aucogne the occupation of her parents. La Terre.

VIGOUROUX, a coal merchant in Rue de la Goutte d'Or. He sold coke to
Gervaise at the same price as the Gas Company. L'Assommoir.

VIGOUROUX (MADAME), wife of the preceding. She was a little woman with
bright eyes who liked to laugh with the men. L'Assommoir.

VIMEUX, a miserable little sheriff officer, who was celebrated in the
Canton for the bad usage he got from the peasants when he was obliged to
serve summonses upon them. La Terre.

VINCARD, a silk merchant, who, seeing that his business was likely to be
seriously affected by the competition of "The Ladies' Paradise," he
sold it to Robineau, and took a restaurant at Vincennes. Au Bonheur des
Dames.

VINCENT, a tavern-keeper in the neighbourhood of Montsou. Germinal.

VINEUIL (COMMANDANT DE), father of Gilberte. Retired from active service
on account of his wounds, he was appointed Director of Customs at
Charleville. His wife died of consumption, and he sent his daughter,
about whose health he was alarmed, to reside for a time at a farm near
Chene-Populeux. He died soon after Gilberte's marriage to Maginot, the
Inspector of State Forests. La Debacle.

VINEUIL (COLONEL DE), brother of the preceding. In 1870 he commanded the
106th Regiment of the line, which formed part of the Seventh Army corps.
He was a man of fine appearance and character, and bore his part bravely
through the disastrous campaign, until he was severely wounded on the
battlefield of Sedan. Notwithstanding his wound, he remained on his
horse till the end, when he was removed to the house of Delaherche,
the husband of his niece Gilberte. By December his wound was cured, but
crushed by his country's defeats, his mental depression was so great
that he remained in a darkened room, refusing to hear news from the
outer world, and associating only with his old friend Madame Delaherche,
the mother of his niece's husband. At the end of December he died
suddenly, horror-struck by an account of the surrender of Metz, which he
chanced to read in an old newspaper. La Debacle.

VINEUIL (GILBERTE DE), daughter of Commandant de Vineuil. She was first
married to Maginot, and afterwards to Jules Delaherche. When she was
nine years old, her father, alarmed at a cough she had, sent her to live
at a farm, where she came to know Henriette Levasseur. Even at that
age she was a coquette, and when at twenty she married Maginot, the
Inspector of the State Forests at Mez