DELOCHE (HENRI), a young man who got employment at “The Ladies’ Paradise” at the same time as Denise Baudu.  He fell in love with Denise, but though she refused to marry him, they remained on friendly terms, and on one occasion he threw a glass of wine at Favier, a fellow-shopman, who repeated a slander about her.  Au Bonheur des Dames.

DELORME, a relation of the Quenus.  On the suggestion of Madame Chanteau he was nominated a member of the family council of Pauline Quenu.  He consented to her emancipation.  La Joie de Vivre.

DENEULIN, a cousin of the Gregoires.  Like his cousin, he inherited a denier in the Montsou mines, but being an enterprising engineer, tormented by the desire for a royal fortune, he had hastened to sell out when the value of the denier reached a million francs.  His wife possessed through an uncle the little concession of Vandame, on which were two abandoned pits—­Jean-Bart and Gaston-Marie—­and he invested all his money in the reopening of these pits.  He was a bad manager, however, and after his wife’s death he was pillaged by every one.  The great strike at Montsou completed his ruin, and he was ultimately compelled to sell his pits to the great company which had already acquired all the neighbouring mines, himself receiving a situation as divisional engineer.  Germinal.

DENEULIN (JEANNE), second daughter of the preceding.  Having lost their mother when very young, she and her sister were brought up alone, somewhat badly, being spoiled by their father.  Jeanne was fond of painting, and had already had three landscapes refused by the Salon.  Her sister and she remained cheerful in the midst of their father’s loss of fortune, and proved themselves excellent managers.  Germinal.

DENEULIN (LUCIE), elder daughter of Deneulin.  She was fond of music, and at one time talked of going on the stage.  Like her sister, she showed an admirable spirit at the time of her father’s downfall.  Germinal.

DENIZET, examining magistrate (juge d’instruction) at Rouen.  The son of a cattle-breeder, he studied law at Caen, but had entered the judicial department of the Government late in life; and his peasant origin, aggravated by his father’s bankruptcy, made his promotion slow.  After being substitute in various places he was sent to Rouen, where he acted as examining magistrate.  He was fond of his profession, and at the beginning of the inquiry into the murder of President Grandmorin allowed himself to be carried away by his desire to elicit the facts of the case.  He received, however, a hint from Camy-Lamotte, the secretary to the Minister of Justice, that caution must be exercised, and his desire to be decorated and removed to Paris was so great that he sacrificed the interests of justice, and caused the case to be hushed up.  Later, the murder of Severine Roubaud reopened the Grandmorin inquiry, and Denizet was allowed a free hand in dealing with the affair.  By a masterpiece of logical deduction he set out to prove the complicity of Cabuche and Roubaud, a complicity, however, which had no existence in fact, and the demonstration of which by Denizet produced a gross error of justice.  La Bete Humaine.