ANGELIQUE MARIE, born 1851, was the daughter of Sidonie Rougon, by an unknown father.  Soon after her birth she was taken to the Foundling Hospital by a nurse, Madame Foucart, and no further inquiries were ever made about her.  She was at first boarded with Francoise Hamelin, by whom she was not unkindly treated, and subsequently went to Paris with Louis Franchomme and his wife, who wished to teach her the trade of artificial-flower making.  Franchomme having died three months later, his widow went to reside at Beaumont with her brother, Rabier, taking Angelique with her.  Unfortunately, Madame Franchomme died a few months afterwards, leaving Angelique to the care of the Rabiers, who used her badly, not even giving her enough to eat.  In consequence of their treatment, she ran away on Christmas Day, 1860, and the following morning was found in a fainting condition by Hubert, the chasuble-maker, who noticed her lying in the snow within the porch of the cathedral of Beaumont.  Hubert and his wife took the child into their home, and, becoming attached to her, ultimately adopted her as their daughter, teaching her the art of embroidering vestments, in which she became very skilful.  Angelique, though an amiable girl, was at first liable to violent attacks of temper, and it was only by the exercise of much patience and tact on the part of Madame Hubert that this tendency was overcome.  The girl was always a dreamer, and her cloistered life with the Huberts, along with constant reading of the lives of the saints, brought out all that was mystic in her nature.  A chance meeting between Angelique and a young man named Felicien led to their falling in love, she being in entire ignorance of the fact that he was the son of Monseigneur d’Hautecoeur, and a member of one of the oldest and proudest families in France.  Felicien’s father having refused his consent to a marriage, and a personal appeal to him by Angelique having failed, the lovers were separated for a time.  The girl gradually fell into ill-health, and seemed at the point of death when Monseigneur himself came to administer the last rites of the Church.  Having been miraculously restored to a measure of health, Angelique was married to Felicien d’Hautecoeur in the great cathedral of Beaumont.  She was very feeble, and as she was leaving the church on the arm of her husband she sank to the ground.  In the midst of her happiness she died; quietly and gently as she had lived.  Le Reve.

ANGLARS (IRMA D’), a demi-mondaine of former times who had been celebrated under the First Empire.  In her later years she retired to a house which she owned at Chamont, where she lived a simple yet stately life, treated with the greatest respect by all the neighbourhood.  Nana.

ANNOUCHKA, mistress of Souvarine, and implicated with him in a political plot.  Disguised as a countryman, she assisted in the undermining of a railway over which an imperial train was to pass, and it was she who eventually lit the fuse.  She was captured along with others, and Souvarine, who had escaped, was present at her trial during six long days.  When she came to be executed, she looked in vain among the crowd for her lover, till Souvarine mounted on a stone, and, their eyes having met, remained fixed in one long gaze till the end.  Germinal.