Lazare was quite carried away by his enthusiasm, and the works were built on much too large a scale, the cost greatly exceeding the original estimates.  More money was required, and a marriage having already been arranged between Lazare and Pauline Quenu, she at once lent him another ten thousand francs.  Some slight success was at first attained, but this only led to fresh extravagances in the way of apparatus, and before long a hundred thousand francs of Pauline’s money had been expended.  By this time it was evident that the process could not be worked on a commercial scale, and Lazare, utterly discouraged, handed over his share to Boutigny for a trifling sum.  A scheme for the protection of Bonneville against the inroads of the sea was the next subject to attract him, and he entered into it with his usual enthusiasm.  More money was, of course, required, and, as before, this was found by Pauline.  Failure again met his efforts; the barricade was washed away by the first high sea.  All along Lazare had been subject to fits of morbid depression, accompanied by a frenzied fear of death, and after the death of his mother this mental disturbance became even more acute.  The marriage with Pauline had been put off on one excuse or another, and ultimately she saw that his affections had been transferred to Louise Thibaudier.  With noble self-sacrifice, she released him from his engagement, and his marriage to Louise followed.  He went to Paris as manager of an insurance company, but soon tiring of business, he returned to Bonneville, where he lived so tormented by the fear of death that life itself had little charm for him.  La Joie de Vivre.

Having become a widower, he left his son with Pauline Quenu, and went to America to seek his fortune.  Le Docteur Pascal.

CHANTEAU (MADAME LAZARE), wife of the preceding.  See Louise Thibaudier.  La Joie de Vivre.

CHANTEAU (PAUL), the infant son of Lazare Chanteau.  La Joie de Vivre.

CHANTECAILLE (i.e.  SINGSMALL), an usher at the college of Plassans.  He was so good-natured that he allowed the pupils to smoke when out walking.  L’Oeuvre.

CHANTEGREIL, a poacher, who was sent to the galleys for shooting a gendarme.  He was the father of Miette.  La Fortune des Rougon.

CHANTEGREIL (MARIE), known as Miette, born 1838, daughter of Chantegreil, the poacher, who was sentenced to the galleys for murder.  She went to live with her aunt, the wife of Rebufat, farmer at Plassans.  Here she met Silvere Mouret, and an idyllic love affair followed.  When Silvere joined the Republican Insurrection in 1861, Miette, fired by his enthusiasm, accompanied him, and carried the banner of revolt.  In the attack by the regular troops, which soon followed, she fell mortally wounded.  La Fortune des Rougon.

CHANTEGREIL (EULALIE).  See Madame Eulalie Rebufat.

CHANTEMESSE (MADAME), a customer of Madame Francois, the market-gardener.  It was she who brought up the two foundling children, Marjolin and Cadine.  Le Ventre de Paris.