he forgave her, and promised to marry her on his return.  When she heard that he had been killed in the battle of Sedan, she became nearly mad, and with Prosper Sambuc made a wild search of the battlefield for her lover’s body.  They found it eventually, and brought it back in a cart for burial.  Goliath Steinberg, who was a German spy, again made advances to her, and, to save herself and her friends, she betrayed him to the francs-tireurs, who killed him in her presence.  La Debacle.

MORIZOT, a friend of Malignon, who took him to the children’s party at Deberle’s house.  Une Page d’Amour.

MOSER, a speculator on the Paris Bourse.  He was a short, yellow-skinned man, who suffered from liver complaint and was continually lamenting, in constant dread of some imminent catastrophe.  In consequence of his views, he was known on the Bourse as “bear” Moser.  Speculating heavily against the rise in the shares of the Universal Bank, he was at one time on the verge of ruin, but the collapse of that institution left him with an enormous fortune.  L’Argent.

MOUCHE (LE PERE), the sobriquet of Michel Fouan, the third son of Joseph Casimir Fouan, and brother of La Grande, Pere Fouan, and Laure Badeuil.  When his father’s estate was divided, he received the family dwelling-house and some land, but was dissatisfied with his share and continued to accuse his brother and sister, though forty years had elapsed, of having robbed him when the lots were drawn.  He had been long a widower, and, a soured unlucky man, he lived alone with his two daughters, Lise and Francoise.  At sixty years of age he died of an attack of apoplexy.  La Terre.

MOUCHE (FRANCOISE), younger daughter of Michel Fouan, alias Mouche.  Her mother died early, and she was brought up by her sister Lise, to whom she was devotedly attached.  She had a passion for justice, and when she had said “that is mine and that is yours,” she would have been prepared to go to the stake in support of her rights.  This execration of injustice gradually led to a change of feeling between the two sisters, for after the marriage of Lise to Buteau a division of the land should have been made.  Buteau and his wife on various pretexts put off this division, and it was only on the marriage of Francoise to Jean Macquart that it was carried out.  An entire estrangement between the two families followed, and constant quarrels took place.  After a shameful assault by Buteau upon Francoise, his wife threw her upon a scythe which lay upon the ground near by, and the unfortunate girl received injuries from which she died a few hours later.  A sense of loyalty to her family induced her to conceal the cause of these injuries, which were attributed to accident.  La Terre.