JORDAN (PAUL), a journalist, whose father, a Marseilles banker, had committed suicide in consequence of some disastrous speculations.  He married a daughter of M. Maugendre, to whom he had been betrothed in more prosperous days.  His wife brought him no dowry, as her parents were against the marriage on the ground of Jordan’s occupation and want of means.  Having made the acquaintance of Saccard, he received an appointment on the staff of the newspaper purchased to support the policy of the Universal Bank.  He did not speculate, however, and remained in comparative poverty, until the success of a novel which he had written put him in more comfortable circumstances, and even enabled him to give assistance to his wife’s parents after they were ruined by the failure of the bank.  L’Argent.

JORDAN (MADAME MARCELLE), wife of the preceding.  She was the only child of M. Maugendre, who was ruined by the failure of the Universal Bank.  L’Argent.

JORY (EDOUARD), was the son of a magistrate of Plassans, whom he drove crazy by his profligate conduct.  In the end he ran off with a music-hall singer under the pretext of going to Paris to follow the literary profession.  Notwithstanding the fact that his profligacy went to even greater lengths in the city, he was successful in journalism, and soon earned between seven and eight thousand francs a year as a leader-writer and art critic.  His first success was gained in a series of articles in a little newspaper called Le Tambour, in which he fell foul of the accepted canons of art, and hailed Claude Lantier and his companions as the founders of a new school.  Later he claimed to have made Fagerolles by his articles, in the same manner as he formerly took credit for making Lantier.  He gradually dropped his old friends, however, finding that the public only laughed at their productions, and in excuse pleaded that he had not a journal in which he could support their cause; but when, still later, he became director of a great Art review, he preserved the same silence.  After innumerable love affairs, he ended by marrying Mathilde Jabouille.  L’Oeuvre.

JORY (MADAME), wife of the preceding.  See Mathilde Jabouille.

JOSEPH, a butler in the employment of Nana at La Mignotte.  Nana.

JOSEPH, an old soldier who secured a situation in “The Ladies’ Paradise” through the influence of Lhomme, whose foster brother he was.  He married Mlle. de Fontenailles, a shop-girl in the establishment.  Au Bonheur des Dames.

JOSEPH (MADAME), the concierge of the house on Quay Bourbon where Claude Lantier lived.  L’Oeuvre.

JOSSE (MADEMOISELLE) kept a little school for young children in Rue Polonceau.  Anna Coupeau was her pupil, and made herself such a nuisance that twice Mademoiselle Josse sent her away, taking her back each time in order not to lose the small fees.  L’Assommoir.

Nana in later years exchanged reminiscences with Satin, who, like herself, had been a pupil at Mademoiselle Josse’s school.  Nana.