GOUJET (MADAME), mother of the preceding, was a lace-mender, and lived with her son in part of the house first occupied by the Coupeaus.  She showed much kindness to them, though she was distressed by her son’s infatuation for Gervaise, and did not altogether approve of his lending her money to start a laundry.  Notwithstanding this, she continued to assist Gervaise until neglect of work entrusted made it impossible to do so longer.  She died in October, 1868, of acute rheumatism.  L’Assommoir.

GOURAUD (BARON), was made a Baron by Napoleon I, and was a Senator under Napoleon III.  “With his vast bulk, his bovine face, his elephantine movements, he boasted a delightful rascality; he sold himself majestically, and committed the greatest infamies in the name of duty and conscience.”  La Curee.

GOURD (M.), at one time valet to the Duc de Vaugelade, and afterwards doorkeeper in the tenement-house in Rue de Choiseul which belonged to M. Vabre, and was occupied by the Campardons, the Josserands, and others.  He spent much of his time spying on the tenants, and posed as guardian of the morals of the establishment.  Pot-Bouille.

GOURD (MADAME), wife of the preceding.  She was the widow of a bailiff at Mort-la-Ville, and she and her present husband owned a house there.  She was exceedingly stout, and suffered from an affection of the legs which prevented her from walking.  Pot-Bouille.

GRADELLE, brother of Madame Quenu, senr., and uncle of Florent and Quenu.  He was a prosperous pork-butcher in Paris, and after Florent’s arrest he took young Quenu into his business.  He died suddenly, without leaving a will, and Quenu succeeded to the business, and to a considerable sum of money which was found hidden at the bottom of a salting-tub.  Le Ventre de Paris.

GRAND-DRAGON (LE), one of the band of brigands led by Beau-Francois.  La Terre.

GRANDE (LA), elder daughter of Joseph Casimir Fouan, and sister of Pere Fouan, Michel Mouche, and Laure Badeuil.  Married to a neighbour, Antoine Pechard, she brought to him seven acres of land against eighteen which he had of his own.  Early left a widow, she turned out her only daughter, who, against her mother’s will, wished to marry a poor lad named Vincent Bouteroue.  The girl and her husband died of want, leaving two children, Palmyre and Hilarion, whom their grandmother refused to assist.  At eighty years of age, respected and feared by the Fouan family, not for her age but for her fortune, she exacted the obedience of all, and still directed the management of her land.  She bitterly reproached her brother Louis for dividing his property between his children, and warned him that he need not come to her when they had turned him into the street, a threat which she carried into effect.  She took delight in the squabbles of the Fouan family, exciting their cupidity by promising them a share of her property at her death.  Meantime she made a will which was so complicated that she hoped it would lead to endless lawsuits amongst her heirs.  La Terre.