MACQUERON, a grocer and tavern-keeper at Rognes.  He was a municipal councillor, and deputy Mayor.  He made some money by speculating in wines, and had since become incorrigibly lazy, spending his time in fishing and shooting.  Had his wife listened to him, they would have shut up the shop, but she was so fiercely set on money-making that she would not do so.  There was a rivalry of long standing between the Macquerons and the Lengaignes, which frequently broke out in open quarrels.  Having succeeded in undermining Hourdequin’s position as Mayor, Macqueron succeeded him, but his triumph was of short duration, for some official scandal having arisen, he was obliged to resign.  La Terre.

MACQUERON (MADAME COELINA), wife of the preceding, had a true passion for money-making.  She was continually quarrelling with her neighbour, Madame Lengaigne.  La Terre.

MACQUERON (BERTHE), daughter of the preceding, was educated at a boarding-school at Cloyes, and had learned to play the piano.  She tolerated the attentions of Lequeu, the schoolmaster, whom she heartily disliked, as she felt flattered by the notice of the only man of education whom she knew.  She had a fancy for the son of a neighbouring wheelwright, whom her parents would not allow her to see, and she ultimately compromised herself so seriously with him that they had to consent to her marriage.  La Terre.

MADELEINE, a little girl of ten years of age who was an inmate of the institute founded by Princess d’Orviedo.  Her mother was unable to look after her properly, and placed her there in the hope that she would be well cared for.  L’Argent.

MADELINE (ABBE), was sent to Rognes, when that commune decided to have a cure to itself.  He came from a mountainous district, and disheartened by the flatness of the vast plain of La Beauce, and especially by the religious indifference of his parishioners, he soon fell into ill-health, on one occasion fainting while he was saying Mass.  At the end of two years and a half he left Rognes in a dying state, and returned to his native mountains.  La Terre.

MADINIER (M.) carried on business as a cardboard manufacturer in part of the tenement occupied by the Coupeaus and the Lorilleux.  The business was not prosperous, as he spent all his earnings on drink.  He was one of Coupeau’s witnesses on the occasion of his marriage to Gervaise Macquart, and was present at the wedding dinner.  L’Assommoir.

MAFFRE (M.), a magistrate of Plassans and honorary Canon of Saint-Saturnin’s church.  Politically he was a Legitimist, and he was a friend of M. Rastoil, at whose house the party was in the habit of meeting.  La Conquete de Plassans.

MAFFRE (ALPHONSE), second son of the magistrate at Plassans, aged eighteen years.  Restrained too much by their father, the two brothers Maffre were especially intimate with Guillaume Porquier, who frequently led them into mischief.  La Conquete de Plassans.