See Caroline Hamelin.
DURIEU (LE PERE), a messenger at Plassans. He was a taciturn old
Provencal. Le Docteur Pascal.
DUTILLEUL. A flour-miller at Montsou whose mills were stopped by the
strike. Germinal.
DUVEYRIER (ALPHONSE), a counsellor at the Court of Appeal; married
Clotilde, daughter of M. Vabre. He was a man of dissolute habits, to
whom his wife's cold nature and love of music were repugnant, and he
spent much of his time away from home. He squandered large sums of money
on a woman named Clarisse Bocquet, who afterwards left him. Having found
her again, he fell under her influence so completely as to allow her
to treat him abominably. So unhappy did he become, that he attempted
to commit suicide by shooting himself; the wound was, however, not a
serious one, and he recovered. Pot-Bouille.
DUVEYRIER (MADAME CLOTILDE), wife of the preceding, was the only
daughter of M. Vabre, a notary of Versailles. She did not get on well
with her husband, who found her cold nature irksome, and, perhaps even
more so, her love of piano-playing. Her musical evenings were attended
by Octave Mouret, the Josserands, and others of the same circle.
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