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M. Hennebeau
Mine company director
The director of the Montsou mining company in Germinal. Outwardly the face of corporate power — the man who refuses the strikers' demands — he is privately miserable: his wife is having an affair with his nephew, and he envies the miners their simple, physical loves. Zola's portrait of him is unexpectedly sympathetic.
Directeur de la Compagnie minière dans Germinal. Derrière son pouvoir apparent, il est misérable : sa femme le trompe et il envie les mineurs de leur simplicité.
Well-dressed, controlled, with the careful bearing of a bureaucrat and something haunted behind his eyes.
Well-dressed, controlled, with the careful bearing of a bureaucrat and something haunted behind his eyes.