GAGA, an elderly demi-mondaine who had flourished in the reign of Louis Philippe, and was still notorious in the Second Empire.  She had a daughter named Lili, who became the mistress of the Marquis Chouard.  Nana.

GAGEBOIS, glass-works at Montsou.  The strike of miners led to the fires being extinguished.  Germinal.

GAGNIERE, an artist, one of the band of Claude Lantier.  He belonged to Melun, where his well-to-do parents, who were both dead, had left him two houses; and he had learned painting, unassisted, in the forest of Fontainebleau.  His landscapes were conscientious and excellent in intent, but his real passion was music.  Becoming more and more engrossed in this, he took lessons in playing the piano from a middle-aged lady whom he married soon afterwards.  He established himself at Melun in one of his two houses, going to Paris two or three times a month to attend a concert, and he continued to exhibit each year at the Salon one of his little studies of the banks of the Seine.  L’Oeuvre.

GALISSARD, a haberdasher of Plassans, whose daughter married Professor Lalubie.  She was a pretty girl to whom Claude Lantier and Sandoz used to sing serenades.

GARCONNET, a Legitimist who was Mayor of Plassans at the time of the Coup d’Etat.  He was taken prisoner by the insurgents.  La Fortune des Rougon.

GARTLAUBEN (VON), captain in the Prussian Army.  During the occupation of Sedan he was billeted on Delaherche.  He was a person of some importance, as his uncle had been made Governor-General at Rheims, and exercised sovereign power over the district.  Fascinated by Gilberte Delaherche, his chief wish was to be taken for a man of refinement, and not for a barbarous soldier.  He was able to render some services to the Delaherches, and to make the Prussian occupation easier for them.  La Debacle.

GASC, proprietor of a racing-stable.  One of his horses, named Boum, ran in the Grand Prix de Paris.  Nana.

GASPARINE, a tall, handsome girl of Plassans, with whom Achille Campardon fell in love.  She had no money, however, and he married her cousin Rose Domergue, who had a dowry of thirty thousand francs.  Tears and recriminations followed, and Gasparine went to Paris, where for some time she had a situation in the shop of Madame Hedouin.  Madame Campardon having fallen into ill-health, her husband returned to his first love, and a liaison existed between him and Gasparine for a considerable time.  Ultimately she went to live with the Campardons, and managed their household affairs.  Pot-Bouille.

GASTON was the son of a general, and was the same age as the Prince Imperial, though much stronger than he.  The Emperor frequently made inquiries regarding the child.  Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.

GAUDE, bugler in the 106th regiment of the line.  “He was a big, skinny, sorrowful, taciturn man, without a hair on his chin, and blew his instrument with the lungs of a whirlwind.”  On the 1st September, during the defence of the Hermitage, he became seized with the madness of heroism, and continued to blow after his comrades had been slain and until he himself was shot down.  La Debacle.