CAMY-LAMOTTE, secretary to the Minister of Justice, an office of great influence.  It was his duty to prepare the list of promotions, and he was in constant communication with the Tuileries.  He was a handsome man, who started his career as a substitute; but through his connections and his wife he had been elected deputy and made grand officer of the Legion of Honour.  In examining the papers of President Grandmorin, he discovered the identity of the murderers, but knowing the probability of serious scandal arising in the event of public inquiry, he said nothing, and later, struck by the courage and charm of Severine Roubaud, who threw herself on his protection, he gave instructions that all proceedings were to be stopped.  He rewarded Denizet, the examining magistrate, with a decoration and the promise of early promotion.  La Bete Humaine.

CANIVET, an old peasant, of whom Zephyrin Lacour announced the death to Rosalie Pichon.  Une Page d’Amour.

CARNAVANT (MARQUIS DE), a nobleman of Plassans.  Said to have been intimate with the mother of Felicite Puech during the early period of her married life.  He visited Pierre Rougon and his wife occasionally, and after their retirement from business he interested them in politics.  La Fortune des Rougon.

CAROLINE, an artificial-flower maker employed by Madame Titreville.  She was very unhappy at home.  L’Assommoir.

CAROLINE (MADAME).  See Caroline Hamelin.

CAROUBLE, a baker at Montsou.  His business was threatened by the competition of Maigrat.  Germinal.

CASIMIR, a liquor-dealer on the road to Montsou.  Germinal.

CASSOUTE, an inhabitant of Plassans, who formed one of the group of insurgents which accompanied Antoine Macquart to the Rougons’ house.  He was left there to signal the return of Pierre Rougon, but not being very intelligent, allowed himself to be sent by Rougon to the Town Hall, where he was arrested.  La Fortune des Rougon.

CATHERINE, servant to Granoux.  She talked for a long time before letting in Pierre Rougon and Roudier, who came to seek her master to save Plassans.  La Fortune des Rougon.

CAUCHE, the commissary of police attached to the railway station at Havre.  He was a former officer who considered his present occupation as practically a sinecure, spending much of his time at the cafe.  He was a confirmed gambler, who could lose or win without change of expression.  A room on the first floor of the Cafe du Commerce was his usual haunt, and there Roubaud frequently spent half the night playing cards with him.  Later, it fell to him to arrest Roubaud on the charge of murdering President Grandmorin.  La Bete Humaine.

CAZENOVE (DOCTOR), a man of fifty-four years of age, of a vigorous and lean habit, who after thirty years’ service in the navy settled down at Arromanches, where an uncle of his had left him a house.  He affected scepticism of the power of medicine, but was unremitting in the care of his patients.  Among the earliest of these was Madame Chanteau, and he became on intimate terms with the family, for some time acting as trustee to Pauline Quenu.  La Joie de Vivre.