Henri. He
intended to bring up Henri as a designer of ornaments for his own trade,
and when the boy showed higher ambitions, taking to painting proper and
talking about the School of Art, there were quarrels, blows, a series of
falling-outs and reconciliations. Even when the young man had achieved
some success, the manufacturer of artistic zincwork, while resigned
to letting him have his will, treated him harshly, like a lad who was
spoiling his career. Later, in the desire of a decoration for himself,
the merchant forgot his former opposition; he held out his son, who
had now arrived at notoriety, as an additional claim for his own
distinction. L'Oeuvre.

FAGEROLLES (HENRI), son of the preceding. In the gloomy house of his
father he grew up like a true child of the Paris pavements. Though his
father desired him to become a designer of ornaments for use in his
trade, the lad had higher ambitions, and desiring to study painting,
became a student at the School of Art. Notwithstanding this orthodox
training, he was a disciple of Claude Lantier and his somewhat
revolutionary band, whom he delighted by sly attacks upon his professors
and praise of themselves. He paid particular court to Claude, under
whose artistic influence he had come, and though he continued to paint
with tricky skill, he no longer talked in anything but the jargon of the
new open-air school. This did not prevent him, however, from elsewhere
making fun of the adepts of that school, whom he accused of doing
their work with a kitchen ladle. He made a success with a picture of an
actress before her glass, which caught the popular taste, and afterwards
appeared as an engraving. Taken up by Naudet, the picture-dealer, he
began to receive large prices for his work, and by doing everything in
his power to make his way in society his position soon became secure.
He was elected a member of the Hanging Committee of the _Salon_, and
secured the admission of Claude Lantier's picture _L'Enfant Mort_. He
made large sums of money, in the spending of which he was assisted by
Irma Becot. L'Oeuvre.

FANNY (MADEMOISELLE), a work-girl in the neighbourhood of Octave
Mouret's shop, who was sent there by her employer to match some merinos.
Au Bonheur des Dames.

FAUCHERY (LEON), a journalist and dramatic author, who wrote a piece
for the Theatre des Varietes called _La Petite Duchesse_. After numerous
liaisons he became for a time the lover of Comtesse Sabine Muffat, and
un