Elzéar Bonnegrâce, le curé de Saint Victor
Panisse está morrendo, alegremente, com amigos, esposa e filho a seu lado. Ele se confessa ao padre e insiste que o médico seja honesto sobre sua condição. Mas, ele não pode ir sem dizer ao filho Cesariot que seu verdadeiro pai é Marius, o filho ausente de César, o padrinho de Cesariot.
le censeur
"Merlusse" is French schoolboy slang for codfish, and M. Blanchard, a professor at a certain lycée, was known to his victims by that name. On Christmas eve, when some twenty of the students—orphans, foreigners or just plain "unwanteds"—had to remain in the boarding school, Merlusse is placed in charge. His glass eye glares at them stonily, his good one with no less severity. He sets them to tasks, marches like a proctor up and down the aisles, exacts to the utmost the last measure of discipline. But when the youngsters awake in the morning, there are toys by each bed in the dormitory and M. Blanchard, no longer to be called Merlusse, is exposed for the softhearted fraud he is.
