SAUVAGNAT, chief of the depot at Havre, lived in a cottage near the engine depot, which his sister Philomene kept for him, but greatly neglected.  He was an obstinate man and a strict disciplinarian, greatly esteemed by his superiors, but had met with the utmost vexation on account of his sister, even to the point of being threatened with dismissal.  If the Company bore with her now on his account, he only kept her with him because of the family tie; but this did not prevent him belabouring her so severely with blows whenever he caught her at fault that he frequently left her half dead on the floor.  La Bete Humaine.

SAUVAGNAT (PHILOMENE), sister of the preceding, was a tall, thin woman of thirty-two, who after numerous love-affairs had settled down with Pecqueux, whose mistress she became.  She had the reputation of drinking.  A subsequent intrigue between her and Jacques Lantier excited the jealousy of Pecqueux to the point of murder.  La Bete Humaine.

SAUVEUR (MADAME), a dress-maker, who numbered Madame Desforges among her customers.  She frequented Mouret’s shop, Au Bonheur des Dames, on the occasions of great sales, purchasing large quantities of stuff which she afterwards sold to her own customers at higher prices.  Au Bonheur des Dames.

SAUVIGNY (DE), judge of the race for the Grand Prix de Paris.  Nana.

SCHLOSSER, a speculator on the Paris Bourse.  He was secretly associated with Sabatani, with whom he carried out many schemes to their mutual advantage.  L’Argent.

SCOTS (H.R.H.  THE PRINCE OF).  See Ecosse.

SEDILLE, a native of Lyons, who established himself in Paris, and after thirty years’ toil succeeded in making his silk business one of the best known in the city.  Unfortunately he acquired a passion for gambling, and a couple of successful ventures made him altogether lose his head.  From that time he neglected his business, and ruin lay inevitably at the end.  On the invitation of Saccard he became a Director of the Universal Bank.  Like the other Directors, he speculated largely in the shares of the Bank; but, unlike most of them, he did not sell in time, with the result that he was completely ruined, and his bankruptcy followed.  L’Argent.

SEDILLE (GUSTAVE), son of M. Sedille, the silk merchant.  To the disappointment of his father, he despised commercial pursuits, and cared only for pleasure.  In the hope that he might take an interest in finance, he was given a situation in the office of Mazard, the stockbroker, where, however, he did little work, and soon engaged in speculations on his own account.  The failure of the Universal Bank left him penniless, and deep in debt.  L’Argent.

SICARDOT (COMMANDER), the father-in-law of Aristide Rougon.  He had the strongest intellect of the politicians who met in Pierre Rougon’s yellow drawing-room.  He was taken prisoner by the insurgents at the time of the Coup d’Etat.  La Fortune des Rougon.