VAUGELADE (DUC DE), at one time the master of Gourd, who was his valet.
Pot-Bouille.
VENOT (THEOPHILE), an old lawyer who made a speciality of ecclesiastical
cases, and had acquired a fortune by serving the Jesuits. He had retired
with a comfortable sum, and led an existence slightly mysterious;
received everywhere, saluted very low, even a little feared, as he
represented a great and unknown force which he had behind him. An
intimate friend of the Muffats, he did everything in his power to put
an end to the liaison between the Comte and Nana, and, though no success
attended his efforts for a considerable time, he was able when ruin
seemed imminent to save Muffat from scandal and to console him by a
return to the practice of religion. Nana.
VERDIER (BARON), proprietor of a racing-stable. Frangipane, one of his
horses, ran in the Grand Prix de Paris. Nana.
VERDIER, a lawyer who had been for a long time engaged to Hortense
Josserand. The marriage was put off from time to time, as he had
got entangled with a woman from whom he found separation difficult.
Pot-Bouille.
VERDONCK, a grocer at Montsou.
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