# M. Grégoire — Germinal character guide

> M. Grégoire in Germinal by Émile Zola.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0008-part-ii-i

## Who they are

A wealthy bourgeois shareholder in the mining company.

## In the story

### [Chapter I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/germinal_se/chapters/part-ii-i)

Comfortable shareholder of Montsou, content with his inherited wealth and resistant to speculation.

### [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/germinal_se/chapters/part-ii-ii)

Refuses to give money, insisting on charity in kind only, and lectures Maheude on prudence.

### [Chapter I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/germinal_se/chapters/part-iv-i)

A shareholder in Montsou, upset by Négrel's suggestion that his fortune is stolen. He defends his family's wealth and lives comfortably.

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