She worked on
the farm like a man, rising first and going to bed last, her only reward
being that she had lived. Stupid, and reduced by labour to the level of
an animal, she had always trembled before the despotic authority of her
husband. She brought up her family without love, and as if she resented
their requiring even the simple necessaries of life. She did not
long survive the division of land by her husband. Her favouritism for
Hyacinthe, her elder son, excited the jealousy of Buteau, who in the
course of a quarrel threw her to the ground, when she received such
injuries that she died a few hours afterwards. La Terre.
FOUAN (MARIANNE). See La Grande.
FOUAN (MICHEL). See Pere Mouche.
FOUAN (OLYMPE), daughter of Hyacinthe. Her mother, who was a tramp, ran
off when the child was three years old, leaving her to grow up as best
she could. She was passionately fond of geese, of which she had a large
flock. When little more than a child, she had as her lovers Delphin Becu
and Nenesse Delhomme. La Terre.
FOUCARMONT, a naval officer who in ten years saved some money which he
proposed to invest in the United States.
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