SAMBUC (PROSPER), brother of the preceding. Of a nature docile and
hard-working, he hated the life of the woods, and would have liked to
be a farm labourer. He entered the army and became one of the Chasseurs
d'Afrique. Sent to France to take part in the war against Germany, he
shared in many weary marches, but saw no fighting, till the battle of
Sedan, when his horse, Zephir, which he loved like a brother, was killed
under him. He made his escape after the battle, and having been able
to change his uniform for the clothes of a countryman, he returned to
Remilly and got employment on the farm of Fouchard. La Debacle.

SANDORFF, a member of the Austrian Embassy at Paris. He married Mlle.
de Ladricourt, who was much younger than he. He was very niggardly.
L'Argent.

SANDORFF (BARONESS), wife of the Councillor to the Austrian Embassy,
who was thirty-five years older than herself. She was an inveterate
speculator, and, as her husband refused to assist her, she found it
necessary to have recourse to her lovers when her losses were greater
than usual. She stopped at nothing to gain information, and at one time
was on intimate terms with Saccard. Having quarrelled with him, she
hastened the downfall of the Universal Bank, by giving information
to Gundermann which caused him to continue his attack on the Bank.
L'Argent.

SANDOZ (PERE), a Spaniard who took refuge in France in consequence of a
political disturbance in which he was involved. He started near Plassans
a paper mill with new machinery of his own invention. When he died,
almost heart-broken by the petty local jealousy that had sought to
hamper him in every way, his widow found herself in a position so
involved, and burdened with so many tangled lawsuits, that the whole of
her remaining means were swallowed up. L'Oeuvre.

SANDOZ MERE (MADAME), wife of the preceding, was a native of Burgundy.
Yielding to her hatred of the Provencals, whom she blamed for the death
of her husband, and even for the slow paralysis from which she herself
was suffering, she migrated to Paris, with her son Pierre, who then
supported her out of a clerk's small salary. In Rue d'Enfer she occupied
a single room on the same flat as her son, and there, disabled by
paralysis, lived in morose and voluntary solitude, surrounded by his
tender care. Later, Pierre, who was now married, and was making a
considerable income, took a house in Rue Nollet, and there Madame Sandoz
passed her remaining years.