# The Grégoires — Germinal character guide

> The Grégoires in Germinal by Émile Zola.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the Grégoires, The Grégoires

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

## Who they are

The wealthy bourgeois family who own shares in the mine.

## In the story

### [Germinal Part I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/germinal_se/chapters/germinal)

Their comfortable life at Piolaine contrasts sharply with the miners' suffering.

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

The family as a whole, enjoying a life of leisure and comfort, contrasted with the suffering of the miners.

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

Remain calm and confident despite the panic, planning to dine with the Hennebeaus.

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

Visit the Voreux ruins with their daughter Cécile as part of an excursion, treating the disaster as a spectacle.

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