L'Assommoir.
GOURAUD (BARON), was made a Baron by Napoleon I, and was a Senator under
Napoleon III. "With his vast bulk, his bovine face, his elephantine
movements, he boasted a delightful rascality; he sold himself
majestically, and committed the greatest infamies in the name of duty
and conscience." La Curee.
GOURD (M.), at one time valet to the Duc de Vaugelade, and afterwards
doorkeeper in the tenement-house in Rue de Choiseul which belonged to M.
Vabre, and was occupied by the Campardons, the Josserands, and others.
He spent much of his time spying on the tenants, and posed as guardian
of the morals of the establishment. Pot-Bouille.
GOURD (MADAME), wife of the preceding. She was the widow of a bailiff at
Mort-la-Ville, and she and her present husband owned a house there. She
was exceedingly stout, and suffered from an affection of the legs which
prevented her from walking. Pot-Bouille.
GRADELLE, brother of Madame Quenu, senr., and uncle of Florent and
Quenu. He was a prosperous pork-butcher in Paris, and after Florent's
arrest he took young Quenu into his business. He died suddenly,
without leaving a will, and Quenu succeeded to the business, and to
a considerable sum of money which was found hidden at the bottom of a
salting-tub.
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