MAFFRE (AMBROISE), elder son of the magistrate at Plassans, aged twenty.  La Conquete de Plassans.

MAGINOT, inspector of woods at Mezieres.  He married Gilberte de Vineuil, but died a few years afterwards.  La Debacle.

MAGINOT (MADAME), see Gilberte de Vineuil.

MAHEU (ALZIRE), the fourth child of Toussaint Maheu, aged nine years.  She was deformed and delicate, but of precocious intelligence, and was able to assist her mother in many ways, sacrificing herself always for others.  She died of cold and hunger during the strike at Montsou.  Germinal.

MAHEU (CATHERINE), second child of Toussaint Maheu, worked as a putter in the Voreux pit along with the other members of her family.  She liked Etienne Lantier, but became the mistress of Chaval, who treated her so abominably that she eventually returned home.  As a result of the terrible catastrophe brought about by Souvarine, she was imprisoned at the bottom of the pit along with Chaval and Etienne.  A struggle between the two men ensued, and Chaval was killed.  Days elapsed before rescue arrived, but before then Catherine had died in the arms of Etienne, whom she had really loved all along.  Germinal.

MAHEU (ESTELLE), seventh child of Toussaint Maheu, aged three months.  Her constant crying disturbed the household.  Germinal.

MAHEU (GUILLAUME), great-grandfather of Toussaint Maheu.  When a boy of fifteen, he found rich coal at Requillart, the Montsou Company’s first pit, and the seam he discovered was named after him.  He died of old age at sixty.  Germinal.

MAHEU (HENRI), sixth child of Toussaint Maheu, aged four years.  Germinal.

MAHEU (JEANLIN), third child of Toussaint Maheu, aged eleven years.  He was employed at the Voreux pit, and earned twenty sous a day.  His nature was vicious, and he forced his companions Bebert Levaque and Lydie Pierron to commit petty thefts, with the proceeds of which he concealed himself in a disused mine.  His criminal tendencies increased until he was unable to resist the inclination to kill one of the soldiers who guarded the Voreux pit during the strike.  He accordingly waited till night, and leaping on the shoulders of Jules, a little soldier from Brittany, thrust a knife into his throat and killed him.  Germinal.

MAHEU (LENORE), fifth child of Toussaint Maheu, aged six years.  She was always fighting with her brother Henri, who was very like her in appearance, both having large heads with light yellow hair.  Germinal.

MAHEU (NICOLAS), grandfather of Toussaint Maheu.  He was killed by a landslip in the pit, when he was barely forty years old.  Germinal.

MAHEU (TOUSSAINT), son of old Bonnemort, and husband of La Maheude.  He was considered one of the best workmen in the Voreux pit, did not drink, and was liked and respected by all his companions.  He had been for a considerable time under the influence of the doctrines taught by Etienne Lantier when he was selected by his comrades to place their views before the officials of the company.  In the great strike which followed he took part, and in the attack on the troops sent to guard the pit he was driven on by his wife to join the aggressors.  He fell, shot through the heart, after the fatal volley fired by the soldiers.  Germinal.