L'Assommoir.
Her sister, Lisa Quenu, the pork-butcher, did not come to her
assistance. Lisa did not like people who were unfortunate, and she was
ashamed that Gervaise should have married a workman. Le Ventre de Paris.
Her son Etienne sent her small sums of money from time to time while he
was in a situation at Lille. Germinal.
[*] These two are the only children of Gervaise and Lantier
mentioned by M. Zola in _La Fortune des Rougon_,
_L'Assommoir_, _L'Oeuvre_, and _Germinal_. In _La Bete
Humaine_, however, the hero, Jacques Lantier, is stated to
have been a child of these parents.
MACQUART (JEAN), born 1811, son of Antoine Macquart, was apprenticed to
a carpenter. A quiet, industrious lad, Jean's father took advantage of
his simple nature and made him give up his whole earnings to assist in
keeping him in idleness. Like his sister Gervaise, he ran off soon after
the death of his mother. La Fortune des Rougon.
He entered the army, and, after seven years of soldiering was discharged
in 1859. When he had left the ranks he turned up at Bazoches-le-Doyen
with a comrade, a joiner like himself; and he resumed his occupation
with the latter's father, a master carpenter in the village.
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