, a native of Lyons, who established himself in Paris, and after
thirty years' toil succeeded in making his silk business one of the best
known in the city. Unfortunately he acquired a passion for gambling, and
a couple of successful ventures made him altogether lose his head. From
that time he neglected his business, and ruin lay inevitably at the end.
On the invitation of Saccard he became a Director of the Universal Bank.
Like the other Directors, he speculated largely in the shares of the
Bank; but, unlike most of them, he did not sell in time, with the result
that he was completely ruined, and his bankruptcy followed. L'Argent.

SEDILLE (GUSTAVE), son of M. Sedille, the silk merchant. To the
disappointment of his father, he despised commercial pursuits, and
cared only for pleasure. In the hope that he might take an interest
in finance, he was given a situation in the office of Mazard, the
stockbroker, where, however, he did little work, and soon engaged in
speculations on his own account. The failure of the Universal Bank left
him penniless, and deep in debt. L'Argent.

SICARDOT (COMMANDER), the father-in-law of Aristide Rougon. He had the
strongest intellect of the politicians who met in Pierre Rougon's yellow
drawing-room. He was taken prisoner by the insurgents at the time of the
_Coup d'Etat_. La Fortune des Rougon.

SICARDOT, the name of Aristide Rougon's wife's family. He adopted this
name when he went to Paris in 1851, using it for considerable time
before he again changed it to Saccard. L'Argent.

SICARDOT (ANGELE). See Madame Aristide Rougon.

SIDONIE (MADAME), the name by which Sidonie Rougon (q.v.) was generally
known. La Curee.

SIMON (LA MERE), an old woman who assisted Severine Roubaud in her
housework. La Bete Humaine.

SIMONNOT, a grocer at Raucourt. His premises were raided by the
Bavarians after the Battle of Beaumont. La Debacle.

SIMPSON, an American who was attache at his country's Embassy at Paris.
He was a frequent visitor at the house of Renee Saccard. La Curee.

SIVRY (BLANCHE DE), the name assumed by Jacqueline Baudu, a girl who
came to Paris from a village near Amiens. Magnificent in person, stupid
and untruthful in character, she gave herself out as the granddaughter
of a general, and never owned to her thirty-two summers. She was much
annoyed at the outbreak of war with Germany, because her lover, a young
Prussian, was expelled from the country. Nana.

SMELTEN, a baker at Mon