La Joie de Vivre.

PRULLIERE, an actor at the Theatre des Varietes, where he played in _La
Blonde Venus_ and _La Petite Duchesse_. Nana.

PRUNAIRE (LE PERE), a maker of sabots, who lived at Vivet. Furious at
the conduct of his daughter Clara, he threatened to go to Paris and
break her bones with kicks of his sabots. Au Bonheur des Dames.

PRUNAIRE (CLARA), daughter of a clog-maker in the forest of Vilet, came
to Paris and got a situation in "The Ladies' Paradise." She lived a
fast life, and, after alluring Colomban away from Genevieve Baudu, his
intended wife, she ultimately disappeared. Au Bonheur des Dames.

PUECH, senior partner of the firm of Puech and Lacamp, oil-dealers in
Plassans; was father of Felicite Puech. La Fortune des Rougon.

PUECH AND LACAMP, a firm of oil-dealers in Plassans, who were in
financial difficulties when Pierre Rougon married Felicite, the daughter
of the senior partner. The money put into the business by Rougon
retrieved the position of the firm, and, the two partners having retired
soon afterwards, he acquired the sole interest in it. La Fortune des
Rougon.

PUECH (FELICITE). See Madame Felicite Rougon.

PUTOIS (MADAME), one of the workwomen employed by Gervaise Coupeau in
her laundry. She was a little, lean woman of forty-five, "who worked
at her ironing table without even taking off her bonnet, a black
bonnet trimmed with green ribbons turning yellow." In character she was
severely respectable. L'Assommoir.

Q

QUANDIEU, the oldest captain of the Montsou mines. During the strike,
the energetic position taken up by him saved the Mirou pit from
destruction by the infuriated strikers. Germinal.

QUENU (MADAME) was a widow with one son when she married her second
husband, M. Quenu, a clerk in the sub-prefecture at Le Vigan. Three
years after, M. Quenu died, leaving a son. Madame Quenu lavished all her
affection on Florent, her elder son, and stinted herself to the verge
of starvation in order that he might contin