LEVAQUE (DESIREE), the youngest child of Philomene, aged nine months.  Germinal.

LEVAQUE (PHILOMENE), daughter of the Levaques, had two children to Zacharie Maheu before her marriage to him.  She had a delicacy of the chest and was unable to work underground.  After the death of her husband she left Montsou with her two children, in the company of a miner from the Pas-de-Calais.  Germinal.

LEVAQUE (LA), wife of Levaque the miner, and mother of Philomene and Bebert.  She was a bad housekeeper, and was roughly treated by her husband, who, however, did not take exception to her relations with Bouteloup, their lodger.  Germinal.

LEVASSEUR (MADAME), an acquaintance of Madame Deberle.  Une Page d’Amour.

LEVASSEUR, chief clerk at “The Ladies’ Paradise.”  Au Bonheur des Dames.

LEVASSEUR, a tax-collector at Chene Populeux.  His father was one of the heroes of the army of the first Napoleon.  He married a peasant woman named Fouchard, who died in bringing Maurice and his twin sister Henriette into the world.  He sacrificed everything to make his son a gentleman, and the bad conduct of the lad hastened his end.  La Debacle.

LEVASSEUR (HENRIETTE), daughter of the preceding, and twin sister of Maurice.  After the death of her father she gave up the whole of her share of his property in order to retrieve to some extent the foolish conduct of her brother.  Fortunately she had the chance soon after to marry Weiss, with whom she lived happily.  On the morning of the battle of Sedan, Henriette, fearing that her husband was in danger at Bazeilles, where he had gone to look after a house he had recently bought, decided to follow him there.  By this time the fighting was going on fiercely, and when, after the greatest difficulties and dangers, she arrived at Bazeilles, she was only in time to see her husband shot before her eyes.  She took refuge at Remilly, at the house of her uncle Fouchard, and devoted herself to the care of the wounded in the battle.  Among these was Jean Macquart, who along with Maurice had escaped from captivity.  After the war with Prussia was over, Maurice unfortunately threw in his lot with the Communists, and when Henriette followed him to Paris it was to find that he had been fatally wounded in the fighting there.  By an extraordinary chance, the wound was inflicted by his former comrade, Jean Macquart, who had remained in the regular army when Maurice joined the Communist ranks.  The death of Maurice in this way put an end to the possibility of a dawning love idyll between Henriette and Jean Macquart.  La Debacle.