FOUCARMONT, a naval officer who in ten years saved some money which he proposed to invest in the United States.  He fell into the hands of Nana, however, and was soon completely ruined.  When she turned him out of doors penniless, she merely advised him to go back to his ship.  He was drowned later in the China seas.  Nana.

FOUCART, the owner of a cheap restaurant frequented by Jory, Mahoudeau, and their band.  L’Oeuvre.

FOUCART (MADAME), the nurse who attended Sidonie Rougon at the birth of Angelique and left the child at the foundling hospital.  She assisted Sidonie both by taking her into her house and lending her money, but when Madame Foucart herself fell into difficulties Sidonie did nothing for her, not even paying back what she owed.  It was from Madame Foucart that Hubert subsequently got information regarding the parentage of Angelique.  Le Reve.

FOUCHARD, father of Honore Fouchard, and uncle, on the mother’s side, of Henriette and Maurice Levasseur.  He was a small farmer at Remilly, who to make money more quickly took up the trade of butcher also.  Avaricious to the last degree, and with a nature of unpitying hardness, he opposed the marriage of Honore with his servant Silvine Morange.  At the end of two years of waiting Honore went off, after a terrible scene with his father, though the old man still kept the girl, with whom he was well pleased.  When the French troops were marching to Sedan, Fouchard concealed all the animals on his farm, burying even his supply of bread and wine, in the hope of being able to sell to better advantage later on.  The death of his son, who was killed in the battle, cost him a few tears, but he was quickly consoled by some good purchases of horses stolen from the battlefield.  He took Prosper Sambuc as farm-worker, because the soldier, being liable to imprisonment by the Prussians, could not ask him for any wages.  He began to do a considerable trade in butcher-meat with the conquering army, selling them all the diseased animals that he could secure.  A suspicion of being concerned in the death of Goliath Steinberg led to his arrest, but he was released soon afterwards, thanks to the intervention of Captain von Gartlauben, a friend of the Delaherches.  La Debacle.

FOUCHARD (HONORE), only son of the preceding.  At twenty years of age, in 1867, he drew a good number for the conscription, but on account of the opposition of his father to his marriage with Silvine Morange, he enlisted, and was sent to Africa, in the artillery.  When he heard that Silvine had become the mistress of Goliath Steinberg he became so ill that he had to remain in hospital for three months.  He afterwards received a letter from Silvine saying that she had never loved any one but him, and when passing through Remilly on his way to the front, he saw her and forgave everything.  His battery was among those which on 1st September, 1870, defended the Calvary d’Illy, but was cut to pieces by the terrible fire of the Prussians.  Honore was killed, and fell across his gun, firmly grasping the letter from Silvine, which in his death-struggle he had drawn from his bosom.  La Debacle.