CHERMETTE (MADAME DE), a friend of Madame Deberle.  Une Page d’Amour.

CHEVASSU, a lawyer at Faverolles, who died leaving his fortune to the Sisters of the Holy Family.  His cousin, M. Charbonnel, got the will reduced on the ground of undue influence.  Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

CHEZELLES (MADAME LEONIDE DE), a school friend of Comtesse Muffat, who was five years her senior.  She was the wife of a magistrate.  “It was rumoured that she deceived him quite openly, but people pardoned her offence, and received her just the same, because, said they, ’She’s not answerable for her actions.’” Nana.

CHIBRAY (COMTE DE), aide-de-camp to the Emperor.  He was for a time the lover of Renee Saccard.  La Curee.

CHOUARD (MARQUIS DE), father of Comtesse Sabine Muffat de Beuville.  He was a Councillor of State and Chamberlain to the Empress, but, notwithstanding this, had kept up his relations with the Legitimist party; he was known for his piety, and expressed the belief that his class should show an example in morals to the lower orders.  In secret, however, his life was vicious, and many damaging stories were known of him.  He was one of Nana’s admirers, and after a visit to her he was struck by sudden imbecility and semi-paralysis, the result of sixty years of debauchery.  Nana.

CHOUARD (SABINE DE), daughter of the preceding and wife of Comte Muffat de Beuville.  She was married at seventeen, and ever since had led a cloistered existence with a pious husband and a dictatorial stepmother.  The death of her stepmother made little difference, and the family continued to live in an atmosphere of frigid respectability.  At thirty-four Sabine looked little older than her own daughter, and would not have been taken for more than twenty-eight.  About this time Comte Muffat fell entirely under the influence of Nana, and a change came over the household.  Sabine accepted the attentions of Fauchery, whose mistress she became, and soon after launched into a course of extravagance which in the end went far to complete the ruin to which her husband was himself contributing.  Other lovers followed Fauchery, and in the end she ran off with the manager of a large drapery store.  Ultimately she returned, and was pardoned by her husband, who had lost his own self-respect as a result of his intrigue with Nana.  Nana.

CHOUTEAU, an old man of over ninety years of age, who with his wife lived in a little hut in Beaumont, furnished for them by Angelique with articles taken from the attic of her adopted parents.  She, as well as Felicien d’Hautecoeur, showed them much kindness.  Le Reve.