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MANOURY, a salesman at the Central Markets in Paris. He was the employer
of Logre and Clemence. Le Ventre de Paris.
MARCEL, a vegetable-dealer at the Paris _Halles Centrales_. Le Ventre de
Paris.
MARDIENNE FRERES, manufacturers of church ornaments in Rue
Saint-Sulpice. Mademoiselle Menu worked in their establishment.
Pot-Bouille.
MARECHAL, a bookmaker who had formerly been coachman to Comte de
Vandeuvres. As the result of a racing swindle by Vandeuvres, Marechal
lost a large sum over a filly named Nana, and, his suspicions having
been aroused, he caused such a scandal that the Comte was disqualified
by the racing committee. Nana.
MARESCOT (M.), a cutler in the Rue de la Paix, who had once turned a
grindstone in the streets and was now said to be worth several millions.
He was a man of fifty-five, large, bony, with the huge hands of an old
workman; one of his delights was to carry off the knives and scissors of
his tenants, which he sharpened himself for his own amusement. He owned
the large tenement-house on the Rue Goutte d'Or, in which resided the
Coupeaus, Lorilleux, and others, and though a fair landlord, would
brook no delay in payment of rent, turning out defaulters without mercy.
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