liaison between her
and Flory led to the ruin of the latter on the Stock Exchange. L'Argent.

CLARISSE, waiting-maid in the service of Baroness Sandorff. She betrayed
to Delcambre the confidences of her mistress. L'Argent.

CLEMENCE, a clerk at the fish auction. She attended the meetings in
Lebigre's wine-shop along with Charvet, with whom she lived. Le Ventre
de Paris.

CLEMENCE (MADEMOISELLE), occupied a room in the same tenement-house as
the Coupeaus and Lorilleux, where she took in ironing, as well as added
to her income by less reputable means. When Gervaise Coupeau's laundry
was at the height of its success Clemence got regular employment there,
but when business began to go she had to leave. L'Assommoir.

CLEMENCE, lady's maid to Madame Duveyrier. Pot-Bouille.

CLORINDE. See Clorinde Balbi.

CLOU, Municipal Councillor at Rognes. He played the trombone at choral
services in church. La Terre.

COEUR (GERMAINE), a _demi-mondaine_ who was on intimate terms with many
members of the Paris Bourse. L'Argent.

COGNET, a roadman at Rognes. He was an old drunkard, who beat his
daughter unmercifully. La Terre.

COGNET (JACQUELINE), alias LA COGNETTE, daughter of the preceding. She
went to La Borderie at the age of twelve years, and before long had
several lovers. She made her fortune, however, by resisting her master,
Alexandre Hourdequin, for six months, and when she ultimately became
his mistress she had made her position so secure that he was afterwards
unable to part with her. Notwithstanding her relations with Hourdequin,
she had other lovers, and the old shepherd Soulas, from motives of
revenge, informed Hourdequin of her intimacy with one of them, a man
named Tron. The latter, having been dismissed, killed Hourdequin and
burned down the farm, so that Jacqueline was compelled to leave La
Borderie no richer than she had come. La Terre.

COLICHE (LA), a fine cow which belonged to the Mouche family and was a
great favourite with them. La Terre.

COLIN, a notary at Havre. It was in his presence that the Roubauds made
a mutual will, leaving everything to the last survivor. La Bete Humaine.

COLOMBAN PERE, a veterinary surgeon known to all in the district of
Seine-et-Oise. He was of dissolute habits. Au Bonheur des Dames.

COLOMBAN, a shopman who had been for many years in the employment of
M. Baudu. He was engaged to his master's daughter Genevieve, but the
marriage was put off from time to time as Baudu's b