he few
mourners who attended the funeral of the unfortunate artist. L'Oeuvre.
SANDOZ (MADAME HENRIETTE), wife of the preceding. She was an orphan,
the daughter of a small shop-keeper, without a penny, but pretty and
intelligent. She occupied herself much with the affairs of the kitchen,
being specially proud of some of her dishes. Even later, when the family
was more prosperous and had removed to a large flat in Rue de Londres,
Henriette continued to take personal charge, out of affection for her
husband, whose only fault was a tendency to gluttony. L'Oeuvre.
SANQUIRINO (DUCHESSE), a lady of the Italian aristocracy, who resided at
Paris. She gave Eugene Rougon very unsatisfactory information regarding
Comtesse Balbi and her daughter Clorinde. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.
SANS-POUCE, one of the brigands of the band of Beau-Francois. La Terre.
SAPIN, sergeant in Captain Beaudoin's company of the 106th Regiment of
the line. "The son of a Lyons grocer in a small way of business, spoilt
by his mother, who was dead, and unable to get on with his father, he
had remained in the regiment disgusted with everything, but unwilling to
be bought out." Later he became engaged to one of his cousins, who had a
small dowry, and began to take an interest in life. During the march
to Sedan, however, he became impressed with the idea that he would
be killed, and this belief was realized during the fighting on 1st
September, 1870. La Debacle.
SAPIN (LA), a disreputable old woman at Magnolles who performed illegal
operations and pretended to work magic.
SARRIET (MADAME), sister of Madame Lecoeur and of Madame Gavard; mother
of La Sarriette. Le Ventre de Paris.
SARRIET, usually called La Sarriette, was the niece of Madame Lecoeur.
She grew up in the markets and her sympathies were with the lower ranks
of the people. At twenty she set up in business as a fruit-dealer, and
took as her lover a young man named Jules, who was employed by her
aunt as a porter. After the arrest of Gavard, her uncle by marriage,
La Sarriette and her aunt divided his money between them. Le Ventre de
Paris.
SARTEUR, a journeyman hatter at Plassans. He was afflicted with
homicidal mania, and was confined for a time in the asylum at Tulettes.
While there he was treated by Doctor Pascal Rougon, who affected a
cure by hypodermic injections of a substance with which he had long
experimented. Sarteur was released from the asylum, but the cure was
not permane
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