La Bete Humaine.
DUMONTEIL, a rich silk manufacturer at Lyons. He supplied to Octave
Mouret a special make of silk with which he achieved great success. Au
Bonheur des Dames.
DU POIZAT PERE, an old bailiff at Coulonges. He was an old miser who
refused any money to his son Leopold, and even threatened him with
a pistol when he tried to borrow from him. He lived alone in an old
ruinous house with a loaded gun behind the door. His son, having become
a prefect, and wishing to dazzle the old man with his fine position,
attempted to force the door; then followed a drama mysterious and
without witness, at the end of which the old man was found lying at the
foot of his staircase, with his head split open. Son Excellence Eugene
Rougon.
DU POIZAT (LEOPOLD), son of a process-server at Coulonges, a little town
in the district of Niort. His father, who had amassed a considerable
fortune by usury, sent him to study law in Paris, giving him an
allowance of only a hundred francs a month. Some months before the
revolution of February, 1848, he became acquainted with Eugene Rougon,
who, like himself, was boarding at that time with Madame Correur at the
Hotel Vanneau.
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