La Terre.
BOUTEROUE (VINCENT), a poor peasant, whom the daughter of the Pechards
insisted on marrying despite the opposition of her mother. They both
died of want, leaving two children, Palmyre and Hilarion. La Terre.
BOUTEROUE (MADAME VINCENT), see Mademoiselle Pechard.
BOUTHEMENT PERE, a shopkeeper at Montpellier, who sent his son to Paris
to learn business. He was disgusted to find that the simple salesman in
Paris could earn three times as much as he himself could make, and he
was stupefied on seeing the vast emporium in which his son served. Au
Bonheur des Dames.
BOUTHEMONT, manager of the silk department at "The Ladies' Paradise."
Noisy and too fond of company, he was not much good for sales, but for
buying he had not his equal. Nearly every month he went to Lyons, living
at the best hotels, with authority to treat the manufacturers with
open purse. He had, moreover, liberty to buy what he liked, provided he
increased the sales of his department in a certain proportion settled
beforehand; and it was on this proportion that his commission was based.
Eventually, however, his position was undermined, and Madame Desforges,
having become jealous of Mouret, and wishing to injure him, introduced
Bouthemont to Baron Hartmann, who lent him money to start an opposition
establishment called "The Four Seasons.
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