CORREUR (MADAME MELANIE), was the daughter of a notary of Coulonges, a town in the district of Niort.  When she was twenty-four years old she eloped with a journeyman butcher, and thereafter lived in Paris, ignored by her family.  For some time she kept a boarding-house at the Hotel Vanneau in the Rue Vanneau, where among her lodgers were Eugene Rougon, Du Poizet, and Theodore Gilquin.  She established a claim on Rougon’s gratitude, and he assisted a number of her friends in obtaining pensions and appointments.  Having ascertained that her brother, M. Martineau, had made a will by which she would benefit, she, knowing him to be in bad health, denounced him to Rougon as a dangerous Republican.  His arrest and sudden death followed.  Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

COSINUS, a racehorse which ran in the Grand Prix de Paris.  Nana.

COSSARD (LE PERE), prompter at the Theatre des Varietes.  He was a little hunchback.

COUDELOUP (MADAME), a baker in Rue des Poissonniers.  She supplied the Coupeaus until Lantier decided that they must have finer bread from a Viennese bakery.  L’Assommoir.

COUGNY (COMTE DE), owner in the eighteenth century of the mining concession of Cougny, which in 1760 was joined to two neighbouring concessions to form the Company of the Mines of Montsou.  Germinal.

COUILLOT (LES), peasants at Rognes.  Their son got the number 206 in the drawing for the conscription.  La Terre.

COUPEAU, a zinc-worker, who married Gervaise Macquart after her desertion by Lantier.  He was the son of a drunken father, but was himself steady and industrious until a serious accident caused by a fall from a roof brought about a change.  After that he became unwilling to work and began to spend his time in public-houses; his days of work became fewer and fewer, until, a confirmed drunkard, he lived entirely on his wife’s earnings.  Attacks of delirium tremens followed, and in the end he died in the Asylum of Sainte-Anne after an attack of more than usual violence.  L’Assommoir.

COUPEAU (MADAME GERVAISE), wife of the preceding.  See Gervaise Macquart.  L’Assommoir.

COUPEAU (ANNA, known as NANA), born 1852, was the only child of Coupeau and Gervaise Macquart, his wife.  Almost from infancy she was allowed to run wild in the gutters of Paris, and even in childhood her instincts were vicious.  At thirteen years of age she was sent to learn artificial-flower making in the establishment of Madame Titreville, whose forewoman was Madame Lerat, Nana’s aunt.  She had been there some time when she began to receive attentions from an elderly gentleman who had noticed her going to work.  Meantime her father and mother had taken to drink so seriously that home life had become intolerable, and, after one of innumerable quarrels, Nana ran away to her venerable admirer.  After a few months she tired of him and left, to spend her time amongst the low-class dancing-halls, in one of which she was found by her father, who brought her home, where she remained for a fortnight, and then ran off again.  From time to time she returned, but her visits gradually became less frequent till they ceased.  L’Assommoir.