DECKER (BARONNE), a friend of the Marquis de Chouard, who occasionally visited her at Viroflay.  Nana.

DEJOIE, a man who was appointed by Saccard to be attendant at the offices of the newspaper purchased in the interest of the Universal Bank.  He had a small sum of money, intended for the dowry of his daughter, and to increase this he invested it in shares of the bank.  On the rise of the shares he gained a large sum, but, refusing to sell, he lost everything in the final catastrophe.  L’Argent.

DEJOIE (JOSEPHINE), wife of Dejoie, who first knew her when she was cook with Madame Leveque, sister-in-law of Durieu, the brewer.  She was afterwards with Dr. Renaudin, and then in a shop in Rue Rambuteau.  The husband and wife were never fortunate enough to get employment in one place.  Josephine died when her daughter was fourteen years old.  L’Argent.

DEJOIE (NATHALIE), daughter of the preceding.  In order to provide a dowry for her, her father invested all his savings in shares of the Universal Bank, losing everything after its failure.  She was a pretty girl, but absolutely heartless, and after the downfall of the bank she ran away from home, leaving her old father in his poverty.  L’Argent.

DELAHERCHE (MADAME), mother of Jules Delaherche.  Her husband’s gay life rendered her unhappy, and after she became a widow she trembled lest her son should take to the same courses as his father; so, after marrying him to a woman who was devout and of simple tastes, she sought to keep him in a dependent state as though he were a mere youth.  At fifty years of age, his wife having died, Delaherche determined to marry a young widow about whom there had been much gossip, and did so in spite of all the remonstrances of his mother.  After that she only lived on in silent remonstrance, spending most of her time shut up in her own room.  The miseries of war told severely on the old woman, and to these were added domestic troubles, for she became aware of her daughter-in-law’s relations with Captain Baudoin and Edmond Lagarde.  After the occupation of Sedan by the Prussians she devoted herself to nursing her old friend Colonel Vineuil, who had been brought to the house severely wounded.  She remained with him till his death, shut up from the world, and refusing to hear of the defeats daily accumulating against their unhappy country.  La Debacle.

DELAHERCHE (JULES), one of the principal cloth manufacturers of Sedan.  He owned a large factory in Rue Maqua, which had been the property of the family for a hundred and sixty years; in the rear of the building was a palatial courtyard shaded with old trees, gigantic elms dating from the foundation of the establishment.  Jules, married to a woman dull and plain-looking, had been kept by his mother in the dependent position of a mere boy, but at fifty years of age, his wife being dead, he became enamoured of Gilberte Maginot, a pretty young widow of Charleville, and married her