MARGAILLAN, a great building contractor, many times a millionaire, who made his fortune out of the great public works of Paris, running up whole boulevards on his own account.  He was a man of remarkable activity, with a great gift of administration, and an instinctive knowledge of the streets to construct and the buildings to buy.  Moved by the success of Dubuche at the School of Art, and by the recommendations of his masters there, Margaillan took the young architect into partnership, and agreed to his marriage with his daughter Regine.  Unfortunately, Dubuche showed deplorable incapacity in carrying into practice the theories which he had learned at the School of Art, and Margaillan, after losing considerable sums, returned to his original methods of construction, thrusting his son-in-law to one side.  He possessed a magnificent estate named La Richaudiere, near Bennecourt.  L’Oeuvre.

MARGAILLAN (MADAME), wife of the preceding.  She was a girl of the middle-classes, whose family history was a bad one, and after suffering for years from anemia, she ultimately died of phthisis.  L’Oeuvre.

MARGAILLAN (REGINE), daughter of the preceding, and wife of Louis Dubuche.  She was very delicate, and suffered from a phthisical tendency derived from her mother, which in turn she handed to her two children, Gaston and Alice.  It was frequently necessary for her to leave home for the benefit of her health, and during her absences the children were left at La Richaudiere in charge of their father.  L’Oeuvre.

MARIA, an actress at the Theatre des Varietes.  Nana.

MARJOLIN, a boy who was found in a heap of cabbages at the Paris market.  It was never known who his parents were, and he became the adopted child of the place, always finding a lodging with one or other of the market-women.  Later on he lived with Madame Chantemesse, who had adopted Cadine, another foundling, and the two children grew up together, becoming inseparable.  Marjolin was always of slow intellect, and as the result of an injury to his head he became practically an idiot.  Gavard gave him employment in the poultry market.  Le Ventre de Paris.

MARSOULLIER, proprietor of the Hotel Boncoeur, where Gervaise Macquart and Lantier put up when they came to Paris.  L’Assommoir.

MARTIN, coachman to Dr. Cazenove.  He was an old man who formerly served in the navy, and had his leg amputated by Cazenove.  La Joie de Vivre.

MARTINE, the old servant of Dr. Pascal, with whom she had been for thirty years.  She brought up Clotilde Rougon, whose affection for the doctor excited her jealousy later on.  Martine, who was devoted to her master, desired to force him to be reconciled with the Church, but Clotilde, at first her accomplice, escaped from religious influences and gave herself entirely to Pascal, leaving Martine with no other resource but prayer.  She was extremely avaricious, but when the doctor was ruined, her devotion was such