BOURGUIGNON, a master zinc-worker from whom Coupeau got employment.
L'Assommoir.
BOUROCHE (SURGEON-MAJOR), of the 106th regiment of the line, commanded
by Colonel Vineuil. During the battle of Sedan he installed an
ambulance in a factory belonging to Jules Delaherche, where he was soon
overwhelmed with work. With untiring energy he performed one operation
after another until the place became like a slaughter-house. Behind
a clump of trees were thrown the bodies of the dead, and the limbs
amputated from the living. Depressed for a moment by the vastness of his
task, Bouroche nearly lost heart, exclaiming, "What is the use?" but
his instincts of discipline recalled him to work, and he continued to
operate even after the supply of chloroform was exhausted. During
the insurrection at Paris he served with the army of Versailles, but
consented to treat one of his old soldiers, Maurice Levasseur, who had
been mortally wounded in the ranks of the Commune. La Debacle.
BOURRAS, an old man who sold umbrellas and walking-sticks in a
tumble-down house which adjoined "The Ladies' Paradise." His business
was ruined by the growth of that concern, and he expressed bitter hatred
towards Octave Mouret, its proprietor.
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