Au Bonheur des
Dames.
VINCENT, a tavern-keeper in the neighbourhood of Montsou. Germinal.
VINEUIL (COMMANDANT DE), father of Gilberte. Retired from active service
on account of his wounds, he was appointed Director of Customs at
Charleville. His wife died of consumption, and he sent his daughter,
about whose health he was alarmed, to reside for a time at a farm near
Chene-Populeux. He died soon after Gilberte's marriage to Maginot, the
Inspector of State Forests. La Debacle.
VINEUIL (COLONEL DE), brother of the preceding. In 1870 he commanded the
106th Regiment of the line, which formed part of the Seventh Army corps.
He was a man of fine appearance and character, and bore his part bravely
through the disastrous campaign, until he was severely wounded on the
battlefield of Sedan. Notwithstanding his wound, he remained on his
horse till the end, when he was removed to the house of Delaherche,
the husband of his niece Gilberte. By December his wound was cured, but
crushed by his country's defeats, his mental depression was so great
that he remained in a darkened room, refusing to hear news from the
outer world, and associating only with his old friend Madame Delaherche,
the mother of his niece's husband.
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