s value. When he became old he divided his twenty-one acres
between three of his family, Marianne, Louis, and Michel, and gave a
corresponding sum of money to his younger daughter Laure, who had been
brought up as a sempstress and was in service at Chateaudun. La Terre.

FOUAN (LAURE), younger daughter of the preceding. See Madame Charles
Badeuil.

FOUAN (LOUIS), known as Pere Fouan. He was the son of Joseph Casimir
Fouan, and married Rose Maliverne, by whom he had three children,
Hyacinthe, Buteau, and Fanny. He received seven acres of land from
his father, and his wife brought him twelve acres more. This land
he cultivated well, and with a passion for the soil, as such, which
amounted to frenzy. It alone had his love, and his wife and children
trembled before him under a rude despotism. At seventy years of age
he was still healthy, but his limbs were failing, and he reluctantly
decided to divide his land between his children. He retained his
house and garden, which had come to him with his wife, and his family
undertook to pay him a rent for the land handed over to them. Upon this,
along with a nest-egg of three hundred francs per annum, known to no
one, the old people would be able to live comfortably. The division
made, the family soon became rapacious; Hyacinthe never paid anything,
Buteau only a part, and Delhomme, Fanny's husband, alone fulfilled his
obligation. Mere Fouan died, and the old man lived alone for a year;
after that he went to his daughter Fanny Delhomme, but her unkindness
made his life miserable, and he accepted in turn the hospitality of his
two sons, Buteau and Hyacinthe, both of whom had come to suspect the
existence of his nest-egg and were anxious to secure it. In this sordid
aim Buteau was eventually successful, and his subsequent treatment of
the old man was even more infamous than it had been before. From this
time Pere Fouan lived in isolation; he spoke to none and looked at none;
as far as appearances went, he might have been blind and dumb. But even
worse was to follow. He had seen the assault on Francoise Mouche which
resulted in her death, and to ensure his silence he was murdered by
Buteau and Lise, his son and daughter-in-law, who attempted to suffocate
him, and subsequently burned him alive in his bed. La Terre.

FOUAN (MADAME ROSE), wife of the preceding, nee Maliverne. She worked on
the farm like a man, rising first and going to bed last, her only reward
being that she had lived