The eldest of the Coupeau family, she was "a tall, skinny,
mannish-looking woman, who talked through her nose"; she lived a
hard-working, cloisteral existence, but she had a perfect mania for
making improper allusions, so very obscure that only she herself could
understand them. L'Assommoir.
For a long time she lost sight of her niece Nana, but later she found
her in a position of apparent wealth. Madame Lerat had abandoned her
trade of artificial-flower-maker and lived upon her savings, scraped
together sou by sou. Nana rented a small house for her aunt, and gave
her an allowance of a hundred francs per month to look after her little
son Louiset. Nana.
LERENARD, the keeper of a cafe in the neighbourhood of Montsou.
Germinal.
LEROI, alias CANON, a journeyman carpenter, who deserted Paris on
account of some trouble, and preferred to live in the country, tramping
from village to village, doing a week here and a week there, and
offering his services from one farm to another when his employer did not
want him. When there was a scarcity of work he begged on the high-roads,
living partly on the vegetables he stole.
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