After her marriage with Octave Mouret the business extended rapidly, and
an enlargement of the shop soon became necessary. While the work was in
progress she met with an accident which resulted in her death three days
later. Au Bonheur des Dames.
HELENE (DUCHESSE), the principal character in _La Petite Duchesse_,
a piece by Fauchery played at the Theatre des Varietes. The part was
originally given to Rose Mignon, but was played by Nana, who was a
complete failure in it. Nana.
HELOISE, an actress at the Folies. She was plain-looking, but very
amusing. Au Bonheur des Dames.
HENNEBEAU, general manager of the Montsou Mining Company, was born in
the Ardennes. In his early life he had undergone the hardships of a poor
boy thrown as an orphan on the Paris streets. After having followed
the courses of the Ecole des Mines, at the age of twenty-four he became
engineer to the Sainte-Barbe mine, and three years later he became
divisional engineer in the Pas-de-Calais, at the Marles mines. When
there he married the daughter of the rich owner of a spinning factory at
Arras. For fifteen years they lived in the same small provincial town,
and no event broke the monotony of existence, not even the birth of
a child.
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