VANPOUILLE BROTHERS, a firm of furriers in Rue Neuve-des-Petits Champs,
who were practically ruined when Octave Mouret added a fur department to
"The Ladies' Paradise." Au Bonheur des Dames.
VANSKA (COMTESSE), a well-known and rich _mondaine_ of the Second
Empire. La Curee.
VANZADE (MADAME), the widow of a general. She was an old lady, rich,
nearly blind, and practically helpless. At Passy she lived, in a
silent old house, a life so retired and regular that it might have been
actuated by clockwork. As she required a companion, her old friend, La
Mere des Saints-Anges, recommended Christine Hallegrain to her; but the
girl, stifling in that dwelling of rigid piety, ended by running off
with her lover, Claude Lantier. Madame Vanzade died four years later,
and the bulk of her fortune went to charities. L'Oeuvre.
VAQUEZ (JUDITH), an artist's model who lived in Rue du Rocher. She was a
Jewess, fresh enough in colouring but too thin. L'Oeuvre.
VAUCOGNE (HECTOR), husband of Estelle Badeuil. At the time of his
marriage, Vaucogne was a junior officer of customs, but when his wife's
parents retired he took over their _maison publique_.
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