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Title: Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z

Author: Anatole Cerfberr
Jules François Christophe

Translator: J. Walker McSpadden

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REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE
HUMAINE

By Anatole Cerfberr and Jules François
Christophe

Contents

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE
HUMAINE
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V
W X Y Z

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
"Work crowned by the French Academy" is a significant line borne by
the title-page of the original edition of Messieurs Cerfberr and Christophe's
monumental work. The motto indicates the high esteem in which the French
authorities hold this very necessary adjunct to the great Balzacian structure.
And even without this word of approval, the intelligent reader needs but a
glance within the pages of the Repertory of the Comedie Humaine to
convince him at once of its utility.
In brief, the purpose of the Repertory is to give in alphabetical sequence
the names of all the characters forming this Balzacian society, together with
the salient points in their lives. It is, of course, well known that Balzac
made his characters appear again and again, thus creating out of his distinct
novels a miniature world. To cite a case in point, Rastignac, who comes as
near being the hero of the Comedie as any other single character, makes his
first appearance in Father Goriot, as a student of law; then appearing and
disappearing fitfully in a score of principal novels, he is finally made a
minister and peer of France. Without the aid of the Repertory it would be
difficult for any save a reader of the entire Comedie to trace out his career.
But here it is arranged in temporal sequence, thus giving us a concrete view
of the man and his relation to this society.
In reading any separate story, when reference is made in passing to a
character, the reader will find it helpful and interesting to turn to the
Repertory and find what manner of man it is that is under advisement. A
little systematic reading of this nature will speedily render the reader a
"confirmed Balzacian."
A slight confusion may arise in the use of the Repertory on account of the
subdivision of titles. This is the fault neither of Messieurs Cerfberr and
Christophe nor of the translator, but of Balzac himself, who was continually
changing titles, dividing and subdividing stories, and revamping and
working other changes in his books. Cousin Betty and Cousin Pons were
placed together by him under the general title of Poor Relations. Being

separate stories, we have retained the separate titles. Similarly, the three
divisions of Lost Illusions were never published together until 1843—in the
first complete edition of the Comedie; before assuming final shape its parts
had received several different titles. In the present text the editor has
deemed it best to retain two of the parts under Lost Illusions, while the
third, which presents a separate Rubempre episode, is given as A
Distinguished Provincial at Paris. The three parts of The Thirteen—
Ferragus, The Duchess of Langeais, and The Girl with the Golden Eyes—
are given under the general title. The fourth part of Scenes from a
Courtesan's Life, Vautrin's Last Avatar, which until the Edition Definitive
had been published separately, is here merged into its final place. But the
three parts of The Celibates —Pierrette, The Vicar of Tours and A
Bachelor's Establishment, being detached, are given separately. Other
minor instances occur, but should be readily cleared up by reference to the
Indices, also to the General Introduction given elsewhere.
In the preparation of this English text, great care has been exercised to
gain accuracy—a quality not found in other versions now extant. In one or
two instances, errors have been discovered in the original French, notably in
dates—probably typographical errors—which have been corrected by
means of foot-notes. A few unimportant elisions have been made for the
sake of brevity and coherence. Many difficulties confront the translator in
the preparation of material of this nature, involving names, dates and titles.
Opportunities are constantly afforded for error, and the work must
necessarily be painstaking in order to be successful. We desire here to
express appreciation for the valuable assistance of Mr. Norman Hinsdale
Pitman.
To Balzac, more than to any other author, a Repertory of characters is
applicable; for he it was who not only created an entire human society, but
placed therein a multitude of personages so real, so distinct with vitality,
that biographies of them seem no more than simple justice. We can do no
more, then, than follow the advice of Balzac—to quote again from the
original title-page—and "give a parallel to the civil register."
J. WALKER McSPADDEN

INTRODUCTION
Are you a confirmed Balzacian?—to employ a former expression of
Gautier in Jeune France on the morrow following the appearance of that
mystic Rabelaisian epic, The Magic Skin. Have you experienced, while
reading at school or clandestinely some stray volume of the Comedie
Humaine, a sort of exaltation such as no other book had aroused hitherto,
and few have caused since? Have you dreamed at an age when one plucks
in advance all the fruit from the tree of life —yet in blossom—I repeat,
have you dreamed of being a Daniel d'Arthez, and of covering yourself with
glory by the force of your achievements, in order to be requited, some day,
for all the sufferings of your poverty-stricken youth, by the sublime Diane,
Duchesse de Maufrigneuse, Princesse de Cadignan?
Or, perchance, being more ambitious and less literary, you have desired
to see—like a second Rastignac, the doors of high society opened to your
eager gaze by means of the golden key suspended from Delphine de
Nucingen's bracelet?
Romancist, have you sighed for the angelic tenderness of a Henriette de
Mortsauf, and realized in your dreams the innocent emotions excited by
culling nosegays, by listening to tales of grief, by furtive hand-clasps on the
banks of a narrow river, blue and placid, in a valley where your friendship
flourishes like a fair, delicate lily, the ideal, the chaste flower?
Misanthrope, have you caressed the chimera, to ward off the dark hours
of advancing age, of a friendship equal to that with which the good
Schmucke enveloped even the whims of his poor Pons? Have you
appreciated the sovereign power of secret societies, and deliberated with
yourself as to which of your acquaintances would be most worthy to enter
The Thirteen? In your mind's eye has the map of France ever appeared to be
divided into as many provinces as the Comedie Humaine has stories? Has
Tours stood for Birotteau, La Gamard, for the formidable Abbe Troubert;
Douai, Claes; Limoges, Madame Graslin; Besancon, Savarus and his
misguided love; Angouleme, Rubempre; Sancerre, Madame de la Baudraye;

Alencon, that touching, artless old maid to whom her uncle, the Abbe de
Sponde, remarked with gentle irony: "You have too much wit. You don't
need so much to be happy"?
Oh, sorcery of the most wonderful magician of letters the world has seen
since Shakespeare! If you have come under the spell of his enchantments,
be it only for an hour, here is a book that will delight you, a book that
would have pleased Balzac himself—Balzac, who was more the victim of
his work than his most fanatical readers, and whose dream was to compete
with the civil records. This volume of nearly six hundred pages is really the
civil record of all the characters in the Comedie Humaine, by which you
may locate, detail by detail, the smallest adventures of the heroes who pass
and repass through the various novels, and by which you can recall at a
moment's notice the emotions once awakened by the perusal of such and
such a masterpiece. More modestly, it is a kind of table of contents, of a
unique type; a table of living contents!
Many Balzacians have dreamed of compiling such a civil record. I
myself have known of five or six who attempted this singular task. To cite
only two names out of the many, the idea of this unusual Vapereau ran
through the head of that keen and delicate critic, M. Henri Meilhac, and of
that detective in continued stories, Emile Gaboriau. I believe that I also
have among the papers of my eighteenth year some sheets covered with
notes taken with the same intention. But the labor was too exhaustive. It
demanded an infinite patience, combined with an inextinguishable ardor
and enthusiasm. The two faithful disciples of the master who have
conjoined their efforts to uprear this monument, could not perhaps have
overcome the difficulties of the undertaking if they had not supported each
other, bringing to the common work, M. Christophe his painstaking method,
M. Cerfberr his accurate memory, his passionate faith in the genius of the
great Honore, a faith that carried unshakingly whole mountains of
documents.
A pleasing chapter of literary gossip might be written about this
collaboration; a melancholy chapter, since it brings with it the memory of a
charming man, who first brought Messieurs Cerfberr and Christophe
together, and who has since died under mournful circumstances. His name
was Albert Allenet, and he was chief editor of a courageous little review, La

Jeune France, which he maintained for some years with a perseverance
worthy of the Man of Business in the Comedie Humaine. I can see him yet,
a feverish fellow, wan and haggard, but with his face always lit up by
enthusiasm, stopping me in a theatre lobby to tell me about a plan of M.
Cerfberr's; and almost immediately we discovered that the same plan had
been conceived by M. Christophe. The latter had already prepared a cabinet
of pigeon-holes, arranged and classified by the names of Balzacian
characters. When two men encounter in the same enterprise as compilers,
they will either hate each other or unite their efforts. Thanks to the excellent
Allenet, the two confirmed Balzacians took to each other wonderfully.
Poor Allenet! It was not long afterwards that we accompanied his body to
the grave, one gloomy afternoon towards the end of autumn—all of us who
had known and loved him. He is dead also, that other Balzacian who was so
much interested in this work, and for whom the Comedie Humaine was an
absorbing thought, Honore Granoux. He was a merchant of Marseilles, with
a wan aspect and already an invalid when I met him. But he became
animated when speaking of Balzac; and with what a mysterious,
conspiratorlike veneration did he pronounce these words: "The Vicomte"—
meaning, of course, to the thirty-third degree Balzacolatrites, that
incomparable bibliophile to whom we owe the history of the novelist's
works, M. de Spoelberch de Lovenjoul!—"The Vicomte will approve—or
disapprove." That was the unvarying formula for Granoux, who had
devoted himself to the enormous task of collecting all the articles, small or
great, published about Balzac since his entry as a writer. And just see what a
fascination this devil of a man—as Theophile Gautier once called him—
exercises over his followers; I am fully convinced that these little details of
Balzacian mania will cause the reader to smile. As for me, I have found
them, and still find them, as natural as Balzac's own remark to Jules
Sandeau, who was telling him about a sick sister: "Let us go back to reality.
Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?"
Fascination! That is the only word that quite characterizes the sort of
influence wielded by Balzac over those who really enjoy him; and it is not
to-day that the phenomenon began. Vallies pointed it out long ago in an
eloquent page of the Refractaires concerning "book victims." Saint Beuve,
who can scarcely be suspected of fondness towards the editor-in-chief of
the Revue Parisienne, tells a story stranger and more significant than every

other. At one time an entire social set in Venice, and the most aristocratic,
decided to give out among its members different characters drawn from the
Comedie Humaine; and some of these roles, the critic adds, mysteriously,
were artistically carried out to the very end;—a dangerous experiment, for
we are well aware that the heroes and heroines of Balzac often skirt the
most treacherous abysses of the social Hell.
All this happened about 1840. The present year is 1887, and there seems
no prospect of the sorcery weakening. The work to which these notes serve
as an introduction may be taken as proof. Indeed, somebody has said that
the men of Balzac have appeared as much in literature as in life, especially
since the death of the novelist. Balzac seems to have observed the society of
his day less than he contributed to form a new one. Such and such
personages are truer to life in 1860 than in 1835. When one considers a
phenomenon of such range and intensity, it does not suffice to employ
words like infatuation, fashion, mania. The attraction of an author becomes
a psychological fact of prime importance and subject to analysis. I think I
can see two reasons for this particular strength of Balzac's genius. One
dwells in the special character of his vision, the other in the philosophical
trend which he succeeded in giving to all his writing.
As to the scope of his vision, this Repertory alone will suffice to show.
Turn over the leaves at random and estimate the number of fictitious deeds
going to make up these two thousand biographies, each individual, each
distinct, and most of them complete—that is to say, taking the character at
his birth and leaving him only at his death. Balzac not only knows the date
of birth or of death, he knows as well the local coloring of the time and the
country and profession to which the man belongs. He is thoroughly
conversant with questions of taxation and income and the agricultural
conditions. He is not ignorant of the fact that Grandet cannot make his
fortune by the same methods employed by Gobseck, his rival in avarice; nor
Ferdinand du Tillet, that jackal, with the same magnitude of operations
worked out by that elephant of a Nucingen. He has outlined and measured
the exact relation of each character to his environment in the same way he
has outlined and measured the bonds uniting the various characters; so well
that each individual is defined separately as to his personal and his social
side, and in the same manner each family is defined. It is the skeleton of
these individuals and of these families that is laid bare for your

contemplation in these notes of Messieurs Cerfberr and Christophe. But this
structure of facts, dependent one upon another by a logic equal to that of
life itself, is the smallest effort of Balzac's genius. Does a birth-certificate, a
marriage-contract or an inventory of wealth represent a person? Certainly
not. There is still lacking, for a bone covering, the flesh, the blood, the
muscles and the nerves. A glance from Balzac, and all these tabulated facts
become imbued with life; to this circumstantial view of the conditions of
existence with certain beings is added as full a view of the beings
themselves.
And first of all he knows them physiologically. The inner workings of
their corporeal mechanism is no mystery for him. Whether it is Birotteau's
gout, or Mortsauf's nervousness, or Fraisier's skin trouble, or the secret
reason for Rouget's subjugation by Flore, or Louis Lambert's catalepsy, he
is as conversant with the case as though he were a physician; and he is as
well informed, also, as a confessor concerning the spiritual mechanism
which this animal machine supports. The slightest frailties of conscience are
perceptible to him. From the portress Cibot to the Marquise d'Espard, not
one of his women has an evil thought that he does not fathom. With what
art, comparable to that of Stendhal, or Laclos, or the most subtle analysts,
does he note —in The Secrets of a Princess—the transition from comedy to
sincerity! He knows when a sentiment is simple and when it is complex,
when the heart is a dupe of the mind and when of the senses. And through it
all he hears his characters speak, he distinguishes their voices, and we
ourselves distinguish them in the dialogue. The growling of Vautrin, the
hissing of La Gamard, the melodious tones of Madame de Mortsauf still
linger in our ears. For such intensity of evocation is as contagious as an
enthusiasm or a panic.
There is abundant testimony going to show that with Balzac this
evocation is accomplished, as in the mystic arts by releasing it, so to speak,
from the ordinary laws of life. Pray note in what terms M. le Docteur
Fournier, the real mayor of Tours, relates incidents of the novelist's method
of work, according to the report of a servant employed at the chateau of
Sache: "Sometimes he would shut himself up in his room and stay there
several days. Then it was that, plunged into a sort of ecstasy and armed with
a crow quill, he would write night and day, abstaining from all food and
merely contenting himself with decoctions of coffee which he himself

prepared." [Brochure of M. le Docteur Fournier in regard to the statue of
Balzac, that statue a piece of work to which M. Henry Renault—another
devotee who had established Le Balzac—had given himself so ardently. In
this brochure is found a very curious portrait of Balzac, after a sepia by
Louis Boulanger belonging to M. le Baron Larrey.]
In the opening pages of Facino Cane this phenomenon is thus described:
"With me observation had become intuitive from early youth. It penetrated
the soul without neglecting the body, or rather it seized so completely the
external details that it went beyond them. It gave me the faculty of living
the life of the individual over whom it obtained control, and allowed me to
substitute myself for him like the dervish in Arabian Nights assumed the
soul and the body of persons over whom he pronounced certain words."
And he adds, after describing how he followed a workman and his wife
along the street: "I could espouse their very life, I felt their rags on my
back. I trod in their tattered shoes. Their desires, their needs, all passed into
my soul, or my soul passed into them. It was the dream of a man
awakened." One day while he and a friend of his were watching a beggar
pass by, the friend was so astonished to see Balzac touch his own sleeve; he
seemed to feel the rent which gaped at the elbow of the beggar.
Am I wrong in connecting this sort of imagination with that which one
witnesses in fanatics of religious faith? With such a faculty Balzac could
not be, like Edgar Poe, merely a narrator of nightmares. He was preserved
from the fantastic by another gift which seems contradictory to the first.
This visionary was in reality a philosopher, that is to say, an experimenter
and a manipulator of general ideas. Proof of this may be found in his
biography, which shows him to us, during his college days at Vendome,
plunged into a whirl of abstract reading. The entire theological and occult
library which he discovered in the old Oratorian institution was absorbed by
the child, till he had to quit school sick, his brain benumbed by this strange
opium. The story of Louis Lambert is a monograph of his own mind.
During his youth and in the moments snatched from his profession, to what
did he turn his attention? Still to general ideas. We find him an interested
onlooker at the quarrel of Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Cuvier, troubling
himself about the hypothesis of the unity of creation, and still dealing with
mysticism; and, in fact, his romances abound in theories. There is not one of
his works from which you cannot obtain abstract thoughts by the hundreds.

If he describes, as in The Vicar of Tours, the woes of an old priest, he profits
by the opportunity to exploit a theory concerning the development of
sensibility, and a treatise on the future of Catholicism. If he describes, as in
The Firm of Nucingen, a supper given to Parisian blases, he introduces a
system of credit, reports of the Bank and Bureau of Finance, and—any
number of other things! Speaking of Daniel d'Arthez, that one of his heroes
who, with Albert Savarus and Raphael, most nearly resembles himself, he
writes: "Daniel would not admit the existence of talent without profound
metaphysical knowledge. At this moment he was in the act of despoiling
both ancient and modern philosophy of all their wealth in order to
assimilate it. He desired, like Moliere, to become a profound philosopher
first of all, a writer of comedies afterwards." Some readers there are,
indeed, who think that philosophy superabounds with Balzac, that the
surplus of general hypotheses overflows at times, and that the novels are too
prone to digressions. Be that as it may, it seems incontestible that this was
his master faculty, the virtue and vice of his thought. Let us see, however,
by what singular detour this power of generalization—the antithesis, one
might say, of the creative power—increased in him the faculty of the poetic
visionary.
It is important, first of all, to note that this power of the visionary could
not be put directly into play. Balzac had not long enough to live. The list of
his works, year by year, prepared by his sister, shows that from the moment
he achieved his reputation till the day of his death he never took time for
rest or observation or the study of mankind by daily and close contact, like
Moliere or Saint-Simon. He cut his life in two, writing by night, sleeping by
day, and after sparing not a single hour for calling, promenades or
sentiment. Indeed, he would not admit this troublesome factor of sentiment,
except at a distance and through letters—"because it forms one's style"! At
any rate, that is the kind of love he most willingly admitted—unless an
exception be made of the mysterious intimacies of which his
correspondence has left traces. During his youth he had followed this same
habit of heavy labor, and as a result the experience of this master of exact
literature was reduced to a minimum; but this minimum sufficed for him,
precisely because of the philosophical insight which he possessed to so high
a degree. To this meagre number of positive faculties furnished by
observation, he applied an analysis so intuitive that he discovered, behind

the small facts amassed by him in no unusual quantity, the profound forces,
the generative influences, so to speak.
He himself describes—once more in connection with Daniel d'Arthez —
the method pursued in this analytical and generalizing work. He calls it a
"retrospective penetration." Probably he lays hold of the elements of
experience and casts them into a seeming retort of reveries. Thanks to an
alchemy somewhat analogous to that of Cuvier, he was enabled to
reconstruct an entire temperament from the smallest detail, and an entire
class from a single individual; but that which guided him in his work of
reconstruction was always and everywhere the habitual process of
philosophers: the quest and investigation of causes.
It is due to this analysis that this dreamer has defined almost all the great
principles of the psychological changes incident to our time. He saw clearly,
while democracy was establishing itself with us on the ruins of the ancient
regime, the novelty of the sentiments which these transfers from class to
class were certain to produce. He fathomed every complication of heart and
mind in the modern woman by an intuition of the laws which control her
development. He divined the transformation in the lives of artists, keeping
pace with the change in the national situation; and to this day the picture he
has drawn of journalism in Lost Illusions ("A Distinguished Provincial at
Paris") remains strictly true. It seems to me that this same power of locating
causes, which has brought about such a wealth of ideas in his work, has also
brought about the magic of it all. While other novelists describe humanity
from the outside, he has shown man to us both from within and without.
The characters which crowd forth from his brain are sustained and impelled
by the same social waves which sustain and impel us. The generative facts
which created them are the same which are always in operation about us. If
many young men have taken as a model a Rastignac, for instance, it is
because the passions by which this ambitious pauper was consumed are the
same which our age of unbridled greed multiplies around disinherited
youth. Add to this that Balzac was not content merely to display the fruitful
sources of a modern intellect, but that he cast upon them the glare of the
most ardent imagination the world has ever known. By a rare combination
this philosopher was also a man, like the story-tellers of the Orient, to
whom solitude and the over-excitement of night-work had communicated a
brilliant and unbroken hallucination. He was able to impart this fever to his

readers, and to plunge them into a sort of Arabian Nights country, where all
the passions, all the desires of real life appear, but expanded to the point of
fantasy, like the dreams brought on by laudanum or hasheesh. Why, then,
should we not understand the reason that, for certain readers, this world of
Balzac's is more real than the actual world, and that they devoted their
energies to imitating it?
It is possible that to-day the phenomenon is becoming rarer, and that
Balzac, while no less admired, does not exercise the same fascinating
influence. The cause for this is that the great social forces which he defined
have almost ended their work. Other forces now shape the oncoming
generations and prepare them for further sensitive influences. It is none the
less a fact that, to penetrate the central portions of the nineteenth century in
France, one must read and reread the Comedie Humaine. And we owe
sincere thanks to Messieurs Cerfberr and Christophe for this Repertory.
Thanks to them, we shall the more easily traverse the long galleries, painted
and frescoed, of this enormous palace,—a palace still unfinished, inasmuch
as it lacks those Scenes of Military Life whose titles awaken dreams within
us: Forced Marches; The Battle of Austerlitz; After Dresden. Incontestably,
Tolstoy's War and Peace is an admirable book, but how can we help
regretting the loss of the painting of the Grand Army and of our Great
Emperor, by Balzac, our Napoleon of letters?
PAUL BOURGET.

REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE

A
ABRAMKO, Polish Jew of gigantic strength, thoroughly devoted to the
broker, Elie Magus, whose porter he was, and whose daughter and treasures
he guarded with the aid of three fierce dogs, in 1844, in a old house on the
Minimes road hard by the Palais Royale, Paris. Abramko had allowed
himself to be compromised in the Polish insurrection and Magus was
interested in saving him. [Cousin Pons.]
ADELE, sturdy, good-hearted Briarde servant of Denis Rogron and his
sister, Sylvie, from 1824 to 1827 at Provins. Contrary to her employers, she
displayed much sympathy and pity for their youthful cousin, Pierrette
Lorrain. [Pierrette.]
ADELE, chambermaid of Madame du Val-Noble at the time when the
latter was maintained so magnificently by the stockbroker, Jacques Falleix,
who failed in 1929. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
ADOLPHE, slight, blonde young man employed at the shop of the shawl
merchant, Fritot, in the Bourse quarter, Paris, at the time of the reign of
Louis Philippe. [Gaudissart II.]
ADOLPHUS, head of the banking firm of Adolphus & Company of
Manheim, and father of the Baroness Wilhelmine d'Aldrigger. [The Firm of
Nucingen.]
AGATHE (Sister), nee Langeais, nun of the convent of Chelles, and, with
her sister Martha and the Abbe de Marolles, a refugee under the Terror in a
poor house of the Faubourg Saint-Martin, Paris. [An Episode Under the
Terror.]
AIGLEMONT (General, Marquis Victor d'), heir of the Marquis
d'Aiglemont and nephew of the dowager Comtesse de Listomere-Landon;
born in 1783. After having been the lover of the Marechale de Carigliano,
he married, in the latter part of 1813 (at which time he was one of the
youngest and most dashing colonels of the French cavalry), Mlle. Julie de

Chatillonest, his cousin, with whom he resided successively at Touraine,
Paris and Versailles.* He took part in the great struggle of the Empire; but
the Restoration freed him from his oath to Napoleon, restored his titles,
entrusted to him a station in the Body Guard, which gave him the rank of
general, and later made him a peer of France. Gradually he forsook his
wife, whom he deceived on account of Madame de Serizy. In 1817 the
Marquis d'Aiglemont became the father of a daughter (See Helene
d'Aiglemont) who was his image physically and morally; his last three
children came into the world during a liaison between the Marquise
d'Aiglemont and the brilliant diplomat, Charles de Vandenesse. In 1827 the
general, as well as his protege and cousin, Godefroid de Beaudenord, was
hurt by the fraudulent failure of the Baron de Nucingen. Moreover, he sank
a million in the Wortschin mines where he had been speculating with
hypothecated securities of his wife's. This completed his ruin. He went to
America, whence he returned, six years later, with a new fortune. The
Marquis d'Aiglemont died, overcome by his exertions, in 1833.** [At the
Sign of the Cat and Racket. The Firm of Nucingen. A Woman of Thirty.]
* It appears that the residence of the Marquis d'Aiglemont at
Versailles was located at number 57, on the present Avenue de
Paris; until recently it was occupied by one of the authors of
this work.

** Given erroneously in the original as 1835.

AIGLEMONT (Generale, Marquise Julie d'), wife of the preceding; born
in 1792. Her father, M. de Chatillonest, advised her against, but gave her in
marriage to her cousin, the attractive Colonel Victor d'Aiglemont, in 1813.
Quickly disillusioned and attacked from another source by an
"inflammation very often fatal, and which is spoken of by women only in
confidence," she sank into a profound melancholy. The death of the
Comtesse de Listomere-Landon, her aunt by marriage, deprived her of
valuable protection and advice. Shortly thereafter she became a mother and
found, in the realization of her new duties, strength to resist the mutual
attachment between herself and the young and romantic Englishman, Lord
Arthur Ormond Grenville, a student of medicine who had nursed her and
healed her bodily ailments, and who died rather than compromise her.
Heart-broken, the marquise withdrew to the solitude of an old chateau
situated between Moret and Montereau in the midst of a neglected waste.
She remained a recluse for almost a year, given over utterly to her grief,

refusing the consolations of the Church offered her by the old cure of the
village of Saint-Lange. Then she re-entered society at Paris. There, at the
age of about thirty, she yielded to the genuine passion of the Marquis de
Vandenesse. A child, christened Charles, was born of this union, but he
perished at an early age under very tragic circumstances. Two other
children, Moina and Abel, were also the result of this love union. They were
favored by their mother above the two eldest children, Helene and Gustave,
the only ones really belonging to the Marquis d'Aiglemont. Madame
d'Aiglemont, when nearly fifty, a widow, and having none of her children
remaining alive save her daughter Moina, sacrificed all her own fortune for
a dower in order to marry the latter to M. de Saint-Hereen, heir of one of
the most famous families of France. She then went to live with her son-in-
law in a magnificent mansion overlooking the Esplanade des Invalides. But
her daughter gave her slight return for her love. Ruffled one day by some
remarks made to her by Madame d'Aiglemont concerning the suspicious
devotion of the Marquis de Vandenesse, Moina went so far as to fling back
at her mother the remembrance of the latter's own guilty relations with the
young man's father. Terribly overcome by this attack, the poor woman, who
was a physical wreck, deaf and subject to heart disease, died in 1844. [A
Woman of Thirty.]
AIGLEMONT (Helene d'), eldest daughter of the Marquis and Marquise
Victor d'Aiglemont; born in 1817. She and her brother Gustave were
neglected by her mother for Charles, Abel and Moina. On this account
Helene became jealous and defiant. When about eight years old, in a
paroxysm of ferocious hate, she pushed her brother Charles into the Bievre,
where he was drowned. This childish crime always passed for a terrible
accident. When a young woman—one Christmas night—Helene eloped
with a mysterious adventurer who was being tracked by justice and who
was, for the time being, in hiding at the home of the Marquis Victor
d'Aiglemont, at Versailles. Her despairing father sought her vainly. He saw
her no more till seven years later, and then only once, when on his return
from America to France. The ship on which he returned was captured by
pirates, whose captain, "The Parisian," the veritable abductor of Helene,
protected the marquis and his fortune. The two lovers had four beautiful
children and lived together in the most perfect happiness, sharing the same
perils. Helene refused to follow her father. In 1835, some months after the

death of her husband, Madame d'Aiglemont, while taking the youthful
Moina to a Pyrenees watering-place, was asked to aid a poor sufferer. It was
her daughter, Helene, who had just escaped shipwreck, saving only one
child. Both presently succumbed before the eyes of Madame d'Aiglemont.
[A Woman of Thirty.]
AIGLEMONT (Gustave d'), second child of the Marquis and Marquise
Victor d'Aiglemont, and born under the Restoration. His first appearance is
while still a child, about 1827 or 1828, when returning in company with his
father and his sister Helene from the presentation of a gloomy melodrama at
the Gaite theatre. He was obliged to flee hastily from a scene, which
violently agitated Helene, because it recalled the circumstances surrounding
the death of his brother, some two or three years earlier. Gustave
d'Aiglemont is next found in the drawing-room at Versailles, where the
family is assembled, on the same evening of the abduction of Helene. He
died at an early age of cholera, leaving a widow and children for whom the
Dowager Marquise d'Aiglemont showed little love. [A Woman of Thirty.]
AIGLEMONT (Charles d'), third child of the Marquis and the Marquise
d'Aiglemont, born at the time of the intimacy of Madame d'Aiglemont with
the Marquis de Vandenesse. He appears but a single time, one spring
morning about 1824 or 1825, then being four years old. He was out walking
with his sister Helene, his mother and the Marquis de Vandenesse. In a
sudden outburst of jealous hate, Helene pushed the little Charles into the
Bievre, where he was drowned. [A Woman of Thirty.]
AIGLEMONT (Moina d'), fourth child and second daughter of the
Marquis and Marquise Victor d'Aiglemont. (See Comtesse de Saint-
Hereen.) [A Woman of Thirty.]
AIGLEMONT (Abel d'), fifth and last child of the Marquis and Marquise
Victor d'Aiglemont, born during the relations of his mother with M. de
Vandenesse. Moina and he were the favorites of Madame d'Aiglemont.
Killed in Africa before Constantine. [A Woman of Thirty.]
AJUDA-PINTO (Marquis Miguel d'), Portuguese belonging to a very old
and wealthy family, the oldest branch of which was connected with the
Bragance and the Grandlieu houses. In 1819 he was enrolled among the
most distinguished dandies who graced Parisian society. At this same period

he began to forsake Claire de Bourgogne, Vicomtesse de Beauseant, with
whom he had been intimate for three years. After having caused her much
uneasiness concerning his real intentions, he returned her letters, on the
intervention of Eugene de Rastignac, and married Mlle. Berthe de
Rochefide. [Father Goriot. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.] In 1832 he was
present at one of Madame d'Espard's receptions, where every one there
joined in slandering the Princesse de Cadignan before Daniel d'Arthez, then
violently enamored of her. [The Secrets of a Princess.] Towards 1840, the
Marquis d'Ajuda-Pinto, then a widower, married again—this time Mlle.
Josephine de Grandlieu, third daughter of the last duke of this name.
Shortly thereafter, the marquis was accomplice in a plot hatched by the
friends of the Duchesse de Grandlieu and Madame du Guenic to rescue
Calyste du Guenic from the clutches of the Marquise de Rochefide.
[Beatrix.]
AJUDA-PINTO (Marquise Berthe d'), nee Rochefide. Married to the
Marquis Miguel d'Ajuda-Pinto in 1820. Died about 1849. [Beatrix.]
AJUDA-PINTO (Marquise Josephine d'), daughter of the Duc and
Duchesse Ferdinand de Grandlieu; second wife of the Marquis Miguel
d'Ajuda-Pinto, her kinsman by marriage. Their marriage was celebrated
about 1840. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
ALAIN (Frederic), born about 1767. He was clerk in the office of
Bordin, procureur of Chatelet. In 1798 he lent one hundred crowns in gold
to Monegod his life-long friend. This sum not being repaid, M. Alain found
himself almost insolvent, and was obliged to take an insignificant position
at the Mont-de-Piete. In addition to this he kept the books of Cesar
Birotteau, the well-known perfumer. Monegod became wealthy in 1816,
and he forced M. Alain to accept a hundred and fifty thousand francs in
payment of the loan of the hundred crowns. The good man then devoted his
unlooked-for fortune to philanthropies in concert with Judge Popinot. Later,
at the close of 1825, he became one of the most active aides of Madame de
la Chanterie and her charitable association. It was M. Alain who introduced
Godefroid into the Brotherhood of the Consolation. [The Seamy Side of
History.]

ALBERTINE, Madame de Bargeton's chambermaid, between the years
1821 and 1824. [Lost Illusions.]
ALBON (Marquis d'), court councillor and ministerial deputy under the
Restoration. Born in 1777. In September, 1819, he went hunting in the edge
of the forest of l'Isle-Adam with his friend Philippe de Sucy, who suddenly
fell senseless at the sight of a poor madwoman whom he recognized as a
former mistress, Stephanie de Vandieres. The Marquis d'Albon, assisted by
two passers by, M. and Mme. de Granville, resuscitated M. de Sucy. Then
the marquis returned, at his friend's entreaty, to the home of Stephanie,
where he learned from the uncle of this unfortunate one the sad story of the
love of his friend and Madame de Vandieres. [Farewell.]
ALBRIZZI (Comtesse), a friend, in 1820, at Venice, of the celebrated
melomaniac, Capraja. [Massimilla Doni.]
ALDRIGGER (Jean-Baptiste, Baron d'), born in Alsace in 1764. In 1800
a banker at Strasbourg, where he was at the apogee of a fortune made
during the Revolution, he wedded, partly through ambition, partly through
inclination, the heiress of the Adolphuses of Manheim. The young daughter
was idolized by every one in her family and naturally inherited all their
fortune after some ten years. Aldrigger, created baron by the Emperor, was
passionately devoted to the great man who had bestowed upon him his title,
and he ruined himself, between 1814 and 1815, by believing too deeply in
"the sun of Austerlitz." At the time of the invasion, the trustworthy Alsatian
continued to pay on demand and closed up his bank, thus meriting the
remark of Nucingen, his former head-clerk: "Honest, but stoobid." The
Baron d'Aldrigger went at once to Paris. There still remained to him an
income of forty-four thousand francs, reduced at his death, in 1823, by
more than half on account of the expenditures and carelessness of his wife.
The latter was left a widow with two daughters, Malvina and Isaure. [The
Firm of Nucingen.]
ALDRIGGER (Theodora-Marguerite-Wilhelmine, Baronne d'), nee
Adolphus. Daughter of the banker Adolphus of Manheim, greatly spoiled
by her parents. In 1800 she married the Strasbourg banker, Aldrigger, who
spoiled her as badly as they had done and as later did the two daughters
whom she had by her husband. She was superficial, incapable, egotistic,

coquettish and pretty. At forty years of age she still preserved almost all her
freshness and could be called "the little Shepherdess of the Alps." In 1823,
when the baron died, she came near following him through her violent
grief. The following morning at breakfast she was served with small pease,
of which she was very fond, and these small pease averted the crisis. She
resided in the rue Joubert, Paris, where she held receptions until the
marriage of her younger daughter. [The Firm of Nucingen.]
ALDRIGGER (Malvina d'), elder daughter of the Baron and Baroness
d'Aldrigger, born at Strasbourg in 1801, at the time when the family was
most wealthy. Dignified, slender, swarthy, sensuous, she was a good type of
the woman "you have seen at Barcelona." Intelligent, haughty, whole-
souled, sentimental and sympathetic, she was nevertheless smitten by the
dry Ferdinand du Tillet, who sought her hand in marriage at one time, but
forsook her when he learned of the bankruptcy of the Aldrigger family. The
lawyer Desroches also considered asking the hand of Malvina, but he too
gave up the idea. The young girl was counseled by Eugene de Rastignac,
who took it upon himself to see that she got married. Nevertheless, she
ended by being an old maid, withering day by day, giving piano lessons,
living rather meagrely with her mother in a modest flat on the third floor, in
the rue du Mont-Thabor. [The Firm of Nucingen.]
ALDRIGGER (Isaure d'), second daughter of the Baron and Baronne
d'Aldrigger, married to Godefroid de Beaudenord (See that name.) [The
Firm of Nucingen.]
ALINE, a young Auvergne chambermaid in the service of Madame
Veronique Graslin, to whom she was devoted body and soul. She was
probably the only one to whom was confided all the terrible secrets
pertaining to the life of Madame Graslin. [The Country Parson.]
ALLEGRAIN* (Christophe-Gabriel), French sculptor, born in 1710.
With Lauterbourg and Vien, at Rome, in 1758, he assisted his friend
Sarrasine to abduct Zambinella, then a famous singer. The prima-donna was
a eunuch. [Sarrasine.]
* To the sculptor Allegrain who died in 1795, the Louvre Museum is
indebted for a "Narcisse," a "Diana," and a "Venus entering the
Bath."

ALPHONSE, a friend of the ruined orphan, Charles Grandet, tarrying
temporarily at Saumur. In 1819 he acquitted himself most creditably of a
mission entrusted to him by that young man. He wound up Charles'
business at Paris, paying all his debts by a single little sale. [Eugenie
Grandet.]
AL-SARTCHILD, name of a German banking-house, where Gedeon
Brunner was compelled to deposit the funds belonging to his son Frederic
and inherited from his mother. [Cousin Pons.]
ALTHOR (Jacob), a Hambourg banker, who opened up a business at
Havre in 1815. He had a son, whom in 1829 M. and Mme. Mignon desired
for a son-in-law. [Modeste Mignon.]
ALTHOR (Francisque), son of Jacob Althor. Francisque was the dandy of
Havre in 1829. He wished to marry Modeste Mignon but forsook her
quickly enough when he found out that her family was bankrupt. Not long
afterwards he married Mlle. Vilquin the elder. [Modeste Mignon.]
AMANDA, Parisian modiste at the time of Louis Philippe. Among her
customers was Marguerite Turquet, known as Malaga, who was slow in
paying bills. [A Man of Business.]
AMAURY (Madame), owner, in 1829, of a pavilion at Sauvic, near
Ingouville, which Canalis leased when he went to Havre to see Mlle.
Mignon [Modeste Mignon.]
AMBERMESNIL (Comtesse de l') went in 1819, when about thirty-six
years old, to board with the widow, Mme. Vauquer, rue Nueve Sainte-
Genevieve, now Tournefort, Paris. Mme. de l'Ambermesnil gave it out that
she was awaiting the settlement of a pension which was due her on account
of being the widow of a general killed "on the battlefield." Mme. Vauquer
gave her every attention, confiding all her own affairs to her. The comtesse
vanished at the end of six months, leaving a board bill unsettled. Mme.
Vauquer sought her eagerly, but was never able to obtain a trace of this
adventuress. [Father Goriot.]
AMEDEE, nickname bestowed on Felix de Vandenesse by Lady Dudley
when she thought she saw a rival in Madame de Mortsauf. [The Lily of the
Valley.]

ANCHISE (Pere), a surname given by La Palferine to a little Savoyard of
ten years who worked for him without pay. "I have never seen such silliness
coupled with such intelligence," the Prince of Bohemia said of this child;
"he would go through fire for me, he understands everything, and yet he
does not see that I cannot help him." [A Prince of Bohemia.]
ANGARD—At Paris, in 1840, the "professor" Angard was consulted, in
connection with the Doctors Bianchon and Larabit, on account of Mme.
Hector Hulot, who it was feared was losing her reason. [Cousin Betty.]
ANGELIQUE (Sister), nun of the Carmelite convent at Blois under Louis
XVIII. Celebrated for her leanness. She was known by Renee de l'Estorade
(Mme. de Maucombe) and Louise de Chaulieu (Mme. Marie Gaston), who
went to school at the convent. [Letters of Two Brides.]
ANICETTE, chambermaid of the Princesse de Cadignan in 1839. The
artful and pretty Champagne girl was sought by the sub-prefect of Arcis-
sur-Aube, by Maxime de Trailles, and by Mme. Beauvisage, the mayor's
wife, each trying to bribe and enlist her on the side of one of the various
candidates for deputy. [The Member for Arcis.]
ANNETTE, Christian name of a young woman of the Parisian world,
under the Restoration. She had been brought up at Ecouen, where she had
received the practical counsels of Mme. Campan. Mistress of Charles
Grandet before his father's death. Towards the close of 1819, a prey to
suspicion, she must needs sacrifice her happiness for the time being, so she
made a weary journey with her husband into Scotland. She made her lover
effeminate and materialistic, advising with him about everything. He
returned from the Indies in 1827, when she quickly brought about his
engagement with Mlle. d'Aubrion. [Eugenie Grandet.]
ANNETTE, maid servant of Rigou at Blangy, Burgundy. She was
nineteen years old, in 1823, and had held this place for more than three
years, although Gregoire Rigou never kept servants for a longer period than
this, however much he might and did favor them. Annette, sweet, blonde,
delicate, a true masterpiece of dainty, piquant loveliness, worthy to wear a
duchess' coronet, earned nevertheless only thirty francs a year. She kept
company with Jean-Louis Tonsard without letting her master once suspect

it; ambition had prompted this young woman to flatter her employer as a
means of hoodwinking this lynx. [The Peasantry.]
ANSELME, Jesuit, living in rue des Postes (now rue Lhomond).
Celebrated mathematician. Had some dealings with Felix Phellion, whom
he tried to convert to his religious belief. This rather meagre information
concerning him was furnished by a certain Madame Komorn. [The Middle
Classes.]
ANTOINE, born in the village of Echelles, Savoy. In 1824 he had served
longest as clerk in the Bureau of Finance, where he had secured positions,
still more modest than his own, for a couple of his nephews, Laurent and
Gabriel, both of whom were married to lace laundresses. Antoine meddled
with every act of the administration. He elbowed, criticised, scolded and
toadied to Clement Chardin des Lupeaulx and other office-holders. He
doubtless lived with his nephews. [The Government Clerks.]
ANTOINE, old servant of the Marquise Beatrix de Rochefide, in 1840,
on the rue de Chartes-du-Roule, near Monceau Park, Paris. [Beatrix.]
ANTONIA—see Chocardelle, Mlle.
AQUILINA, a Parisian courtesan of the time of the Restoration and
Louis Philippe. She claimed to be a Piedmontese. Of her true name she was
ignorant. She had appropriated this nom de guerre from a character in the
well-known tragedy by Otway, "Venice Preserved," that she had chanced to
read. At sixteen, pure and beautiful, at the time of her downfall, she had met
Castanier, Nucingen's cashier, who resolved to save her from evil for his
own gain, and live maritally with her in the rue Richter. Aquilina then took
the name of Madame de la Garde. At the same time of her relations with
Castanier, she had for a lover a certain Leon, a petty officer in a regiment of
infantry, and none other than one of the sergeants of Rochelle to be
executed on the Place de Greve in 1822. Before this execution, in the reign
of Louis XVIII., she attended a performance of "Le Comedien d'Etampes,"
one evening at the Gymnase, when she laughed immoderately at the
comical part played by Perlet. At the same time, Castanier, also present at
this mirthful scene, but harassed by Melmoth, was experiencing the
insufferable doom of a cruel hidden drama. [Melmoth Reconciled.] Her
next appearance is at a famous orgy at the home of Frederic Taillefer, rue

Joubert, in company with Emile Blondet, Rastignac, Bixiou and Raphael de
Valentin. She was a magnificent girl of good figure, superb carriage, and
striking though irregular features. Her glance and smile startled one. She
always included some red trinket in her attire, in memory of her executed
lover. [The Magic Skin.]
ARCOS (Comte d'), a Spanish grandee living in the Peninsula at the time
of the expedition of Napoleon I. He would probably have married Maria-
Pepita-Juana Marana de Mancini, had it not been for the peculiar incidents
which brought about her marriage with the French officer, Francois Diard.
[The Maranas.]
ARGAIOLO (Duc d'), a very rich and well-born Italian, the respected
though aged husband of her who later became the Duchesse de Rhetore, to
the perpetual grief of Albert Savarus. Argaiolo died, almost an
octogenarian, in 1835. [Albert Savarus.]
ARGAIOLO (Duchesse d'), nee Soderini, wife of the Duc d'Argaiolo.
She became a widow in 1835, and took as her second husband the Duc de
Rhetore. (See Duchesse de Rhetore.) [Albert Savarus.]
ARRACHELAINE, surname of the rogue, Ruffard. (See that name.)
[Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
ARTHEZ (Daniel d'), one of the most illustrious authors of the nineteenth
century, and one of those rare men who display "the unity of excellent talent
and excellent character." Born about 1794 or 1796. A Picard gentleman. In
1821, when about twenty-five, he was poverty-stricken and dwelt on the
fifth floor of a dismal house in the rue des Quatre-Vents, Paris, where had
also resided the illustrious surgeon Desplein, in his youth. There he
fraternized with: Horace Bianchon, then house-physician at Hotel-Dieu;
Leon Giraud, the profound philosopher; Joseph Bridau, the painter who
later achieved so much renown; Fulgence Ridal, comic poet of great
sprightliness; Meyraux, the eminent physiologist who died young; lastly,
Louis Lambert and Michel Chrestien, the Federalist Republican, both of
whom were cut off in their prime. To these men of heart and of talent
Lucien de Rubempre, the poet, sought to attach himself. He was introduced
by Daniel d'Arthez, their recognized leader. This society had taken the name
of the "Cenacle." D'Arthez and his friends advised and aided, when in need,

Lucien the "Distinguished Provincial at Paris" who ended so tragically.
Moreover, with a truly remarkable disinterestedness d'Arthez corrected and
revised "The Archer of Charles IX.," written by Lucien, and the work
became a superb book, in his hands. Another glimpse of d'Arthez is as the
unselfish friend of Marie Gaston, a young poet of his stamp, but
"effeminate." D'Arthez was swarthy, with long locks, rather small and
bearing some resemblance to Bonaparte. He might be called the rival of
Rousseau, "the Aquatic," since he was very temperate, very pure, and drank
water only. For a long time he ate at Flicoteaux's in the Latin Quarter. He
had grown famous in 1832, besides enjoying an income of thirty thousand
francs bequeathed by an uncle who had left him a prey to the most biting
poverty so long as the author was unknown. D'Arthez then resided in a
pretty house of his own in the rue de Bellefond, where he lived in other
respects as formerly, in the rigor of work. He was a deputy sitting on the
right and upholding the Royalist platform of Divine Right. When he had
acquired a competence, he had a most vulgar and incomprehensible liaison
with a woman tolerably pretty, but belonging to a lower society and without
either education or breeding. D'Arthez maintained her, nevertheless,
carefully concealing her from sight; but, far from being a pleasurable
manner of life, it became odious to him. It was at this time that he was
invited to the home of Diane de Maufrigneuse, Princesse de Cadignan, who
was then thirty-six, but did not look it. The famous "great coquette" told
him her (so-called) "secrets," offered herself outright to this man whom she
treated as a "famous simpleton," and whom she made her lover. After that
day there was no doubt about the relations of the princesse and Daniel
d'Arthez. The great author, whose works became very rare, appeared only
during some of the winter months at the Chamber of Deputies. [A
Distinguished Provincial at Paris. Letters of Two Brides. The Member for
Arcis. The Secrets of a Princess.]
ASIE, one of the pseudonyms of Jacqueline Collin. (See that name.)
[Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
ATHALIE, cook for Mme. Schontz in 1836. According to her mistress,
she was specially gifted in preparing venison. [The Muse of the
Department.]

AUBRION (Marquis d'), a gentleman-in-waiting of the Bedchamber,
under Charles X. He was of the house of Aubrion de Buch, whose last head
died before 1789. He was silly enough to wed a woman of fashion, though
he was already an old man of but twenty thousand francs income, a sum
hardly sufficient in Paris. He tried to marry his daughter without a dowry to
some man who was intoxicated with nobility. In 1827, to quote Mme.
d'Aubrion, this ancient wreck was madly devoted to the Duchesse de
Chaulieu [Eugenie Grandet.]
AUBRION (Marquise d'), wife of the preceding. Born in 1789. At thirty-
eight she was still pretty, and, having always been somewhat aspiring, she
endeavored (in 1827), by hook or by crook, to entangle Charles Grandet,
lately returned from the Indies. She wished to make a son-in-law out of
him, and she succeeded. [Eugenie Grandet.]
AUBRION (Mathilde d') daughter of the Marquis and Marquise
d'Aubrion; born in 1808; married to Charles Grandet. (See that name.)
[Eugenie Grandet.]
AUBRION (Comte d'), the title acquired by Charles Grandet after his
marriage to the daughter of the Marquis d'Aubrion. [The Firm of
Nucingen.]
AUFFRAY, grocer at Provins, in the period of Louis XV., Louis XVI. and
the Revolution. M. Auffray married the first time when eighteen, the second
time at sixty-nine. By his first wife he had a rather ugly daughter who
married, at sixteen, a landlord of Provins, Rogron by name. Auffray had
another daughter, by his second marriage, a charming girl, this time, who
married a Breton captain in the Imperial Guard. Pierrette Lorrain was the
daughter of this officer. The old grocer Auffray died at the time of the
Empire without having had time enough to make his will. The inheritance
was so skillfully manipulated by Rogron, the first son-in-law of the
deceased, that almost nothing was left for the goodman's widow, then only
about thirty-eight years old. [Pierrette.]
AUFFRAY (Madame), wife of the preceding. (See Neraud, Mme.)
[Pierrette.]

AUFFRAY, a notary of Provins in 1827. Husband of Mme. Guenee's
third daughter. Great-grand-nephew of the old grocer, Auffray. Appointed a
guardian of Pierrette Lorrain. On account of the ill-treatment to which this
young girl was subjected at the home of her guardian, Denis Rogron, she
was removed, an invalid, to the home of the notary Auffray, a designated
guardian, where she died, although tenderly cared for. [Pierrette.]
AUFFRAY (Madame), born Guenee. Wife of the preceding. The third
daughter of Mme. Guenee, born Tiphaine. She exhibited the greatest
kindness for Pierrette Lorrain, and nursed her tenderly in her last illness.
[Pierrette.]
AUGUSTE, name borne by Boislaurier, as chief of "brigands," in the
uprisings of the West under the Republic and under the Empire. [The Seamy
Side of History.]
AUGUSTE, valet de chambre of the General Marquis Armand de
Montriveau, under the Restoration, at the time when the latter dwelt in the
rue de Seine hard by the Chamber of Peers, and was intimate with the
Duchesse Antoinette de Langeais. [The Thirteen.]
AUGUSTE, notorious assassin, executed in the first years of the
Restoration. He left a mistress, surnamed Rousse, to whom Jacques Collin
had faithfully remitted (in 1819) some twenty odd thousands of francs, on
behalf of her lover after his execution. This woman was married in 1821, by
Jacques Collin's sister, to the head clerk of a rich, wholesale hardware
merchant. Nevertheless, though once more in respectable society, she
remained bound, by a secret compact, to the terrible Vautrin and his sister.
[Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
AUGUSTE (Madame), dressmaker of Esther Gobseck, and her creditor
in the time of Louis XVIII. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
AUGUSTIN, valet de chambre of M. de Serizy in 1822. [A Start in Life.]
AURELIE, a Parisian courtesan, under Louis Philippe, at the time when
Mme. Fabien du Ronceret commenced her conquests. [Beatrix.]
AURELIE (La Petite), one of the nicknames of Josephine Schiltz, also
called Schontz, who became, later, Mme. Fabien du Ronceret. [Beatrix.]

AUVERGNAT (L'), one of the assumed names of the rogue Selerier, alias
Pere Ralleau, alias Rouleur, alias Fil-de-soie. (See Selerier.) [Scenes from a
Courtesan's Life.]

B
BABYLAS, groom or "tiger" of Amedee de Soulas, in 1834, at
Besancon. Was fourteen years old at this time. The son of one of his
master's tenants. He earned thirty-six francs a month by his position to
support himself, but he was neat and skillful. [Albert Savarus.]
BAPTISTE, valet de chambre to the Duchesse de Lenoncourt-Chaulieu
in 1830. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
BARBANCHU, Bohemian with a cocked hat, who was called into
Vefour's by some journalists who breakfasted there at the expense of Jerome
Thuillier, in 1840, and invited by them to "sponge" off of this urbane man,
which he did. [The Middle Classes.]
BARBANTI (The), a Corsican family who brought about the
reconciliation of the Piombos and the Portas in 1800. [The Vendetta.]
BARBET, a dynasty of second-hand book-dealers in Paris under the
Restoration and Louis Philippe. They were Normans. In 1821 and the years
following, one of them ran a little shop on the quay des Grands-Augustins,
and purchased Lousteau's books. In 1836, a Barbet, partner in a book-shop
with Metivier and Morand, owned a wretched house on the rue Notre-
Dame-des-Champs and the boulevard du Mont-Parnasse, where dwelt the
Baron Bourlac with his daughter and grandson. In 1840 the Barbets had
become regular usurers dealing in credits with the firm of Cerizet and
Company. The same year a Barbet occupied, in a house belonging to
Jerome Thuillier, rue Saint-Dominique-d'Enfer (now rue Royal-Collard), a
room on the first flight up and a shop on the ground floor. He was then a
"publisher's shark." Barbet junior, a nephew of the foregoing, and editor in
the alley des Panoramas, placed on the market at this time a brochure
composed by Th. de la Peyrade but signed by Thuillier and having the title
"Capital and Taxes." [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris. A Man of
Business. The Seamy Side of History. The Middle Classes.]

BARBETTE, wife of the great Cibot, known as Galope-Chopine. (See
Cibot, Barbette.) [Les Chouans.]
BARCHOU DE PENHOEN (Auguste-Theodore-Hilaire), born at
Morlaix (Finistere), April 28, 1801, died at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, July
29, 1855. A school-mate of Balzac, Jules Dufaure and Louis Lambert, and
his neighbors in the college dormitory of Vendome in 1811. Later he was an
officer, then a writer of transcendental philosophy, a translator of Fichte, a
friend and interpreter of Ballanche. In 1849 he was elected, by his fellow-
citizens of Finistere, to the Legislative Assembly where he represented the
Legitimists and the Catholics. He protested against the coup d'etat of
December 2, 1851 (See "The Story of a Crime," by Victor Hugo). When a
child he came under the influence of Pyrrhonism. He once gainsaid the
talent of Louis Lambert, his Vendome school-mate. [Louis Lambert.]
BARGETON (De), born between 1761 and 1763. Great-grandson of an
Alderman of Bordeau named Mirault, ennobled during the reign of Louis
XIII., and whose son, under Louis XIV., now Mirault de Bargeton, was an
officer of the Guards de la Porte. He owned a house at Angouleme, in the
rue du Minage, where he lived with his wife, Marie-Louise-Anais de
Negrepelisse, to whom he was entirely obedient. On her account, and at her
instigation, he fought with one of the habitues of his salon, Stanislas de
Chandour, who had circulated in the town a slander on Mme. de Bargeton.
Bargeton lodged a bullet in his opponent's neck. He had for a second his
father-in-law, M. de Negrepelisse. Following this, M. de Bargeton retired
into his estate at Escarbas, near Barbezieux, while his wife, as a result of the
duel left Angouleme for Paris. M. de Bargeton had been of good physique,
but "injured by youthful excesses." He was commonplace, but a great
gourmand. He died of indigestion towards the close of 1821. [Lost
Illusions.]
BARGETON (Madame de), nee Marie-Louise-Anais Negrepelisse, wife
of the foregoing. Left a widow, she married again, this time the Baron Sixte
du Chatelet. (See that name.)
BARILLAUD, known by Frederic Alain whose suspicion he aroused
with regard to Monegod. [The Seamy Side of History.]

BARIMORE (Lady), daughter of Lord Dudley, and apparently the wife
of Lord Barimore, although it is a disputed question. Just after 1830, she
helped receive at a function of Mlle. des Touches, rue de la Chaussee-
d'Antin, where Marsay told about his first love affair. [Another Study of
Woman.]
BARKER (William), one of Vautrin's "incarnations." In 1824 or 1825,
under this assumed name, he posed as one of the creditors of M. d'Estourny,
making him endorse some notes of Cerizet's, the partner of this M.
d'Estourny. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
BARNHEIM, family in good standing at Bade. On the maternal side, the
family of Mme. du Ronceret, nee Schiltz, alias Schontz. [Beatrix.]
BARNIOL, Phellion's son-in-law. Head of an academy (in 1840), rue
Saint-Hyacinthe-Saint-Michel (now, rue Le Goff and rue Malebrache). A
rather influential man in the Faubourg Saint-Jacques. Visited the salon of
Thuillier. [The Middle Classes.]
BARNIOL (Madame), nee Phellion, wife of the preceding. She had been
under-governess in the boarding school of the Mlles. Lagrave, rue Notre-
Dame des Champs. [The Middle Classes.]
BARRY (John), a young English huntsman, well known in the district
whence the Prince of Loudon brought him to employ him at his own home.
He was with this great lord in 1829, 1830. [Modeste Mignon.]
BARTAS (Adrien de), of Angouleme. In 1821, he and his wife were very
devoted callers at the Bargetons. M. de Bartas gave himself up entirely to
music, talking about this subject incessantly, and courting invitations to sing
with his heavy bass voice. He posed as the lover of Mme. de Brebion, the
wife of his best friend. M. de Brebion became the lover of Mme. de Bartas.
[Lost Illusions.]
BARTAS (Madame Josephine de), wife of the preceding, always called
Fifine, "for short." [Lost Illusions.]
BASTIENNE, Parisian modiste in 1821. Finot's journal vaunted her hats,
for a pecuniary consideration, and derogated those of Virginie, formerly
praised. [Lost Illusions.]

BATAILLES (The), belonging to the bourgeoisie of Paris, traders of
Marais, neighbors and friends of the Baudoyers and the Saillards in 1824.
M. Bataille was a captain in the National Guard, a fact which he allowed no
one to ignore. [The Government Clerks.]
BAUDENORD (Godefroid de), born in 1800. In 1821 he was one of the
kings of fashion, in company with Marsay, Vandenesse, Ajuda-Pinto,
Maxime de Trailles, Rastignac, the Duc de Maufrigneuse and Manerville.
[A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.] His nobility and breeding were
perhaps not very orthodox. According to Mlle. Emilie de Fontaine, he was
of bad figure and stout, having but a single advantage—that of his brown
locks. [The Ball at Sceaux.] A cousin, by marriage, of his guardian, the
Marquis d'Aiglemont, he was, like him, ruined by the Baron de Nucingen in
the Wortschin mine deal. At one time Beaudenord thought of paying court
to his pretty cousin, the Marquise d'Aiglemont. In 1827 he wedded Isaure
d'Aldrigger and, after having lived with her in a cosy little house on the rue
de le Planche, he was obliged to solicit employment of the Minister of
Finance, a position which he lost on account of the Revolution of 1830.
However, he was reinstated through the influence of Nucingen, in 1836. He
now lived modestly with his mother-in-law, his unmarried sister-in-law,
Malvina, his wife and four children which she had given him, on the third
floor, over the entresol, rue du Mont-Thabor. [The Firm of Nucingen.]
BAUDENORD (Madame de), wife of the preceding. Born Isaure
d'Aldrigger, in 1807, at Strasbourg. An indolent blonde, fond of dancing,
but a nonentity from both the moral and the intellectual standpoints. [The
Firm of Nucingen.]
BAUDOYER (Monsieur and Madame), formerly tanners at Paris, rue
Censier. They owned their house, besides having a country seat at l'Isle
Adam. They had but one child, Isidore, whose sketch follows. Mme.
Baudoyer, born Mitral, was the sister of the bailiff of that name. [The
Government Clerks.]
BAUDOYER (Isidore), born in 1788; only son of M. and Mme.
Baudoyer, tanners, rue Censier, Paris. Having finished a course of study, he
obtained a position in the Bureau of Finance, where, despite his notorious
incapacity—and through "wire-pulling"—he became head of the office. In

1824, a head of the division, M. de La Billardiere died, when the
meritorious clerk, Xavier Rabourdin, aspired to succeed him; but the
position went to Isidore Baudoyer, who was backed by the power of money
and the influence of the Church. He did not retain this post long; six months
thereafter he became a preceptor at Paris. Isidore Baudoyer lived with his
wife and her parents in a house on Palais Royale (now Place des Vosges), of
which they were joint owners. [The Government Clerks.] He dined
frequently, in 1840, at Thuillier's, an old employe of the Bureau of Finance,
then domiciled at the rue Saint-Dominique-d'Enfer, who had renewed his
acquaintance with his old-time colleagues. [The Middle Classes.] In 1845,
this man, who had been a model husband and who made a great pretence of
religion maintained Heloise Brisetout. He was then mayor of the
arrondissement of the Palais Royale. [Cousin Pons.]
BAUDOYER (Madame), wife of the preceding and daughter of a cashier
of the Minister of Finance; born Elisabeth Saillard in 1795. Her mother, an
Auvergnat, had an uncle, Bidault, alias Gigonnet, a short-time money lender
in the Halles quarter. On the other side, her mother-in-law was the sister of
the bailiff Mitral. Thanks to these two men of means, who exercised a
veritable secret power, and through her piety, which put her on good terms
with the clergy, she succeeded in raising her husband up to the highest
official positions—profiting also by the financial straits of Clement Chardin
des Lupeaulx, Secretary General of Finance. [The Government Clerks.]
BAUDOYER (Mademoiselle), daughter of Isidore Baudoyer and
Elisabeth Saillard, born in 1812. Reared by her parents with the idea of
becoming the wife of the shrewd and energetic speculator Martin Falleix,
brother of Jacques Falleix the stock-broker. [The Government Clerks.]
BAUDRAND, cashier of a boulevard theatre, of which Gaudissart
became the director about 1834. In 1845 he was succeeded by the
proletariat Topinard. [Cousin Pons.]
BAUDRY (Planat de), Receiver General of Finances under the
Restoration. He married one of the daughters of the Comte de Fontaine. He
usually passed his summers at Sceaux, with almost all his wife's family.
[The Ball at Sceaux.]

BAUVAN (Comte de), one of the instigators of the Chouan insurrection
in the department d'Ille-et-Vilaine, in 1799. Through a secret revelation
made to his friend the Marquis de Montauran on the part of Mlle. de
Verneuil, the Comte de Bauvan caused, indirectly, the Massacre des Bleus
at Vivetiere. Later, surprised in an ambuscade by soldiers of the Republic,
he was made a prisoner by Mlle. de Verneuil and owed his life to her; for
this reason he became entirely devoted to her, assisting as a witness at her
marriage with Montauran. [The Chouans.]
BAUVAN (Comtesse de), in all likelihood the wife of the foregoing,
whom she survived. In 1822 she was manager of a Parisian lottery bureau
which employed Madame Agatha Bridau, about the same time. [A
Bachelor's Establishment.]
BAUVAN (Comte and Comtesse de), father and mother of Octave de
Bauvan. Relics of the old Court, living in a tumble-down house on the rue
Payenne at Paris, where they died, about 1815, within a few months of each
other, and before the conjugal infelicity of their son. (See Octave de
Bauvan.) Probably related to the two preceding. [Honorine.]
BAUVAN (Comte Octave de), statesman and French magistrate. Born in
1787. When twenty-six he married Honorine, a beautiful young heiress who
had been reared carefully at the home of his parents, M. and Mme. de
Bauvan, whose ward she was. Two or three years afterwards she left the
conjugal roof, to the infinite despair of the comte, who gave himself over
entirely to winning her back again. At the end of several years he succeeded
in getting her to return to him through pity, but she died soon after this
reconciliation, leaving one son born of their reunion. The Comte de Bauvan,
completely broken, set out for Italy about 1836. He had two residences at
Paris, one on rue Payenne, an heirloom, the other on Faubourg Saint-
Honore, which was the scene of the domestic reunion. [Honorine.] In 1830,
the Comte de Bauvan, then president of the Court of Cassation, with MM.
de Granville and de Serizy, tried to save Lucien de Rubempre from a
criminal judgment, and, after the suicide of that unhappy man, he followed
his remains to the grave. [Scenes from a Courtesan's life.]
BAUVAN (Comtesse Honorine de), wife of the preceding. Born in 1794.
Married at nineteen to the Comte Octave de Bauvan. After having

abandoned her husband, she was in turn, while expecting a child,
abandoned by her lover, some eighteen months later. She then lived a very
retired life in the rue Saint-Maur, yet all the time being under the secret
surveillance of the Comte de Bauvan who paid exorbitant prices for the
artificial flowers which she made. She thus derived from him a rather large
part of the sustenance which she believed she owed only to her own efforts.
She died, reunited to her husband, shortly after the Revolution of July,
1830. Honorine de Bauvan lost her child born out of wedlock, and she
always mourned it. During her years of toilsome exile in the Parisian
faubourg, she came in contact successively with Marie Gobain, Jean-Jules
Popinot, Felix Gaudissart, Maurice de l'Hostal and Abbe Loraux.
[Honorine.]
BEAUDENORD (Madame de), wife of the preceding. Born Isaure
d'Aldrigger, in 1807, at Strasbourg. An indolent blonde, fond of dancing,
but a nonentity from both the moral and the intellectual standpoints. [The
Firm of Nucingen.]
BEAUMESNIL (Mademoiselle), a celebrated actress of the Theatre-
Francais, Paris. Mature at the time of the Restoration. She was the mistress
of the police-officer Peyrade, by whom she had a daughter, Lydie, whom he
acknowledged. The last home of Mlle. Beaumesnil was on rue de Tournon.
It was there that she suffered the loss by theft of her valuable diamonds,
through Charles Crochard, her real lover. This was at the beginning of the
reign of Louis Philippe. [The Middle Classes. Scenes from a Courtesan's
Life. A Second Home.]
BEAUPIED, or Beau-Pied, an alias of Jean Falcon. (See that name.)
BEAUPRE (Fanny), an actress at the Theatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin,
Paris, time of Charles X. Young and beautiful, in 1825, she made a name for
herself in the role of marquise in a melodrama entitled "La Famille
d'Anglade." At this time she had replaced Coralie, then dead, in the
affections of Camusot the silk-merchant. It was at Fanny Beaupre's that
Oscar Husson, one of the clerks of lawyer Desroches, lost in gaming the
sum of five hundred francs belonging to his employer, and that he was
discovered lying dead-drunk on a sofa by his uncle Cardot. [A Start in Life.]
In 1829 Fanny Beaupre, for a money consideration, posed as the best friend

of the Duc d'Herouville. [Modeste Mignon.] In 1842, after his liaison with
Mme. de la Baudraye, Lousteau lived maritally with her. [The Muse of the
Department.] A frequent inmate of the mansion magnificently fitted up for
Esther Gobseck by the Baron de Nucingen, she knew all the fast set of the
years 1829 and 1830. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
BEAUSEANT (Marquis and Comte de), the father and eldest brother of
the Vicomte de Beauseant, husband of Claire de Bourgogne. [The Deserted
Woman.] In 1819, the marquis and the comte dwelt together in their house,
rue Saint-Dominique, Paris. [Father Goriot.] While the Revolution was on,
the marquis had emigrated. The Abbe de Marolles had dealings with him.
[An Episode under the Terror.]
BEAUSEANT (Marquise de). In 1824 a Marquise de Beauseant, then
rather old, is found to have dealings with the Chaulieus. It was probably the
widow of the marquis of this name, and the mother of the Comte and
Vicomte de Beauseant. [Letters of Two Brides.] The Marquise de Beauseant
was a native of Champagne, coming of a very old family. [The Deserted
Woman.]
BEAUSEANT (Vicomte de), husband of Claire de Bourgogne. He
understood the relations of his wife with Miguel d'Ajuda-Pinto, and,
whether he liked it or not, he respected this species of morganatic alliance
recognized by society. The Vicomte de Beauseant had his residence in Paris
on the rue de Grenelle in 1819. At that time he kept a dancer and liked
nothing better than high living. He became a marquis on the death of his
father and eldest brother. He was a polished man, courtly, methodical, and
ceremonious. He insisted upon living selfishly. His death would have
allowed Mme. de Beauseant to wed Gaston de Nueil. [Father Goriot. The
Deserted Woman.]
BEAUSEANT (Vicomtesse de), born Clair de Bourgogne, in 1792. Wife
of the preceding and cousin of Eugene de Rastignac. Of a family almost
royal. Deceived by her lover, Miguel d'Ajuda-Pinto, who, while continuing
his intimacy with her, asked and obtained the hand of Berthe de Rochefide,
the vicomtesse left Paris secretly before this wedding and on the morning
following a grand ball which was given at her home where she shone in all
her pride and splendor. In 1822 this "deserted woman" had lived for three

years in the most rigid seclusion at Courcelles near Bayeux. Gaston de
Nueil, a young man of three and twenty, who had been sent to Normandy
for his health, succeeded in making her acquaintance, was immediately
smitten with her and, after a long seige, became her lover. This was at
Geneva, whither she had fled. Their intimacy lasted for nine years, being
broken by the marriage of the young man. In 1819 the Vicomtesse de
Beauseant received at Paris the most famous "high-rollers" of the day —
Malincour, Ronquerolles, Maxime de Trailles, Marsay, Vandenesse,
together with an intermingling of the most elegant dames, as Lady Brandon,
the Duchesse de Langeais, the Comtesse de Kergarouet, Mme. de Serizy,
the Duchesse Carigliano, the Comtesse Ferraud, Mme. de Lantry, the
Marquise d'Aiglemont, Mme. Firmiani, the Marquise de Listomere, the
Marquise d'Espard and the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse. She was equally
intimate with Grandlieu, and the General de Montriveau. Rastignac, then
poor at the time of his start in the world, also received cards to her
receptions. [Father Goriot. The Deserted Woman. Albert Savarus.]
BEAUSSIER, a bourgeois of Issoudun under the Restoration. Upon
seeing Joseph Bridau in the diligence, while the artist and his mother were
on a journey in 1822, he remarked that he would not care to meet him at
night in the corner of a forest—he looked so much like a highwayman. That
same evening Beaussier, accompanied by his wife, came to call at Hochon's
in order to get a nearer view of the painter. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
BEAUSSIER the younger, known as Beaussier the Great; son of the
preceding and one of the Knights of Idlesse at Issoudun, commanded by
Maxence Gilet, under the Restoration. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
BEAUVISAGE, physician of the Convent des Carmelites at Blois, time
of Louis XVIII. He was known by Louise de Chaulieu and by Renee de
Maucombe, who were reared in the convent. According to Louise de
Chaulieu, he certainly belied his name. [Letters of Two Brides.]
BEAUVISAGE, at one time tenant of the splendid farm of Bellache,
pertaining to the Gondreville estate at Arcis-sur-Aube. The father of Phileas
Beauvisage. Died about the beginning of the nineteenth century. [The
Gondreville Mystery. The Member for Arcis.]

BEAUVISAGE (Madame), wife of the preceding. She survived him for
quite a long period and helped her son Phileas win his success. [The
Member for Arcis.]
BEAUVISAGE (Phileas), son of Beauvisage the farmer. Born in 1792. A
hosier at Arcis-sur-Aube during the Restoration. Mayor of the town in 1839.
After a preliminary defeat he was elected deputy at the time when
Sallenauve sent in his resignation, in 1841. An ardent admirer of Crevel
whose affectations he aped. A millionaire and very vain, he would have
been able, according to Crevel, to advance Mme. Hulot, for a consideration,
the two hundred thousand francs of which that unhappy lady stood in so
dire a need about 1842. [Cousin Betty. The Member for Arcis.]
BEAUVISAGE (Madame), born Severine Grevin in 1795. Wife of
Phileas Beauvisage, whom she kept in complete subjugation. Daughter of
Grevin the notary of Arcis-sur-Aube, Senator Malin de Gondreville's
intimate friend. She inherited her father's marvelous faculty of discretion;
and, though diminutive in stature, reminded one forcibly, in her face and
ways, of Mlle. Mars. [The Member for Arcis.]
BEAUVISAGE (Cecile-Renee), only daughter of Phileas Beauvisage and
Severine Grevin. Born in 1820. Her natural father was the Vicomte
Melchior de Chargeboeuf who was sub-prefect of Arcis-sur-Aube at the
commencement of the Restoration. She looked exactly like him, besides
having his aristocratic airs. [The Member for Arcis.]
BEAUVOIR (Charles-Felix-Theodore, Chevalier de), cousin of the
Duchesse de Maille. A Chouan prisoner of the Republic in the chateau de
l'Escarpe in 1799. The hero of a tale of marital revenge related by Lousteau,
in 1836, to Mme. de la Baudraye, the story being obtained —so the narrator
said—from Charles Nodier. [The Muse of the Department.]
BECANIERE (La), surname of Barbette Cibot. (See that name.)
BECKER (Edme), a student of medicine who dwelt in 1828 at number
22, rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Genevieve—the residence of the Marquis
d'Espard. [The Commission in Lunacy.]
BEDEAU, office boy and roustabout for Maitre Bordin, attorney to the
Chatelet in 1787. [A Start in Life.]

BEGA, surgeon in a French regiment of the Army of Spain in 1808. After
having privately accouched a Spaniard under the espionage of her lover, he
was assassinated by her husband, who surprised him in the telling of this
clandestine operation. The foregoing adventure was told Mme. de la
Baudraye, in 1836, by the Receiver of Finances, Gravier, former paymaster
of the Army. [The Muse of the Department.]
BEGRAND (La), a dancer at the theatre of Porte-Sainte-Martin, Paris, in
1820.* Mariette, who made her debut at this time, also scored a success. [A
Bachelor's Establishment.]
* She shone for more than sixty years as a famous choreographical
artist in the boulevards.

BELLEFEUILLE (Mademoiselle de), assumed name of Caroline
Crochard.
BELLEJAMBE, servant of Lieutenant-Colonel Husson in 1837. [A Start
in Life.]
BELOR (Mademoiselle de), young girl of Bordeaux living there about
1822. She was always in search of a husband, whom, for some cause or
other, she never found. Probably intimate with Evangelista. [A Marriage
Settlement.]
BEMBONI (Monsignor), attache to the Secretary of State at Rome, who
was entrusted with the transmission to the Duc de Soria at Madrid of the
letters of Baron de Macumer his brother, a Spanish refugee at Paris in 1823,
1824. [Letters of Two Brides.]
BENARD (Pieri). After corresponding with a German for two years, he
discovered an engraving by Muller entitled the "Virgin of Dresden." It was
on Chinese paper and made before printing was discovered. It cost Cesar
Birotteau fifteen hundred francs. The perfumer destined this engraving for
the savant Vauquelin, to whom he was under obligations. [Cesar Birotteau.]
BENASSIS (Doctor), born about 1779 in a little town of Languedoc. He
received his early training at the College of Soreze, Tarn, which was
managed by the Oratorians. After that he pursued his medical studies at
Paris, residing in the Latin quarter. When twenty-two he lost his father, who
left him a large fortune; and he deserted a young girl by whom he had had a

son, in order to give himself over to the most foolish dissipations. This
young girl, who was thoroughly well meant and devoted to him, died two
years after the desertion despite the most tender care of her now contrite
lover. Later Benassis sought marriage with another young girl belonging to
a Jansenist family. At first the affair was settled, but he was thrown over
when the secret of his past life, hitherto concealed, was made known. He
then devoted his whole life to his son, but the child died in his youth. After
wavering between suicide and the monastery of Grande-Chartreuse, Doctor
Benassis stopped by chance in the poor village of l'Isere, five leagues from
Grenoble. He remained there until he had transformed the squalid
settlement, inhabited by good-for-nothing Cretins, into the chief place of the
Canton, bustling and prosperous. Benassis died in 1829, mayor of the town.
All the populace mourned the benefactor and man of genius. [The Country
Doctor.]
BENEDETTO, an Italian living at Rome in the first third of the
nineteenth century. A tolerable musician, and a police spy, "on the side."
Ugly, small and a drunkard, he was nevertheless the lucky husband of
Luigia, whose marvelous beauty was his continual boast. After an evening
spent by him over the wine-cups, his wife in loathing lighted a brasier of
charcoal, after carefully closing all the exits of the bedchamber. The
neighbors rushing in succeeded in saving her alone; Benedetto was dead.
[The Member for Arcis.]
BERENICE, chambermaid and cousin of Coralie the actress of the
Panorama and Gymnase Dramatique. A large Norman woman, as ugly as
her mistress was pretty, but tender and sympathetic in direct proportion to
her corpulence. She had been Coralie's childhood playmate and was
absolutely bound up in her. In October, 1822, she gave Lucien de
Rubempre, then entirely penniless, four five-franc pieces which she
undoubtedly owed to the generosity of chance lovers met on the boulevard
Bonne-Nouvelle. This sum enabled the unfortunate poet to return to
Angouleme. [Lost Illusions. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.]
BERGERIN was the best doctor at Saumur during the Restoration. He
attended Felix Grandet in his last illness. [Eugenie Grandet.]

BERGMANN (Monsieur and Madame), Swiss. Venerable gardeners of a
certain Comte Borromeo, tending his parks located on the two famous isles
in Lake Major. In 1823 they owned a house at Gersau, near Quatre-Canton
Lake, in the Canton of Lucerne. For a year back they had let one floor of
this house to the Prince and Princesse Gandolphini, —personages of a novel
entitled, "L'Ambitieux par Amour," published by Albert Savarus in the
Revue de l'Est, in 1834. [Albert Savarus.]
BERNARD. (See Baron de Bourlac.)
BERNUS, diligence messenger carrying the passengers, freight, and
perhaps, the letters of Saint-Nazaire to Guerande, during the time of Charles
X. and Louis Philippe. [Beatrix.]
BERQUET, workman of Besancon who erected an elevated kiosk in the
garden of the Wattevilles, whence their daughter Rosalie could see every act
and movement of Albert Savarus, a near neighbor. [Albert Savarus.]
BERTHIER (Alexandre), marshal of the Empire, born at Versailles in
1753, dying in 1815. He wrote, as Minister of War at the close of 1799, to
Hulot, then in command of the Seventy-second demi-brigade, refusing to
accept his resignation and giving him further orders. [The Chouans.] On the
evening of the battle of Jena, October 13, 1806, he accompanied the
Emperor and was present at the latter's interview with the Marquis de
Chargeboeuf and Laurence de Cinq-Cygne, special envoys to France to
implore pardon for the Simeuses, the Hauteserres, and Michu who had been
condemned as abductors of Senator Malin de Gondreville. [The Gondreville
Mystery.]
BERTHIER, Parisian notary, successor of Cardot, whose assistant head-
clerk he had been and whose daughter Felicite (or Felicie) he married. In
1843 he was Mme. Marneffe's notary. At the same time he had in hand the
affairs of Camusot de Marville; and Sylvain Pons often dined with him.
Master Berthier drew up the marriage settlement of Wilhelm Schwab with
Emilie Graff, and the copartnership articles between Fritz Brunner and
Wilhelm Schwab. [Cousin Betty. Cousin Pons.]
BERTHIER (Madame), nee Felicie Cardot, wife of the preceding. She
had been wronged by the chief-clerk in her father's office. This young man

died suddenly, leaving her enceinte. She then espoused the second clerk,
Berthier, in 1837, after having been on the point of accepting Lousteau.
Berthier was cognizant of all the head-clerk's doings. In this affair both
acted for a common interest. The marriage was measurably happy. Madame
Berthier was so grateful to her husband that she made herself his slave.
About the end of 1844 she welcomed very coldly Sylvain Pons, then in
disgrace in the family circle. [The Muse of the Department. Cousin Pons.]
BERTON, tax-collector at Arcis-sur-Aube in 1839. [The Member for
Arcis.]
BERTON (Mademoiselle), daughter of the tax-collector of Arcis-sur-
Aube. A young, insignificant girl who acted the satellite to Cecile
Beauvisage and Ernestine Mollot. [The Member for Arcis.]
BERTON (Doctor), physician of Paris. In 1836 he lived on rue d'Enfer
(now rue Denfert-Rochereau). An assistant in the benevolent work of Mme.
de la Chanterie, he visited the needy sick whom she pointed out. Among
others he attended Vanda de Mergi, daughter of the Baron de Bourlac—M.
Bernard. Doctor Berton was gruff and frigid. [The Seamy Side of History.]
BETHUNE (Prince de), the only man of fashion who knew "what a hat
was" —to quote a saying of Vital the hatter, in 1845. [The Unconscious
Humorists.]
BEUNIER & CO., the firm Bixiou inquired after in 1845, near Mme.
Nourrisson's. [The Unconscious Humorists.]
BIANCHI. Italian. During the first Empire a captain in the sixth regiment
of the French line, which was made up almost entirely of men of his
nationality. Celebrated in his company for having bet that he would eat the
heart of a Spanish sentinel, and winning that bet. Captain Bianchi was first
to plant the French colors on the wall of Tarragone, Spain, in the attack of
1808. But a friar killed him. [The Maranas.]
BIANCHON (Doctor), a physician of Sancerre, father of Horace
Bianchon, brother of Mme. Popinot, the wife of Judge Popinot. [The
Commission in Lunacy.]

BIANCHON (Horace), a physician of Paris, celebrated during the times
of Charles X. and Louis Philippe; an officer of the Legion of Honor,
member of the Institute, professor of the Medical Faculty, physician-in-
charge, at the same time, of a hospital and the Ecole Polytechnique. Born at
Sancerre, Cher, about the end of the eighteenth century. He was "interne" at
the Cochin Hospital in 1819, at which time he boarded at the Vauquer
Pension where he knew Eugene de Rastignac, then studying law, and Goriot
and Vautrin. [Father Goriot.] Shortly thereafter, at Hotel Dieu, he became
the favored pupil of the surgeon Desplein, whose last days he tended. [The
Atheist's Mass.] Nephew of Judge Jean-Jules Popinot and relative of
Anselme Popinot, he had dealings with the perfumer Cesar Birotteau, who
acknowledged indebtedness to him for a prescription of his famous hazelnut
oil, and who invited him to the grand ball which precipitated Birotteau's
bankruptcy. [Cesar Birotteau. The Commission in Lunacy.] Member of the
"Cenacle" in rue des Quatre-Vents, and on intimate terms with all the young
fellows composing this clique, he was consequently enabled, to an extent,
to bring Daniel d'Arthez to the notice of Rastignac, now Under-Secretary of
State. He nursed Lucien de Rubempre who was wounded in a duel with
Michel Chrestien in 1822; also Coralie, Lucien's mistress, and Mme. Bridau
in their last illnesses. [Lost Illusions. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris. A
Bachelor's Establishment. The Secrets of a Princess.] In 1824 the young
Doctor Bianchon accompanied Desplein, who was called in to attend the
dying Flamet de la Billardiere. [The Government Clerks.] In Provins in
1828, with the same Desplein and Dr. Martener, he gave the most assiduous
attention to Pierrette Lorrain. [Pierrette.] In this same year of 1828 he had a
momentary desire to become one of an expedition to Morea. He was then
physician to Mme. de Listomere, whose misunderstanding with Rastignac
he learned and afterwards related. [A Study of Woman.] Again in company
with Desplein, in 1829, he was called in by Mme. de Nucingen with the
object of studying the case of Baron de Nucingen, her husband, love-sick
for Esther Gobseck. In 1830, still with his celebrated chief, he was cited by
Corentin to express an opinion on the death of Peyrade and the lunacy of
Lydie his daughter. Then, with Desplein and with Dr. Sinard, to attend
Mme. de Serizy, who it was feared would go crazy over the suicide of
Lucien de Rubempre. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.] Associated with
Desplein, at this same time, he cared for the dying Honorine, wife of Comte
de Bauvan [Honorine.], and examined the daughter of Baron de Bourlac—

M. Bernard—who was suffering from a peculiar Polish malady, the plica.
[The Seamy Side of History.] In 1831 Horace Bianchon was the friend and
physician of Raphael de Valentin. [The Magic Skin.] In touch with the
Comte de Granville in 1833, he attended the latter's mistress, Caroline
Crochard. [A Second Home.] He also attended Mme. du Bruel, then
mistress of La Palferine, who had injured herself by falling and striking her
head against the sharp corner of a fireplace. [A Prince of Bohemia.] In 1835
he attended Mme. Marie Gaston—Louise de Chaulieu —though a hopeless
case. [Letters of Two Brides.] In 1837 at Paris he accouched Mme. de la
Baudraye who had been intimate with Lousteau; he was assisted by the
celebrated accoucheur Duriau. [The Muse of the Department.] In 1838 he
was Comte Laginski's physician. [The Imaginary Mistress.] In 1840 Horace
Bianchon resided on rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Genevieve, in the house
where his uncle, Judge Popinot, died, and he was asked to become one of
the Municipal Council, in place of that upright magistrate. But he declined,
declaring in favor of Thuillier. [The Middle Classes.] The physician of
Baron Hulot, Crevel and Mme. Marneffe, he observed with seven of his
colleagues, the terrible malady which carried off Valerie and her second
husband in 1842. In 1843 he also visited Lisbeth Fisher in her last illness
[Cousin Betty.] Finally, in 1844, Dr. Bianchon was consulted by Dr.
Roubaud regarding Mme. Graslin at Montegnac. [The Country Parson.]
Horace Bianchon was a brilliant and inspiring conversationalist. He gave to
society the adventures known by the following titles: A Study of Woman;
Another Study of Woman; La Grande Breteche.
BIBI-LUPIN, chief of secret police between 1819 and 1830; a former
convict. In 1819 he personally arrested at Mme. Vauquer's boarding-house
Jacques Collin, alias Vautrin, his old galley-mate and personal enemy.
Under the name of Gondureau, Bibi-Lupin had made overtures to Mlle.
Michonneau, one of Mme. Vauquer's guests, and through her he had
obtained the necessary proofs of the real identity of Vautrin who was then
without the pale of the law, but who later, May, 1830, became his successor
as chief of secret police. [Father Goriot. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
BIDAULT (Monsieur and Madame), brother and sister-in-law of Bidault,
alias Gigonnet; father and mother of M. and Mme. Saillard, furniture-
dealers under the Central Market pillars during the latter part of the

eighteenth and perhaps the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. [The
Government Clerks.]
BIDAULT, known as Gigonnet, born in 1755; originally an Auvergnat;
uncle of Mme. Saillard on the paternal side. A paper-merchant at one time,
retired from business since the year II of the Republic, he opened an
account with a Dutchman called Sieur Werbrust, who was a friend of
Gobseck. In business relations with the latter, he was one of the most
formidable usurers in Paris, during the Empire, the Restoration and the first
part of the July Government. He dwelt in rue Greneta. [The Government
Clerks. Gobseck.] Luigi Porta, a ranking officer retired under Louis XVIII.,
sold all his back pay to Gigonnet. [The Vendetta.] Bidault was one of the
syndicate that engineered the bankruptcy of Birotteau in 1819. At this time
he persecuted Mme. Madou, a market dealer in filberts, who was his debtor.
[Cesar Birotteau.] In 1824 he succeeded in making his grand-nephew,
Isidore Baudoyer, chief of the division under the Minister of Finance; in
this he was aided by Gobseck and Mitral, and worked on the General
Secretary, Chardin des Lupeaulx, through the medium of the latter's debts
and the fact of his being candidate for deputy. [The Government Clerks.]
Bidault was shrewd enough; he saw through—and much to his profit—the
pretended speculation involved in the third receivership which was operated
by Nucingen in 1826. [The Firm of Nucingen.] In 1833 M. du Tillet advised
Nathan, then financially stranded, to apply to Gigonnet, the object being to
involve Nathan. [A Daughter of Eve.] The nick-name of Gigonnet was
applied to Bidault on account of a feverish, involuntary contraction of a leg
muscle. [The Government Clerks.]
BIDDIN, goldsmith, rue de l'Arbe-Sec, Paris, in 1829; one of Esther
Gobseck's creditors. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
BIFFE (La), concubine of the criminal Riganson, alias Le Biffon. This
woman, who was a sort of Jacques Collin in petticoats, evaded the police,
thanks to her disguises. She could ape the marquise, the baronne and the
comtesse to perfection. She had her own carriage and footmen. [Scenes
from a Courtesan's Life.]
BIFFON (Le), an alias of Riganson.

BIGORNEAU, sentimental clerk of Fritot's, the shawl merchant in the
Bourse quarter, Paris, time of Louis Philippe. [Gaudissart II.]
BIJOU (Olympe). (See Grenouville, Madame.)
BINET, inn-keeper in the Department of l'Orne in 1809. He was
concerned in a trial which created some stir, and cast a shadow over Mme.
de la Chanterie, striking at her daughter, Mme. des Tours-Minieres. Binet
harbored some brigands known as "chauffeurs." He was brought to trial for
it and sentenced to five years' imprisonment. [The Seamy Side of History.]
BIROTTEAU (Jacques), a gardener hard by Chinon. He married the
chambermaid of a lady on whose estate he trimmed vines. Three boys were
born to them: Francois, Jean and Cesar. He lost his wife on the birth of the
last child (1779), and himself died shortly after. [Cesar Birotteau.]
BIROTTEAU (Abbe Francois), eldest son of Jacques Birotteau; born in
1766; vicar of the church of Saint-Gatien at Tours, and afterwards cure of
Saint-Symphorien in the same city. After the death of the Abbe de la Berge,
in 1817, he became confessor of Mme. de Mortsauf, attending her last
moments. [The Lily of the Valley.] His brother Cesar, the perfumer, wrote
him after his—Cesar's—business failure in 1819, asking aid. Abbe
Birotteau, in a touching letter, responded with the sum of one thousand
francs which represented all his own little hoard and, in addition, a loan
obtained from Mme. de Listomere. [Cesar Birotteau.] Accused of having
inveigled Mme. de Listomere to leave him the income of fifteen hundred
francs, which she bequeathed him on her death, Abbe Birotteau was placed
under interdiction, in 1826, the victim of the terrible hatred of the Abbe
Troubert. [The Vicar of Tours.]
BIROTTEAU (Jean), second son of Jacques Birotteau. A captain in the
army, killed in the historic battle of La Trebia which lasted three days, June
17-19, 1799. [Cesar Birotteau.]
BIROTTEAU (Cesar), third son of Jacques Birotteau, born in 1779;
dealer in perfumes in Paris at number 397 rue Saint-Honore, near the Place
Vendome, in the old shop once occupied by the grocer Descoings, who was
executed with Andre Chenier in 1794. After the eighteenth Brumaire, Cesar
Birotteau succeeded Sieur Ragon, and moved the source of the "Queen of

Roses" to the above address. Among his customers were the Georges, the
La Billardieres, the Montaurans, the Bauvans, the Longuys, the Mandas, the
Berniers, the Guenics, and the Fontaines. These relations with the militant
Royalists implicated him in the plot of the 13th Vendemaire, 1795, against
the Convention; and he was wounded, as he told over and over, "by
Bonaparte on the borders of Saint-Roche." In May, 1800, Birotteau the
perfumer married Constance-Barbe-Josephine Pillerault. By her he had an
only daughter, Cesarine, who married Anselme Popinot in 1822.
Successively captain, then chief of battalion in the National Guard and
adjunct-mayor of the eleventh arrondissement, Birotteau was appointed
Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1818. To celebrate his nomination in
the Order, he gave a grand ball* which, on account of the very radical
changes necessitated in his apartments, and coupled with some bad
speculations, brought about his total ruin; he filed a petition in bankruptcy
the year following. By stubborn effort and the most rigid economy,
Birotteau was able to indemnify his creditors completely, three years later
(1822). But he died soon after the formal court reinstating. He numbered
among his patrons in 1818 the following: the Duc and Duchesse de
Lenoncourt, the Princesse de Blamont-Chauvry, the Marquise d'Espard, the
two Vandenesses, Marsay, Ronquerolles, and the Marquis d'Aiglemont.
[Cesar Birotteau. A Bachelor's Establishment.] Cesar Birotteau was likewise
on friendly terms with the Guillaumes, clothing dealers in the rue Saint-
Denis. [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket.]
* The 17th of December was really Thursday and not Sunday, as
erroneously given.

BIROTTEAU (Madame), born Constance-Barbe-Josephine Pillerault in
1782. Married Cesar Birotteau in May, 1800. Previous to her marriage she
was head "saleslady" at the "Little Sailor"* novelty shop, corner of Quai
Anjou and rue des Deux Ponts, Paris. Her surviving relative and guardian
was her uncle, Claude-Joseph Pillerault. [Cesar Birotteau.]
* This shop still exists at the same place, No. 43 Quai d'Anjou and
40 rue des Deux-Ponts, being run by M. L. Bellevaut.

BIROTTEAU (Cesarine). (See Popinot, Madame Anselme.)
BIXIOU,* Parisian grocer, in rue Saint-Honore, before the Revolution in
the eighteenth century. He had a clerk called Descoings, who married his

widow. The grocer Bixiou was the grandfather of Jean-Jacques Bixiou, the
celebrated cartoonist. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
* Pronounced "Bissiou."

BIXIOU, son of the preceding and father of Jean-Jacques Bixiou. He was
a colonel of the Twenty-first Regiment; killed at the battle of Dresden, on
the 26th or 27th of August, 1813. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
BIXIOU (Jean-Jacques), famous artist; son of Colonel Bixiou who was
killed at Dresden; grandson of Mme. Descoings, whose first husband was
the grocer Bixiou. Born in 1797, he pursued a course of study at the
Lyceum, to which he had obtained a scholarship. He had for friends
Philippe and Joseph Bridau, and Master Desroches. Later he entered the
painter Gros's studio. Then in 1819, through the influence of the Ducs de
Maufrigneuse and de Rhetore, whom he met at some dancer's, he obtained a
position with the Minister of Finance. He remained with this administration
until December, 1824, when he resigned. In this same year he was one of
the best men for Philippe Bridau, who married Flore Brazier, known as La
Rabouilleuse, the widow of J.-J. Rouget. After this woman's death, in 1828,
he was led, disguised as a priest, to the residence of the Soulanges, where
he told the comte about the scandal connected with her death, knowingly
caused by her husband; he told, also, about the bad habits and vulgarities of
Philippe Bridau, and thus caused the breaking off of the marriage of this
weather-beaten soldier with Mlle. Amelie de Soulanges. A talented
cartoonist, distinguished practical joker, and recognized as one of the kings
of bon mot, he led a free and easy life. He was on speaking terms with all
the artists and all the lorettes of his day. Among others he knew the painter,
Hippolyte Schinner. He turned a pretty penny, during the trial of De Fualdes
and de Castaing, by illustrating in a fantastic way the account of this trial.
[A Bachelor's Establishment. The Government Clerks. The Purse.] He
designed some vignettes for the writing of Canalis. [Modeste Mignon.]
With Blondet, Lousteau and Nathan he was a habitue of the house of Esther
Gobseck, rue Saint-Georges, in 1829, 1830. [Scenes from a Courtesan's
Life.] In a private room of a well-known restaurant, in 1836, he wittily
related to Finot, Blondet and Couture the source of Nucingen's fortune.
[The Firm of Nucingen.] In January, 1837, his friend Lousteau had him
come especially to upbraid him, Lousteau, on account of the latter's
irregular ways with Mme. de la Baudraye, while she, concealed in an ante-

room, heard it all. This scene had been arranged beforehand; its object was
to give Lousteau a chance to declare, apparently, his unquenchable
attachment for his mistress. [The Muse of the Department.] In 1838 he
attended the house-warming of Heloise Brisetout in rue Chauchat. In the
same year he was attendant at the marriage of Steinbock with Hortense
Hulot, and of Crevel with the widow Marneffe. [Cousin Betty.] In 1839 the
sculptor Dorlange-Sallenauve knew of Bixiou and complained of his
slanders. [The Member for Arcis.] Mme. Schontz treated him most cordially
in 1838, and he had to pass for her "special," although their relations, in
fact, did not transcend the bounds of friendship. [Beatrix.] In 1840, at the
home of Marguerite Turquet, maintained by the notary Cardot, when
Lousteau, Nathan and La Palferine were also present, he heard a story by
Desroches. [A Man of Business.] About 1844, Bixiou helped in a high
comedy relative to a Selim shawl sold by Fritot to Mistress Noswell. Bixiou
himself had purchased, in a shop with M. du Ronceret, a shawl for Mme.
Schontz. [Gaudissart II.] In 1845 Bixiou showed Paris and the
"Unconscious Humorists" to a Pyrrenean named Gazonal, in company with
Leon de Lora, a cousin of the countryman. At this time Bixiou dwelt at
number 112 rue Richelieu, sixth floor; when he had a regular position he
had lived in rue de Ponthieu. [The Unconscious Humorists.] In the rue
Richelieu period he was the lover of Heloise Brisetout. [Cousin Pons.]
BLAMONT-CHAUVRY (Princesse de), mother of Mme. d'Espard; aunt
of the Duchesse de Langeais; great aunt of Mme. de Mortsauf; a veritable
d'Hozier in petticoats. Her drawing-room set the fashion in Faubourg Saint-
Germain, and the sayings of this feminine Talleyrand were listened to as
oracles. Very aged at the beginning of the reign of Louis XVIII., she was
one of the most poetic relics of the reign of Louis XV., the "Well-Beloved;"
and to this nick-name—as the records had it—she had contributed her full
share. [The Thirteen.] Mme. Firmiani was received by the princess on
account of the Cadignans, to whom she was related on her mother's side.
[Madame Firmiani.] Felix de Vandenesse was admitted to her "At Homes,"
on the recommendation of Mme. de Mortsauf; nevertheless he found in this
old lady a friend whose affection had a quality almost maternal. The
princess was in the family conclave which met to consider an amorous
escapade of the Duchesse Antoinette de Langeais. [The Lily of the Valley.
The Thirteen.]

BLANDUREAUS (The), wealthy linen merchants at Alencon, time of
the Restoration. They had an only daughter, to whom the President du
Ronceret wished to marry his son. She, however, married Joseph Blondet,
the oldest son of Judge Blondet. This marriage caused secret hostility
between the two fathers, one being the other's superior in office. [Jealousies
of a Country Town.]
BLONDET, judge at Alencon in 1824; born in 1758; father of Joseph and
Emile Blondet. At the time of the Revolution he was a public prosecutor. A
botanist of note, he had a remarkable conservatory where he cultivated
geraniums only. This conservatory was visited by the Empress Marie-
Louise, who spoke of it to the Emperor and obtained for the judge the
decoration of the Legion of Honor. Following the Victurien d'Esgrignon
episode, about 1825, Judge Blondet was made an officer in the Order and
chosen councillor at the Royal Court. Here he remained in office no longer
than absolutely necessary, retreating to his dear Alencon home. He married
in 1798, at the age of forty, a young girl of eighteen, who in consequence of
this disparity was unfaithful to him. He knew that his second son, Emile,
was not his own; he therefore cared only for the elder and sent the younger
elsewhere as soon as possible. [Jealousies of a Country Town.] About 1838
Fabien du Ronceret obtained credit in an agricultural convention for a
flower which old Blondet had given him, but which he exhibited as a
product of his own green-house. [Beatrix.]
BLONDET (Madame), wife of the preceding; born in 1780; married in
1798. She was intimate with a prefect of Orne, who was the natural father
of Emile Blondet. Distant ties bound her to the Troisville family, and it was
to them that she sent Emile, her favored son. Before her death, in 1818, she
commended him to her old-time lover and also to the future Madame de
Montcornet, with whom he had been reared. [Jealousies of a Country
Town.]
BLONDET (Joseph), elder son of Judge Blondet of Alencon; born in that
city about 1799. In 1824 he practiced law and aspired to become a
substitute judge. Meanwhile he succeeded his father, whose post he filled
till his death. He was one of the numerous men of ordinary talent.
[Jealousies of a Country Town.]

BLONDET (Madame Joseph), nee Claire Blandureau, wife of Joseph
Blondet, whom she married when he was appointed judge at Alencon. She
was the daughter of wealthy linen dealers in the city. [Jealousies of a
Country Town.]
BLONDET (Emile), born at Alencon about 1800; legally the younger son
of Judge Blondet, but really the son of a prefect of Orne. Tenderly loved by
his mother, but hated by Judge Blondet, who sent him, in 1818, to study law
in Paris. Emile Blondet knew the noble family of d'Esgrignon in Alencon,
and for the youngest daughter of this illustrious house he felt an esteem that
was really admiration. [Jealousies of a Country Town.] In 1821 Emile
Blondet was a remarkably handsome young fellow. He made his first
appearance in the "Debats" by a series of masterly articles which called
forth from Lousteau the remark that he was "one of the princes of
criticism." [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.] In 1824 he contributed to a
review edited by Finot, where he collaborated with Lucien de Rubempre
and where he was allowed full swing by his chief. Emile Blondet had the
most desultory of habits; one day he would be a boon companion, without
compunction, with those destined for slaughter on the day following. He
was always "broke" financially. In 1829, 1830, Bixiou, Lousteau, Nathan
and he were frequenters of Esther's house, rue Saint-Georges. [Scenes from
a Courtesan's Life.] A cynic was Blondet, with little regard for glory
undefiled. He won a wager that he could upset the poet Canalis, though the
latter was full of assurance. He did this by staring fixedly at the poet's curls,
his boots, or his coat-tails, while he recited poetry or gesticulated with
proper emphasis, fixed in a studied pose. [Modeste Mignon.] He was
acquainted with Mlle. des Touches, being present at her home on one
occasion, about 1830, when Henri de Marsay told the story of his first love
affair. He took part in the conversation and depicted the "typical woman" to
Comte Adam Laginski. [Another Study of Woman.] In 1832 he was a guest
at Mme. d'Espard's, where he met his childish flame, Mme. de Montcornet,
also the Princesse de Cadignan, Lady Dudley, d'Arthez, Nathan, Rastignac,
the Marquis d'Ajuda-Pinto, Maxime de Trailles, the Marquis d'Esgrignon,
the two Vandenesses, du Tillet, the Baron Nucingen and the Chevalier
d'Espard, brother-in-law of the marquise. [The Secrets of a Princess.] About
1833 Blondet presented Nathan to Mme. de Montcornet, at whose home the
young Countess Felix de Vandenesse made the acquaintance of the poet and

was much smitten with him for some time. [A Daughter of Eve.] In 1836 he
and Finot and Couture chimed in on the narrative of the rise of Nucingen,
told with much zest by Bixiou in a private room of a famous restaurant.
[The Firm of Nucingen.] Eight or ten years prior to February, 1848, Emile
Blondet, on the brink of suicide, witnessed an entire transition in his affairs.
He was chosen a prefect, and he married the wealthy widow of Comte de
Montcornet, who offered him her hand when she became free. They had
known and loved each other since childhood. [The Peasantry.]
BLONDET (Virginie), wife by second marriage of Emile Blondet; born
in 1797; daughter of the Vicomte de Troisville; granddaughter of the
Russian Princesse Scherbelloff. She was brought up at Alencon, with her
future husband. In 1819 she married the General de Montcornet. Twenty
years later, a widow, she married the friend of her youth, who this long time
had been her lover. [Jealousies of a Country Town. The Secrets of a
Princess. The Peasantry.] She and Mme. d'Espard tried to convert Lucien de
Rubempre to the monarchical side in 1821. [A Distinguished Provincial at
Paris.] She was present at Mlle. des Touches', about 1830, when Marsay
told about his first love, and she joined in the conversation. [Another Study
of Woman.] She received a rather mixed set, from an aristocratic standpoint,
but here might be found the stars of finance, art and literature. [The
Member for Arcis.] Mme. Felix de Vandenesse saw Nathan the poet for the
first time and noticed him particularly at Mme. de Montcornet's, in 1834,
1835. [A Daughter of Eve.] Mme. Emile Blondet, then Madame la Generale
de Montcornet, passed the summer and autumn of 1823 in Burgundy, at her
beautiful estate of Aigues, where she lived a burdened and troubled life
among the many and varied types of peasantry. Remarried, and now the
wife of a prefect, eight years or so before February, 1848, time of Louis
Philippe, she visited her former properties. [The Peasantry.]
BLUTEAU (Pierre), assumed name of Genestas. [The Country Doctor.]
BOCQUILLON, an acquaintance of Mme. Etienne Gruget. In 1820, rue
des Enfants-Rouges, Paris, she mistook for him the stock-broker, Jules
Desmarets, who was entering her door. [The Thirteen.]
BOGSECK (Madame van), name bestowed by Jacques Collin on Esther
van Gobseck when, in 1825, he gave her, transformed morally and

intellectually, to Lucien de Rubempre, in an elegant flat on rue Taitbout.
[Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
BOIROUGE, president of the Sancerre Court at the time when the
Baronne de la Baudraye held social sway over that city. Through his wife,
he was related to the Popinot-Chandiers, to Judge Popinot of Paris, and to
Anselme Popinot. He was hereditary owner of a house which he did not
need, and which he very gladly leased to the baronne for the purpose of
starting a literary society that, however, degenerated very soon into an
ordinary clique. Actuated by jealousy, President Boirouge was one of the
principals in the defeat of Procureur Clagny for deputy. He was reputed to
be unchaste at repartee. [The Muse of the Department.]
BOIROUGE (Madame), nee Popinot-Chandier, wife of President
Boirouge; stood well among the middle-class of Sancerre. After having
been leader in the opposition to Mme. de la Baudraye for nine years, she
induced her son Gatien to attend the Baudraye receptions, persuading
herself that he would soon make his way. Profiting by the visit of Bianchon
to Sancerre, Mme. Boirouge obtained of the famous physician, her relative,
a gratuitous consultation by giving him full particulars regarding some
pretended nervous trouble of the stomach, in which complaint he
recognized a periodic dyspepsia. [The Muse of the Department.]
BOIROUGE (Gatien), son of President Boirouge; born in 1814; the
junior "patito" of Mme. de la Baudraye, who employed him in all sorts of
small ways. Gatien Boirouge was made game of by Lousteau, to whom he
had confessed his love for that masterful woman. [The Muse of the
Department.]
BOISFRANC (De), procureur-general, then first president of a royal
court under the Restoration. (See Dubut.)
BOISFRANC (Dubut de), president of the Aides court under the old
regime; brother of Dubut de Boisfrelon and of Dubut de Boislaurier. [The
Seamy Side of History.]
BOISFRELON (Dubut de), brother of Dubut de Boisfranc and of Dubut
de Boislaurier; at one time councillor in Parliament; born in 1736; died in
1832 in the home of his niece, the Baronne de la Chanterie. Godefroid

succeeded him. M. de Boisfrelon had been one of the "Brotherhood of
Consolation." He was married, but his wife probably died before him. [The
Seamy Side of History.]
BOISLAURIER (Dubut de), junior brother of Dubut de Boisfranc and of
Dubut de Boisfrelon. Commander-in-chief of the Western Rebellion in
1808-1809, and designated then by the surname of Augustus. With Rifoel,
Chevalier du Vissard, he plotted the organization of the "Chauffeurs" of
Mortagne. Then, in the trial of the "brigands," he was condemned to death
by default. [The Seamy Side of History.]
BOIS-LEVANT, chief of division under the Minister of Finance in 1824,
at the time when Xavier Rabourdin and Isidore Baudoyer contested the
succession of office in another division, that of F. de la Billardiere. [The
Government Clerks.]
BOLESLAS, Polish servant of the Comte and Comtesse Laginski, in rue
de la Pepiniere, Paris, between 1835 and 1842. [The Imaginary Mistress.]
BONAMY (Ida), aunt of Mlle. Antonia Chocardelle. At the time of Louis
Philippe, she conducted, on rue Coquenard (since 1848 rue Lamartine),
"just a step or two from rue Pigalle," a reading-room given to her niece by
Maxime de Trailles. [A Man of Business.]
BONAPARTE (Napoleon), Emperor of the French; born at Ajaccio,
August 15, 1768, or 1769, according to varying accounts; died at St. Helena
May 5, 1821. As First Consul in 1800 he received at the Tuileries the
Corsican, Bartholomeo di Piombo, and disentangled his countryman from
the latter's implication in a vendetta. [The Vendetta.] On the evening of the
battle of Jena, October 13, 1806, he was met on that ground by Laurence de
Cinq-Cygne, who had come post haste from France, and to whom he
accorded pardon for the Simeuses and the Hauteserres, compromised in the
abduction of Senator Malin de Gondreville. [The Gondreville Mystery.]
Napoleon Bonaparte was strongly concerned in the welfare of his
lieutenant, Hyacinthe Chabert, during the battle of Eylau. [Colonel
Chabert.] In November, 1809, he was to have attended a grand ball given by
Senator Malin de Gondreville; but he was detained at the Tuileries by a
scene—noised abroad that same evening—between Josephine and himself,
a scene which disclosed their impending divorce. [Peace in the House.] He

condoned the infamous conduct of the police officer Contenson. [The
Seamy Side of History.] In April, 1813, during a dress-parade on the Place
du Carrousel, Paris, Napoleon noticed Mlle. de Chatillonest, who had come
with her father to see the handsome Colonel d'Aiglemont, and leaning
towards Duroc he made a brief remark which made the Grand Marshal
smile. [A Woman of Thirty.]
BONAPARTE (Lucien), brother of Napoleon Bonaparte; born in 1775;
died in 1840. In June, 1800, he went to the house of Talleyrand, the Foreign
Minister, and there announced to him and also to Fouche, Sieyes and
Carnot, the victory of his brother at Montebello. [The Gondreville Mystery.]
In the month of October of the same year he was encountered by his
countryman, Bartholomeo di Piombo, whom he introduced to the First
Consul; he also gave his purse to the Corsican and afterwards contributed
towards relieving his difficulties. [The Vendetta.]
BONFALOT, or BONVALOT (Madame), an aged relative of F. du Bruel
at Paris. La Palferine first met Mme. du Bruel in 1834 on the boulevard, and
boldly followed her all the way to Mme. de Bonfalot's, where she was
calling. [A Prince of Bohemia.]
BONFONS (Cruchot de), nephew of Cruchot the notary and Abbe
Cruchot; born in 1786; president of the Court of First Instance of Saumur in
1819. The Cruchot trio backed by a goodly number of cousins and allied to
twenty families in the city, formed a party similar to that of the olden-time
Medicis at Florence; and also, like the Medicis, the Cruchots had their
Pazzis in the persons of the Grassins. The prize contested for between the
Cruchots and the Grassins was the hand of the rich heiress, Eugenie
Grandet. In 1827, after nine years of suing, the President Cruchot de
Bonfons married the young woman, now left an orphan. Previous to this he
had been commissioned by her to settle in full, both principal and interest,
with the creditors of Charles Grandet's father. Six months after his marriage,
Bonfons was elected councillor to the Royal Court of Angers. Then after
some years signalized by devoted service he became first president. Finally
chosen deputy for Saumur in 1832, he died within a week, leaving his
widow in possession of an immense fortune, still further augmented by the
bequests of the Abbe and the notary Cruchot. Bonfons was the name of an

estate of the magistrate. He married Eugenie only through cupidity. He
looked like "a big, rusty nail." [Eugenie Grandet.]
BONFONS (Eugenie Cruchot de), only daughter of M. and Mme. Felix
Grandet; born at Saumur in 1796. Strictly reared by a mother gentle and
devout, and by a father hard and avaricious. The single bright ray across her
life was an absolutely platonic love for her cousin Charles Grandet. But,
once away from her, this young man was forgetful of her; and, on his return
from the Indies in 1827, a rich man, he married the young daughter of a
nobleman. Upon this occurrence, Eugenie Grandet, now an orphan, settled
in full with the creditors of Charles' father, and then bestowed her hand
upon the President Cruchot de Bonfons, who had paid her court for nine
years. At the age of thirty-six she was left a widow without having ceased to
be a virgin, following her expressed wish. Sadly she secluded herself in the
gloomy home of her childhood at Saumur, where she devoted the rest of her
life to works of benevolence and charity. After her father's death, Eugenie
was often alluded to, by the Cruchot faction, as Mlle. de Froidfond, from
the name of one of her holdings. In 1832 an effort was made to induce
Mme. de Bonfons to wed with Marquis de Froidfond, a bankrupt widower
of fifty odd years and possessed of numerous progeny. [Eugenie Grandet.]
BONGRAND, born in 1769; first an advocate at Melun, then justice of
the peace at Nemours from 1814 to 1837. He was a friend of Doctor
Mirouet's and helped educate Ursule Mirouet, protecting her to the best of
his ability after the death of the old physician, and aiding in the restitution
of her fortune which Minoret-Levrault had impaired by the theft of the
doctor's will. M. Bongrand had wanted to make a match between Ursule
Mirouet and his son, but she loved Savinien de Portenduere. The justice of
the peace became president of the court at Melun, after the marriage of the
young lady with Savinien. [Ursule Mirouet.]
BONGRAND (Eugene), son of Bongrand the justice of the peace. He
studied law at Paris under Derville the attorney, this constituting all his
course. He became public prosecutor at Melun after the Revolution of 1830,
and general prosecutor in 1837. Failing in his love suit with Ursule Mirouet,
he probably married the daughter of M. Levrault, former mayor of
Nemours. [Ursule Mirouet.]

BONNAC, a rather handsome young fellow, who was head clerk for the
notary Lupin at Soulanges in 1823. His accomplishments were his only
dowry. He was loved in platonic fashion by his employer's wife, Mme.
Lupin, otherwise known as Bebelle, a fat ridiculous female without
education. [The Peasantry.]
BONNEBAULT, retired cavalry soldier, the Lovelace of the village of
Blangy, Burgundy, and its suburbs in 1823. Bonnebault was the lover of
Marie Tonsard who was perfectly foolish about him. He had still other
"good friends" and lived at their expense. Their generosity did not suffice
for his dissipations, his cafe bills and his unbridled taste for billiards. He
dreamed of marrying Aglae Socquard, only daughter of Pere Socquard,
proprietor of the "Cafe de la Paix" at Soulanges. Bonnebault obtained three
thousand francs from General de Montcornet by coming to him to confess
voluntarily that he had been commissioned to kill him for this price. The
revelation, with other things, lead the general to weary of his fierce struggle
with the peasantry, and to put up for sale his property at Aigues, which
became the prey of Gaubertin, Rigou and Soudry. Bonnebault was squint-
eyed and his physical appearance did not belie his depravity. [The
Peasantry.]
BONNEBAULT (Mere), grandmother of Bonnebault the veteran. In
1823, at Conches, Burgandy, where she lived, she owned a cow which she
did not hesitate to pasture in the fields belonging to General de Montcornet.
The numerous depredations of the old woman, added to convictions for
many similar offences, caused the general to decide to confiscate the cow.
[The Peasantry.]
BONNET (Abbe), Cure of Montegnac near Limoges from 1814 on. In
this capacity, he assisted at the public confession of his penitent, Mme.
Graslin, in the summer of 1844. Upon leaving the seminary of Saint-
Sulpice, Paris, he was sent to this village of Montegnac, which he never
after wished to leave. Here, sometimes unaided, sometimes with the help of
Mme. Graslin, he toiled for a material and moral betterment, bringing about
an entire regeneration of a wretched country. It was he who brought the
outlawed Tascheron back into the Church, and who accompanied him to the
very foot of the scaffold, with a devotion which caused his own very
sensitive nature much cringing. Born in 1788, he had embraced the

ecclesiastical calling through choice, and all his studies had been to that
end. He belonged to a family of more than easy circumstancaes. His father
was a self-made man, stern and unyielding. Abbe Bonnet had an older
brother, and a sister whom he counseled with his mother to marry as soon
as possible, in order to release the young woman from the terrible paternal
yoke. [The Country Parson.]
BONNET, older brother of Abbe Bonnet, who enlisted as a private about
the beginning of the Empire. He became a general in 1813; fell at Leipsic.
[The Country Parson.]
BONNET (Germain), valet de chambre of Canalis in 1829, at the time
when the poet went to Havre to contest the hand of Modeste Mignon. A
servant full of finesse and irreproachable in appearance, he was of the
greatest service to his master. He courted Philoxene Jacmin, chambermaid
of Mme. de Chaulieu. Here the pantry imitated the parlor, for the
academician's mistress was the great lady herself. [Modest Mignon.]
BONTEMS, a country landowner in the neighborhood of Bayeux, who
feathered his nest well during the Revolution, by purchasing government
confiscations at his own terms. He was pronounced "red cap," and became
president of his district. His daughter, Angelique Bontems, married
Granville during the Empire; but at this time Bontems was dead. [A Second
Home.]
BONTEMS (Madame), wife of the preceding; outwardly pious, inwardly
vain; mother of Angelique Bontems, whom she had reared in much the
same attitude, and whose marriage with a Granville was, in consequence, so
unhappy. [A Second Home.]
BONTEMS (Angelique). (See Granville, Madame de.)
BORAIN (Mademoiselle), the most stylish costumer in Provins, at the
time of Charles X. She was commissioned by the Rogrons to make a
complete wardrobe for Pierrette Lorrain, when that young girl was sent
them from Brittany. [Pierrette.]
BORDEVIN (Madame), Parisian butcher in rue Charlot, at the time when
Sylvain Pons dwelt hard by in rue de Normandie. Mme. Bordevin was
related to Mme. Sabatier. [Cousin Pons.]

BORDIN, procureur at the Chatelet before the Revolution; then advocate
of the Court of First Instance of the Seine, under the Empire. In 1798 he
instructed and advised with M. Alain, a creditor of Monegod's. Both had
been clerks at the procureur's. In 1806, the Marquis de Chargeboeuf went to
Paris to hunt for Master Bordin, who defended the Simeuses before the
Criminal Court of Troyes in the trial regarding the abduction and
sequestration of Senator Malin. In 1809 he also defended Henriette Bryond
des Tours-Minieres, nee La Chanterie, in the trial docketed as the
"Chauffeurs of Mortagne." [The Gondreville Mystery. The Seamy Side of
History.] In 1816 Bordin was consulted by Mme. d'Espard regarding her
husband. [The Commission in Lunacy.] During the Restoration a banker at
Alencon made quarterly payments of one hundred and fifty livres to the
Chevalier de Valois through the Parisian medium of Bordin. [Jealousies of a
Country Town.] For ten years Bordin represented the nobility. Derville
succeeded him. [The Gondreville Mystery.]
BORDIN (Jerome-Sebastien), was also procureur at the Chatelet, and, in
1806, advocate of the Seine Court. He succeeded Master Guerbet, and sold
his practice to Sauvagnest, who disposed of it to Desroches. [A Start in
Life.]
BORN (Comte de), brother of the Vicomtesse de Grandlieu. In the winter
of 1829-1830, he is discovered at the home of his sister, taking part in a
conversation in which the advocate Derville related the marital infelicities
of M. de Restaud, and the story of his will and his death. The Comte de
Born seized the chance to exploit the character of Maxime de Trailles, the
lover of Mme. de Restaud. [Gobseck.]
BORNICHE, son-in-law of M. Hochon, the old miser of Issoudun. He
died of chagrin at business failures, and at not having received any
assistance from his father or mother. His wife preceded him but a short time
to the tomb. They left a son and a daughter, Baruch and Adolphine, who
were brought up by their maternal grandfather, with Francois Hochon,
another grandchild of the goodman's. Borniche was probably a Calvinist. [A
Bachelor's Establishment.]
BORNICHE (Monsieur and Madame), father and mother of the
preceding. They were still living in 1823, when their son and their daughter-

in-law had been deceased some time. In April of this year, old Mme.
Borniche and her friend Mme. Hochon, who ruled socially in Issoudun,
assisted at the wedding of La Rabouilleuse with Jean-Jacques Rouget. [A
Bachelor's Establishment.]
BORNICHE (Baruch), grandson of the preceding, and of M. and Mme.
Hochon. Born in 1800. Early left an orphan, he and his sister were reared by
his grandfather on the maternal side. He had been one of the accomplices of
Maxence Gilet, and took part in the nocturnal raids of the "Knights of
Idlesse." When his conduct became known to his grandfather, in 1822, the
latter lost no time in removing him from Issoudun, sending him to
Monegod's office, Paris, to study law. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
BORNICHE (Adolphine), sister of Baruch Borniche; born in 1804.
Brought up almost a recluse in the frigid, dreary house of her grandfather,
Hochon, she spent most of her time peering through the windows, in the
hope of discovering some of the terrible things which—as Dame Rumor
had it—occurred in the home of Jean-Jacques Rouget, next door. She
likewise awaited with some impatience the arrival of Joseph Bridau in
Issoudun, wishing to inspire some sentiment in him, and taking the liveliest
interest in the painter, on account of the monstrosities which were attributed
to him because of his being an artist. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
BOUCARD, head-clerk of the attorney Derville in 1818, at the time
when Colonel Chabert sought to recover his rights with his wife who had
been remarried to Comte Ferraud. [Colonel Chabert.]
BOUCHER, Besancon merchant in 1834, who was the first client of
Albert Savarus in that city. He assumed financial control of the "Revue de
l'Est," founded by the lawyer. M. Boucher was related by marriage to one of
the ablest editors of great theological works. [Albert Savarus.]
BOUCHER (Alfred), eldest son of the preceding. Born in 1812. A youth,
eager for literary fame, whom Albert Savarus put on the staff of his "Revue
de l'Est," giving him his themes and subjects. Alfred Boucher conceived a
strong admiration for the managing editor, who treated him as a friend. The
first number of the "Revue" contained a "Meditation" by Alfred. This Alfred
Boucher believed he was exploiting Savarus, whereas the contrary was the
case. [Albert Savarus.]

BOUFFE (Marie), alias Vignol, actor born in Paris, September 4, 1800.
He appeared about 1822 at the Panorama-Dramatique theatre, on the
Boulevard du Temple, Paris, playing the part of the Alcade in a three-act
imbroglio by Raoul Nathan and Du Bruel entitled "L'Alcade dans
l'embarras." At the first night performance he announced that the authors
were Raoul and Cursy. Although very young at the time, this artist made his
first great success in this role, and revealed his talent for depicting an old
man. The critique of Lucien de Rubempre established his position. [A
Distinguished Provincial at Paris.]
BOUGIVAL (La). (See Cabirolle, Madame.)
BOUGNIOL (Mesdemoiselles), proprietors of an inn at Guerande (Loire-
Inferieure), at the time of Louis Philippe. They had as guests some artist
friends of Felicite des Touches—Camille Maupin—who had come from
Paris to see her. [Beatrix.]
BOURBONNE (De), wealthy resident of Tours, time of Louis XVIII. and
Charles X. An uncle of Octave de Camps. In 1824 he visited Paris to
ascertain the cause of the ruin of his nephew and sole heir, which ruin was
generally credited to dissipations with Mme. Firmiani. M. de Bourbonne, a
retired musketeer in easy circumstances, was well connected. He had entry
into the Faubourg Saint-Germain through the Listomeres, the Lenoncourts
and the Vandenesses. He caused himself to be presented at Mme. Firmiani's
as M. de Rouxellay, the name of his estate. The advice of Bourbonne, which
was marked by much perspicacity, if followed, would have extricated
Francois Birotteau from Troubert's clutches; for the uncle of M. de Camps
fathomed the plottings of the future Bishop of Troyes. Bourbonne saw a
great deal more than did the Listomeres of Tours. [Madame Firmiani. The
Vicar of Tours.]
BOURDET (Benjamin), old soldier of the Empire, formerly serving
under Philippe Bridau's command. He lived quietly in the suburbs of Vatan,
in touch with Fario. In 1822 he placed himself at the entire disposal of the
Spaniard, and also of the officer who previously had put him under
obligations. Secretly he served them in their hatred of and plots against
Maxence Gilet. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]

BOURGEAT, foundling of Saint-Flour. Parisian water-carrier about the
end of the eighteenth century. The friend and protector of the young
Desplein, the future famous surgeon. He lived in rue Quatre-Vents in an
humble house rendered doubly famous by the sojourn of Desplein and by
that of Daniel d'Arthez. A fervent Churchman of unswerving faith. The
future famous savant (Desplein) watched by his bedside at the last and
closed his eyes. [The Atheist's Mass.]
BOURGET, uncle of the Chaussard brothers. An old man who became
implicated in the trial of the Chauffeurs of Mortagne in 1809. He died
during the taking of the testimony, while making some confessions. His
wife, also apprehended, appeared before the court and was sentenced to
twenty-two years' imprisonment. [The Seamy Side of History.]
BOURGNEUFS (The), a family ruined by the De Camps and living in
poverty and seclusion at Saint-Germain en Laye, during the early part of the
nineteenth centruy. This family consisted of: the aged father, who ran a
lottery-office; the mother, almost always sick; and two delightful daughters,
who took care of the home and attended to the correspondence. The
Bourgneufs were rescued from their troubles by Octave de Camps who,
prompted by Mme. Firmiani, and at the cost of his entire property, restored
to them the fortune made away with by his father. [Madame Firmiani.]
BOURGNIER (Du). (See Bousquier, Du.)
BOURIGNARD (Gratien-Henri-Victor-Jean-Joseph), father of Mme.
Jules Desmarets. One of the "Thirteen" and the former chief of the Order of
the Devorants under the title of Ferragus XXIII. He had been a laborer, but
afterwards was a contractor of buildings. His daughter was born to an
abandoned woman. About 1807 he was sentenced to twenty years of hard
labor, but he managed to escape during a journey of the chain-gang from
Paris to Toulon, and he returned to Paris. In 1820 he lived there under
diverse names and disguises, lodging successively on rue des Vieux
Augustins (now rue d'Argout), corner of rue Soly (an insignificant street
which disappeared when the Hotel des Postes was rebuilt); then at number
seven rue Joquelet; finally at Mme. E. Gruget's, number twelve rue des
Enfants-Rouges (now part of the rue des Archives running from rue
Pastourelle to rue Portefoin), changing lodgings at this time to evade the

investigations of Auguste de Maulincour. Stunned by the death of his
daughter, whom he adored and with whom he held secret interviews to
prevent her becoming amenable to the law, he passed his last days in an
indifferent, almost idiotic way, idly watching match games at bowling on
the Place de l'Observatoire; the ground between the Luxembourg and the
Boulevard de Montparnasse was the scene of these games. One of the
assumed names of Bourignard was the Comte de Funcal. In 1815,
Bourignard, alias Ferragus, assisted Henri de Marsay, another member of
the "Thirteen," in his raid on Hotel San-Real, where dwelt Paquita Valdes.
[The Thirteen.]
BOURLAC (Bernard-Jean-Baptiste-Macloud, Baron de), former
procureur-general of the Royal Court of Rouen, grand officer of the Legion
of Honor. Born in 1771. He fell in love with and married the daughter of the
Pole, Tarlowski, a colonel in the French Imperial Guard. By her he had a
daughter, Vanda, who became the Baronne de Mergi. A widower and
reserved by nature, he came to Paris in 1829 to take care of Vanda, who was
seized by a strange and very dangerous malady. After having lived in the
Quartier du Roule in 1838, with his daughter and grandson, he dwelt for
several years, in very straitened circumstances, in a tumble-down house on
the Boulevard du Montparnasse, where Godefroid, a recent initiate into the
"Brotherhood of the Consolation" and under the direction of Mme. de la
Chanterie and her associates, came to his relief. Afterwards it was
discovered that the Baron de Bourlac was none other than the terrible
magistrate who had pronounced judgment on this noble woman and her
daughter during the trial of the Chauffeurs of Mortagne in 1809.
Nevertheless, the aiding of the family was not abated in the least. Vanda
was cured, thanks to a foreign physician, Halpersohn, procured by
Godefroid. M. de Bourlac was enabled to publish his great work on the
"Spirit of Modern Law." At Sorbonne a chair of comparative legislation was
created for him. At last he obtained forgiveness from Mme. de la Chanterie,
at whose feet he flung himself. [The Seamy Side of History.] In 1817 the
Baron de Bourlac, then procureur-general, and superior of Soudry the
younger, royal procureur, helped, with the assistance also of the latter, to
secure for Sibilet the position of estate-keeper to the General de Montcornet
at Aigues. [The Peasantry.]

BOURNIER, natural son of Gaubertin and of Mme. Socquard, the wife
of the cafe manager of Soulanges. His existence was unknown to Mme.
Gaubertin. He was sent to Paris where, under Leclercq, he learned the
printer's trade and finally became a foreman. Gaubertin then brought him to
Ville-aux-Fayes where he established a printing office and a paper known
as "Le Courrier de l'Avonne", entirely devoted to the interests of the
triumvirate, Rigou, Gaubertin and Soudry. [The Peasantry.]
BOSQUIER (Du), or Croisier (Du), or Bourguier (Du), a descendant of
an old Alencon family. Born about 1760. He had been commissary agent in
the army from 1793 to 1799; had done business with Ouvrard, and kept a
running account with Barras, Bernadotte and Fouche. He was at that time
one of the great folk of finance. Discharged by Bonaparte in 1800, he
withdrew to his natal town. After selling the Beauseant house, which he
owned, for the benefit of his creditors, he had remaining an income of not
more than twelve hundred francs. About 1816 he married Mlle. Cormon, a
spinster who had been courted also by the Chevalier de Valois and Athanase
Granson. This marriage set him on his feet again financially. He took the
lead in the party of the opposition, established a Liberal paper called "Le
Courrier de l'Orne," and was elected Receiver-General of the Exchequer,
after the Revolution of 1830. He waged bitter war on the white flag
Royalists, his hatred of them causing him secretly to condone the excesses
of Victurnien d'Esgrignon, until the latter involved him in an affair, when
Bousquier had him arrested, thinking thus to dispose of him summarily. The
affair was smoothed over only by tremendous pressure. But the young
nobleman provoked Du Bousquier into a duel where the latter dangerously
wounded him. Afterwards Bousquier gave him in marriage the hand of his
niece, Mlle. Duval, dowered with three millions. [Jealousies of a Country
Town.] Probably he was the father of Flavie Minoret, the daughter of a
celebrated Opera danseuse. But he never acknowledged this child, and she
was dowered by Princesse Galathionne and married Colleville. [The Middle
Classes.]
BOSQUIER (Madame du), born Cormon (Rose-Marie-Victoire) in 1773.
She was a very wealthy heiress, living with her maternal uncle, the Abbe de
Sponde, in an old house of Alencon (rue du Val-Noble), and receiving, in
1816, the aristocracy of the town, with which she was related through
marriage. Courted simultaneously by Athanase Granson, the Chevalier de

Valois and Du Bousquier, she gave her hand to the old commissariat, whose
athletic figure and passe libertinism had impressed her vaguely. But her
secret desires were utterly dashed by him; she confessed later that she
couldn't endure the idea of dying a maid. Mme. du Bousquier was very
devout. She was descended from the stewards of the ancient Ducs
d'Alencon. In this same year of 1816, she hoped in vain to wed a Troisville,
but he was already married. She found it difficult to brook the state of
hostility declared between M. du Bousquier and the Esgrignons. [Jealousies
of a Country Town.]
BOUTIN, at one time sergeant in the cavalry regiment of which Chabert
was colonel. He lived at Stuttgart in 1814, exhibiting white bears very well
trained by him. In this city he encountered his former ranking officer, shorn
of all his possessions, and just emerging from an insane asylum. Boutin
aided him as best he could and took it upon himself to go to Paris and
inform Mme. Chabert of her husband's whereabouts. But Boutin fell on the
field of Waterloo, and could hardly have accomplished his mission.
[Colonel Chabert.]
BOUVARD (Doctor), physician of Paris, born about 1758. A friend of
Dr. Minoret, with whom he had some lively tilts about Mesmer. He had
adopted that system, while Minoret gainsaid the truth thereof. These
discussions ended in an estrangement, for some time, between the two
cronies. Finally, in 1829, Bouvard wrote Minoret asking him to come to
Paris to assist in some conclusive tests of magnetism. As a result of these
tests, Dr. Minoret, materialist and atheist that he was, became a devout
Spiritualist and Catholic. In 1829 Dr. Bouvard lived on rue Ferou. [Ursule
Mirouet.] He had been as a father to Dr. Lebrun, physician of the
Conciergerie in 1830, who, according to his own avowal, owed to him his
position, since he often drew from his master his own ideas regarding
nervous energy. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
BOUYONNET, a lawyer at Mantes, under Louis Philippe, who, urged by
his confreres and stimulated by the public prosecutor, "showed up" Fraisier,
another lawyer in the town, who had been retained in a suit for both parties
at once. The result of this denunciation was to make Fraisier sell his office
and leave Mantes. [Cousin Pons.]

BRAMBOURG (Comte de), title of Philippe Bridau to which his brother
Joseph succeeded. [A Bachelor's Establishment. The Unconscious
Humorists.]
BRANDON (Lady Marie-Augusta), mother of Louis and Marie Gaston,
children born out of wedlock. Together with the Vicomtesse de Beauseant
she assisted, in company with Colonel Franchessini, probably her lover, at
the famous ball on the morning following which the duped mistress of
D'Ajuda-Pinto secretly left Paris. [The Member for Arcis.] In 1820, while
living with her two children in seclusion at La Grenadiere, in the
neighborhood of Tours, she saw Felix de Vandenesse, at the time when
Mme. de Mortsauf died, and charged him with a pressing message to Lady
Arabelle Dudley. [The Lily of the Valley.] She died, aged thirty-six, during
the Restoration, in the house at La Grenadiere, and was buried in the Saint-
Cyr Cemetery. Her husband, Lord Brandon, who had abandoned her, lived
in London, Brandon Square, Hyde Park, at this time. In Touraine Lady
Brandon was known only by the assumed name of Mme. Willemsens. [La
Grenadiere.]
BRASCHON, upholsterer and cabinet-maker in the Faubourg Saint-
Antoine, famous under the Restoration. He did a considerable amount of
work for Cesar Birotteau and figured among the creditors in his bankruptcy.
[Cesar Birotteau. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
BRAULARD, born in 1782. The head claquer at the theatre of the
Panorama-Dramatique, and then at the Gymnase, about 1822. The lover of
Mlle. Millot. At this time he lived in rue Faubourg du Temple, in a rather
comfortable flat where he gave fine dinners to actresses, managing editors
and authors—among others, Adele Dupuis, Finot, Ducange and Frederic du
Petit-Mere. He was credited with having gained an income of twenty
thousand francs by discounting authors' and other complimentary tickets.
[A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.] When chief claquer, about 1843, he
had in his following Chardin, alias Idamore [Cousin Betty], and
commanded his "Romans" at the Boulevard theatre, which presented
operas, spectaculars and ballets at popular prices, and was run by Felix
Gaudissart. [Cousin Pons.]

BRAZIER, this family included the following: A peasant of Vatan
(Indre), the paternal uncle and guardian of Mlle. Flore Brazier, known as
"La Rabouilleuse." In 1799 he placed her in the house of Dr. Rouget on
very satisfactory conditions for himself, Brazier. Rendered comparatively
rich by the doctor, he died two years before the latter, in 1805, from a fall
received on leaving an inn where he spent his time after becoming well-to-
do. His wife, who was a very harsh aunt of Flore's. Lastly the brother and
brother-in-law of this girl's guardians, the real father of "La Rabouilleuse,"
who died in 1799, a demented widower, in the hospital of Bourges. [A
Bachelor's Establishment.]
BRAZIER (Flore). (See Bridau, Madame Philippe.)
BREAUTEY (Comtesse de), a venerable woman of Provins, who
maintained the only aristocratic salon in that city, in 1827-1828. [Pierrette.]
BREBIAN (Alexandre de), member of the Angouleme aristocracy in
1821. He frequented the Bargeton receptions. An artist like his friend
Bartas, he also was daft over drawing and would ruin every album in the
department with his grotesque productions. He posed as Mme. de Bartas'
lover, since Bartas paid court to Mme. de Brebian. [Lost Illusions.]
BREBIAN (Charlotte de), wife of the preceding. Currently called
"Lolotte." [Lost Illusions.]
BREINTMAYER, a banking house of Strasbourg, entrusted by Michu in
1803 with the transmission of funds to the De Simeuses, young officers of
the army of Conde. [The Gondreville Mystery.]
BREZACS (The), Auvergnats, dealers in general merchandise and the
furnishings of chateaux during the Revolution, the Empire and the
Restoration. They had business dealings with Pierre Graslin, Jean-Baptiste
Sauviat and Martin Falleix. [The Country Parson. The Government Clerks.]
BRIDAU, father of Philippe and Joseph Bridau; one of the secretaries of
Roland, Minister of the Interior in 1792, and the right arm of succeeding
ministers. He was attached fanatically to Napoleon, who could appreciate
him, and who made him chief of division in 1804. He died in 1808, at the
moment when he had been promised the offices of director general and
councillor of state with the title of comte. He first met Agathe Rouget,

whom he made his wife, at the home of the grocer Descoings, the man
whom he tried to save from the scaffold. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
BRIDAU (Agathe Rouget, Madame), wife of the preceding; born in
1773. Legal daughter of Dr. Rouget of Issoudun, but possibly the natural
daughter of Sub-delegate Lousteau. The doctor did not waste any affection
upon her, and lost no time in sending her to Paris, where she was reared by
her uncle, the grocer Descoings. She died at the close of 1828. Of her two
sons, Philippe and Joseph, Mme. Bridau always preferred the elder, though
he caused her nothing but grief. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
BRIDAU (Philippe), elder son of Bridau and Agathe Rouget. Born in
1796. Placed in the Saint-Cyr school in 1813, he remained but six months,
leaving it to become under-lieutenant of the cavalry. On account of a
skirmish of the advance guard he was made full lieutenant, during the
French campaign, then captain after the battle of La Fere-Champenoise,
where Napoleon made him artillery officer. He was decorated at Montereau.
After witnessing the farewell at Fontainebleu, he came back to his mother
in July, 1814, being then hardly nineteen. He did not wish to serve the
Bourbons. In March, 1815, Philippe Bridau rejoined the Emperor at Lyons,
accompanying him to the Tuileries. He was promised a captaincy in a
squadron of dragoons of the Guard, and made officer of the Legion of
Honor at Waterloo. Reduced to half-pay, during the Restoration, he
nevertheless preserved his rank and officer's cross. He rejoined General
Lallemand in Texas, returning from America in October, 1819, thoroughly
degenerated. He ran an opposition newspaper in Paris in 1820-1821. He led
a most dissolute life; was the lover of Mariette Godeschal; and attended all
the parties of Tullia, Florentine, Florine, Coralie, Matifat and Camusot. Not
content with using the income of his brother Joseph, he stole a coffer
entrusted to him, and despoiled of her last savings Mme. Descoings, who
died of grief. Involved in a military plot in 1822, he was sent to Issoudun,
under the surveillance of the police. There he created a disturbance in the
"bachelor's establishment" of his uncle, Jean-Jacques Rouget; killed in a
duel Maxence Gilet, the lover of Flore Brazier; brought about the girl's
marriage with his uncle; and married her himself when she became a widow
in 1824. When Charles X. succeeded to the throne, Philippe Bridau re-
entered the army as lieutenant-colonel of the Duc de Maufrigneuse's
regiment. In 1827 he passed with this grade into a regiment of cavalry of

the Royal Guard, and was made Comte de Brambourg from the name of an
estate which he had purchased. He was promised further the office of
commander in the Legion of Honor, as well as in the Order of Saint-Louis.
After having consciously caused the death of his wife, Flore Brazier, he
tried to marry Amelie de Soulanges, who belonged to a great family. But his
manoeuvres were frustrated by Bixiou. The Revolution of 1830 resulted in
the loss to Philippe Bridau of a portion of the fortune which he had obtained
from his uncle by his marriage. Once more he entered military service,
under the July Government, which made him a colonel. In 1839 he fell in
an engagement with the Arabs in Africa. [A Bachelor's Establishment.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
BRIDAU (Joseph), painter; younger brother of Philippe Bridau; born in
1799. He studied with Gros, and made his first exhibit at the Salon of 1823.
He received great stimulus from his fellow-members of the "Cenacle," in
rue Quatre-Vents, also from his master, from Gerard and from Mlle. des
Touches. Moreover he was a hard-worker and an artist of genius. He was
decorated in 1827, and about 1839, through the interest of the Comte de
Serizy, for whose home he had formerly done some work, he married the
only daughter of a retired farmer, now a millionaire. On the death of his
brother Philippe, he inherited his house in rue de Berlin, his estate of
Brambourg, and his title of comte. [A Bachelor's Establishment. A
Distinguished Provincial at Paris. A Start in Life.] Joseph Bridau made
some vignettes for the works of Canalis. [Modeste Mignon.] He was
intimate with Hippolyte Schinner, whom he had known at Gros' studio.
[The Purse.] Shortly after 1830, he was present at an "at home" at Mlle. des
Touches, when Henri de Marsay told about his first love affair. [Another
Study of Woman.] In 1832 he rushed in to see Pierre Grassou, borrowed
five hundred francs of him, and told him to "cater to his talent" and even to
plunge into literature since he was nothing more than a poor painter. At this
same time, Joseph Bridau painted the dining-hall in the D'Arthez chateau.
[Pierre Grassou.] He was a friend of Marie Gaston, and was attendant at his
marriage with Louise de Chaulieu, widow of Macumer, in 1833. [Letters of
Two Brides.] He also assisted at the wedding of Steinbock with Hortense
Hulot, and in 1838, at the instigation of Stidmann, clubbed in with Leon de
Lora to raise four thousand francs for the Pole, who was imprisoned for
debt. He had made the portrait of Josepha Mirah. [Cousin Betty.] In 1839, at

Mme. Montcornet's, Joseph Bridau praised the talent and character
displayed by Dorlange, the sculptor. [The Member for Arcis.]
BRIDAU (Flore Brazier, Madame Philippe), born in 1787 at Vatan Indre,
known as "La Rabouilleuse," on account of her uncle having put her to
work, when a child, at stirring up (to "rabouiller") the streamlets, so that he
might find crayfishes. She was noticed on account of her great beauty by
Dr. Rouget of Issoudun, and taken to his home in 1799. Jean-Jacques
Rouget, the doctor's son become much enamored of her, but obtained favor
only through his money. On her part she was smitten with Maxence Gilet,
whom she entertained in the house of the old bachelor at the latter's
expense. But everything was changed by the arrival of Philippe Bridau at
Issoudun. Gilet was killed in a duel, and Rouget married La Rabouilleuse in
1823. Left a widow soon after, she married the soldier. She died in Paris in
1828, abandoned by her husband, in the greatest distress, a prey to
innumerable terrible complaints, the products of the dissolute life into
which Philippe Bridau had designedly thrown her. She dwelt then on rue du
Houssay, on the fifth floor. She left here for the Dubois Hospital in
Faubourg Saint-Denis. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
BRIDAU (Madame Joseph), only daughter of Leger, an old farmer,
afterwards a multi-millionaire at Beaumont-sur-Oise; married to the painter
Joseph Bridau about 1839. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
BRIGAUT (Major), of Pen-Hoel, Vendee; retired major of the Catholic
Army which contested with the French Republic. A man of iron, but devout
and entirely unselfish. He had served under Charette, Mercier, the Baron du
Guenic and the Marquis de Montauran. He died in 1819, six months after
Mme. Lorrain, the widow of a major in the Imperial Army, whom he was
said to have consoled on the loss of her husband. Major Brigaut had
received twenty-seven wounds. [Pierrette. The Chouans.]
BRIGAUT (Jacques), son of Major Brigaut; born about 1811. Childhood
companion of Pierrette Lorrain, whom he loved in innocent fashion similar
to that of Paul and Virginia, and whose love was reciprocated in the same
way. When Pierrette was sent to Provins, to the home of the Rogrons, her
relatives, Jacques also went to this town and worked at the carpenter's trade.
He was present at the death-bed of the young girl and immediately

thereafter enlisted as a soldier; he became head of a battalion, after having
several times sought death vainly. [Pierrette.]
BRIGITTE. (See Cottin, Madame.)
BRIGITTE, servant of Chesnel from 1795 on. In 1824 she was still with
him in rue du Bercail, Alencon, at the time of the pranks of the young
D'Esgrignon. Brigette humored the gormandizing of her master, the only
weakness of the goodman. [Jealousies of a Country Town.]
BRIGNOLET, clerk with lawyer Bordin in 1806. [A Start in Life.]
BRISETOUT (Heloise), mistress of Celestin Crevel in 1838, at the time
when he was elected mayor. She succeeded Josepha Mirah, in a little house
on rue Chauchat, after having lived on rue Notre-Dame-de Lorette. [Cousin
Betty.] In 1844-1845 she was premiere danseuse in the Theatre du
Boulevard, when she was claimed by both Bixiou and Gaudissart, her
manager. She was a very literary young woman, much spoken of in
Bohemian circles for elegance and graciousness. She knew all the great
artists, and favored her kinsman, the musician Garangeot. [Cousin Pons.]
Towards the end of the reign of Louis Philippe, she had Isidore Baudoyer
for a "protector"; he was then mayor of the arrondissement of Paris, which
included the Palais Royale. [The Middle Classes.]
BRISSET, a celebrated physician of Paris, time of Louis Philippe. a
materialist and successor to Bichat, and Cabanis. At the head of the
"Organists," opposed to Cameristus head of the "Vitalists." He was called in
consultation regarding Raphael de Valentin, whose condition was serious.
[The Magic Skin.]
BROCHON, a half-pay soldier who, in 1822, tended the horses and did
chores for Moreau, manager of Presles, the estate of the Comte de Serizy.
[A Start in Life.]
BROSSARD (Madame), widow received at Mme. de Bargeton's at
Angouleme in 1821. Poor but well-born, she sought to marry her daughter,
and in the end, despite her precise dignity and "sour-sweetness," she got
along fairly well with the other sex. [Lost Illusions.]

BROSSARD (Camille du), daughter of the preceding. born in 1794.
Fleshy and imposing. Posed as a good pianist. Not yet married at twenty-
seven. [Lost Illusions.]
BROSSETTE (Abbe), born about 1790; cure of Blangy, Burgundy, in
1823, at the time when General de Montcornet was struggling with the
peasantry. The abbe himself was an object of their defiance and hatred. He
was the fourth son of a good bourgeoisie family of Autun, a faithful prelate,
an obstinate Royalist and a man of intelligence. [The Peasantry.] In 1840 he
became a cure at Paris, in the faubourg Saint-Germain, and at the request of
Mme. de Grandlieu, he interested himself in removing Calyste du Guenic
from the clutches of Mme. de Rochefide and restoring him to his wife.
[Beatrix.]
BROUET (Joseph), a Chouan who died of wounds received in the fight
of La Pelerine or at the siege of Fougeres, in 1799. [The Chouans.]
BROUSSON (Doctor), attended the banker Jean-Frederic Taillefer, a
short time before the financier's death. [The Red Inn.]
BRUCE (Gabriel), alias Gros-Jean, one of the fiercest Chouans of the
Fontaine division. Implicated in the affair of the "Chauffeurs of Mortagne"
in 1809. Condemned to death for contumacy. [The Seamy Side of History.]
BRUEL (Du), chief of division to the Ministers of the Interior, under the
Empire. A friend of Bridau senior, retired on the advent of Restoration. He
was on very friendly terms with the widow Bridau, coming each evening
for a game of cards at her house, on rue Mazarine, with his old-time
colleagues, Claparon and Desroches. These three old employes were called
the "Three Sages of Greece" by Mmes. Bridau and Descoings. M. du Bruel
was descended of a contractor ennobled at the end of the reign of Louis
XIV. He died about 1821. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
BRUEL (Madame du), wife of the preceding. She survived him. She was
the mother of the dramatic author Jean-Francois du Bruel, christened Cursy
on the Parisian bill-boards. Although a bourgeoisie of strict ideas, Mme. du
Bruel welcomed the dancer Tullia, who became her daughter-in-law. [A
Prince of Bohemia.]

BRUEL (Jean-Francois du), son of the preceding; born about 1797. In
1816 he obtained a place under the Minister of Finance, thanks to the favor
of the Duc de Navarreins. [A Bachelor's Establishment.] He was sub-chief
of Rabourdin's office when the latter, in 1824, contested with M. Baudoyer
for a place of division chief. [The Government Clerks.] In November, 1825,
Jean-Francois du Bruel assisted at a breakfast given at the "Rocher de
Cancale" to the clerks of Desroches' office by Frederic Marest who was
treating to celebrate his incoming. He was present also at the orgy which
followed at Florentine's home. [A Start in Life.] M. du Bruel successively
rose to be chief of bureau, director, councillor of state, deputy, peer of
France and commander of the Legion of Honor; he received the title of
count and entered one of the classes in the Institute. All this was
accomplished through his wife, Claudine Chaffaroux, formerly the dancer,
Tullia, whom he married in 1829. [A Prince of Bohemia. The Middle
Classes.] For a long time he wrote vaudeville sketches over the name of
Cursy. Nathan, the poet, found it necessary to unite with him. Du Bruel
would make use of the author's ideas, condensing them into small, sprightly
skits which always scored successes for the actors. Du Bruel and Nathan
discovered the actress Florine. They were the authors of "L'Alcade dans
l'embarras," an imbroglio in three acts, played at the Theatre du Panorama-
Dramatique about 1822, when Florine made her debut, playing with Coralie
and Bouffe, the latter under the name of Vignol. [A Distinguished
Provincial at Paris. A Daughter of Eve.]
BRUEL (Claudine Chaffaroux, Madame du), born at Nanterre in 1799.
One of the premiere danseuses of the Opera from 1817 to 1827. For several
years she was the mistress of the Duc de Rhetore [A Bachelor's
Establishment.], and afterwards of Jean-Francois du Bruel, who was much
in love with her in 1823, and married her in 1829. She had then left the
stage. About 1834 she met Charles Edouard de la Palferine and formed a
violent attachment for him. In order to please him and pose in his eyes as a
great lady, she urged her husband to the constant pursuit of honors, and
finally achieved the title of countess. Nevertheless she continued to play the
lady of propriety and found entrance into bourgeoisie society. [A Prince of
Bhoemia. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris. Letters of Two Brides.] In
1840, to please Mme. Colleville, her friend, she tried to obtain a decoration
for Thuillier. [The Middle Classes.] Mme. du Bruel bore the name of Tullia

on the stage and in the "gallant" circle. She lived then in rue Chauchat, in a
house afterwards occupied by Mmes. Mirah and Brisetout, when Claudine
moved after her marriage to rue de la Victoire.
BRUNET, bailiff at Blagny, Burgundy, in 1823. He was also councillor
of the Canton during the Terror, having for practitioners Michel Vert alias
Vermichel and Fourchon the elder. [The Peasantry.]
BRUNNER (Gedeon), father of Frederic Brunner. At the time of the
French Restoration and of Louis Philippe he owned the great Holland
House at Frankford-on-the-Main. One of the early railway projectors. He
died about 1844, leaving four millions. Calvinist. Twice married. [Cousin
Pons.]
BRUNNER (Madame), first wife of Gedeon Brunner, and mother of
Frederic Brunner. A relative of the Virlaz family, well-to-do Jewish furriers
of Leipsic. A converted Jew. Her dowry was the basis of her husband's
fortune. She died young, leaving a son aged but twelve. [Cousin Pons.]
BRUNNER (Madame), second wife of Gedeon Brunner. The only
daughter of a German inn-keeper. She had been very badly spoiled by her
parents. Sterile, dissipated and prodigal, she made her husband very
unhappy, thus avenging the first Mme. Brunner. She was a step-mother of
the most abominable sort, launching her stepson into an unbridled life,
hoping that debauchery would devour both the child and the Jewish fortune.
After ten years of wedded life she died before her parents, having made
great inroads upon Gedeon Brunner's property. [Cousin Pons.]
BRUNNER (Frederic), only son of Gedeon Brunner, born within the first
four years of the century. He ran through his maternal inheritance by silly
dissipations, and then helped his friend Wilhelm Schwab to make away
with the hundred thousand francs his parents had left him. Without
resources and cast adrift by his father he went to Paris in 1835, where, upon
the recommendation of Graff, the inn-keeper, he obtained a position with
Keller at six hundred francs per annum. In 1843 he was only two thousand
francs ahead; but Gedeon Brunner having died, he became a multi-
millionaire. Then for friendship's sake he founded, with his chum Wilhelm,
the banking house of "Brunner, Schwab & Co.," on rue Richelieu, between
rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs and rue Villedo, in a magnificent building

belonging to the tailor, Wolfgang Graff. Frederic Brunner had been
presented by Sylvain Pons to the Camusots de Marville; he would have
married their daughter had she not been the only child. The breaking off of
this match involved also, the relations of Pons with the De Marville family
and resulted in the death of the musician. [Cousin Pons.]
BRUNO, valet de chambre of Corentin at Passy, on rue des Vignes, in
1830. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.] About 1840 he was again in the
service of Corentin, who was now known as M. du Portail and lived on rue
Honore-Chevalier, at Paris. [The Middle Classes.] This name is sometimes
spelled Bruneau.
BRUTUS, proprietor of the Hotel des Trois-Maures in the Grand-Rue,
Alencon, in 1799, where Alphonse de Montauran met Mlle. de Verneuil for
the first time. [The Chouans.]
BUNEAUD (Madame), ran a bourgeoisie boarding-house in opposition
to Mme. Vauquer on the heights of Sainte-Genevieve, Paris, in 1819.
[Father Goriot.]
BUTIFER, noted hunter, poacher and smuggler, living in the village hard
by Grenoble, where Dr. Benassis located, during the Restoration. When the
doctor arrived in the country, Butifer drew a bead on him, in a corner of the
forest. Later, however, he became entirely devoted to him. He was charged
by Genestas with the physical education of this officer's adopted son. It may
be that Butifer enlisted in Genestas' regiment, after the death of Dr.
Benassis. [The Country Doctor.]
BUTSCHA (Jean), head-clerk of Maitre Latournelle, a notary at Havre in
1829. Born about 1804. The natural son of a Swedish sailor and a
Demoiselle Jacmin of Honfleur. A hunchback. A type of intelligence and
devotion. Entirely subservient to Modeste Mignon, whom he loved without
hope; he aided, by many adroit methods, to bring about her marriage with
Ernest de la Briere. Butscha decided that this union would make the young
lady happy. [Modeste Mignon.]

C
CABIROLLE, in charge of the stages of Minoret-Levrault, postmaster of
Nemours. Probably a widower, with one son. About 1837, a sexagenarian,
he married Antoinette Patris, called La Bougival, who was over fifty, but
whose income amounted to twelve hundred francs. [Ursule Mirouet.]
CABIROLLE, son of the preceding. In 1830 he was Dr. Minoret's
coachman at Nemours. Later he was coachman for Savinien de
Portenduere, after the vicomte's marriage with Ursule Mirouet. [Ursule
Mirouet.]
CABIROLLE (Madame), wife of Cabirolle senior. Born Antoinette Patris
in 1786, of a poor family of La Bresse. Widow of a workman named Pierre
alias Bougival; she was usually designated by the latter name. After having
been Ursule Mirouet's nurse, she became Dr. Minoret's servant, marrying
Cabirolle about 1837. [Ursule Mirouet.]
CABIROLLE (Madame), mother of Florentine, the danseuse. Formerly
janitress on rue Pastourelle, but living in 1820 with her daughter on rue de
Crussol in a modest affluence assured by Cardot the old silk-dealer, since
1817. According to Girondeau, she was a woman of sense. [A Start in Life.
A Bachelor's Establishment.]
CABIROLLE (Agathe-Florentine), known as Florentine; born in 1804. In
1817, upon leaving Coulon's class, she was discovered by Cardot, the old
silk-merchant, and established by him with her mother in a relatively
comfortable flat on rue de Crussol. After having been featured at the Gaite
theatre, in 1820, she danced for the first time in a spectacular drama entitled
"The Ruins of Babylon."* Immediately afterwards she succeeded Mariette
as premiere danseuse at the theatre of the Porte-Saint-Martin. Then in 1823
she made her debut at the Opera in a trio skit with Mariette and Tullia. At
the time when Cardot "protected" her, she had for a lover the retired
Captain Girondeau, and was intimate with Philippe Bridau, to whom she
gave money when in need. In 1825 Florentine occupied Coralie's old flat,
now for some three years, and it was at this place that Oscar Husson lost at

play the money entrusted to him by his employer, Desroches the attorney,
and was surprised by his uncle, Cardot. [A Start in Life. Lost Illusions. A
Distinguished Provincial at Paris. A Bachelor's Establishment.]
* By Renee-Charles Guilbert de Pixerecourt; played for the first
time at Paris in 1810.

CABOT (Armand-Hippolyte), a native of Toulouse who, in 1800,
established a hair-dressing salon on the Place de la Bourse, Paris. On the
advice of his customer, the poet Parny, he had taken the name of Marius, a
sobriquet which stuck to the establishment. In 1845 Cabot had earned an
income of twenty-four thousand francs and lived at Libourne, while a fifth
Marius, called Mougin, managed the business founded by him. [The
Unconscious Humorists.]
CABOT (Marie-Anne), known as Lajeunesse, an old servant of Marquis
Carol d'Esgrignon. Implicated in the affair of the "Chauffeurs of Mortagne"
and executed in 1809. [The Seamy Side of History.]
CACHAN, attorney at Angouleme under the Restoration. He and Petit-
Claud had similar business interests and the same clients. In 1830 Cachan,
now mayor of Marsac, had dealings with the Sechards. [Lost Illusions.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
CADENET, Parisian wine-merchant, in 1840, on the ground-floor of a
furnished lodging-house, corner of rue des Postes and rue des Poules.
Cerizet also dwelt there at that time. Cadenet, who was proprietor of the
house, had something to do with the transactions of Cerizet, the "banker of
the poor." [The Middle Classes.]
CADIGNAN (Prince de), a powerful lord of the former regime, father of
the Duc de Maufrigneuse, father-in-law of the Duc de Navarreins. Ruined
by the Revolution, he had regained his properties and income on the
accession of the Bourbons. But he was a spendthrift and devoured
everything. He also ruined his wife. He died at an advanced age some time
before the Revolution of July. [The Secrets of a Princess.] At the end of
1829, the Prince de Cadignan, then Grand Huntsman to Charles X., rode in
a great chase where were also found, amid a very aristocratic throng, the
Duc d'Herouville, organizer of the jaunt, Canalis and Ernest de la Briere, all

three of whom were suitors for the hand of Modeste Mignon. [Modeste
Mignon.]
CADIGNAN (Prince and Princesse de), son and daughter-in-law of the
preceding. (See Maufrigneuse, Duc and Duchesse de.)
CADINE (Jenny), actress at the Gymnase theatre, times of Charles X.
and Louis Philippe. The most frolicsome of women, the only rival of
Dejazet. Born in 1814. Discovered, trained and "protected" from thirteen
years old on, by Baron Hulot. Intimate friend of Josepha Mirah. [Cousin
Betty.] Between 1835 and 1840, while maintained by Couture, she lived on
rue Blanche in a delightful little ground-floor flat with its own garden.
Fabien du Ronceret and Mme. Schontz succeeded her here. [Beatrix.] In
1845 she was Massol's mistress and lived on rue de la Victoire. At this time,
she apparently led astray in short order Palafox Gazonal, who had been
taken to her home by Bixiou and Leon de Lora. [The Unconscious
Humorists.] About this time she was the victim of a jewelry theft. After the
arrest of the thieves her property was returned by Saint-Esteve—Vautrin—
who was then chief of the special service. [The Member for Arcis.]
CADOT (Mademoiselle), old servant-mistress of Judge Blondet at
Alencon, during the Restoration. She pampered her master, and, like him,
preferred the elder of the magistrate's two sons. [Jealousies of a Country
Town.]
CALVI (Theodore), alias Madeleine. Born in 1803. A Corsican
condemned to the galleys for life on account of eleven murders committed
by the time he was eighteen. A member of the same gang with Vautrin from
1819 to 1820. Escaped with him. Having assassinated the widow Pigeau of
Nanterre, in May, 1830, he was rearrested and this time sentenced to death.
The plotting of Vautrin, who bore for him an unnatural affection, saved his
life; the sentence was commuted. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
CAMBON, lumber merchant, a deputy mayor to Benassis, in 1829, in a
community near Grenoble, and a devoted assistant in the work of
regeneration undertaken by the doctor. [The Country Doctor.]
CAMBREMER (Pierre), fisherman of Croisic on the Lower-Loire, time
of Louis Philippe, who, for the honor of a jeopardized name, had cast his

only son into the sea and afterwards remained desolate and a widower on a
cliff near by, in expiation of his crime induced by paternal justice. [A
Seaside Tragedy. Beatrix.]
CAMBREMER (Joseph), younger brother of Pierre Cambremer, father of
Pierrette, called Perotte. [A Seaside Tragedy.]
CAMBREMER (Jacques), only son of Pierre Cambremer and Jacquette
Brouin. Spoiled by his parents, his mother especially, he became a rascal of
the worst type. Jacques Cambremer evaded justice only by reason of the
fact that his father gagged him and cast him into the sea. [A Seaside
Tragedy.]
CAMBREMER (Madame), born Jacquette Brouin, wife of Pierre
Cambremer and mother of Jacques. She was of Guerande; was educated;
could write "like a clerk"; taught her son to read and this brought about his
ruin. She was usually spoken of as the beautiful Brouin. She died a few
days after Jacques. [A Seaside Tragedy.]
CAMBREMER (Pierrette), known as Perotte; daughter of Joseph
Cambremer; niece of Pierre and his goddaughter. Every morning the sweet
and charming creature came to bring her uncle the bread and water upon
which he subsisted. [A Seaside Tragedy.]
CAMERISTUS, celebrated physician of Paris under Louis Philippe; the
Ballanche of medicine and one of the defenders of the abstract doctrines of
Van Helmont; chief of the "Vitalists" opposed to Brisset who headed the
"Organists." He as well as Brisset was called in consultation regarding a
very serious malady afflicting Raphael de Valentin. [The Magic Skin.]
CAMPS (Octave de), lover then husband of Mme. Firmiani. She made
him restore the entire fortune of a family named Bourgneuf, ruined in a
lawsuit by Octave's father, thus reducing him to the necessity of making a
living by teaching mathematics. He was only twenty-two years old when he
met Mme. Firmiani. He married her first at Gretna Green. The marriage at
Paris took place in 1824 or 1825. Before marriage, Octave de Camps lived
on rue de l'Observance. He was a descendant of the famous Abbe de
Camps, so well known among bookmen and savants. [Madame Firmiani.]

Octave de Camps reappears as an ironmaster, during the reign of Louis
Philippe. At this time he rarely resided at Paris. [The Member for Arcis.]
CAMPS (Madame Octave de), nee Cadignan; niece of the old Prince de
Cadignan; cousin of the Duc de Maufrigneuse. In 1813, at the age of
sixteen, she married M. Firmiani, receiver-general in the department of
Montenotte. M. Firmiani died in Greece about 1822, and she became Mme.
de Camps in 1824 or 1825. At this time she dwelt on rue du Bac and had
entree into the home of Princesse de Blamont-Chauvry, the oracle of
Faubourg Saint-Germain. An accomplished and excellent lady, loved even
by her rivals, the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse, her cousin, Mme. de
Macumer—Louise de Chaulieu—and the Marquise d'Espard. [Madame
Firmiani.] She welcomed and protected Mme. Xavier Rabourdin. [The
Government Clerks.] At the close of 1824 she gave a ball where Charles de
Vandenesse made the acquaintance of Mme. d'Aiglemont whose lover he
became. [A Woman of Thirty.] In 1834 Mme. Octave de Camps tried to
check the slanders going the rounds at the expense of Mme. Felix de
Vandenesse, who had compromised herself somewhat on account of the
poet Nathan; and Mme. de Camps gave the young woman some good
advice. [A Daughter of Eve.] On another occasion she gave exceedingly
good counsel to Mme. de l'Estorade, who was afraid of being smitten with
Sallenauve. [The Member for Arcis.] Mme. Firmiani, "that was," shared her
time between Paris and the furnaces of M. de Camps; but she gave the latter
much the preference—at least so said one of her intimate friends, Mme. de
l'Estorade. [The Member for Arcis.]
CAMUSET, one of Bourignard's assumed names.
CAMUSOT, silk-merchant, rue des Bourdonnais, Paris, under the
Restoration. Born in 1765. Son-in-law and successor of Cardot, whose
eldest daughter he had married. At that time he was a widower, his first wife
being a Demoiselle Pons, sole heiress of the celebrated Pons family,
embroiderers to the Court during the Empire. About 1834 Camusot retired
from business, and became a member of the Manufacturers' Council,
deputy, peer of France and baron. He had four children. In 1821-1822 he
maintained Coralie, who became so violently enamored of Lucien de
Rubempre. Although she abandoned him for Lucien, he promised the poet,
after the actress' death, that he would purchase for her a permanent plot in

the cemetery of Pere-Lachaise. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris. A
Bachelor's Establishment. Cousin Pons.] Later he was intimate with Fanny
Beaupre for some time. [The Muse of the Department.] He and his wife
were present at Cesar Birotteau's big ball in December, 1818; he was also
chosen commissary-judge of the perfumer's bankruptcy, instead of
Gobenheim-Keller, who was first designated. [Cesar Birotteau.] He had
dealings with the Guillaumes, clothing merchants, rue Saint-Denis. [At the
Sign of the Cat and Racket.]
CAMUSOT DE MARVILLE, son of Camusot the silk-merchant by his
first marriage. Born about 1794. During Louis Philippe's reign he took the
name of a Norman estate and green, Marville, in order to distinguish
between himself and a half-brother. In 1824, then a judge at Alencon, he
helped render an alibi decision in favor of Victurnien d'Esgrignon, who
really was guilty. [Cousin Pons. Jealousies of a Country Town.] He was
judge at Paris in 1828, and was appointed to replace Popinot in the court
which was to render a decision concerning the appeal for interdiction
presented by Mme. d'Espard against her husband. [The Commission in
Lunacy.] In May, 1830, in the capacity of judge of instruction, he prepared a
report tending to the liberation of Lucien de Rubempre, accused of
assassinating Esther Gobseck. But the suicide of the poet rendered the
proposed measure useless, besides upsetting, momentarily, the ambitious
projects of the magistrate. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.] Camusot de
Marville had been president of the Court of Nantes. In 1844 he was
president of the Royal Court of Paris and commander of the Legion of
Honor. At this time he lived in a house on rue de Hanovre, purchased by
him in 1834, where he received the musician Pons, a cousin of his. The
President de Marville was elected deputy in 1846. [Cousin Pons.]
CAMUSOT DE MARVILLE (Madame), born Thirion, Marie-Cecile-
Amelie, in 1798. Daughter of an usher of the Cabinet of Louis XVIII. Wife
of the magistrate. In 1814 she frequented the studio of the painter Servin,
who had a class for young ladies. This studio contained two factions; Mlle.
Thirion headed the party of the nobility, though of ordinary birth, and
persecuted Ginevra di Piombo, of the Bonapartist party. [The Vendetta.] In
1818 she was invited to accompany her father and mother to the famous
ball of Cesar Birotteau. It was about the time her marriage with Camusot de
Marville was being considered. [Cesar Birotteau.] This wedding took place

in 1819, and immediately the imperious young woman gained the upper
hand with the judge, making him follow her own will absolutely and in the
interests of her boundless ambition. It was she who brought about the
discharge of young d'Esgrignon in 1824, and the suicide of Lucien de
Rubempre in 1830. Through her, the Marquis d'Espard failed of
interdiction. However, Mme. de Marville had no influence over her father-
in-law, the senior Camusot, whom she bored dreadfully and importuned
excessively. She caused, also, by her evil treatment, the death of Sylvain
Pons "the poor relation," inheriting with her husband his fine collection of
curios. [Jealousies of a Country Town. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.
Cousin Pons.]
CAMUSOT (Charles), son of the preceding couple. He died young, at a
time when his parents had neither land nor title of Marville, and when they
were in almost straitened circumstances. [Cousin Pons.]
CAMUSOT DE MARVILLE (Cecile). (See Popinot, Vicomtesse.)
CANALIS (Constant-Cyr-Melchior, Baron de), poet—chief of the
"Angelic" school—deputy minister, peer of France, member of the French
Academy, commander of the Legion of Honor. Born at Canalis, Correze, in
1800. About 1821 he became the lover of Mme. de Chaulieu, who was
constantly aiding him to high positions, but who, at the same time, was
always very exacting. Not long after, Canalis is seen at the opera in Mme.
d'Espard's box, being presented to Lucien de Rubempre. From 1824 he was
the fashionable poet. [Letters of Two Brides. A Distinguished Provincial at
Paris.] In 1829 he lived at number 29 rue Paradis-Poissoniere (now simply
rue Paradis) and was master of requests in the Council of State. This is the
time when he was in correspondence with Modeste Mignon and wished to
espouse that rich heiress. [Modeste Mignon.] Shortly after 1830, now a
great man, he was present at Mlle. des Touches', when Henri de Marsay told
of his first love affair. Canalis took part in the conversation and uttered a
most vigorous tirade against Napoleon. [The Magic Skin. Another Study of
Woman.] In 1838 he married the daughter of Moreau (de l'Oise), who
brought him a very large dowry. [A Start in Life.] In October, 1840, he and
Mme. de Rochefide were present at a performance at the Varietes theatre,
where that dangerous woman was encountered again after a lapse of three
years by Calyste du Guenic. [Beatrix.] In 1845 Canalis was pointed out in

the Chamber of Deputies by Leon de Lora to Palafox Gazonal. [The
Unconscious Humorists.] In 1845, he consented to act as second to
Sallenauve in his duel with Maxime de Trailles. [The Member for Arcis.]
CANALIS (Baronne Melchior de), wife of the preceding and daughter of
M. and Mme. Moreau (de l'Oise). About the middle of the reign of Louis
Philippe, she being then recently married, she made a journey to Seine-et-
Oise. She went first to Beaumont and Presles. Mme. de Canalis with her
daughter and the Academician, occupied Pierrotin's stage-coach. [A Start in
Life.]
CANE (Marco-Facino), known as Pere Canet, a blind old man, an inmate
of the Hospital des Quinze-Vingts, who during the Restoration followed the
vocation of musician, at Paris. He played the clarionet at a ball of the
working-people of rue de Charenton, on the occasion of the wedding of
Mme. Vaillant's sister. He said he was a Venetian, Prince de Varese, a
descendant of the condottiere Facino Cane, whose conquests fell into the
hands of the Duke of Milan. He told strange stories regarding his patrician
youth. He died in 1820, more than an octogenarian. He was the last of the
Canes on the senior branch, and he transmitted the title of Prince de Varese
to a relative, Emilio Memmi. [Facino Cane. Massimilla Doni.]
CANTE-CROIX (Marquis de), under-lieutenant in one of the regiments
which tarried at Angouleme from November, 1807, to March, 1808, while
on its way to Spain. He was a Colonel at Wagram on July 6, 1809, although
only twenty-six years old, when a shot crushed over his heart the picture of
Mme. de Bargeton, whom he loved. [Lost Illusions.]
CANTINET, an old glass-dealer, and beadle of Saint-Francois church,
Marais, Paris, in 1845; dwelt on rue d'Orleans. A drunken idler. [Cousin
Pons.]
CANTINET (Madame), wife of preceding; renter of seats in Saint-
Francois. Last nurse of Sylvain Pons, and a tool to the interests of Fraisier
and Poulain. [Cousin Pons.]
CANTINET, Junior, would have been made beadle of Saint-Francois,
where his father and mother were employed, but he preferred the theatre.
He was connected with the Cirque-Olympique in 1845. He caused his

mother sorrow, by a dissolute life and by forcible inroads on the maternal
purse. [Cousin Pons.]
CAPRAJA, a noble Venetian, a recognized dilettante, living only by and
through music. Nicknamed "Il Fanatico." Known by the Duke and Duchess
Cataneo and their friends. [Massimilla Doni.]
CARABINE, assumed name of Seraphine Sinet, which name see.
CARBONNEAU, physician whom the Comte de Mortsauf spoke of
consulting about his wife, in 1820, instead of Dr. Origet, whom he fancied
to be unsatisfactory. [The Lily of the Valley.]
CARCADO (Madame de), founder of a Parisian benevolent society, for
which Mme. de la Baudraye was appointed collector, in March, 1843, on
the request of some priests, friends of Mme. Piedefer. This choice resulted,
noteworthily, in the re-entrance into society of the "muse," who had been
beguiled and compromised by her relations with Lousteau. [The Muse of
the Department.]
CARDANET (Madame de), grandmother of Mme. de Senonches. [Lost
Illusions.]
CARDINAL (Madame), Parisian fish-vender, daughter of one Toupillier,
a carrier. Widow of a well-known marketman. Niece of Toupillier the
pauper of Saint-Sulpice, from whom in 1840, with Cerizet's assistance, she
tried to capture the hidden treasure. This woman had three sisters, four
brothers, and three uncles, who would have shared with her the pauper's
bequest. The scheming of Mme. Cardinal and Cerizet was frustrated by M.
du Portail—Corentin. [The Middle Classes.]
CARDINAL (Olympe). (See Cerizet, Madame.)
CARDOT (Jean-Jerome-Severin), born in 1755. Head-clerk in an old
silk-house, the "Golden Cocoon," rue des Bourdonnais. He bought the
establishment in 1793, at the "maximum" moment, and in ten years had
made a large fortune, thanks to the dowry of one hundred thousand francs
brought him by his wife; she was a Demoiselle Husson, and gave him four
children. Of these, the elder daughter married Camusot, who succeeded his
father-in-law; the second, Marianne, married Protez, of the firm of Protez &

Chiffreville; the elder son became a notary; the younger son, Joseph, took
an interest in Matifat's drug business. Cardot was the "protector" of the
actress, Florentine, whom he discovered and started. In 1822 he lived at
Belleville in one of the first houses above Courtille; he had then been a
widower for six years. He was an uncle of Oscar Husson, and had taken
some interest in and helped the dolt, until an incident occurred that changed
everything: the old man discovered the young fellow asleep one morning,
on one of Florentine's divans, after an orgy wherein he had squandered the
money entrusted to him by his employer, Desroches the attorney. [A Start in
Life. Lost Illusions. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris. A Bachelor's
Establishment.] Cardot had dealings with the Guillaumes, clothiers, rue
Saint-Denis. [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket.] He and his entire family
were invited to the great ball given by Cesar Birotteau, December 17, 1818.
[Cesar Birotteau.]
CARDOT, elder son of the preceding. Parisian notary, successor of
Sorbier. Born in 1794. Married to a Demoiselle Chiffreville, of a family of
celebrated chemists. Three children were born to them: a son who in 1836
was fourth clerk in his father's business, and should have succeeded him,
but dreamed instead of literary fame; Felicie, who married Berthier; and
another daughter, born in 1824. The notary Cardot maintained Malaga,
during the reign of Louis Philippe. [The Muse of the Department. A Man of
Business. Jealousies of a Country Town.] He was attorney for Pierre
Grassou, who deposited his savings with him every quarter. [Pierre
Grassou.] He was also notary to the Thuilliers, and, in 1840, had presented
in their drawing-rooms, on rue Saint-Dominique d'Enfer, Godeschal an
aspirant for the hand of Celeste Colleville. After living on Place du
Chatelet, Cardot become one of the tenants of the house purchased by the
Thuilliers, near the Madeleine. [The Middle Classes.] In 1844 he was
mayor and deputy of Paris. [Cousin Pons.]
CARDOT (Madame) nee Chiffreville, wife of Cardot the notary. Very
devoted, but a "wooden" woman, a "veritable penitential brush." About
1840 she lived on Place du Chatelet, Paris, with her husband. At this time,
the notary's wife took her daughter Felicie to rue des Martyrs, to the home
of Etienne Lousteau, whom she had planned to have for a son-in-law, but
whom she finally threw over on account of the journalist's dissipated ways.
[The Muse of the Department.]

CARDOT (Felicie or Felicite). (See Berthier, Madame.)
CARIGLIANO (Marechal, Duc de), one of the illustrious soldiers of the
Empire; husband of a Demoiselle Malin de Gondreville, whom he
worshipped, obeyed and stood in awe of, but who deceived him. [At the
Sign of the Cat and Racket.] In 1819, Marechal de Carigliano gave a ball
where Eugene de Rastignac was presented by his cousin, the Vicomtesse de
Beauseant, at the time he entered the world of fashion. [Father Goriot.]
During the Restoration he owned a beautiful house near the Elysee-
Bourbon, which he sold to M. de Lanty. [Sarrasine.]
CARIGLIANO (Duchesse de), wife of the preceding, daughter of
Senator Malin de Gondreville. At the end of the Empire, when thirty-six
years of age, she was the mistress of the young Colonel d'Aiglemont, and of
Sommervieux, the painter, almost at the same time; the latter had recently
wedded Augustine Guillaume. The Duchesse de Carigliano received a visit
from Mme. de Sommervieux, and gave her very ingenious advice
concerning the method of conquering her husband, and binding him forever
to her by her coquetry. [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket.] In 1821-1822
she had an opera-box near Mme. d'Espard. Sixte du Chatelet came to her to
make his acknowledgments on the evening when Lucien de Rubempre, a
newcomer in Paris, cut such a sorry figure at the theatre in company with
Mme. de Bargeton. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.] It was the
Duchesse de Carigliano who, after a great effort, found a wife suited to
General de Montcornet, in the person of Mlle. de Troisville. [The
Peasantry.] Mme. de Carigliano, although a Napoleonic duchesse, was none
the less devoted to the House of the Bourbons, being attached especially to
the Duchesse de Berry. Becoming imbued also with a high degree of piety,
she visited nearly every year a retreat of the Ursulines of Arcis-sur-Aube. In
1839 Sallenauve's friends counted on the duchesse's support to elect him
deputy. [The Member for Arcis.]
CARMAGNOLA (Giambattista), an old Venetian gondolier, entirely
devoted to Emilio Memmi, in 1820. [Massimilla Doni.]
CARNOT (Lazare-Nicolas-Marguerite), born at Nolay—Cote-d'Or—in
1753; died in 1823. In June, 1800, while Minister of War, he was present in
company with Talleyrand, Fouche and Sieyes, at a council held at the home

of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, rue du Bac, when the overthrow of First
Consul Bonaparte was discussed. [The Gondreville Mystery.]
CAROLINE (Mademoiselle), governess, during the Empire, of the four
children of M. and Mme. de Vandenesse. "She was a terror." [The Lily of
the Valley.]
CAROLINE, chambermaid of the Marquis de Listomere, in 1827-1828,
on rue Saint-Dominique-Saint-Germain, Paris, when the marquis received a
letter from Eugene de Rastignac intended for Delphine de Nucingen. [A
Study of Woman.]
CAROLINE, servant of the Thuilliers in 1840. [The Middle Classes.]
CARON, lawyer, in charge of the affairs of Mlle. Gamard at Tours in
1826. He acted against Abbe Francois Birotteau. [The Vicar of Tours.]
CARPENTIER, formerly captain in the Imperial Army, retired at
Issoudun during the Restoration. He had a position in the mayor's office. He
was allied by marriage to one of the strongest families of the city, the
Borniche-Hereaus. He was an intimate friend of the artillery captain,
Mignonnet, sharing with him his aversion for Commandant Maxence Gilet.
Carpentier and Mignonnet were seconds of Philippe Bridau in his duel with
the chief of the "Knights of Idlesse." [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
CARPI (Benedetto), jailer of a Venetian prison, where Facino Cane was
confined between the years 1760 and 1770. Bribed by the prisoner, he fled
with him, carrying a portion of the hidden treasure of the Republic. But he
perished soon after, by drowning, while trying to cross the sea. [Facino
Cane.]
CARTHAGENOVA, a superb basso of the Fenice theatre at Venice. In
1820 he sang the part of Moses in Rossini's opera, with Genovese and La
Tinti. [Massimilla Doni.]
CARTIER, gardener in the Montparnasse quarter, Paris, during the reign
of Louis Philippe. In 1838 he supplied flowers to M. Bernard—Baron de
Bourlac—for his daughter Vanda. [The Seamy Side of History.]

CARTIER (Madame), wife of the preceding; vender of milk, eggs and
vegetables to Mme. Vauthier, landlady of a miserable boarding-house on
Boulevard Montparnasse, and also to M. Bernard, lessee of real estate. [The
Seamy Side of History.]
CASA-REAL (Duc de), younger brother of Mme. Balthazar Claes;
related to the Evangelistas of Bordeaux; of an illustrious family under the
Spanish monarchy; his sister had renounced the paternal succession in order
to procure for him a marriage worthy of a house so noble. He died young, in
1805, leaving to Mme. Claes, a considerable fortune in money. [The Quest
of the Absolute. A Marriage Settlement.]
CASTAGNOULD, mate of the "Mignon," a pretty, hundred-ton vessel
owned by Charles Mignon, the captain. In this he made several important
and prosperous voyages, from 1826 to 1829. Castagnould was a Provencal
and an old servant of the Mignon family. [Modeste Mignon.]
CASTANIER (Rodolphe), retired chief of squadron in the dragoons,
under the Empire. Cashier of Baron de Nucingen during the Restoration.
Wore the decoration of the Legion of Honor. He maintained Mme. de la
Garde—Aquilina—and on her account, in 1821, he counterfeited the
banker's name on a letter of credit for a considerable amount. John
Melmoth, an Englishman, got him out of this scrape by exchanging his own
individuality for that of the old officer. Castanier was thus all-powerful, but
becoming promptly at outs with the proceeding, he adopted the same tactics
of exchange, transferring his power to a financier named Claparon.
Castanier was a Southerner. He had seen service from sixteen till nearly
forty. [Melmoth Reconciled.]
CASTANIER (Madame), wife of the preceding, married during the first
Empire. Her family—that of the bourgeoisie of Nancy—fooled Castanier
about the size of her dowry and her "expectations." Mme. Castanier was
honest, ugly and sour-tempered. She was separated from her husband, to his
relief, and for several years previous to 1821 lived in the suburbs of
Strasbourg. [Melmoth Reconciled.]
CASTERAN (De), a very ancient aristocracy of Normandy; related to
William the Conqueror; allied with the Verneuils, the Esgrignons and the
Troisvilles. The name is pronounced "Cateran." A Demoiselle Blanche de

Casteran was the mother of Mlle. de Verneuil, and died Abbess of Notre-
Dame de Seez. [The Chouans.] In 1807 Mme. de la Chanterie, then a
widow, was hospitably received in Normandy by the Casterans. [The
Seamy Side of History.] In 1822 a venerable couple, Marquis and Marquise
de Casteran visited the drawing-room of Marquis d'Esgrignon at Alencon.
[Jealousies of a Country Town.] The Marquise de Rochefide, nee Beatrix
Maximilienne-Rose de Casteran, was the younger daughter of a Marquis de
Casteran who wished to marry off both his daughters without dowries, and
thus save his entire fortune for his son, the Comte de Casteran. [Beatrix.] A
Comte de Casteran, son-in-law of the Marquis of Troisville, relative of
Mme. de Montcornet, was prefect of a department of Burgundy between
1820 and 1825. [The Peasantry.]
CATANEO (Duke), noble Sicilian, born in 1773; first husband of
Massimilla Doni. Physically ruined by early debaucheries, he was a
husband only in name, living only by and through the influence of music.
Very wealthy, he had educated Clara Tinti, discovered by him when still a
child and a simple tavern servant. The young girl became, thanks to him,
the celebrated prima donna of the Fenice theatre, at Venice in 1820. The
wonderful tenor Genovese, of the same theatre, was also a protege of Duke
Cataneo, who paid him a high salary to sing only with La Tinti. The Duke
Cataneo cut a sorry figure. [Massimilla Doni.]
CATANEO (Duchess), nee Massimilla Doni, wife of the preceding;
married later to Emilio Memmi, Prince de Varese. (See Princesse de
Varese.)
CATHERINE, an old woman in the service of M. and Mme. Saillard, in
1824. [The Government Clerks.]
CATHERINE, chambermaid and foster sister of Laurence de Cinq-Cygne
in 1803. A handsome girl of nineteen. According to Gothard, Catherine was
in all her mistress' secrets and furthered all her schemes. [The Gondreville
Mystery.]
CAVALIER, Fendant's partner; both were book-collectors, publishers and
venders in Paris, on rue Serpente in 1821. Cavalier traveled for the house,
whose firm name appeared as "Fendant and Cavalier." The two associates
failed shortly after having published, without success, the famous romance

of Lucien de Rubempre, "The Archer of Charles IX.," which title they had
changed for one more fantastic. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.] In
1838, a firm of Cavalier published "The Spirit of Modern Law" by Baron
Bourlac, sharing the profits with the author. [The Seamy Side of History.]
CAYRON, of Languedoc, a vender of parasols, umbrellas and canes, on
rue Saint-Honore in a house adjacent to that inhabited by Birotteau the
perfumer in 1818. With the consent of the landlord, Molineux, Cayron
sublet two apartments over his shop to his neighbor. He fared badly in
business, suddenly disappearing a short time after the grand ball given by
Birotteau. Cayron admired Birotteau. [Cesar Birotteau.]
CELESTIN, valet de chambre of Lucien de Rubempre, on the Malaquais
quai, in the closing years of the reign of Charles X. [Scenes from a
Courtesan's Life.]
CERIZET, orphan from the Foundling Hospital, Paris; born in 1802; an
apprentice of the celebrated printers Didot, at whose office he was noticed
by David Sechard, who took him to Angouleme and employed him in his
own shop, where Cerizet performed triple duties of form-maker, compositor
and proof-reader. Presently he betrayed his master, and by leaguing with the
Cointet Brothers, rivals of David Sechard, he obtained possession of his
property. [Lost Illusions.] Following this he was an actor in the provinces;
managed a Liberal paper during the Restoration; was sub-prefect at the
beginning of the reign of Louis Philippe; and finally was a "man of
business." In the latter capacity he was sentenced to two years'
imprisonment for swindling. After business partnership with Georges
d'Estourny, and later with Claparon, he was stranded and reduced to
transcribing for a justice of the peace in the quartier Saint-Jacques. At the
same time he began lending money on short time, and by speculating with
the poorer class he acquired a certain competence. Although thoroughly
debauched, Cerizet married Olympe Cardinal about 1840. At this time he
was implicated in the intrigues of Theodose de la Peyrade and in the
interests of Jerome Thuillier. Becoming possessed of a note of Maxime de
Trailles in 1833, he succeeded by Scapinal tactics in obtaining face value of
the paper. [A Man of Business. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life. The Middle
Classes.]

CERIZET (Olympe Cardinal, Madame), wife of foregoing; born about
1824; daughter of Mme. Cardinal the fish-dealer. Actress at the Bobino,
Luxembourg, then at the Folies-Dramatiques, where she made her debut in
"The Telegraph of Love." At first she was intimate with the first comedian.
Afterwards she had Julien Minard for lover. From the father of the latter she
received thirty thousand francs to renounce her son. This money she used as
a dowry and it aided in consummating her marriage with Cerizet. [The
Middle Classes.]
CESARINE, laundry girl at Alencon. Mistress of the Chevalier de Valois,
and mother of a child that was attributed to the old aristocrat. It was also
said in the town, in 1816, that he had married Cesarine clandestinely. These
rumors greatly annoyed the chevalier, since he had hoped at this time to
wed Mlle. Cormon. Cesarine, the sole legatee of her lover, received an
income of only six hundred livres. [Jealousies of a Country Town.]
CESARINE, dancer at the Opera de Paris in 1822; an acquaintance of
Philippe Bridau, who at one time thought of breaking off with her on
account of his uncle Rouget at Issoudun. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
CHABERT (Hyacinthe), Count, grand officer of the Legion of Honor,
colonel of a cavalry regiment. Left for dead on the battlefield of Eylau
(February 7-8, 1807). He was healed at Heilsberg, then locked up in an
insane asylum at Stuttgart. Returning to France after the downfall of the
Empire, he lived, in 1818, in straitened circumstances, with the herdsman
Vergniaud, an old lieutenant of his regiment, on rue du Petit-Banquier,
Paris. After having sought without arousing scandal to make good his rights
with Rose Chapotel, his wife, now married to Count Ferraud, he sank again
into poverty and was convicted of vagrancy. He ended his days at the
Hospital de Bicetre; they had begun at the Foundling Hospital. [Colonel
Chabert.]
CHABERT (Madame), nee Rose Chapotel. (See Ferraud, Comtesse.)
CHABOISSEAU, an old bookseller, book-lender, something of a usurer,
a millionaire living in 1821-1822 on quai Saint-Michel, where he discussed
a business deal with Lucien de Rubembre, who had been piloted there by
Lousteau. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.] He was a friend of Gobseck
and of Gigonnet and with them he frequented, in 1824, the Cafe Themis.

[The Government Clerks.] During the reign of Louis Philippe he had
dealings with the Cerizet-Claparon Company. [A Man of Business.]
CHAFFAROUX, building-contractor, one of Cesar Birotteau's creditors
[Cesar Birotteau]; uncle of Claudine Chaffaroux who became Mme. du
Bruel. Rich and a bachelor, he showered much affection upon his niece; she
had helped him to launch into business. He died in the second half of the
reign of Louis Philippe, leaving an income of forty thousand francs to the
former danseuse. [A Prince of Bohemia.] In 1840 he did some work on an
unfinished house in the suburbs of the Madeleine, purchased by the
Thuilliers. [The Middle Classes.]
CHAMAROLLES (Mesdemoiselles), conducted a boarding-school for
young ladies at Bourges, at the beginning of the century. This school
enjoyed a great reputation in the department. Here was educated Anna
Grosetete, who later married the third son of Comte de Fontaine; also Dinah
Piedefer who became Mme. de la Baudray. [The Muse of the Department.]
CHAMPAGNAC, charman of Limoges, a widower, native of Auvergne.
In 1797 Jerome-Baptiste Sauviat married Champagnac's daughter, who was
at least thirty. [The Country Parson.]
CHAMPIGNELLES (De), an illustrious Norman family. In 1822 a
Marquis de Champignelles was the head of the leading house of the country
at Bayeux. Through marriage this family was allied with the Navarreins, the
Blamont-Chauvries, and the Beauseants. Marquis de Champignelles
introduced Gaston de Nueil to Mme. de Beauseant's home. [The Deserted
Woman.] A M. de Champignelles presented Mme. de la Chanterie to Louis
XVIII., at the beginning of the Restoration. The Baronne de la Chanterie
was formerly a Champignelles. [The Seamy Side of History.]
CHAMPION (Maurice), a young boy of Montegnac, Haute-Vienne, son
of the postmaster of that commune; employed as stable-boy at Mme.
Graslin's, time of Louis Philippe. [The Country Parson.]
CHAMPLAIN (Pierre), vine-dresser, a neighbor of the crazy Margaritis,
at Vouvray in 1831. [Gaudissart the Great.]
CHAMPY (Madame de), name given to Esther Gobseck.

CHANDOUR (Stanislas de), born in 1781; one of the habitues of the
Bargeton's drawing-room at Angouleme, and the "beau" of that society. In
1821 he was decorated. He obtained some success with the ladies by his
sarcastic pleasantries in the fashion of the eighteenth century. Having
spread about town a slander relating to Mme. de Bargeton and Lucien de
Rubempre, he was challenged by her husband and was wounded in the neck
by a bullet, which wound brought on him a kind of chronic twist of the
neck. [Lost Illusions.]
CHANDOUR (Amelie de), wife of the preceding; charming
conversationalist, but troubled with an unacknowledged asthma. In
Angouleme she posed as the antagonist of her friend, Mme. de Bargeton.
[Lost Illusions.]
CHANOR, partner of Florent, both being workers and dealers in bronze,
rue des Tournelles, Paris, time of Louis Philippe. Wenceslas Steinbock was
at first an apprentice and afterwards an employe of the firm. [Cousin Betty.]
In 1845, Frederic Brunner obtained a watch-chain and a cane-knob from the
firm of Florent & Chanor. [Cousin Pons.]
CHANTONNIT, mayor of Riceys, near Besancon, between 1830 and
1840. He was a native of Neufchatel, Switzerland, and a Republican. He
was involved in a lawsuit with the Wattevilles. Albert Savarus pleaded for
them against Chantonnit. [Albert Savarus.]
CHAPELOUD (Abbe), canon of the Church of Saint-Gatien at Tours.
Intimate friend of the Abbe Birotteau, to whom he bequeathed on his death-
bed, in 1824, a set of furniture and a library of considerable value which
had been ardently coveted by the naive priest. [The Vicar of Tours.]
CHAPERON (Abbe), Cure of Nemours, Seine-et-Marne, after the re-
establishment of religious worship following the Revolution. Born in 1755,
died in 1841, in that city. He was a friend of Dr. Minoret and helped educate
Ursule Mirouet, a niece of the physician. He was nicknamed "the Fenelon
of Gatinais." His successor was the cure of Saint-Lange, the priest who tried
to give religious consolation to Mme. d'Aiglemont, a prey to despair.
[Ursule Mirouet.]

CHAPOTEL (Rose), family name of Mme. Chabert, who afterwards
became Comtesse Ferraud, which name see.
CHAPOULOT (Monsieur and Madame), formerly lace-dealers of rue
Saint-Denis in 1845. Tenants of the house, rue de Normandie, where lived
Pons and Schmucke. One evening, when M. and Mme. Chapoulot
accompanied by their daughter Victorine were returning from the Theatre
de l'Ambigu-Comique, they met Heloise Brisetout on the landing, and a
little conjugal scene resulted. [Cousin Pons.]
CHAPUZOT (Monsieur and Madame), porters of Marguerite Turquet,
known as Malaga, rue des Fosses-du-Temple at Paris in 1836; afterwards
her servants and her confidants when she was maintained by Thaddee Paz.
[The Imaginary Mistress.]
CHAPUZOT, chief of division to the prefecture of police in the time of
Louis Philippe. Visited and consulted in 1843 by Victorin Hulot on account
of Mme. de Saint-Esteve. [Cousin Betty.]
CHARDIN (Pere), old mattress-maker, and a sot. In 1843 he acted as a
go-between for Baron Hulot under the name of Pere Thoul, and Cousin
Betty, who concealed from the family the infamy of its head. [Cousin
Betty.]
CHARDIN, son of the preceding. At first a watchman for Johann Fischer,
commissariat for the Minister of War in the province of Oran from 1838 to
1841. Afterwards claqueur in a theatre under Braulard, and designated at
that time by the name of Idamore. A brother of Elodie Chardin whom he
procured for Pere Thoul in order to release Olympe Bijou whose lover he
himself was. After Olympe Bijou, Chardin paid court in 1843 to a young
premiere of the Theatre des Funambules. [Cousin Betty.]
CHARDIN (Elodie), sister of Chardin alias Idamore; lace-maker;
mistress of Baron Hulot—Pere Thoul—in 1843. She lived then with him at
number 7 rue des Bernardins. She had succeeded Olympe Bijou in the old
fellow's affections. [Cousin Betty.]
CHARDON, retired surgeon of the army of the Republic; established as a
druggist at Angouleme during the Empire. He was engrossed in trying to
cure the gout, and he also dreamed of replacing rag-paper with paper made

from vegetable fibre, after the manner of the Chinese. He died at the
beginning of the Restoration at Paris, where he had come to solicit the
sanction of the Academy of Science, in despair at the lack of result, leaving
a wife and two children poverty-stricken. [Lost Illusions.]
CHARDON (Madame), nee Rubempre, wife of the preceding. The final
branch of an illustrious family. Saved from the scaffold in 1793 by the army
surgeon Chardon who declared her enceinte by him and who married her
despite their mutual poverty. Reduced to suffering by the sudden death of
her husband, she concealed her misfortunes under the name of Mme.
Charlotte. She adored her two children, Eve and Lucien. Mme. Chardon
died in 1827. [Lost Illusions. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
CHARDON (Lucien). (See Rubempre, Chardon de).
CHARDON (Eve). (See Sechard, Madame David.)
CHARELS (The), worthy farmers in the outskirts of Alencon; the father
and mother of Olympe Charel who became the wife of Michaud, the head-
keeper of General de Montcornet's estate. [The Peasantry.]
CHARGEBOEUF (Marquis de), a Champagne gentleman, born in 1739,
head of the house of Chargeboeuf in the time of the Consulate and the
Empire. His lands reached from the department of Seine-et-Marne into that
of the Aube. A relative of the Hauteserres and the Simeuses whom he
sought to erase from the emigrant list in 1804, and whom he assisted in the
lawsuit in which they were implicated after the abduction of Senator Malin.
He was also related to Laurence de Cinq-Cygne. The Chargeboeufs and the
Cinq-Cygnes had the same origin, the Frankish name of Duineff being their
joint property. Cinq-Cygne became the name of the junior branch of the
Chargeboeufs. The Marquis de Chargeboeuf was acquainted with
Talleyrand, at whose instance he was enabled to transmit a petition to First-
Consul Bonaparte. M. de Chargeboeuf was apparently reconciled to the new
order of things springing out of the year '89; at any rate he displayed much
politic prudence. His family reckoned their ancient titles from the Crusades;
his name arose from an equerry's exploit with Saint Louis in Egypt. [The
Gondreville Mystery.]

CHARGEBOEUF (Madame de), mother of Bathilde de Chargeboeuf
who married Denis Rogron. She lived at Troyes with her daughter during
the Restoration. She was poor but haughty. [Pierrette.]
CHARGEBOEUF (Bathilde de), daughter of the preceding; married
Denis Rogron. (See Rogron, Madame.)
CHARGEBOEUF (Melchior-Rene, Vicomte de), of the poor branch of
the Chargeboeufs. Made sub-prefect of Arcis-sur-Aube in 1815, through the
influence of his kinswoman, Mme. de Cinq-Cygne. It was there that he met
Mme. Severine Beauvisage. A mutual attachment resulted, and a daughter
called Cecile-Renee was born of their intimacy. [The Member for Arcis.] In
1820 the Vicomte de Chargeboeuf removed to Sancerre where he knew
Mme. de la Baudraye. She would probably have favored him, had he not
been made prefect and left the city. [The Muse of the Department.]
CHARGEBOEUF (De), secretary of attorney-general Granville at Paris
in 1830; then a young man. Entrusted by the magistrate with the details of
Lucien de Rubempre's funeral, which was carried through in such a way as
to make one believe that he had died a free man and in his own home, on
quai Malaquais. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
CHARGEGRAIN (Louis), inn-keeper of Littray, Normandy. He had
dealings with the brigands and was arrested in the suit of the Chauffeurs of
Mortagne, in 1809, but acquitted. [The Seamy Side of History.]
CHARLES, first name of a rather indifferent young painter, who in 1819
boarded at the Vauquer pension. A tutor at college and a Museum attache;
very jocular; given to personal witticisms, which were often aimed at
Goriot. [Father Goriot.]
CHARLES, a young prig who was killed in a duel of small arms with
Raphael de Valentin at Aix, Savoy, in 1831. Charles had boasted of having
received the title of "Bachelor of shooting" from Lepage at Paris, and that
of doctor from Lozes the "King of foils." [The Magic Skin.]
CHARLES, valet de chambre of M. d'Aiglemont at Paris in 1823. The
marquis complained of his servant's carelessness. [A Woman of Thirty.]

CHARLES, footman to Comte de Montcornet at Aigues, Burgundy, in
1823. Through no good motive he paid court to Catherine Tonsard, being
encouraged in his gallantries by Fourchon the girl's maternal grandfather,
who desired to have a spy in the chateau. In the peasants' struggle against
the people of Aigues, Charles usually sided with the peasants: "Sprung from
the people, their livery remained upon him." [The Peasantry.]
CHARLOTTE, a great lady, a duchess, and a widow without children.
She was loved by Marsay then only sixteen and some six years younger
than she. She deceived him and he resented by procuring her a rival. She
died young of consumption. Her husband was a statesman. [Another Study
of Woman.]
CHARLOTTE (Madame), name assumed by Mme. Chardon, in 1821 at
Angouleme, when obliged to make a living as a nurse. [Lost Illusions.]
CHATELET (Sixte, Baron du), born in 1776 as plain Sixte Chatelet.
About 1806 he qualified for and later was made baron under the Empire.
His career began with a secretaryship to an Imperial princess. Later he
entered the diplomatic corps, and finally, under the Restoration, M. de
Barante selected him for director of the indirect taxes at Angouleme. Here
he met and married Mme. de Bargeton when she became a widow in 1821.
He was the prefect of the Charente. [Lost Illusions. A Distinguished
Provincial at Paris.] In 1824 he was count and deputy. [Scenes from a
Courtesan's Life.] Chatelet accompanied General Marquis Armand de
Montriveau in a perilous and famous excursion into Egypt. [The Thirteen.]
CHATELET (Marie-Louise-Anais de Negrepelisse, Baronne du), born in
1785; cousin by marriage of the Marquise d'Espard; married in 1803 to M.
de Bargeton of Angouleme; widow in 1821 and married to Baron Sixte du
Chatelet, prefect of the Charente. Temporarily enamored of Lucien de
Rubempre, she attached him to her party in a journey to Paris made
necessary by provincial slanders and ambition. There she abandoned her
youthful lover at the instigation of Chatelet and of Mme. d'Espard. [Lost
Illusions. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.] In 1824, Mme. du Chatelet
attended Mme. Rabourdin's evening reception. [The Government Clerks.]
Under the direction of Abbe Niolant (or Niollant), Madame du Chatelet,

orphaned of her mother, had been reared a little too boyishly at l'Escarbas, a
small paternal estate situated near Barbezieux. [Lost Illusions.]
CHATILLONEST (De), an old soldier; father of Marquise d'Aiglemont.
He was hardly reconciled to her marriage with her cousin, the brilliant
colonel. [A Woman of Thirty.] The device of the house of Chatillonest (or
Chastillonest) was: Fulgens, sequar ("Shining, I follow thee"). Jean Butscha
had put this device beneath a star on his seal. [Modest Mignon.]
CHAUDET (Antoine-Denis), sculptor and painter, born in Paris in 1763,
interested in the birth of Joseph Bridau's genius. [A Bachelor's
Establishment.]
CHAULIEU (Henri, Duc de), born in 1773; peer of France; one of the
gentlemen of the Court of Louis XVIII. and of that of Charles X.,
principally in favor under the latter. After having been ambassador from
France to Madrid, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs at the beginning
of 1830. He had three children: the eldest was the Duc de Rhetore; the
second became Duc de Lenoncourt-Givry through his marriage with
Madeleine de Mortsauf; the third, a daughter, Armande-Louise-Marie,
married Baron de Macumer and, left a widow, afterwards married the poet
Marie Gaston. [Letters of Two Brides. Modeste Mignon. A Bachelor's
Establishment.] The Duc de Chaulieu was on good terms with the
Grandlieus and promised them to obtain the title of marquis for Lucien de
Rubempre, who was aspiring to the hand of their daughter Clotilde. The
Duc de Chaulieu resided in Paris in very close relations with these same
Grandlieus of the elder branch. More than once he took particular interest in
the family's affairs. He employed Corentin to clear up the dark side of the
life of Clotilde's fiance. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.] Some time before
this M. de Chaulieu made one of the portentous conclave assembled to
extricate Mme. de Langeais, a relative of the Grandlieus, from a serious
predicament. [The Thirteen.]
CHAULIEU (Eleonore, Duchesse de), wife of the preceding. She was a
friend of M. d'Aubrion and sought to influence him to bring about the
marriage of Mlle. d'Aubrion with Charles Grandet. [Eugenie Grandet.] For
a long time she was the mistress of the poet Canalis, several years her
junior. She protected him, helping him on in the world, and in public life,

but she was very jealous and kept him under strict surveillance. She still
retained her hold of him at fifty years. Mme. de Chaulieu gave her husband
the three children designated in the duc's biography. Her hauteur and
coquetry subdued most of her maternal sentiments. During the last year of
the second Restoration, Eleonore de Chaulieu followed on the way to
Normandy, not far from Rosny, a chase almost royal where her sentiments
were fully occupied. [Letters of Two Brides.]
CHAULIEU (Armande-Louise-Marie de), daughter of Duc and Duchesse
de Chaulieu. (See Marie Gaston, Madame.)
CHAUSSARD (The Brothers), inn-keepers at Louvigny, Orne; old game-
keepers of the Troisville estate, implicated in a trial known as the
"Chauffeurs of Mortagne" in 1809. Chaussard the elder was condemned to
twenty years' hard labor, was sent to the galleys, and later was pardoned by
the Emperor. Chaussard junior was contumacious, and therefore received
sentence of death. Later he was cast into the sea by M. de Boislaurier for
having been traitorous to the Chouans. A third Chaussard, enticed into the
ranks of the police by Contenson, was assassinated in a nocturnal affair.
[The Seamy Side of History.]
CHAVONCOURT (De), Besancon gentleman, highly thought of in the
town, representing an old parliamentary family. A deputy under Charles X.,
one of the famous 221 who signed the address to the King on March 18,
1830. He was re-elected under Louis Philippe. Father of three children but
possessing a rather slender income. The family of Chavoncourt was
acquainted with the Wattevilles. [Albert Savarus.]
CHAVONCOURT (Madame de), wife of the preceding and one of the
beauties of Besancon. Born about 1794; mother of three children; managed
capably the household with its slender resources. [Albert Savarus.]
CHAVONCOURT (De), born in 1812. Son of M. and Mme. de
Chavoncourt of Besancon. College-mate and chum of M. de Vauchelles.
[Albert Savarus.]
CHAVONCOURT (Victoire de), second child and elder daughter of M.
and Mme. de Chavoncourt. Born between 1816 and 1817. M. de Vauchelles
desired to wed her in 1834. [Albert Savarus.]

CHAVONCOURT (Sidonie de), third and last child of M. and Mme. de
Chavoncourt of Besancon. Born in 1818. [Albert Savarus.]
CHAZELLE, clerk under the Minister of Finance, in Baudoyer's bureau,
in 1824. A benedict and wife-led, although wishing to appear his own
master. He argued without ceasing upon subjects and through causes the
idlest with Paulmier the bachelor. The one smoked, the other took snuff;
this different way of taking tobacco was one of the endless themes between
the two. [The Government Clerks.]
CHELIUS, physician of Heidelberg with whom Halpersohn
corresponded, during the reign of Louis Philippe. [The Seamy Side of
History.]
CHERVIN, a police-corporal at Montegnac near Limoges in 1829. [The
Country Parson.]
CHESNEL, or Choisnel, notary at Alencon, time of Louis XVIII. Born in
1753. Old attendant of the house of Gordes, also of the d'Esgrignon family
whose property he had protected during the Revolution. A widower,
childless, and possessed of a considerable fortune, he had an aristocratic
clientele, notably that of Mme. de la Chanterie. On every hand he received
that attention which his good points merited. M. du Bousquier held him in
profound hatred, blaming him with the refusal which Mlle. d'Esgrignon had
made of Du Bousquier's proffered hand in marriage, and another check of
the same nature which he experienced at first from Mlle. Cormon. By a
dexterous move in 1824 Chesnel succeeded in rescuing Victurnien
d'Esgrignon, though guilty, from the Court of Assizes. The old notary
succumbed soon after this event. [The Seamy Side of History. Jealousies of
a Country Town.]
CHESSEL (De), owner of the chateau and estate of Frapesle near Sache
in Touraine. Friend of the Vandenesses; he introduced their son Felix to his
neighbors, the Mortsaufs. The son of a manufacturer named Durand who
became very rich during the Revolution, but whose plebeian name he had
entirely dropped; instead he adopted that of his wife, the only heiress of the
Chessels, an old parliamentary family. M. de Chessel was director-general
and twice deputy. He received the title of count under Louis XVIII. [The
Lily of the Valley.]

CHESSEL (Madame de), wife of the preceding. She made up elaborate
toilettes. [The Lily of the Valley.] In 1824 she frequented Mme. Rabourdin's
Paris home. [The Government Clerks.]
CHEVREL (Monsieur and Madame), founders of the house of the "Cat
and Racket," rue Saint-Denis, at the close of the eighteenth century. Father
and mother of Mme. Guillaume, whose husband succeeded to the
management of the firm. [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket.]
CHEVREL, rich Parisian banker at the beginning of the nineteenth
century. Probably brother and brother-in-law of the foregoing. He had a
daughter who married Maitre Roguin. [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket.]
CHIAVARI (Prince de), brother of the Duke of Vissembourg; son of
Marechal Vernon. [Beatrix.]
CHIFFREVILLE (Monsieur and Madame), ran a very prosperous drug-
store and laboratory in Paris during the Restoration. Their partners were
MM. Protez and Cochin. This firm had frequent business dealings with
Cesar Birotteau's "Queen of Roses"; it also supplied Balthazar Claes. [Cesar
Birotteau. The Quest of the Absolute.]
CHIGI (Prince), great lord of Rome in 1758. He boasted of having "made
a soprano out of Zambinella" and disclosed the fact to Sarrasine that this
creature was not a woman. [Sarrasine.]
CHISSE (Madame de), great aunt of M. du Bruel; a grasping old
Provincial at whose home the retired dancer Tullia, now Mme. du Bruel,
was fortunate to pass a summer in a rather hypocritical religious penance.
[A Prince of Bohemia.]
CHOCARDELLE (Mademoiselle), known as Antonia; a Parisian
courtesan during the reign of Louis Philippe; born in 1814. Maxime de
Trailles spoke of her as a woman of wit; "She's a pupil of mine, indeed,"
said he. About 1834, she lived on rue Helder and for fifteen days was the
mistress of M. de la Palferine. [Beatrix. A Prince of Bohemia.] For a time
she operated a reading-room that M. de Trailles had established for her on
rue Coquenard. Like Marguerite Turquet she had "well soaked the little
d'Esgrignon." [A Man of Business.] In 1838 she was present at the "house-
warming" to Josepha Mirah on rue de la Ville-l'Eveque. [Cousin Betty.] In

1839 she accompanied her lover Maxime de Trailles to Arcis-sur-Aube to
aid him in his official transactions relating to the legislative elections. [The
Member for Arcis.]
CHOIN (Mademoiselle), good Catholic who built a parsonage on some
land at Blangy bought expressly by her in the eighteenth century; the
property was acquired later by Rigou. [The Peasantry.]
CHOLLET (Mother), janitress of a house on rue du Sentier occupied by
Finot's paper in 1821. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.]
CHRESTIEN (Michel), Federalist Republican; member of the "Cenacle"
of rue des Quatre-Vents. In 1819 he and his friends were invited by the
widow Bridau to her home to celebrate the return of her elder son Philippe
from Texas. He posed as a Roman senator in a historic picture. The painter
Joseph Bridau was a friend of his. [A Bachelor's Establishment.] About
1822 Chrestien fought a duel with Lucien Chardon de Rubempre on
account of Daniel d'Arthez. He was a great though unknown statesman. He
was killed at Saint-Merri cloister on June 6, 1832, where he was defending
ideas not his own. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.] He became
foolishly enamored of Diane de Maufrigneuse, but did not confess his love
save by a letter addressed to her just before he went to his death at the
barricade. He had saved the life of M. de Maufrigneuse in the Revolution of
July, 1830, through love for the duchesse. [The Secrets of a Princess.]
CHRISTEMIO, creole and foster-father of Paquita Valdes, whose
protector and body-guard he constituted himself. The Marquis de San-Real
caused his death for having abetted the intimacy between Paquita and
Marsay. [The Thirteen.]
CHRISTOPHE, native of Savoy; servant of Mme. Vauquer on rue
Neuve-Saint-Genevieve, Paris, in 1819. He alone was with Rastignac at the
funeral of Goriot, accompanying the body as far as Pere-Lachaise in the
priest's carriage. [Father Goriot.]
CIBOT, alias Galope-Chopine, also called Cibot the Great. A Chouan
implicated in the Breton insurrection of 1799. Decapitated by his cousin
Cibot, alias Pille-Miche, and by Marche-a-Terre for having unthinkingly
betrayed the brigand position to the "Blues." [The Chouans.]

CIBOT (Barbette), wife of Cibot, alias Galope-Chopine. She went over
to the "Blues" after her husband's execution, and vowed through vengeance
to devote her son, who was still a child, to the Republican cause. [The
Chouans.]
CIBOT (Jean), alias Pille-Miche; one of the Chouans of the Breton
insurrection of 1799; cousin of Cibot, alias Galope-Chopine, and his
murderer. Pille-Miche it was, also, who shot and killed Adjutant Gerard of
the 72d demi-brigade at the Vivetiere. [The Chouans.] Signalized as the
hardiest of the indirect allies of the brigands in the affair of the "Chauffeurs
of Mortagne." Tried and executed in 1809. [The Seamy Side of History.]
CIBOT, born in 1786. From 1818 to 1845 he was tailor-janitor in a house
in rue de Normandie, belonging to Claude-Joseph Pillerault, where dwelt
Pons and Schmucke, the two musicians, time of Louis Philippe. Poisoned
by the pawn-broker Remonencq, Cibot died at his post in April, 1845, on
the same day of Sylvain Pons' demise. [Cousin Pons.]
CIBOT (Madame). (See Remonencq, Madame.)
CICOGNARA, Roman Cardinal in 1758; protector of Zambinella. He
caused the assassination of Sarrasine who otherwise would have slain
Zambinella. [Sarrasine.]
CINQ-CYGNE, the name of an illustrious family of Champagne, the
younger branch of the house of Chargeboeuf. These two branches of the
same stock had a common origin in the Duineffs of the Frankish people.
The name of Cinq-Cygne arose from the defence of a castle made, in the
absence of their father, by five (cinq) daughters all remarkably fair. On the
blazon of the house of Cinq-Cygne is placed for device the response of the
eldest of the five sisters when summoned to surrender: "We die singing!"
[The Gondreville Mystery.]
CINQ-CYGNE (Comtesse de), mother of Laurence de Cinq-Cygne.
Widow at the time of the Revolution. She died in the height of a nervous
fever induced by an attack on her chateau at Troyes by the populace in
1793. [The Gondreville Mystery.]
CINQ-CYGNE (Marquis de), name of Adrien d'Hauteserre after his
marriage with Laurence de Cinq-Cygne. (See Hauteserre, Adrien d'.)

CINQ-CYGNE (Laurence, Comtesse, afterwards Marquise de), born in
1781. Left an orphan at the age of twelve, she lived, at the last of the
eighteenth and the first of the nineteenth century, with her kinsman and
tutor M. d'Hauteserre at Cinq-Cygne, Aube. She was loved by both her
cousins, Paul-Marie and Marie-Paul de Simeuse, and also by the younger of
her tutor's two sons, Adrien d'Hauteserre, whom she married in 1813.
Laurence de Cinq-Cygne struggled valiantly against a cunning and
redoubtable police-agency, the soul of which was Corentin. The King of
France approved the charter of the Count of Champagne, by virtue of
which, in the family of Cinq-Cygne, a woman might "ennoble and
succeed"; therefore the husband of Laurence took the name and the arms of
his wife. Although an ardent Royalist she went to seek the Emperor as far as
the battlefield of Jena, in 1806, to ask pardon for the two Simeuses and the
two Hauteserres involved in a political trial and condemned to hard labor,
despite their innocence. Her bold move succeeded. The Marquise de Cinq-
Cygne gave her husband two children, Paul and Berthe. This family passed
the winter season at Paris in a magnificent mansion on Faubourg du Roule.
[The Gondreville Mystery.] In 1832 Mme. de Cinq-Cygne, at the instance
of the Archbishop of Paris, consented to call on the Princesse de Cadignan
who had reformed. [The Secrets of a Princess.] In 1836 Mme. de Cinq-
Cygne was intimate with Mme. de la Chanterie. [The Seamy Side of
History.] Under the Restoration, and principally during Charles X.'s reign,
Mme. de Cinq-Cygne exercised a sort of sovereignty over the Department
of the Aube which the Comte de Gondreville counterbalanced in a measure
by his family connections and through the generosity of the department.
Some time after the death of Louis XVIII. she brought about the election of
Francois Michu as president of the Arcis Court. [The Member for Arcis.]
CINQ-CYGNE (Jules de), only brother of Laurence de Cinq-Cygne. He
emigrated at the outbreak of the Revolution and died for the Royalist cause
at Mayence. [The Gondreville Mystery.]
CINQ-CYGNE (Paul de), son of Laurence de Cinq-Cygne and of Adrien
d'Hauteserre; he became marquis after his father's death. [The Gondreville
Mystery.]
CINQ-CYGNE (Berthe de). (See Maufrigneuse, Mme. Georges de.)

CIPREY of Provins, Seine-et-Marne; nephew of the maternal
grandmother of Pierrette Lorrain. He formed one of the family council
called together in 1828 to decide whether or not the young girl should
remain underneath Denis Rogron's roof. This council replaced Rogron with
the notary Auffray and chose Ciprey for vice-guardian. [Pierrette.]
CLAES-MOLINA (Balthazar), Comte de Nourho; born at Douai in 1761
and died in the same town in 1832; sprung from a famous family of Flemish
weavers, allied to a very noble Spanish family, time of Philip II. In 1795 he
married Josephine de Temninck of Brussels, and lived happily with her until
1809, at which time a Polish officer, Adam de Wierzchownia, seeking
shelter at the Claes mansion, discussed with him the subject of chemical
affinity. From that time on Balthazar, who formerly had worked in
Lavoisier's laboratory, buried himself exclusively in the "quest of the
absolute." He expended seven millions in experiments, leaving his wife to
die of neglect. From 1820 to 1825* he was a tax-collector in Brittany—
duties performed by his elder daughter who had secured the position for
him in order to divert him from his barren labors. During this time she
rehabilitated the family fortunes. Balthazar died, almost insane, crying
"Eureka!" [The Quest of the Absolute.]
* Given erroneously in original text as 1852.—J.W.M.

CLAES (Josephine de Temninck, Madame), wife of Balthazar Claes;
born at Brussels in 1770, died at Douai in 1816; a native Spaniard on her
mother's side; commonly called Pepita. She was small, crooked and lame,
with heavy black hair and glowing eyes. She gave her husband four
children: Marguerite, Felicie, Gabriel (or Gustave) and Jean-Balthazar. She
was passionatley devoted to her husband, and died of grief over his neglect
of her for the scientific experiments which never came to an end. [The
Quest of the Absolute.] Mme. Claes counted among her kin the
Evangelistas of Bordeau. [A Marriage Settlement.]
CLAES (Marguerite), elder daughter of Balthazar Claes and Josephine de
Temninck. (See Solis, Madame de.)
CLAES (Felicie), second daughter of Balthazar Claes and of Josephine
de Temninck; born in 1801. (See Pierquin, Madame.)

CLAES (Gabriel or Gustave), third child of Balthazar Claes and of
Josephine de Temninck; born about 1802. He attended the College of
Douai, afterwards entering the Ecole Polytechnique, becoming an engineer
of roads and bridges. In 1825 he married Mlle. Conyncks of Cambrai. [The
Quest of the Absolute.]
CLAES (Jean-Balthazar) last child of Balthazar Claes and Josephine de
Temninck; born in the early part of the nineteenth century. [The Quest of
the Absolute.]
CLAGNY (J.-B. de), public prosecutor at Sancerre in 1836. A passionate
admirer of Dinah de la Baudraye. He got transferred to Paris when she
returned there, and became successively the substitute for the general
prosecutor, attorney-general and finally attorney-general to the Court of
Cassation. He watched over and protected the misguided woman,
consenting to act as godfather to the child she had by Lousteau. [The Muse
of the Department.]
CLAGNY (Madame de), wife of the preceding. To use an expression of
M. Gravier's, she was "ugly enough to chase a young Cossack" in 1814.
Mme. de Clagny associated with Mme. de la Baudraye. [The Muse of the
Department.]
CLAPARON, clerk for the Minister of the Interior under the Republic
and Empire. Friend of Bridau, Sr., after whose death he continued his
cordial relations with Mme. Bridau. He gave much attention to Philippe and
Joseph on their mother's account. Claparon died in 1820. [A Bachelor's
Establishment.]
CLAPARON (Charles), son of the preceding; born about 1790. Business
man and banker (rue de Provence); at first a commercial traveler; an aide of
F. du Tillet in transactions of somewhat shady nature. He was invited to the
famous ball given by Cesar Birotteau in honor of Cesar's nomination to the
Legion of Honor and the release of French possessions. [A Bachelor's
Establishment. Cesar Birotteau.] In 1821, at the Bourse in Paris, he made a
peculiar bargain with the cashier Castanier, who transferred to him, in
exchange for his own individuality, the power which he had received from
John Melmoth, the Englishman. [Melmoth Reconciled.] He was interested
in the third liquidation of Nucingen in 1826, a settlement which made the

fortune of the Alsatian banker whose "man of straw" he was for some time.
[The Firm of Nucingen.] He was associated with Cerizet who deceived him
in a deal about a house sold to Thuillier. Becoming bankrupt he embarked
for America about 1840. He was probably condemned for contumacy on
account of swindling. [A Man of Business. The Middle Classes.]
CLAPART, employe to the prefecture of the Seine during the
Restoration, at a salary of twelve hundred francs. Born about 1776. About
1803 he married a widow Husson, aged twenty-two. At that time he was
employed in the Bureau of Finance, at a salary of eighteen hundred francs
and a promise of more. But his known incapacity held him down to a
secondary place. At the fall of the Empire he lost his position, obtaining his
new one on the recommendation of the Comte de Serizy. Mme. Husson had
by her first husband a child that was Clapart's evil genius. In 1822 his
family occupied an apartment renting for two hundred and fifty francs at
number seven rue de la Cerisaie. There he saw much of the old pensioner
Poiret. Clapart was killed by the Fieschi attack of July 28, 1835. [A Start in
Life.]
CLAPART (Madame), wife of the preceding; born in 1780; one of the
"Aspasias" of the Directory, and famous for her acquaintance with one of
the "Pentarques." He married her to Husson the contractor, who made
millions but who became bankrupt suddenly through the First Consul, and
suicided in 1802. At that time she was mistress of Moreau, steward of M. de
Serizy. Moreau was in love with her and would have made her his wife, but
just then was under sentence of death and a fugitive. Thus it was that in her
distress she married Clapart, a clerk in the Bureau of Finance. By her first
husband Mme. Clapart had a son, Oscar Husson, whom she was bound up
in, but whose boyish pranks caused her much trouble. During the first
Empire Mme. Clapart was a lady-in-waiting to Mme. Mere—Letitia
Bonaparte. [A Start in Life.]
CLARIMBAULT (Marechal de), maternal grandfather of Mme. de
Beauseant. He had married the daughter of Chevalier de Rastignac, great-
uncle of Eugene de Rastignac. [Father Goriot.]
CLAUDE, an idiot who died in the village of Dauphine in 1829, nursed
and metamorphosed by Dr. Benassis. [The Country Doctor.]

CLERETTI, an architect of Paris who was quite the fashion in 1843.
Grindot, though decadent at this time, tried to compete with him. [Cousin
Betty.]
CLERGET (Basine), laundress at Angouleme during the Restoration,
who succeeded Mme. Prieur with whom Eve Chardon had worked. Basine
Clerget concealed David Sechard and Kolb when Sechard was pursued by
the Cointet brothers. [Lost Illusions.]
CLOUSIER, retired attorney of Limoges; justice of the peace at
Montegnac after 1809. He was in touch with Mme. Graslin when she
moved there about 1830. An upright, phlegmatic man who finally led the
contemplative life of one of the ancient hermits. [The Country Parson.]
COCHEGRUE (Jean), a Chouan who died of wounds received at the
fight of La Pelerine or at the siege of Fourgeres in 1799. Abbe Gudin said a
mass, in the forest, for the repose of Jean Cochegrue, and others slain by the
"Blues." [The Chouans.]
COCHET (Francoise), chambermaid of Modeste Mignon at Havre in
1829. She received the answers to the letters addressed by Modeste to
Canalis. She had also faithfully served Bettina-Caroline, Modeste's elder
sister who took her to Paris. [Modeste Mignon.]
COCHIN (Emile-Louis-Lucien-Emmanuel), employe in Clergeot's
division of the Bureau of Finance during the Restoration. He had a brother
who looked after him in the administration. At this time Cochin was also a
silent partner in Matifat's drug-store. Colleville invented an anagram on
Cochin's name; with his given names it made up "Cochenille." Cochin and
his wife were in Birotteau's circle, being present with their son at the
famous ball given by the perfumer. In 1840, Cochin, now a baron, was
spoken of by Anselme Popinot as the oracle of the Lombard and
Bourdonnais quarters. [Cesar Birotteau. The Government Clerks. The Firm
of Nucingen. The Middle Classes.]
COCHIN, (Adolphe), son of the preceding; an employe of the Minister of
Finance as his father had been for some years. In 1826 his parents tried to
obtain for him the hand of Mlle. Matifat. [Cesar Birotteau. The Firm of
Nucingen.]

COFFINET, porter of a house belonging to Thuillier on rue Saint-
Dominique-d'Enfer, Paris, in 1840. His employer put him to work in
connection with the "Echo de la Bievre," when Louis-Jerome Thuillier
became editor-in-chief of this paper. [The Middle Classes.]
COFFINET, (Madame), wife of the preceding. She looked after
Theodose de la Peyrade's establishment. [The Middle Classes.]
COGNET, inn-keeper at Issoudun during the Restoration. House of the
"Knights of Idlesse" captained by Maxence Gilet. A former groom; born
about 1767; short, thickset, wife-led, one-eyed. [A Bachelor's
Establishment.]
COGNET (Madame), known as Mother Cognet, wife of the preceding;
born about 1783. A retired cook of a good house, who on account of her
"Cordon bleu" talents, was chosen to be the Leonarde of the Order which
had Maxence Gilet for chief. A tall, swarthy woman of intelligent and
pleasant demeanor. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
COINTET (Boniface), and his brother Jean, ran a thriving printing-office
at Angouleme during the Restoration. He ruined David Sechard's shop by
methods hardly honorable. Boniface Cointet was older than Jean, and was
usually called Cointet the Great. He put on the devout. Extremely wealthy,
he became deputy, was made a peer of France and Minister of Commerce in
Louis Philippe's coalition ministry. In 1842 he married Mlle. Popinot,
daughter of Anselme Popinot. [Lost Illusions. The Firm of Nucingen.] On
May, 1839, he presided at the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies when the
election of Sallenauve was ratified. [The Member for Arcis.]
COINTET (Jean), younger brother of the preceding; known as "Fatty"
Cointet; was foreman of the printing-office, while his brother ran the
business end. Jean Cointet passed for a good fellow and acted the generous
part. [Lost Illusions.]
COLAS (Jacques), a consumptive child of a village near Grenoble, who
was attended by Dr. Benassis. His passion was singing, for which he had a
very pure voice. Lived with his mother who was poverty-stricken. Died in
the latter part of 1829 at the age of fifteen, shortly after the death of his

benefactor, the physician. A nephew of Moreau, the old laborer. [The
Country Doctor.]
COLLEVILLE, son of a talented musician, once leading violin of the
Opera under Francoeur and Rebel. He himself was first clarionet at the
Opera-Comique, and at the same time chief clerk under the Minister of
Finance, and, in additon, book-keeper for a merchant from seven to nine in
the mornings. Great on anagrams. Made deputy-chief clerk in Baudoyer's
bureau when the latter was promoted to division chief. He was preceptor at
Paris six months later. In 1832 he became secretary to the mayor of the
twelfth Arrondissement and officer of the Legion of Honor. At that time
Colleville lived with his wife and family on rue d'Enfer. He was Thuillier's
most intimate friend. [The Government Clerks. The Middle Classes.]
COLLEVILLE (Flavie Minoret, Madame), born in 1798; wife of the
preceding; daughter of a celebrated dancer and, supposedly, of M. du
Bourguier. She made a love match and between 1816 and 1826 bore five
children, each of whom resembled and may actually have had a different
father: 1st. A daughter born in 1816, who favored Colleville. 2d. A son,
Charles, cut out for a soldier, born during his mother's acquaintance with
Charles de Gondreville, under-lieutenant of the dragoons of Saint-Chamans.
3d. A son, Francois, destined for business, born during Mme. Colleville's
intimacy with Francois Keller, the banker. 4th. A daughter, Celeste born in
1821, of whom Thuillier, Colleville's best friend, was the godfather—and
father in partibus. (See Phellion, Mme. Felix.) 5th. A son, Theodore, or
Anatole, born at a period of religious zeal. Madame Colleville was a
Parisian, piquant, winning and pretty, as well as clever and ethereal. She
made her husband very happy. He owed all his advancement to her. In the
interests of their ambition she granted momentary favor to Chardin des
Lupeaulx, the Secretary-General. On Wednesdays she was at home to artists
and distinguished people. [The Government Clerks. Cousin Betty. The
Middle Classes.]
COLLIN (Jacques), born in 1779. Reared by the Fathers of the Oratory.
He went as far as rhetoric, at school, and was then put in a bank by his aunt,
Jacqueline Collin. Accused, however, of a crime probably committed by
Franchessini, he fled the country. Later he was sent to the galleys where he
remained from 1810 to 1815, when he escaped and came to Paris, stopping

under the name of Vautrin at the Vauquer pension. There he knew
Rastignac, then a young man, became interested in him, and tried to bring
about his marriage with Victorine Taillefer, for whom he procured a rich
dowry by causing her brother to be slain in a duel with Franchessini. Bibi-
Lupin, chief of secret police, arrested him in 1819 and returned him to the
bagne, whence he escaped again in 1820, reappearing in Paris as Carlos
Herrera, honorary canon of the Chapter of Toledo. At this time he rescued
Lucien de Rubempre from suicide, and took charge of the young poet.
Accused, with the latter, of having murdered Esther Gobseck, who in truth
was poisoned, Jacques Collin was acquitted of this charge, and ended by
becoming chief of secret police under the name of Saint-Esteve, in 1830.
He held this position till 1845. He finally became wealthy, having an
income of twelve thousand francs, three hundred thousand francs inherited
from Lucien de Rubempre, and the profits of a green-leather manufactory at
Gentilly. [Father Goriot. Lost Illusions. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life. The Member for Arcis.] In addition to the
pseudonym of M. Jules, under which he was known by Catherine Goussard,
Jacques Collin also took for a time the English name of William Barker,
creditor for Georges d'Estourny. Under this name he hoodwinked the
cunning Cerizet, inducing that "man of business" to endorse some notes for
him. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.] He was also nick-named "Trompe-
la-Mort."
COLLIN, (Jacqueline), aunt of Jacques Collin, whom she had reared;
born at Java. In her youth she was Marat's mistress, and afterwards had
relations with the chemist, Duvignon, who was condemned to death for
counterfeiting in 1799. During this intimacy she attained a dangerous
knowledge of toxicology. From 1800 to 1805 she was a clothing dealer; and
from 1806 to 1808 she spent two years in prison for having influenced
minors. From 1824 to 1830 Mlle. Collin exerted a strong influence over
Jacques, alias Vautrin, toward his life of adventure without the pale of the
law. Her strong point was disguises. In 1839 she ran a matrimonial bureau
on rue de Provence, under the name of Mme. de Saint-Esteve. She often
borrowed the name of her friend Mme. Nourrisson, who, during the time of
Louis Philippe, made a pretence of business more or less dubious on rue
Neuve-Saint-Marc. She had some dealings with Victorin Hulot, at whose
instance she brought about the overthrow of Mme. Marneffe, mistress, and

afterwards wife, of Crevel. Under the name of Asie, Jacqueline Collin made
an excellent cook for Esther Gobseck, whom she was ordered by Vautrin to
watch. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life. Cousin Betty. The Unconscious
Humorists.]
COLLINET, grocer at Arcis-sur-Aube, time of Louis Philippe. Elector for
the Liberals headed by Colonel Giguet. [The Member for Arcis.]
COLLINET (Francois-Joseph), merchant of Nantes. In 1814 the political
changes brought about his business failure. He went to America, returning
in 1824 enriched, and re-established. He had caused the loss of twenty-four
thousand francs to M. and Mme. Lorrain, small retailers of Pen-Hoel, and
father and mother of Major Lorrain. But, on his return to France, he
restored to Mme. Lorrain, then a widow and almost a septuagenarian, forty-
two thousand francs, being capital and interest of his indebtedness to her.
[Pierrette.]
COLONNA, aged Italian at Genoa, during the later part of the eighteenth
century. He had reared Luigia Porta under the name of Colonna and as his
own son, from the age of six until the time when the young man enlisted in
the French army. [The Vendetta.]
COLOQUINTE, given name of a pensioner who was "office boy" in
Finot's newspaper office in 1820. He had been through the Egyptian
campaign, losing an arm at the Battle of Montmirail. [A Bachelor's
Establishment. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.]
COLORAT (Jerome), estate-keeper for Mme. Graslin at Montegnac; born
at Limoges. Retired soldier of the Empire; ex-sergeant in the Royal Guard;
at one time estate-keeper for M. de Navarreins, before entering Mme.
Graslin's service. [The Country Parson.]
CONSTANCE, chambermaid for Mme. de Restaud in 1819. Through her
old Goriot knew about everything that was going on at the home of his
elder daughter. This Constance, sometimes called Victorie, took money to
her mistress when the latter needed it. [Father Goriot.]
CONSTANT DE REBECQUE (Benjamin), born at Lausanne in 1767,
died at Paris, December 8, 1830. About the end of 1821 he is discovered in

Dauriat's book-shop at Palais-Royal, where Lucien de Rubempre noticed
his splendid head and spiritual eyes. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.]
CONTI (Gennaro), musical composer; of Neapolitan origin, but born at
Marseilles. Lover of Mlle. des Touches—Camille Maupin—in 1821-1822.
Afterwards he paid court to Marquise Beatrix de Rochefide. [Lost Illusions.
Beatrix.]
CONYNCKS, family of Bruges, who were maternal ancestors of
Marguerite Claes. In 1812 this young girl at sixteen was the living image of
a Conyncks, her grandmother whose portrait hung in Balthazar Claes'
home. A Conyncks, also of Bruges but later established at Cambrai, was
granduncle of the children of Balthazar Claes, and was appointed their vice-
guardian after the death of Mme. Claes. He had a daughter who married
Gabriel Claes. [The Quest of the Absolute.]
COQUELIN (Monsieur and Madame), hardware dealers, successors to
Claude-Joseph Pillerault in a store on quai de la Ferraille, sign of the
Golden Bell. Guests at the big ball given by Cesar Birotteau. After getting
the invitation, Mme. Coquelin ordered a magnificent gown for the occasion.
[Cesar Birotteau.]
COQUET, chief of bureau to the Minister of War, in Lebrun's division in
1838. Marneffe was his successor. Coquet had been in the service of the
administration since 1809, and had given perfect satisfaction. He was a
married man and his wife was still living at the time when he was displaced.
[Cousin Betty.]
CORALIE (Mademoiselle), actress at the Panorama-Dramatique and at
the Theatre du Gymnase, Paris, time of Louis XVIII. Born in 1803 and
brought up a Catholic, she was nevertheless of distinct Jewish type. She
died in August, 1822. Her mother sold her at fifteen to young Henri de
Marsay, whom she abhorred and who soon deserted her. She was then
maintained by Camusot, who was not obnoxious. She fell in love with
Lucien de Rubempre at first sight, surrendering to him immediately and
being faithful to him until her dying breath. The glory and downfall of
Coralie dated from this love. An original criticism of the young Chardon
established the success of "L'Alcade dans l'Embarras," at the Marais, and
brought to Coralie, one of the principals in the play, an engagement at

Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle, with a salary of twelve thousand francs. But
here the artist stranded, the victim of a cabal, despite the protection of
Camille Maupin. At first she was housed on rue de Vendome, afterwards in
a more modest lodging where she died, attended and nursed by her cousin,
Berenice. She had sold her elegant furniture to Cardot, Sr., on leaving the
apartment on rue de Vendome, and in order to avoid moving it, he installed
Florentine there. Coralie was the rival of Mme. Perrin and of Mlle. Fleuriet,
whom she resembled and whose destiny should have been her own. The
funeral service of Coralie took place at noon in the little church of Notre-
Dame de Bonne-Nouvelle. Camusot promised to purchase a plot of ground
for her in the cemetery of Pere-Lachaise. [A Start in Life. A Distinguished
Provincial at Paris. A Bachelor's Establishment.]
CORBIGNY (De), prefect of Loire-et-Cher, in 1811. Friend of Mme. de
Stael who authorized him to place Louis Lambert, at her expense, in the
College of Vendome. He probably died in 1812. [Louis Lambert.]
CORBINET, notary at Soulanges, Burgundy, in 1823, and at one time an
old patron of Sibilet's. The Gravelots, lumber dealers, were clients of his.
Commissioned with the sale of Aigues, when General de Montcornet
became wearied with developing his property. At one time known as
Corbineau. [The Peasantry.]
CORBINET, court-judge at Ville-aux-Fayes in 1823; son of Corbinet the
notary. He belonged, body and soul, to Gaubertin, the all-powerful mayor of
the town. [The Peasantry.]
CORBINET, retired captain, postal director at Ville-aux-Fayes in 1823;
brother of Corbinet, the notary. The last daughter of Sibilet, the copy-clerk,
was engaged to him when she was sixteen. [The Peasantry.]
CORENTIN, born at Vendome in 1777; a police-agent of great genius,
trained by Peyrade as Louis David was by Vien. A favorite of Fouche's and
probably his natural son. In 1799 he accompanied Mlle. de Verneuil sent to
lure and betray Alphonse de Montauran, the young chief of the Bretons who
were risen against the Republic. For two years Corentin was attached to this
strange girl as a serpent to a tree. [The Chouans.] In 1803 he and his chief,
Peyrade, were entrusted with a difficult mission in the department of Aube,
where he had to search the home of Mlle. de Cinq-Cygne. She surprised

him at the moment when he was forcing open a casket, and struck him a
blow with her riding whip. This he avenged cruelly, involving, despite their
innocence, the Hauteserres and the Simeuses, friends and cousins of the
young girl. This was during the affair of the abduction of Senator Malin.
About the same time he concluded another delicate mission to Berlin to the
satisfaction of Talleyrand, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. [The Gondreville
Mystery.] From 1824 to 1830, Corentin was pitted against the terrible
Jacques Collin, alias Vautrin, whose friendly plans in behalf of Lucien de
Rubempre he thwarted so cruelly. Corentin it was who rendered futile the
contemplated marriage of the aspirant with Clotilde de Grandlieu, bringing
about as a consequence the absolute ruin of the "distinguished provincial at
Paris." He rusticated at Passy, rue des Vignes, about May, 1830. Under
Charles X., Corentin was chief of the political police of the chateau.
[Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.] For more than thirty years he lived on rue
Honore-Chevalier under the name of M. du Portail. He sheltered Lydie,
daughter of his friend, Peyrade, after the death of the old police-agent.
About 1840 he brought about her marriage with Theodose de la Peyrade,
nephew of Peyrade, after having upset the plans of the very astute young
man, greatly in love with Celeste Colleville's dowry. Corentin—M. du
Portail—then installed the chosen husband of his adopted child into his own
high official duties. [The Middle Classes.]
CORMON (Rose-Marie-Victoire). (See Bousquier, Madame du.)
CORNEVIN, an old native of Perche; foster-father of Olympe Michaud.
He was with the Chouans in 1794 and 1799. In 1823 he was servant at
Michaud's. [The Peasantry.]
CORNOILLER (Antoine), game-keeper at Saumur; married the sturdy
Nanon then fifty-nine years old, after the death of Grandet, about 1827, and
became general overseer of lands and properties of Eugenie Grandet.
[Eugenie Grandet.]
CORNOILLER (Madame). (See Nanon.)
COTTEREAU, well-known smuggler, one of the heads of the Breton
insurrection. In 1799 he was principal in a rather stormy scene at the
Vivetiere, when he threatened the Marquis de Montauran with swearing
allegiance to the First Consul if he did not immediately obtain noteworthy

advantages in payment of seven years of devoted service to "the good
cause." "My men and I have a devilish importunate creditor," said he,
slapping his stomach. One of the brothers of Jean Cottereau, was nick-
named the "Chouan," a title used by all the Western rebels against the
Republic. [The Chouans.]
COTTIN (Marechal), Prince of Wissembourg; Duke of Orfano; old
soldier of the Republic and the Empire; Minister of War in 1841; born in
1771. He was obliged to bring great shame upon his old friend and
companion-in-arms, Marshal Hulot, by advising him of the swindling of the
commissariat, Hulot d'Ervy. Marshal Cottin and Nucingen were witnesses at
the wedding of Hortense Hulot and Wenceslas Steinbock. [Cousin Betty.]
COTTIN (Francine), a Breton woman, probably born at Fougeres in
1773; chambermaid and confidante of Mlle. de Verneuil, who had been
reared by Francine's parents. Childhood's friend of Marche-a-Terre, with
whom she used her influence to save the life of her mistress during the
massacre of the "Blues" at the Vivitiere in 1799. [The Chouans.]
COUDRAI (Du), register of mortgages at Alencon, time of Louis XVIII.
A caller at the home of Mlle. Cormon, and afterwards at that of M. du
Bousquier, who married "the old maid." One of the town's most open-
hearted men; his only faults were having married a rich old lady who was
unendurable, and the habit of making villainous puns at which he was first
to laugh. In 1824 M. du Coudrai was poverty-stricken; he had lost his place
on account of voting the wrong way. [Jealousies of a Country Town.]
COUPIAU, Breton courier from Mayenne to Fougeres in 1799. In the
struggle between the "Blues" and the Chouans he took no part, but acted as
circumstances demanded and for his own interests. Indeed he offered no
resistance when the "Brigands" stole the government chests. Coupiau was
nick-named Mene-a-Bien by Marche-a-Terre the Chouan. [The Chouans.]
COUPIAU (Sulpice), Chouan and probably the father of Coupiau the
messenger. Killed in 1799 in the battle of La Pelerine or at the seige of
Fougeres. [The Chouans.]
COURAND (Jenny), florist; mistress of Felix Gaudissart in 1831. At that
time she lived in Paris on rue d'Artois. [Gaudissart the Great.]

COURCEUIL (Felix), of Alencon, retired army surgeon of the Rebel
forces of the Vendee. In 1809 he furnished arms to the "Brigands." Involved
in the trial known as "Chauffeurs of Mortagne." Condemned to death for
contumacy. [The Seamy Side of History.]
COURNANT, notary at Provins in 1827; rival of Auffray, the notary; of
the Opposition; one of the few public-spirited men of the little town.
[Pierrette.]
COURTECUISSE, game-keeper of the Aigues estate in Burgundy under
the Empire and Restoration until 1823. Born about 1777; at first in the
service of Mlle. Laguerre; discharged by General de Montcornet for
absolute incapacity, and replaced by keepers who were trusty and true.
Courtecuisse was a little fellow with a face like a full moon. He was never
so happy as when idle. On leaving he demanded a sum of eleven hundred
francs which was not due him. His master indignantly denied his claim at
first, but yielded the point, however, on being threatened with a lawsuit, the
scandal of which he wished to avoid. Courtecuisse, out of a job, purchased
from Rigou for two thousand francs the little property of La Bachelerie,
enclosed in the Aigues estate, and wearied himself, without gain, in the
management of his land. He had a daughter who was tolerably pretty and
eighteen years old in 1823. At this time she was in the service of Mme.
Mariotte the elder, at Auxerre. Courtecuisse was given the sobriquet of
"Courtebotte"—short-boot. [The Peasantry.]
COURTECUISSE (Madame), wife of the preceding; in abject fear of the
miser, Gregoire Rigou, mayor of Blangy, Burgundy. [The Peasantry.]
COURTEVILLE (Madame de), cousin of Comte de Bauvan on the
maternal side; widow of a judge of the Seine Court. She had a very
beautiful daughter, Amelie, whom the comte wished to marry to his
secretary, Maurice de l'Hostal. [Honorine.]
COURTOIS, Marsac miller, near Angouleme during the Restoration. In
1821 rumor had it that he intended to wed a miller's widow, his patroness,
who was thirty-two years old. She had one hundred thousand francs in her
own right. David Sechard was advised by his father to ask the hand of this
rich widow. At the end of 1822 Courtois, now married, sheltered Lucien de
Rubempre, returning almost dead from Paris. [Lost Illusions.]

COURTOIS (Madame), wife of the preceding, who cared
sympathetically for Lucien de Rubempre, on his return. [Lost Illusions.]
COUSSARD (Laurent). (See Goussard, Laurent.)
COUTELIER, a creditor of Maxime de Trailles. The Coutelier credit,
purchased for five hundred francs by the Claparon-Cerizet firm, came to
thirty-two hundred francs, seventy-five centimes, capital, interest and costs.
It was recovered by Cerizet by means of a strategy worthy of a Scapin. [A
Man of Business.]
COUTURE, a kind of financier-journalist of an equivocal reputation;
born about 1797. One of Mme. Schontz's earliest friends; and she alone
remained faithful to him when he was ruined by the downfall of the
ministry of March 1st, 1840. Couture was always welcome at the home of
the courtesan, who dreamed, perhaps, of making him her husband. But he
presented Fabien du Ronceret to her and the "lorette" married him. In 1836,
in company with Finot and Blondet, he was present in a private room of a
well-known restaurant when Jean-Jacques Bixiou related the origin of the
Nucingen fortune. At the time of his transient wealth Couture splendidly
maintained Jenny Cadine. At one time he was celebrated for his waistcoats.
He had no known relationship with the widow Couture. [Beatrix. The Firm
of Nucingen.] The financier drew upon himself the hatred of Cerizet for
having deceived him in a deal about the purchase of lands and houses
situated in the suburbs of the Madeleine, an affair in which Jerome Thuillier
was afterwards concerned. [The Middle Classes.]
COUTURE (Madame), widow of an ordonnance-commissary of the
French Republic. Relative and protectress of Mlle. Victorine Taillefer with
whom she lived at the Vauquer pension, in 1819. [Father Goriot.]
COUTURIER (Abbe), curate of Saint-Leonard church at Alencon, time
of Louis XVIII. Spiritual adviser of Mlle. Cormon, remaining her confessor
after her marriage with Du Bousquier, and influencing her in the way of
excessive penances. [Jealousies of a Country Town.]
CREMIERE, tax-collector at Nemours during the Restoration. Nephew
by marriage of Dr. Minoret, who had secured the position for him,
furnishing his security. One of the three collateral heirs of the old physician,

the two others being Minoret-Levrault, the postmaster, and Massin-
Levrault, copy-clerk to the justice of the peace. In the curious branching of
these four Gatinais bourgeois families—the Minorets, the Massins, the
Levraults and the Cremieres—the tax collector belonged to the Cremiere-
Cremiere branch. He had several children, among others a daughter named
Angelique. After the Revolution of July, 1830, he became municipal
councillor. [Ursule Mirouet.]
CREMIERE (Madame), nee Massin-Massin, wife of the tax-collector,
and niece of Dr. Minoret—that is, daughter of the old physician's sister. A
stout woman with a muddy blonde complexion splotched with freckles.
Passed for an educated person on account of her novel-reading. Her lapsi
linguoe were maliciously spread abroad by Goupil, the notary's clerk, who
labelled them, "Capsulinguettes"; indeed, Mme. Cremiere thus translated
the two Latin words. [Ursule Mirouet.]
CREMIERE-DIONIS, always called Dionis, which name see.
CREVEL (Celestin), born between 1786 and 1788; clerked for Cesar
Birotteau the perfumer—first as second clerk, then as head-clerk when
Popinot left the house to set up in business for himself. After his patron's
failure in 1819, he purchased for five thousand seven hundred francs, "The
Queen of Roses," making his own fortune thereby. During the reign of
Louis Philippe he lived on his income. Captain, then chief of battalion in
the National Guard; officer of the Legion of Honor; mayor of one of the
arrondissements of Paris, he ended up by being a very great personage. He
had married the daughter of a farmer of Brie; became a widower in 1833,
when he gave himself over to a life of pleasure. He maintained Josepha,
who was taken away from him by his friend, Baron Hulot. To avenge
himself he tried to win Mme. Hulot. He "protected" Heloise Brisetout.
Finally he was smitten with Mme. Marneffe, whom he had for mistress and
afterwards married when she became a widow in 1843. In May of this same
year, Crevel and his wife died of a horrible disease which had been
communicated to Valerie by a negro belonging to Montes the Brazilian. In
1838 Crevel lived on rue des Saussaies; at the same time he owned a little
house on rue du Dauphin, where he had prepared a secret chamber for
Mme. Marneffe; this last house he leased to Maxime de Trailles. Besides
these Crevel owned: a house on rue Barbet de Jouy; the Presles property

bought of Mme. de Serizy at a cost of three million francs. He caused
himself to be made a member of the General Council of Seine-et-Oise. By
his first marriage he had an only daughter, Celestine, who married Victorin
Hulot. [Cesar Birotteau. Cousin Betty.] In 1844-1845 Crevel owned a share
in the management of the theatre directed by Gaudissart. [Cousin Pons.]
CREVEL (Celestine), only child of the first marriage of the preceding.
(See Hulot, Mme. Victorin.)
CREVEL (Madame Celestin), born Valerie Fortin in 1815; natural
daughter of the Comte de Montcornet, marshal of France; married, first
Marneffe, an employe in the War Office, with whom she broke faith by
agreement with the clerk; and second, Celestin Crevel. She bore Marneffe a
child, a stunted, scrawny urchin named Stanislas. An intimate friend of
Lisbeth Fischer who utilized Valerie's irresistible attractions for the
satisfying of her hatred towards her rich relatives. At this time Mme.
Marneffe belonged jointly to Marneffe, to the Brazilian Montes, to
Steinbock the Pole, to Celestin Crevel and to Baron Hulot. Each of these
she held responsible for a child born in 1841, and which died on coming
into the world. By prearrangement, she was surprised with Hulot by the
police-commissioners, during this period, in Crevel's cottage on rue du
Dauphin. After having lived with Marneffe on rue du Doyenne in the house
occuped by Lisbeth Fischer —"Cousin Betty"—she was installed by Baron
Hulot on rue Vaneau; then by Crevel in a mansion on rue Barbet-de-Jouy.
She died in 1843, two days prior to Celestin. She perished while trying to
"cajole God"—to use her own expression. She bequeathed, as a restitution,
300,000 francs to Hector Hulot. Valerie Marneffe did not lack spirit. Claude
Vignon, the great critic, especially appreciated this woman's intellectual
depravity. [Cousin Betty.]
CROCHARD, Opera dancer in the second half of the eighteenth century.
Director of theatrical evolutions. He commanded a band of assailants upon
the Bastile, July 14, 1789; became an officer, a colonel, dying of wounds
received at Lutzen, May 2, 1813. [A Second Home.]
CROCHARD (Madame), widow of the preceding. Before the Revolution
she had sung with her husband in the chorus. In 1815 she lived wretchedly
with her daughter Caroline, following the embroiderer's trade, in a house on

rue du Tourniquet-Saint-Jean, which belonged to Molineux. Wishing to find
a protector for her daughter, Caroline, Mme. Crochard favored the
attentions of the Comte de Granville. He rewarded her with a life-annuity of
three thousand francs. She died, in 1822, in a comfortable lodging on rue
Saint-Louis at Marais. She constantly wore on her breast the cross of
chevalier of the Legion of Honor conferred on her husband by the Emperor.
The widow Crochard, watched by an eager circle, received, at her last
moments, a visit from Abbe Fontanon, confessor of the Comtesse de
Granville, and was greatly troubled by the prelate's proceedings. [A Second
Home.]
CROCHARD (Caroline), daughter of the proceding; born in 1797. For
several years during the Restoration she was the mistress of Comte de
Granville; at that time she was known as Mlle. de Bellefeuille, from the
name of a small piece of property at Gatinais given to the young woman by
an uncle of the comte who had taken a liking to her. Her lover installed her
in an elegant apartment on rue Taitbout, where Esther Gobseck afterwards
lived. Caroline Crochard abandoned M. de Granville and a good position
for a needy young fellow named Solvet, who ran through with all her
property. Sick and poverty-stricken in 1833, she lived in a wretched two-
story house on rue Gaillon. She gave the Comte de Granville a son, Charles,
and a daughter, Eugenie. [A Second Home.]
CROCHARD (Charles), illegitimate child of Comte de Granville and
Caroline Crochard. In 1833 he was apprehended for a considerable theft,
when he appealed to his father through the agency of Eugene de Granville,
his half-brother. The comte gave the latter money enough to clear up the
miserable business, if such were possible. [A Second Home.] The theft in
question was committed at the home of Mlle. Beaumesnil. He carried off
her diamonds. [The Middle Classes.]
CROISIER (Du). (See Bousquier, Du.)
CROIZEAU, former coachmaker to Bonaparte's Imperial court; had an
income of about forty thousand francs; lived on rue Buffault; a widower
without children. He was a constant visitor at Antonia Chocardelle's
reading-room on rue Coquenard, time of Louis Philippe, and he offered to
marry the "charming woman." [A Man of Business.]

CROTTAT (Monsieur and Madame), retired farmers; parents of the
notary Crottat, assassinated by some thieves, among them being the
notorious Dannepont, alias La Pouraille. The trial of this crime was called
in May, 1830. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.] They were well-to-do folk
and, according to Cesar Birotteau who knew them, old man Crottat was as
"close as a snail." [Cesar Birotteau.]
CROTTAT (Alexandre), head-clerk of Maitre Roguin, and his successor
in 1819, after the flight of the notary. He married the daughter of Lourdois,
the painting-contractor. Cesar Birotteau thought for a time of making him
his son-in-law. He called him, familiarly, "Xandrot." Alexandre Crottat was
a guest at the famous ball given by the perfumer in December, 1818. He
was in friendly relations with Derville, the attorney, who commissioned him
with a sort of half-pay for Colonel Chabert. He was also Comtesse Ferraud's
notary at this time. [Cesar Birotteau. Colonel Chabert.] In 1822 he was
notary to Comte de Serizy. [A Start in Life.] He was also notary to Charles
de Vandenesse; and one evening, at the home of the marquis, he made some
awkward allusions which undoubtedly recalled unpleasant memories to his
client and Mme. d'Aiglemont. Upon his return home he narrated the
particulars to his wife, who chided him sharply. [A Woman of Thirty.]
Alexandre Crottat and Leopold Hannequin signed the will dictated by
Sylvain Pons on his death-bed. [Cousin Pons.]
CRUCHOT (Abbe), priest of Saumur; dignitary of the Chapter of Saint-
Martin of Tours; brother of Cruchot, the notary; uncle of President Cruchot
de Bonfons; the Talleyrand of his family; after much angling he induced
Eugenie Grandet to wed the president in 1827. [Eugenie Grandet.]
CRUCHOT, notary at Saumur during the Restoration; brother of Abbe
Cruchot; uncle of President Cruchot de Bonfons. He as well as the prelate
was much concerned with making the match between his nephew and
Eugenie Grandet. The young girl's father entrusted M. Cruchot with his
usurious dealings and probably with all his money matters. [Eugenie
Grandet.]
CURIEUX (Catherine). (See Farrabesche, Madame.)
CYDALISE, magnificent woman of Valognes, Normandy, who launched
out in Paris in 1840 to make capital out of her beauty. Born in 1824, she

was then only sixteen. She served as an instrument for Montes the Brazilian
who, in order to avenge himself on Mme. Marneffe—now Mme. Crevel—
inoculated the young girl with a terrible disease through one of his negroes.
He in turn obtained it from Cydalise and transmitted it to the faithless
Valerie who died as also did her husband. Cydalise probably accompanied
Montes to Brazil, the only place where this horrible ailment is curable.
[Cousin Betty.]

D
DALLOT, mason in the suburbs of l'Isle-Adam in the early days of the
Restoration, who was to marry a peasant woman of small wit named
Genevieve. After having courted her for the sake of her little property, he
deserted her for a woman of more means and also of a sharper intelligence.
This separation was so cruel a blow to Genevieve that she became idiotic.
[Farewell.]
DANNEPONT, alias La Pouraille, one of the assassins of M. and Mme.
Crottat. Imprisoned for his crime in 1830 at the Conciergerie, and under
sentence of capital punishment; an escaped convict who had been sought on
account of other crimes by the police for five years past. Born about 1785
and sent to the galleys at the age of nineteen. There he had known Jacques
Collin—Vautrin. Riganson, Selerier and he formed a sort of triumvirate. A
short, skinny, dried-up fellow with a face like a marten. [Scenes from a
Courtesan's Life.]
DAUPHIN, pastry-cook of Arcis-sur-Aube; well-known Republican. In
1830, in an electoral caucus, he questioned Sallenauve, a candidate for
deputy, about Danton. [The Member for Arcis.]
DAURIAT, editor and bookman of Paris, on Palais-Royale, Galleries de
Bois during the Restoration. He purchased for three thousand francs a
collection of sonnets "Marguerites" from Lucien de Rubempre, who had
scored a book of Nathan's. But he did not publish the sonnets until a long
time afterwards, and with a success that the author declared to be
posthumous. Dauriat's shop was the rendezvous of writers and politicians of
note at this time. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris. Scenes from a
Courtesan's Life.] Dauriat, who was Canalis' publisher, was asked in 1829
by Modeste Mignon for personal information concerning the poet, to which
he made a rather ironical reply. In speaking of celebrated authors Dauriat
was wont to say, "I have made Canalis. I have made Nathan." [Modeste
Mignon.]

DAVID (Madame), woman living in the outskirts of Brives, who died of
fright on account of the Chauffeurs, time of the Directory. [The Country
Parson.]
DELBECQ, secretary and steward of Comte Ferraud during the
Restoration. Retired attorney. A capable, ambitious man in the service of the
countess, whom he aided to rid herself of Colonel Chabert when that officer
claimed his former wife. [Colonel Chabert.]
DENISART, name assumed by Cerizet.
DERVILLE, attorney at Paris, rue Vivienne, from 1819 to 1840. Born in
1794, the seventh child of an insignificant bourgeois of Noyon. In 1816 he
was only second clerk and dwelt on rue des Gres, having for a neighbor the
well-known usurer Gobseck, who later advanced him one hundred and fifty
thousand francs at 15 per cent., with which he purchased the practice of his
patron, a man of pleasure now somewhat short of funds. Through Gobseck
he met his future wife, Jenny Malvaut; through the same man he learned the
Restaud secrets. In the winter of 1829-1830 he told of their troubles to the
Vicomtesse de Grandlieu. Derville had re-established the fortune of the
feminine representative of the Grandlieu's younger branch, at the time of
the Bourbon's re-entry, and therefore was on a friendly footing at her home.
[Gobseck.] He had been a clerk at Bordin's. [A Start in Life. The
Gondreville Mystery.] He was attorney for Colonel Chabert who sought his
conjugal rights with Comtesse Ferraud. He became keenly interested in the
old officer, aiding him and being greatly grieved when, some years later, he
found him plunged into idiocy in the Bicetre hospital. [Colonel Chabert.]
Derville was also attorney for Comte de Serizy, Mme. de Nucingen and the
Ducs de Grandlieu and de Chaulieu, whose entire confidence he possessed.
In 1830, under the name of Saint-Denis, he and Corentin inquired of the
Sechards at Angouleme concerning the real resources of Lucien de
Rubempre. [Father Goriot. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
DERVILLE (Madame), born Jenny Malvaut; wife of Derville the
attorney; young Parisian girl, though born in the country. In 1826 she lived
alone, but maintaining a virtuous life, supported by her work. She was on
the fifth floor of a gloomy house on rue Montmartre, where Gobseck had
called to collect a note signed by her. He pointed her out to Derville, who

married her without a dowry. Later she inherited from an uncle, a farmer
who had become wealthy, seventy thousand francs with which she aided her
husband to cancel his debt with Gobseck. [Gobseck.] Being anxious for an
invitation to the ball given by Birotteau, she paid a rather unexpected visit
to the perfumer's wife. She made much of the latter and of Mlle. Birotteau,
and was invited with her husband to the festivities. It appears that some
years before her marriage she had worked as dressmaker for the Birotteaus.
[Cesar Birotteau.]
DESCOINGS (Monsieur and Madame), father-in-law and mother-in-law
of Dr. Rouget of Issoudun. Dealers in wool, acting as selling agents for
owners, and buying agents for fleece merchants of Berry. They also bought
state lands. Rich and miserly. Died during the Republic within two years of
each other and before 1799. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
DESCOINGS, son of the preceding; younger brother of Mme. Rouget,
the doctor's wife; grocer at Paris, on rue Saint-Honore, not far from
Robespierre's quarters. Descoings had married for love the widow of
Bixiou, his predecessor. She was twelve years his senior but well preserved
and "plump as a thrush after harvest." Accused of foreclosing, he was sent
to the scaffold, in company with Andre Chenier, on the seventh Thermidor
of year 2, July 25, 1794. The death of the grocer caused a greater sensation
than did that of the poet. Cesar Birotteau moved the plant of the perfumery
"Queen of Roses" into Descoings' shop around 1800. The successor of the
executed man managed his business badly; the inventor of the the "Eau
Carminative" went bankrupt. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
DESCOINGS (Madame), born in 1744; widow of two husbands, Bixiou
and Descoings, the latter succeeding the former in the grocer shop on rue
Saint-Honore, Paris. Grandmother of Jean-Jacques Bixiou, the cartoonist.
After the death of M. Bridau, chief of division in the Department of the
Interior, Mme. Descoings, now a widow, came in 1819 to live with her
niece, the widow Bridau, nee Agathe Rouget, bringing to the common fund
an income of six thousand francs. An excellent woman, known in her day as
"the pretty grocer." She ran the household, but had likewise a decided mania
for lottery, and always for the same numbers; she "nursed a trey." She ended
by ruining her niece who had blindly entrusted her interests to her, but
Mme. Descoings repaid for her foolish doings by an absolute devotion,—all

the while continuing to place her money on the evasive combinations. One
day her hoardings were stolen from her mattress by Philippe Bridau. On this
account she was unable to renew her lottery tickets. Then it was that the
famous trey turned up. Madame Descoings died of grief, December 31,
1821. Had it not been for the theft she would have become a millionaire. [A
Bachelor's Establishment.]
DESFONDRILLES, substitute judge at Provins during the Restoration;
made president of the court of that town, time of Louis Philippe. An old
fellow more archaeologist than judge, who found delight in the petty
squabbles under his eyes. He forsook Tiphaine's party for the Liberals
headed by lawyer Vinet. [Pierrette.]
DESLANDES, surgeon of Azay-le-Rideau in 1817. Called in to bleed
Mme. de Mortsauf, whose life was saved by this operation. [The Lily of the
Valley.]
DESMARETS (Jules), Parisian stock-broker under the Restoration.
Hardworking and upright, being reared in sternness and poverty. When only
a clerk he fell in love with a charming young girl met at his patron's home,
and he married her despite the irregularity connected with her birth. With
the money he obtained by his wife's mother he was able to purchase the
position of the stock-broker for whom he had clerked; and for several years
he was very happy in a mutual love and a liberal competence—an income
of two hundred and fifty thousand francs. In 1820 he and his wife lived in a
large mansion on rue Menars. In the early years of his wedded life he killed
in a duel —though unknown to his wife—a man who had vilified Mme.
Desmarets. The flawless happiness which abode with this well-mated
couple was cut short by the death of the wife, mortally wounded by a doubt,
held for a moment only by her husband, concerning her faithfulness.
Desmarets, bereaved, sold his place to Martin Falleix's brother and left Paris
in despair. [The Thirteen.] M. and Mme. Desmarets were invited to the
famous ball given by Cesar Birotteau in 1818. After the bankruptcy of the
perfumer, the broker kindly gave him useful tips about placing funds
laboriously scraped together towards the complete reimbursing of the
creditors. [Cesar Birotteau.]

DESMARETS (Madame Jules), wife of the preceding; natural daughter
of Bourignard alias Ferragus, and of a married woman who passed for her
godmother. She had no civil status, but when she married Jules Desmarets
her name, Clemence, and her age were publicly announced. Despite herself,
Mme. Desmarets was loved by a young officer of the Royal Guard, Auguste
de Maulincour. Mme. Desmaret's secret visits to her father, a man of
mystery, unknown to her husband, caused the downfall of their absolute
happiness. Desmarets thought himself deceived, and she died on account of
his suspicions, in 1820 or 1821. The remains of Clemence were placed at
first in Pere Lachaise, but afterwards were disinterred, incinerated and sent
to Jules Desmarets by Bourignard, assisted by twelve friends who thus
thought to dull the edge of the keenest of conjugal sorrows. [The Thirteen.]
M. and Mme. Desmarets were often alluded to as M. and Mme. Jules. At
the ball given by Cesar Birotteau, Mme. Desmarets shone as the most
beautiful woman, according to the perfumer's wife herself. [Cesar
Birotteau.]
DESMARETS, Parisian notary during the Restoration; elder brother of
the broker, Jules Desmarets. The notary was set up in business by his
younger brother and grew rich rapidly. He received his brother's will. He
accompanied him to Mme. Desmarets' funeral. [The Thirteen.]
DESPLEIN, famous surgeon of Paris, born about the middle of the
eighteenth century. Sprung of a poor provincial family, he spent a youth full
of suffering, being enabled to pass his examinations only through assistance
rendered him by his neighbor in poverty, Bourgeat the water-carrier. For
two years he lived with him on the sixth floor of a wretched house on rue
des Quatre-Vents, where later was established the "Cenacle" with Daniel
d'Arthez as host—on which account the house came to be spoken of as the
"bowl for great men." Desplein, evicted by his landlord whom he could not
pay, lodged next with his friend the Auvergnat in the Court de Rohan,
Passage du Commerce. Afterwards, when an "intern" at Hotel-Dieu, he
remembered the good deeds of Bourgeat, nursed him as a devoted son, and,
in the time of the Empire, established in honor of this simple man who
professed religious sentiments a quarterly mass at Saint-Sulpice, at which
he piously assisted, though himself an outspoken atheist. [The Atheist's
Mass.] In 1806 Desplein had predicted speedy death for an old fellow then
fifty-six years old, but who was still alive in 1846. [Cousin Pons.] The

surgeon was present at the death caused by despair of M. Chardon, an old
military doctor. [Lost Illusions.] Desplein attended the last hours of Mme.
Jules Desmarets, who died in 1820 or 1821; also of the chief of division,
Flamet de la Billardiere, who died in 1824. [The Thirteen. The Government
Clerks.] In March, 1828, at Provins, he performed an operation of
trepanning on Pierrette Lorrain. [Pierrette.] In the same year he undertook a
bold operation upon Mme. Philippe Bridau whose abuse of strong drink had
induced a "magnificent malady" that he believed had disappeared. This
operation was reported in the "Gazette des Hopitaux;" but the patient died.
[A Bachelor's Establishment.] In 1829 Desplein was summoned on behalf
of Vanda de Mergi, daughter of Baron de Bourlac. [The Seamy Side of
History.] In the latter part of the same year he operated successfully upon
Mme. Mignon for blindness. In February, 1830, on account of the
foregoing, he was a witness at Modeste Mignon's wedding with Ernest de la
Briere. [Modeste Mignon.] In the beginning of the same yaer, 1830, he was
called by Corentin to visit Baron de Nucingen, love-sick for Esther
Gobseck; and Mme. de Serizy ill on account of the suicide of Lucien de
Rubempre. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.] He and his assistant,
Bianchon, waited on Mme. de Bauvan, who was on the verge of death at the
close of 1830 and beginning of 1831. [Honorine.] Desplein had an only
daughter whose marriage in 1829 was arranged with the Prince of Loudon.
DESROCHES, clerk of the Minister of the Interior under the Empire;
friend of Bridau Senior, who had procured him the position. He was also on
friendly terms with the chief's widow, at whose home he met, nearly every
evening, his colleagues Du Bruel and Claparon. A dry, crusty man, who
would never become sub-chief, despite his ability. He earned only one
thousand eight hundred francs by running a department for stamped paper.
Retired after the second return of Louis XVIII., he talked of entering as
chief of bureau into an insurance company with a graduated salary. In 1821,
despite his scarcely tender disposition, Desroches undertook with much
discretion and confidence to extricate Philippe Bridau out of a predicament
—the latter having made a "loan" on the cash-box of the newspaper for
which he was working; he brought about his resignation without any
scandal. Desroches was a man of good "judgment." He remained to the last
a friend of the widow Bridau after the death of MM. du Bruel and Claparon.
He was a persistent fisherman. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]

DESROCHES (Madame), wife of the preceding. A widow, in 1826, she
sought the hand of Mlle. Matifat for her son, Desroches the attorney. [The
Firm of Nucingen.]
DESROCHES, son of the two foregoing; born about 1795, reared strictly
by a very harsh father. He went into Derville's office as fourth clerk in
1818, and on the following year passed to the second clerkship. He saw
Colonel Chabert at Derville's. In 1821 or 1822 he purchased a lawyer's
office with bare title on rue de Bethizy. He was shrewd and quick and
therefore was not long in finding a clientele composed of litterateurs, artists,
actresses, famous lorettes and elegant Bohemians. He was counsellor for
Agathe and Joseph Bridau, and also gave excellent advice to Philippe
Bridau who was setting out for Issoudun about 1822. [A Bachelor's
Establishment. Colonel Chabert. A Start in Life.] Desroches was advocate
for Charles de Vandenesse, pleading against his brother Felix; for the
Marquise d'Espard, seeking interdiction against her husband; and for the
Secretary-General Chardin des Lupeaulx, with whom he counseled astutely.
[A Woman of Thirty. The Commission in Lunacy. The Government Clerks.]
Lucien de Rubempre consulted Desroches about the seizure of the furniture
of Coralie, his mistress, in 1822. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.]
Vautrin appreciated the attorney; he said that the latter would be able to
"recover" the Rubempre property, to improve it and make it capable of
yielding Lucien an income of thirty thousand francs, which would probably
have allowed him to wed Clotilde de Grandlieu. [Scenes from a Courtesan's
Life.] In 1826 Desroches made a short-lived attempt to marry Malvina
d'Aldrigger. [The Firm of Nucingen.] About 1840 he related, at Mlle.
Turquet's—Malaga's—home, then maintained by Cardot the notary, and in
the presence of Bixiou, Lousteau and Nathan, who were invited by the
tabellion, the tricks employed by Cerizet to obtain the face value of a note
out of Maxime de Trailles. [A Man of Business.] Indeed, Desroches was
Cerizet's lawyer when the latter had a quarrel with Theodose de la Peyrade
in 1840. He also looked after the interests of the contractor, Sauvaignou, at
the same time. [The Middle Classes.] Desroches' office was probably
located for a time on rue de Buci. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
DESROYS, clerk with the Minister of Finance in Baudoyer's bureau,
under the Restoration. The son of a Conventionalist who had not favored
the King's death. A Republican; friend of Michel Chrestien. He did not

associate with any of his colleagues, but kept his manner of life so
concealed that none knew where he lived. In December, 1824, he was
discharged because of his opinions concerning the denunciation of Dutocq.
[The Government Clerks.]
DESROZIERS, musician; prize-winner at Rome; died in that city
through typhoid fever in 1836. Friend of the sculptor Dorlange, to whom he
recounted the story of Zambinella, the death of Sarrasine and the marriage
of the Count of Lanty. Desroziers gave music lessons to Marianina,
daughter of the count. The musician employed his friend, who was
momentarily in need of money, to undertake a copy of a statue of Adonis,
which reproduced Zambinella's features. This copy he sold to M. de Lanty.
[The Member for Arcis.]
DESROZIERS, printer at Moulins, department of the Allier. After 1830
he published a small volume containing the works of "Jan Diaz, son of a
Spanish prisoner, and born in 1807 at Bourges." This volume had an
introductory sketch on Jan Diaz by M. de Clagny. [The Muse of the
Department.]
DEY (Comtesse de), born about 1755. Widow of a lieutenant-general
retired to Carentan, department of the Manche, where she died suddenly in
November, 1793, through a shock to her maternal sensibilities. [The
Conscript.]
DEY (Auguste, Comte de), only son of Mme. de Dey. Made lieutenant of
the dragoons when only eighteen, and followed the princes in emigration as
a point of honor. He was idolized by his mother, who had remained in
France in order to preserve his fortune for him. He participated in the
Granville expedition. Imprisoned as a result of this affair, he wrote Mme. de
Dey that he would arrive at her home, disguised and a fugitive, within three
days' time. But he was shot in the Morbihan at the exact moment when his
mother expired from the shock of having received instead of her son the
conscript Julien Jussieu. [The Conscript.]
DIARD (Pierre-Francois), born in the suburbs of Nice; the son of a
merchant-provost; quartermaster of the Sixth regiment of the line, in 1808,
then chief of battalion in the Imperial Guard; retired with this rank on
account of a rather severe wound received in Germany; afterwards an

administrator and business man; excessive gambler. Husband of Juana
Mancini who had been the mistress of Captain Montefiore, Diard's most
intimate friend. In 1823, at Bordeaux, Diard killed and robbed Montefiore,
whom he met by accident. Upon his return home he confessed his crime to
his wife who vainly besought him to commit suicide; and she herself finally
blew out his brains with a pistol shot. [The Maranas.]
DIARD (Maria-Juana-Pepita), daughter of La Marana, a Venetian
courtesan, and a young Italian nobleman, Mancini, who acknowledged her.
Wife of Pierre-Francois Diard whom she accepted on her mother's request,
after having given herself to Montefiore who did not wish to marry her.
Juana had been reared very strictly in the Spanish home of Perez de
Lagounia, at Tarragone, and she bore her father's name. She was the
descendant of a long line of courtesans, a feminine branch that had never
made legal marriages. The blood of her ancestors was in her veins; she
showed this involuntarily by the way in which she yielded to Montefiore.
Although she did not love her husband, yet she remained entirely faithful to
him, and she killed him for honor's sake. She had two children. [The
Maranas.]
DIARD (Juan), first child of Mme. Diard. Born seven months after his
mother's marriage, and perhaps the son of Montefiore. He was the image of
Juana, who secretly petted him extravagantly, although she pretended to
like her younger son the better. By a "species of admirable flattery" Diard
had made Juan his choice. [The Maranas.]
DIARD (Francisque), second son of M. and Mme. Diard, born in Paris. A
counterpart of his father, and the favorite—only outwardly—of his mother.
[The Maranas.]
DIAZ (Jan), assumed name of Mme. Dinah de la Baudraye.
DIODATI, owner of a villa on Lake Geneva in 1823-1824.—Character in
a novel called "L'Ambitieux par Amour" published by Albert Savarus in the
"Revue de l'Est" in 1834. [Albert Savarus.]
DIONIS, notary at Nemours from about 1813 till the early part of the
reign of Louis Philippe. He was a Cremiere-Dionis, but was always known
by the latter name. A shrewd, double-faced individual, who was secretly a

partner with Massin-Levrault the money-lender. He concerned himself with
the inheritance left by Dr. Minoret, giving advice to the three legatees of the
old physician. After the Revolution of 1830, he was elected mayor of
Nemours, instead of M. Levrault, and about 1837 he became deputy. He
was then received at court balls, in company with his wife, and Mme.
Dionis was "enthroned" in the village because of her "ways of the throne."
The couple had at least one daughter. [Ursule Mirouet.] Dionis breakfasted
familiarly with Rastignac, Minister of Public Works, from 1839 to 1845.
[The Member for Arcis.]
DOGUEREAU, publisher on rue de Coq, Paris, in 1821, having been
established since the first of the century; retired professor of rhetoric.
Lucien de Rubempre offered him his romance, "The Archer of Charles IX.,"
but the publisher would not give him more than four hundred francs for it,
so the trade was not concluded. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.]
DOISY, porter of the Lepitre Institution, quarter du Marais, Paris, about
1814, at the time when Felix de Vandenesse came there to complete his
course of study. This young man contracted a debt of one hundred francs on
Doisy's account, which resulted in a very severe reprimand from his mother.
[The Lily of the Valley.]
DOMINIS (Abbe de), priest of Tours during the Restoration; preceptor of
Jacques de Mortsauf. [The Lily of the Valley.]
DOMMANGET, an accoucheur-physician, famous in Paris at the time of
Louis Philippe. In 1840 he was called in to visit Mme. Calyste du Guenic,
whom he had accouched, and who had taken a dangerous relapse on
learning of her husband's infidelity. She was nursing her son at this time. On
being taken into her confidence, Dommanget treated and cured her ailment
by purely moral methods. [Beatrix.]
DONI (Massimilla). (See Varese, Princesse de.)
DORLANGE (Charles), first name of Sallenauve, which name see.
DORSONVAL (Madame), bourgeoise of Saumur, acquainted with M.
and Mme. de Grassins at the time of the Restoration. [Eugenie Grandet.]

DOUBLON (Victor-Ange-Hermenegilde), bailiff at Angouleme during
the Restoration. He acted against David Sechard on behalf of the Cointet
brothers. [Lost Illusions.]
DUBERGHE, wine-merchant of Bordeaux from whom Nucingen
purchased in 1815, before the battle of Waterloo, 150,000 bottles of wine,
averaging thirty sous to the bottle. The financier sold them for six francs
each to the allied armies, from 1817 to 1819. [The Firm of Nucingen.]
DUBOURDIEU, born about 1805; a symbolic painter of the Fouierist
school; decorated. In 1845 he was met at the corner of rue Nueve-Vivienne
by his friend Leon de Lora, when he expressed his ideas on art and
philosophy to Gazonal and Bixiou, who were with the famous landscape-
painter. [The Unconscious Humorists.]
DUBUT of Caen, merchant connected with MM. de Boisfranc, de
Boisfrelon and de Boislaurier who were also Dubuts, and whose
grandfather was a dealer in linens. Dubut of Caen was involved in the trial
of the Chauffeurs of Mortagne, in 1809, and sentenced to death for
contumacy. During the Restoration, on account of his devotion to the Royal
cause, he had hoped to obtain the succession to the title of M. de Boisfranc.
Louis XVIII. made him grand provost, in 1815, and later public prosecutor
under the coveted name; finally he died as first president of the court. [The
Seamy Side of History.]
DUCANGE (Victor), novelist and playwright of France: born in 1783 at
La Haye; died in 1833; one of the collaborators on "Thirty Years," or "A
Gambler's Life," and the author of "Leonide." Victor Ducange was present
at Braulard's, the head-claquer's, in 1821, at a dinner where were also Adele
Dupois, Frederic Dupetit-Mere and Mlle. Millot, Braulard's mistress. [A
Distinguished Provincial at Paris.]
DUDLEY (Lord), statesman; one of the most distinguished of the older
English peers living in Paris after 1816; husband of Lady Arabella Dudley;
natural father of Henri de Marsay, to whom he paid small attention, and
who became the lover of Arabella. He was "profoundly immoral." He
reckoned among his illegitimate progeny, Euphemia Porraberil, and among
the women he maintained a certain Hortense who lived on rue Tronchet.
Before removing to France, Lord Dudley lived in his native land with two

sons born in wedlock, but who were astonishingly like Marsay. [The Lily of
the Valley. The Thirteen. A Man of Business.] Lord Dudley was present at
Mlle. des Touches, shortly after 1830, when Marsay, then prime minister,
told of his first love affair, these two statesmen exchanged philosophical
reflections. [Another Study of Woman.] In 1834 he chanced to be present at
a grand ball given by his wife, when he gambled in a salon with bankers,
ambassadors and retired ministers. [A Daughter of Eve.]
DUDLEY (Lady Arabella), wife of the preceding; member of an
illustrious English family that was free of any mesalliance from the time of
the Conquest; exceedingly wealthy; one of those almost regal ladies; the
idol of the highest French society during the Restoration. She did not live
with her husband to whom she had left two sons who resembled Marsay,
whose mistress she had been. In some way she succeeded in taking Felix de
Vandenesse away from Mme. de Mortsauf, thus causing that virtuous
woman keen anguish. She was born, so she said, in Lancashire, where
women die of love. [The Lily of the Valley.] In the early years of the reign
of Charles X., at least during the summers, she lived at the village of
Chatenay, near Sceaux. [The Ball at Sceaux.] Raphael de Valentin desired
her and would have sought her but for the fear of exhausting the "magic
skin." [The Magic Skin.] In 1832 she was among the guests at a soiree
given by Mme. d'Espard, where the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse was
maligned in the presence of Daniel d'Arthez, in love with her. [The Secrets
of a Princess.] She was quite jealous of Mme. Felix de Vandenesse, the wife
of her old-time lover, and in 1834-35 she manoeuvred, with Mme. de
Listomere and Mme. d'Espard to make the young woman fall into the arms
of the poet Nathan, whom she wished to be even homelier than he was. She
said to Mme. Felix de Vandenesse: "Marriage, my child, is our purgatory;
love our paradise." [A Daughter of Eve.] Lady Dudley, vengeance-bent,
caused Lady Brandon to die of grief. [Letters of Two Brides.]
DUFAU, justice of the peace in a commune in the outskirts of Grenoble,
where Dr. Benassis was mayor under the Restoration. Then a tall, bony man
with gray locks and clothed in black. He aided materially in the work of
regeneration accomplished by the physician in the village. [The Country
Doctor.]

DUFAURE (Jules-Armand-Stanislaus), attorney and French politician;
born December 4, 1798, at Saujon, Charente-Inferieure; died an
Academician at Rueil in the summer of 1881; friend and co-disciple of
Louis Lambert and of Barchou de Penhoen at the college of Vendome in
1811. [Louis Lambert.]
DUMAY (Anne-Francois-Bernard), born at Vannes in 1777; son of a
rather mean lawyer, the president of a revolutionary tribunal under the
Republic, and a victim of the guillotine subsequent to the ninth Thermidor.
His mother died of grief. In 1799 Anne Dumay enlisted in the army of Italy.
On the overthrow of the Empire, he retired with the rank of Lieutenant, and
came in touch with Charles Mignon, with whom he had become acquainted
early in his military career. He was thoroughly devoted to his friend, who
had once saved his life at Waterloo. He gave great assistance to the
commercial enterprises of the Mignon house, and faithfully looked after the
interests of Mme. and Mlle. Mignon during the protracted absence of the
head of the family, who was suddenly ruined. Mignon came back from
America a rich man, and he made Dumay share largely in his fortune.
[Modeste Mignon.]
DUMAY (Madame), nee Grummer, wife of the foregoing; a pretty little
American woman who married Dumay while he was on a journey to
America on behalf of his patron and friend Charles Mignon, during the
Restoration. Having had the misfortune to lose several children at birth, and
deprived of the hope of others, she became entirely devoted to the two
Mignon girls. She as well as her husband was thoroughly attached to that
family. [Modeste Mignon.]
DUPETIT-MERE (Frederic), born at Paris in 1785 and died in 1827;
dramatic author who enjoyed his brief hour of fame. Under the name of
Frederic he constructed either singly, or in collaboration with Ducange,
Rougemont, Brazier and others, a large number of melodramas, vaudevilles,
and fantasies. In 1821 he was present with Ducange, Adele Dupuis and
Mlle. Millot at a dinner at Braulard's, the head-claquer. [A Distinguished
Provincial at Paris.]
DUPLANTY (Abbe), vicar of Saint-Francois church at Paris; at
Schmucke's request he administered extreme unction to the dying Pons, in

April, 1845, who understood and appreciated his goodness. [Cousin Pons.]
DUPLAY (Madame), wife of a carpenter of rue Honore at whose house
Robespierre lived; a customer of the grocer Descoings, whom she
denounced as a forestaller. This accusation led to the grocer's imprisonment
and execution. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
DUPOTET, a sort of banker established at Croisic under the Restoration.
He had on deposit the modest patrimony of Pierre Cambremer. [A Seaside
Tragedy.]
DUPUIS, notary of the Saint-Jacques quarter, time of Louis Philippe;
affectedly pious; beadle of the parish. He kept the savings of a lot of
servants. Theodose de la Peyrade, who drummed up trade for him in this
special line, induced Mme. Lambert, the housekeeper of M. Picot, to place
two thousand five hundred francs, saved at her employer's expense, with
this virtuous man, who immediately went into bankruptcy. [The Middle
Classes.]
DUPUIS (Adele), Parisian actress who for a long time and brilliantly
held the leading roles and creations at the Gaite theatre. In 1821 she dined
with the chief claquer, Braulard, in company with Ducange, Frederic
Dupetit-Mere and Mlle. Millot. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.]
DURAND, real name of the Chessels. This name of Chessel had been
borrowed by Mme. Durand, who was born a Chessel.
DURET (Abbe), cure of Sancerre during the Restoration; aged member
of the old clerical school. Excellent company; a frequenter of the home of
Mme. de la Baudraye, where he satisfied his penchant for gaming. With
much finesse Duret showed this young woman the character of M. de la
Baudraye in its true light. He counseled her to seek in literature relief from
the bitterness of her wedded life. [The Muse of the Department.]
DURIAU, a celebrated accoucheur of Paris. Assisted by Bianchon he
delivered Mme. de la Baudraye of a child at the home of Lousteau, its
father, in 1837. [The Muse of the Department.]
DURIEU, cook and house servant at the chateau de Cinq-Cygne, under
the Consulate. An old and trusted servant, thoroughly devoted to his

mistress, Laurence de Cinq-Cygne, whose fortunes he had always followed.
He was a married man, his wife being general housekeeper in the
establishment. [The Gondreville Mystery.]
DUROC (Gerard-Christophe-Michel), Duc de Frioul; grand marshal of
the palace of Napoleon; born at Pont-a-Mousson, in 1772; killed on the
battlefield in 1813. On October 13, 1806, the eve of the battle of Jena, he
conducted the Marquis de Chargeboeuf and Laurence de Cinq-Cygne to the
Emperor's presence. [The Gondreville Mystery.] In April, 1813, he was at a
dress-parade at the Carrousel, Paris, when Napoleon addressed him,
regarding Mlle. de Chatillonest, noted by him in the throng, in language
which made the grand marshal smile. [A Woman of Thirty.]
DURUT (Jean-Francois), a criminal whom Prudence Servien helped
convict to hard labor by her testimony in the Court of Assizes. Durut took
oath to Prudence, before the same tribunal, that, once free, he would kill
her. However, he was executed at the bagne of Toulon four years later
(1829). Jacques Collin, alias Vautrin, to obtain Prudence's affections,
boasted of having freed her from Durut, whose threat held her in perpetual
terror. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
DUTHEIL (Abbe), one of the two vicars-general of the Bishop of
Limoges during the Restoration. One of the lights of the Gallican clergy.
Made a bishop in August, 1831, and promoted to archbishop in 1840. He
presided at the public confession of Mme. Graslin, whose friend and
advisor he was, and whose funeral procession he followed in 1844. [The
Country Parson.]
DUTOCQ, born in 1786. In 1814 he entered the Department of Finance,
succeeding Poiret senior who was displaced in the bureau directed by
Rabourdin. He was order clerk. Idle and incapable, he hated his chief and
caused his overthrow. Very despicable and very prying, he tried to make his
place secure by acting as spy in the bureau. Chardin des Lupeaulx, the
secretary-general, was advised by him of the slightest developments. After
1816, Dutocq outwardly affected very pronounced religious tendencies
because he believed them useful to his advancement. He eagerly collected
old engravings, possessing complete "his Charlet," which he desired to give
or lend to the minister's wife. At this time he dwelt on rue Saint-Louis-

Saint-Honore (in 1854 this street disappeared) near Palais Royal, on the
fifth floor of an enclosed house, and boarded in a pension of rue de Beaune.
[The Government Clerks.] In 1840, retired, he clerked for a justice of the
peace of the Pantheon municipality, and lived in Thuillier's house, rue
Saint-Dominique d'Enfer. He was a bachelor and had all the vices which,
however, he religiously concealed. He kept in with his superiors by
fawning. He was concerned with the villainous intrigues of Cerizet, his
copy-clerk, and with Theodose de la Peyrade, the tricky lawyer. [The
Middle Classes.]
DUVAL, wealthy forge-master of Alencon, whose daughter the grand-
niece of M. du Croisier (du Bousquier), was married in 1830 to Victurnien
d'Esgrignon. Her dowry was three million francs. [Jealousies of a Country
Town.]
DUVAL, famous professor of chemistry at Paris in 1843. A friend of Dr.
Bianchon, at whose instance he analyzed the blood of M. and Mme. Crevel,
who were infected by a peculiar cutaneous disease of which they died.
[Cousin Betty.]
DUVIGNON. (See Lanty, de.)
DUVIVIER, jeweler at Vendome during the Empire. Mme. de Merret
declared to her husband that she had purchased of this merchant an ebony
crucifix encrusted with silver; but in truth she had obtained it of her lover,
Bagos de Feredia. She swore falsely on this very crucifix. [La Grande
Breteche.]

E
EMILE, a "lion of the most triumphant kind," of the acquaintance of
Mme. Komorn—Countess Godollo. One evening in 1840 or 1841 this
woman, in order to avoid Theodose de la Peyrade, on the Boulevard des
Italiens, took the dandy's arm and requested him to take her to Mabille.
[The Middle Classes.]
ESGRIGNON (Charles-Marie-Victor-Ange-Carol, Marquis d'), or, Des
Grignons—following the earlier name—commander of the Order of Saint-
Louis; born about 1750, died in 1830. Head of a very ancient family of the
Francs, the Karawls who came from the North to conquer the Gauls, and
who were entrusted with the defence of a French highway. The Esgrignons,
quasi-princes under the house of Valois and all-powerful under Henry IV.,
were very little known at the court of Louis XVIII.; and the marquis, ruined
by the Revolution, lived in rather reduced circumstances at Alencon in an
old gable-roofed house formerly belonging to him, which had been sold as
common property, and which the faithful notary Chesnel had repurchased,
together with certain portions of his other estates. The Marquis d'Esgrignon,
though not having to emigrate, was still obliged to conceal himself. He
participated in the Vendean struggle against the Republic, and was one of
the members of the Committee Royal of Alencon. In 1800, at the age of
fifty, in the hope of perpetuating his race, he married Mlle. de Nouastre,
who died in child-birth, leaving the marquis an only son. M. d'Esgrignon
always overlooked the escapades of this child, whose reputation was
preserved by Chesnel; and he passed away shortly after the downfall of
Charles X., saying: "The Gauls triumph." [The Chouans. Jealousies of a
Country Town.]
ESGRIGNON (Madame d') nee Nouastre; of blood the purest and
noblest; married at twenty-two, in 1800, to Marquis Carol d'Esgrignon, a
man of fifty. She soon died at the birth of an only son. She was "the prettiest
of human beings; in her person were reawakened the charms —now
fanciful—of the feminine figures of the sixteenth century." [Jealousies of a
Country Town.]

ESGRIGNON (Victurnien, Comte, then Marquis d'), only son of Marquis
Carol d'Esgrignon; born about 1800 at Alencon. Handsome and intelligent,
reared with extreme indulgence and kindness by his aunt, Mlle. Armande
d'Esgrignon, he gave himself over without restraint to all the whims usual
to the ingenuous egoism of his age. From eighteen to twenty-one he
squandered eighty thousand francs without the knowledge of his father and
his aunt; the devoted Chesnel footed all the bills. The youthful d'Esgrignon
was systematically urged to wrong-doing by an ally of his own age, Fabien
du Ronceret, a perfidious fellow of the town whom M. du Croisier
employed. About 1823 Victurnien d'Esgrignon was sent to Paris. There he
had the misfortune to fall into the society of the Parisian roues—Marsay,
Ronquerolles, Trailles, Chardin des Lupeaulx, Vandenesse, Ajuda-Pinto,
Beaudenord, Martial de la Roche-Hugon, Manerville, people met at the
homes of Marquise d'Espard, the Duchesses de Grandlieu, de Carigliano, de
Chaulieu, the Marquises d'Aiglemont and de Listomere, Mme. Firmiani and
the Comtesse de Serizy; at the opera and at the embassies—being
welcomed on account of his good name and seeming fortune. It was not
long until he became the lover of the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse, ruined
himself for her and ended by forging a note against M. du Croisier for one
hundred thousand francs. His aunt took him back quickly to Alencon, and
by a great effort he was rescued from legal proceedings. Following this he
fought a duel with M. du Croisier, who wounded him dangerously.
Nevertheless, shortly after the death of his father, Victurnien d'Esgrignon
married Mlle. Duval, niece of the retired contractor. He did not give himself
over to his wife, but instead betook himself to his former gay life of a
bachelor. [Jealousies of a Country Town. Letters of Two Brides.] According
to Marguerite Turquet "the little D'Esgrignon was well soaked" by Antonia.
[A Man of Business.] In 1832 Victurnien d'Esgrignon declared before a
numerous company at Mme. d'Espard's that the Princesse de Cadignan—
Mme. de Maufrigneuse—was a dangerous woman. "To her I owe the
disgrace of my marriage," he added. Daniel d'Arthez, who was then in love
with this woman, was present at the conversation. [The Secrets of a
Princess.] In 1838 Victurnien d'Esgrignon was present with some artists,
lorettes and men about town, at the opening of the house on rue de la Ville-
Eveque given to Josepha Mirah, by the Duc d'Herouville. The young
marquis himself had been Josepha's lover; Baron Hulot and he had been
rivals for her on another occasion. [Cousin Betty.]

ESGRIGNON (Marie-Armande-Claire d'), born about 1775; sister of
Marquis Carol d'Esgrignon and aunt of Victurnien d'Esgrignon to whom she
had been as a mother, with an absolute tenderness. In his old age her father
had married for a second time, and to the young daughter of a tax collector,
ennobled by Louis XIV. She was born of this union which was looked upon
as a horrible mesalliance, and although the marquis loved her dearly he
regarded her as an alien. He made her weep for joy, one day, by saying
solemnly: "You are an Esgrignon, my sister." Emile Blondet, reared at
Alencon, had known and loved her in his childhood, and often later he
praised her beauty and good qualities. On account of her devotion to her
nephew she refused M. de la Roche-Guyon and the Chevalier de Valois,
also M. du Bousquier. She gave the fullest proof of her genuinely maternal
affection for Victurnien, when the latter committed the crime at Paris, which
would have placed him on the prisoner's bench of the Court of Assizes, but
for the clever work of Chesnel. She outlived her brother, given over "to her
religion and her over-thrown beliefs." About the middle of Louis Philippe's
reign Blondet, who had come to Alencon to obtain his marriage license, was
again moved on the contemplation of that noble face. [Jealousies of a
Country Town.]
ESPARD (Charles-Maurice-Marie-Andoche, Comte de Negrepelisse,
Marquis d'), born about 1789; by name a Negrepelisse, of an old Southern
family which acquired by a marriage, time of Henry IV., the lands and titles
of the family of Espard, of Bearn, which was allied also with the Albret
house. The device of the d'Espards was: "Des partem leonis." The
Negrepelisses were militant Catholics, ruined at the time of the Church
wars, and afterwards considerably enriched by the despoiling of a family of
Protestant merchants, the Jeanrenauds whose head had been hanged after
the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. This property, so badly acquired,
became wondrously profitable to the Negrepelisses-d'Espards. Thanks to his
fortune, the grandfather of the marquis was enabled to wed a Navarreins-
Lansac, an extremely wealthy heiress; her father was of the younger branch
of the Grandlieus. In 1812 the Marquis d'Espard married Mlle. de Blamont-
Chauvry, then sixteen years of age. He had two sons by her, but discord
soon arose between the couple. Her silly extravagances forced the marquis
to borrow. He left her in 1816, going with his two children to live on rue de
la Montagne-Sainte-Genevieve. Here he devoted himself to the education of

his boys and to the composition of a great work; "The Picturesque History
of China," the profits of which, combined with the savings resultant from an
austere manner of living, allowed him to pay in twelve years' time to the
legatees of the suppliant Jeanrenauds eleven hundred thousand francs,
representing the value—time of Louis XIV.—of the property confiscated
from their ancestors. This book was written, so to speak, in collaboration
with Abbe Crozier, and its financial results aided greatly in comforting the
declining years of a ruined friend, M. de Nouvion. In 1828 Mme. d'Espard
tried to have a guardian appointed for her husband by ridiculing the noble
conduct of the marquis. But the defendant won his rights at court. [The
Commission in Lunacy.] Lucien de Rubempre, who entertained Attorney-
General Granville with an account of this suit, probably was instrumental in
causing the judgment to favor M. d'Espard. Thus he drew upon himself the
hatred of the marquise. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
ESPARD (Camille, Vicomte d'), second son of Marquis d'Espard; born in
1815; pursued his studies at the college of Henri IV., in company with his
elder brother, the Comte Clement de Negrepelisse. He studied rhetoric in
1828. [The Commission in Lunacy.]
ESPARD (Chevalier d'), brother of Marquis d'Espard, whom he wished
to see interdicted, in order that he might be made curator. His face was thin
as a knife-blade, and he was frigid and severe. Judge Popinot said he
reminded him somewhat of Cain. He was one of the deepest personages to
be found in the Marquise d'Espard's drawing-room, and was the political
half of that woman. [The Commission in Lunacy. Scenes from a Courtesan's
Life. The Secrets of a Princess.]
ESPARD (Jeanne-Clementine-Athenais de Blamont-Chauvry, Marquise
d'), born in 1795; wife of Marquis d'Espard; of one of the most illustrious
houses of Faubourg Saint-Germain. Deserted by her husband in 1816, she
was at the age of twenty-two mistress of herself and of her fortune, an
income of twenty-six thousand francs. At first she lived in seclusion; then in
1820 she appeared at court, gave some receptions at her own home, and did
not long delay about becoming a society woman. Cold, vain and coquettish
she knew neither love nor hatred; her indifference for all that did not
directly concern her was profound. She never showed emotion. She had
certain scientific formulas for preserving her beauty. She never wrote but

spoke instead, believing that two words from a woman were sufficient to
kill three men. More than once she made epigrams to peers or deputies
which the courts of Europe treasured. In 1828 she still passed with the men
for youthful. Mme. d'Espard lived at number 104 rue du Faubourg Saint-
Honore. [The Commission in Lunacy.] She was a magnificent Celimene.
She displayed such prudence and severity on her separation from her
husband that society was at a loss to account for this disagreement. She was
surrounded by her relatives, the Navarreins, the Blamont-Chauvrys and the
Lenoncourts; ladies of the highest social position claimed her acquaintance.
She was a cousin of Mme. de Bargeton, who was rehabilitated by her on her
arrival from Angouleme in 1821, and whom she introduced into Paris,
showing her all the secrets of elegant life and taking her away from Lucien
de Rubempre. Later, when the "Distinguished Provincial" had won his way
into high society, she, at the instance of Mme. de Montcornet, enlisted him
on the Royalist side. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.] In 1824 she was
at an Opera ball to which she had come through an anonymous note, and,
leaning on the arm of Sixte du Chatelet, she met Lucien de Rubempre
whose beauty struck her and whom she seemed, indeed, not to remember.
The poet had his revenge for her former disdain, by means of some cutting
phrases, and Jacques Collin—Vautrin—masked, caused her uneasiness by
persuading her that Lucien was the author of the note and that he loved her.
[Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.] The Chaulieus were intimate with her at
the time when their daughter Louise was courted by Baron de Macumer.
[Letters of Two Brides.] Despite the silent opposition of the Faubourg
Saint-Germain, after the Revolution of 1830, the Marquise d'Espard did not
close her salon, since she did not wish to renounce her Parisian prestige. In
this she was seconded by one or two women in her circle and by Mlle. des
Touches. [Another Study of Woman.] She was at home Wednesdays. In
1833 she attended a soiree at the home of the Princesse de Cadignan, where
Marsay disclosed the mystery surrounding the abduction of Senator Malin
in 1806. [The Gondreville Mystery.] Notwithstanding an evil report
circulated against her by Mme. d'Espard, the princesse told Daniel d'Arthez
that the marquise was her best friend; she was related to her. [The Secrets of
a Princess.] Actuated by jealousy for Mme. Felix de Vandenesse, Mme.
d'Espard fostered the growing intimacy between the young woman and
Nathan the poet; she wished to see an apparent rival compromised. In 1835
the marquise defended vaudeville entertainments against Lady Dudley, who

said she could not endure them. [A Daughter of Eve.] In 1840, on leaving
the Italiens, Mme. d'Espard humiliated Mme. de Rochefide by snubbing
her; all the women followed her example, shunning the mistress of Calyste
du Guenic. [Beatrix.] In short the Marquise d'Espard was one of the most
snobbish people of her day. Her disposition was sour and malevolent,
despite its elegant veneer.
ESTIVAL (Abbe d'), provincial priest and Lenten exhorter at the church
of Saint-Jacques du Haut-Pas, Paris. According to Theodose de la Peyrade,
who pointed him out to Mlle. Colleville, he was devoted to predication in
the interest of the poor. By spirituality and unction he redeemed a scarcely
agreeable exterior. [The Middle Classes.]
ESTORADE (Baron, afterwards Comte de l'), a little Provincial
gentleman, father of Louis de l'Estorade. A very religious and very miserly
man who hoarded for his son. He lost his wife about 1814, who died of
grief through lack of hope of ever seeing her son again —having heard
nothing of him after the battle of Leipsic. M. de l'Estorade was an excellent
grandparent. He died at the end of 1826. [Letters of Two Brides.]
ESTORADE (Louis, Chevalier, then Vicomte and Comte de l') son of the
preceding; peer of France; president of the Chamber in the Court of
Accounts; grand officer of the Legion of Honor; born in 1787. After having
been excluded from the conscription under the Empire, for a long time, he
was enlisted in 1813, serving on the Guard of Honor. At Leipsic he was
captured by the Russians and did not reappear in France until the
Restoration. He suffered severely in Siberia; at thirty-seven he appeared to
be fifty. Pale, lean, taciturn and somewhat deaf, he bore much resemblance
to the Knight of the Rueful Countenance. He succeeded, however, in
making himself agreeable to Renee de Maucombe whom he married,
dowerless, in 1824. Urged on by his wife who became ambitious after
becoming a mother, he left Crampade, his country estate, and although a
mediocre he rose to the highest offices. [Letters of Two Brides. The
Member for Arcis.]
ESTORADE (Madame de l'), born Renee de Maucombe in 1807, of a
very old Provencal family, located in the Gemenos Valley, twenty
kilometres from Marseilles. She was educated at the Carmelite convent of

Blois, where she was intimate with Louise de Chaulieu. The two friends
always remained constant. For several years they corresponded, writing
about life, love and marriage, when Renee the wise gave to the passionate
Louise advice and prudent counsel not always followed. In 1836 Mme. de
l'Estorade hastened to the country to be present at the death-bed of her
friend, now become Mme. Marie Gaston. Renee de Maucombe was married
at the age of seventeen, upon leaving the convent. She gave her husband
three children, though she never loved him, devoting herself to the duties of
motherhood. [Letters of Two Brides.] In 1838-39 the serenity of this sage
person was disturbed by meeting Dorlange-Sallenauve. She believed he
sought her, and she must needs fight an insidious liking for him. Mme. de
Camps counseled and enlightened Mme. de l'Estorade, with considerable
foresight, in this delicate crisis. Some time later, when a widow, Mme. de
l'Estorade was on the point of giving her hand to Sallenauve, who became
her son-in-law. [The Member for Arcis.] In 1841 Mme. de l'Estorade
remarked of M. and Mme. Savinien de Portenduere: "Theirs is the most
perfect happiness that I have ever seen!" [Ursule Mirouet.]
ESTORADE (Armand de l'), elder son of M. and Mme. de l'Estorade;
godson of Louise de Chaulieu, who was Baronne de Macumer and
afterwards Mme. Marie Gaston. Born in December, 1825; educated at the
college of Henri IV. At first stupid and meditative, he awakened afterwards,
was crowned at Sorbonnne, having obtained first prize for a translation of
Latin, and in 1845 made a brilliant showing in his thesis for the degree of
doctor of laws. [Letters of Two Brides. The Member for Arcis.]
ESTORADE (Rene de l'), second child of M. and Mme. de l'Estorade.
Bold and adventurous as a child. He had a will of iron, and his mother was
convinced that he would be "the cunningest sailor afloat." [Letters of Two
Brides.]
ESTORADE (Jeanne-Athenais de l'), daughter and third child of M. and
Mme. de l'Estorade. Called "Nais" for short. Married in 1847 to Charles de
Sallenauve. (See Sallenauve, Mme. Charles de.)
ESTOURNY (Charles d'), a young dandy of Paris who went to Havre
during the Restoration to view the sea, obtained entrance into the Mignon
household and eloped with Bettina-Caroline, the elder daughter. He

afterwards deserted her and she died of shame. In 1827 Charles d'Estourny
was sentenced by the police court for habitual fraud in gambling. [Modeste
Mignon.] A Georges-Marie Destourny, who styled himself Georges
d'Estourny, was the son of a bailiff, at Boulogne, near Paris, and was
undoubtedly identical with Charles d'Estourny. For a time he was the
protector of Esther van Gobseck, known as La Torpille. He was born about
1801, and, after having obtained a splendid education, had been left without
resources by his father, who was forced to sell out under adverse
circumstances. Georges d'Estourny speculated on the Bourse with money
obtained from "kept" women who trusted in him. After his sentence he left
Paris without squaring his accounts. He had aided Cerizet, who afterwards
became his partner. He was a handsome fellow, open-hearted and generous
as the chief of robbers. On account of the knaveries which brough him into
court, Bixiou nicknamed him "Tricks at Cards." [Scenes from a Courtesan's
Life. A Man of Business.]
ETIENNE & CO., traders at Paris under the Empire. In touch with
Guillaume, clothier of rue Saint-Denis, who foresaw their failure and
awaited "with anxiety as at a game of cards." [At the Sign of the Cat and
Racket.]
EUGENE, Corsican colonel of the Sixth regiment of the line, which was
made up almost entirely of Italians—the first to enter Tarragone in 1808.
Colonel Eugene, a second Murat, was extraordinarily brave. He knew how
to make use of the species of bandits who composed his regiment. [The
Maranas.]
EUGENIE, assumed name of Prudence Servien, which name see.
EUPHRASIE, Parisian courtesan, time of the Restoration and Louis
Philippe. A pretty, winsome blonde with blue eyes and a melodious voice;
she had an air of the utmost frankness, yet was profoundly depraved and
expert in refined vice. In 1821 she transmitted a terrible and fatal disease to
Crottat, the notary. At that time she lived on rue Feydeau. Euphrasie
pretended that in her early youth she had passed entire days and nights
trying to support a lover who had forsaken her for a heritage. With the
brunette, Aquilina, Euphrasie took part in a famous orgy, at the home of
Frederic Taillefer, on rue Joubert, where were also Emile Blondet,

Rastignac, Bixiou and Raphael de Valentin. Later she is seen at the Theatre-
Italien, in company with the aged antiquarian, who had sold Raphael the
celebrated "magic skin"; she was running through with the old merchant's
treasures. [Melmoth Reconciled. The Magic Skin.]
EUROPE, assumed name of Prudence Servien, which name see.
EVANGELISTA (Madame), born Casa-Real in 1781, of a great Spanish
family collaterally descended from the Duke of Alva and related to the
Claes of Douai; a creole who came to Bordeaux in 1800 with her husband, a
large Spanish financier. In 1813 she was left a widow, with her daughter.
She paid no thought to the value of money, never knowing how to resist a
whim. So one morning in 1821 she was forced to call on the broker and
expert, Elie Magus, to get an estimate on the value of her magnificent
diamonds. She became wearied of life in the country, and therefore favored
the marriage of her daughter with Paul de Manerville, in order that she
might follow the young couple to Paris where she dreamed of appearing in
grand style and of a further exercise of her power. For that matter she
displayed much astuteness in arranging the details of this marriage, at
which time Maitre Solonet, her notary, was much taken with her, desiring to
wed her, and defending her warmly against Maitre Mathias the lawyer for
the Manervilles. Beneath the exterior of an excellent woman she knew, like
Catherine de Medicis, how to hate and wait. [A Marriage Settlement.]
EVANGELISTA (Natalie), daughter of Mme. Evangelista; married to
Paul de Manerville. (See that name.)
EVELINA, young girl of noble blood, wealthy and cultured, of a strict
Jansenist family; sought in marriage by Benassis, in the beginning of the
Restoration. Evelina reciprocated Benassis' love, but her parents opposed
the match. Evelina died soon after gaining her freedom and the doctor did
not survive her long. [The Country Doctor.]

F
FAILLE & BOUCHOT, Parisian perfumers who failed in 1818. They
gave an order for ten thousand phials of peculiar shape to hold a new
cosmetic, which phials Anselme Popinot purchased for four sous each on
six months' time, with the intention of filling them with the "Cephalic Oil"
invented by Cesar Birotteau. [Cesar Birotteau.]
FALCON (Jean), alias Beaupied, or more often Beau-Pied, sergeant in
the Seventy-second demi-brigade in 1799, under the command of Colonel
Hulot. Jean Falcon was the clown of his company. Formerly he had served
in the artillery. [The Chouans.] In 1808, still under the command of Hulot,
he was one in the army of Spain and in the troops led by Murat. In that year
he was witness of the death of Bega, the French surgeon, assassinated by a
Spaniard. [The Muse of the Department.] In 1841 he was body-servant of
his old-time colonel, now become a marshal. For thirty years he had been in
his employ. [Cousin Betty.]
FALCON (Marie-Cornelie), famous singer of the Opera; born at Paris on
January 28, 1812. On July 20, 1832, she made a brilliant debut in the role of
Alice, in "Robert le Diable." She also created with equal success the parts
of Rachel in "La Juive" and Valentine in "The Huguenots." In 1836 the
composer Conti declared to Calyste du Guenic that he was madly enamored
of this singer, "the youngest and prettiest of her time." He even wished to
marry her—so he said—but this remark was probably a thrust at Calyste,
who was smitten with the Marquise de Rochefide, whose lover the musician
was at this time. [Beatrix.] Cornelie Falcon disappears from the scene in
1840, after a famous evening when, before a sympathetic audience, she
mourned on account of the ruin of her voice. She married a financier, M.
Malencon, and is now a grandmother. Mme. Falcon has given, in the
provinces, her name to designate tragic "sopranos." "La Vierge de l'Opera,"
interestingly delineated by M. Emmanuel Gonzales, reveals—according to
him—certain incidents in her career.

FALLEIX (Martin), Auvergnat coppersmith on rue du Faubourg Saint-
Antoine, Paris; born about 1796; he had come from the country with his
kettle under his arm. He was patronized by Bidault, alias Gigonnet, who
advanced him capital though at heavy interest. The usurer also introduced
him to Saillard, the cashier of the Minister of Finance, who with his savings
enabled him to open a foundry. Martin Falleix obtained a brevet for
invention and a gold medal at the Exposition of 1824. Mme. Baudoyer
undertook his education, deciding he would do for a son-in-law. On his side
he worked for the interests of his future father-in-law. [The Government
Clerks.] About 1826 he discussed on the Bourse, with Du Tillet, Werbrust
and Claparon, the third liquidation of Nucingen, which solidly established
the fortune of that celebrated Alsatian banker. [The Firm of Nucingen.]
FALLEIX (Jacques), brother of the preceding; stock-broker, one of the
shrewdest and richest, the successor of Jules Desmarets and stock-broker
for the firm of Nucingen. On rue Saint-George he fitted up a most elegant
little house for his mistress, Mme. du Val-Noble. He failed in 1829, the
victim of one of the Nucingen liquidations. [The Government Clerks. The
Thirteen. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
FANCHETTE, servant of Doctor Rouget at Issoudun, at the close of the
eighteenth century; a stout Berrichonne who, before the advent of La
Cognette, was thought to be the best cook in town. [A Bachelor's
Establishment.]
FANJAT, physician and something of an alienist; uncle of Comtesse
Stephanie de Vandieres. She was supposed to have perished in the disaster
of the Russian campaign. He found her near Strasbourg, in 1816, a lunatic,
and took her to the ancient convent of Bon-Hommes, in the outskirts of
l'Isle Adam, Seine-et-Oise, where he tended her with a tender care. In 1819
he had the sorrow of seeing her expire as a result of a tragic scene when,
recovering her reason all at once, she recognized her former lover Philippe
de Sucy, whom she had not seen since 1812. [Farewell.]
FANNY, aged servant in the employ of Lady Brandon, at La Grenadiere
under the Restoration. She closed the eyes of her mistress, whom she
adored, then conducted the two children from that house to one of a cousin
of hers, an old retired dressmaker of Tours, rue de la Guerche (now rue

Marceau), where she intended to live with them; but the elder of the sons of
Lady Brandon enlisted in the navy and placed his brother in college, under
the guidance of Fanny. [La Grenadiere.]
FANNY, young girl of romantic temperament, fair and blonde, the only
daughter of a banker of Paris. One evening at her father's house she asked
the Bavarian Hermann for a "dreadful German story," and thus innocently
led to the death of Frederic Taillefer who had in his youth committed a
secret murder, now related in his hearing. [The Red Inn.]
FARIO, old Spanish prisoner of war at Issoudun during the Empire. After
peace was declared he remained there making a small business venture in
grains. He was of Grenada and had been a peasant. He was the butt of many
scurvy tricks on the part of the "Knights of Idlesse," and he avenged himself
by stabbing their leader, Maxence Gilet. This attempted assassination was
momentarily charged to Joseph Bridau. Fario finally obtained full
satisfaction for his vindictive spirit by witnessing a duel where Gilet fell
mortally wounded by the hand of Philippe Bridau. Gilet had previously
become disconcerted by the presence of the grain-dealer on the field of
battle. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
FARRABESCHE, ex-convict, now an estate-guard for Mme. Graslin, at
Montegnac, time of Louis Philippe; of an old family of La Correze; born
about 1791. He had had an elder brother killed at Montebello, in 1800 a
captain at twenty-two, who by his surpassing heroism had saved the army
and the Consul Bonaparte. There was, too, a second brother who fell at
Austerlitz in 1805, a sergeant in the First regiment of the Guard.
Farrabesche himself had got it into his head that he would never serve, and
when summoned in 1811 he fled to the woods. There he affiliated more or
less with the Chauffeurs and, accused of several assassinations, was
sentenced to death for contumacy. At the instance of Abbe Bonnet he gave
himself up, at the beginnng of the Restoration, and was sent to the bagne for
ten years, returning in 1827. After 1830, re-established as a citizen, he
married Catherine Curieux, by whom he had a child. Abbe Bonnet for one,
and Mme. Graslin for another, proved themselves counselors and
benefactors of Farrabesche. [The Country Parson.]

FARRABESCHE (Madame), born Catherine Curieux, about 1798;
daughter of the tenants of Mme. Brezac, at Vizay, an important mart of La
Correze; mistress of Farrabesche in the last years of the Empire. She bore
him a son, at the age of seventeen, and was soon separated from her lover
on his imprisonment in the galleys. She returned to Paris and hired out. In
her last place she worked for an old lady whom she tended devotedly, but
who died leaving her nothing. In 1833 she came back to the country; she
was just out of a hospital, cured of a disease caused by fatigue, but still very
feeble. Shortly after she married her former lover. Catherine Curieux was
rather large, well-made, pale, gentle and refined by her visit to Paris, though
she could neither read nor write. She had three married sisters, one at
Aubusson, one at Limoges, and one at Saint-Leonard. [The Country
Parson.]
FARRABESCHE (Benjamin), son of Farrabesche and Catherine Curieux;
born in 1815; brought up by the relatives of his mother until 1827, then
taken back by his father whom he dearly loved and whose energetic and
rough nature he inherited. [The Country Parson.]
FAUCOMBE (Madame de), sister of Mme. de Touches and aunt of
Felicite des Touches—Camille Maupin;—an inmate of the convent of
Chelles, to whom Felicite was confided by her dying mother, in 1793. The
nun took her niece to Faucombe, a considerable estate near Nantes
belonging to the deceased mother, where she (the nun) died of fear in 1794.
[Beatrix.]
FAUCOMBE (De), grand-uncle on the maternal side of Felicite des
Touches. Born about 1734, died in 1814. He lived at Nantes, and in his old
age had married a frivolous young woman, to whom he turned over the
conduct of affairs. A passionate archaeologist he gave little attention to the
education of his grand-niece who was left with him in 1794, after the death
of Mme. de Faucombe, the aged nun of Chelles. Thus it happened that
Felicite grew up by the side of the old man and young woman, without
guidance, and left entirely to her own devices. [Beatrix.]
FAUSTINE, a young woman of Argentan who was executed in 1813 at
Mortagne for having killed her child. [Jealousies of a Country Town.]

FELICIE, chambermaid of Mme. Diard at Bordeaux in 1823. [The
Maranas.]
FELICITE, a stout, ruddy, cross-eyed girl, the servant of Mme. Vauthier
who ran a lodging-house on the corner of Notre-Dame-des-Champs and
Boulevard du Montparnasse, time of Louis Philippe. [The Seamy Side of
History.]
FELIX, office-boy for Attorney-General Granville, in 1830. [Scenes from
a Courtesan's Life.]
FENDANT, former head-clerk of the house of Vidal & Porchon; a
partner with Cavalier. Both were book-sellers, publishers, and book-dealers,
doing business on rue Serpente, Paris, about 1821. At this time they had
dealings with Lucien Chardon de Rubempre. The house for social reasons
was known as Fendant & Cavalier. Half-rascals, they passed for clever
fellows. While Cavalier traveled, Fendant, the more wily of the two,
managed the business. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.]
FERDINAND, real name of Ferdinand du Tillet.
FERDINAND, fighting name of one of the principal figures in the Breton
uprising of 1799. One of the companions of MM. du Guenic, de la
Billardiere, de Fontaine and de Montauran. [The Chouans. Beatrix.]
FEREDIA (Count Bagos de), Spanish prisoner of war at the Vendome
under the Empire; lover of Mme. de Merret. Surprised one evening by the
unexpected return of her husband, he took refuge in a closet which was
ordered walled up by M. de Merret. There he died heroically without even
uttering a cry. [La Grande Breteche.]
FERET (Athanase), law-clerk of Maitre Bordin, procureur to the Chatelet
in 1787. [A Start in Life.]
FERRAGUS XXIII. (See Bourignard.)
FERRARO (Count), Italian colonel whom Castanier had known during
the Empire, and whose death in the Zembin swamps Castanier alone had
witnessed. The latter therefore intended to assume Ferraro's personality in
Italy after forging certain letters of credit. [Melmoth Reconciled.]

FERRAUD (Comte), son of a returned councillor of the Parisian
Parliament who had emigrated during the Terror, and who was ruined by
these events. Born in 1781. During the Consulate he returned to France, at
which time he declined certain offers made by Bonaparte. He remained ever
true to the tenets of Louis XVIII. Of pleasing presence he won his way, and
the Faubourg Saint-Germain regarded him as an ornament. About 1809 he
married the widow of Colonel Chabert, who had an income of forty
thousand francs. By her he had two children, a son and a daughter. He
resided on rue de Varenne, having a pretty villa in the Montmorency Valley.
During the Restoration he was made director-general in a ministry, and
councillor of state. [Colonel Chabert.]
FERRAUD (Comtesse), born Rose Chapotel; wife of Comte Ferraud.
During the Republic, or at the commencement of the Empire, she married
her first husband, an officer named Hyacinthe and known as Chabert, who
was left for dead on the battlefield of Eylau, in 1807. About 1818 he tried to
reassert his marital rights. Colonel Chabert claimed to have taken Rose
Chapotel out of a questionable place at Palais-Royal. During the
Restoration this woman was a countess and one of the queens of Parisian
society. When brought face to face with her first husband she feigned at first
not to recognize him, then she displayed such a dislike for him that he
abandoned his idea of legal restitution. [Colonel Chabert.] The Comtesse
Ferraud was the last mistress of Louis XVIII., and remained in favor at the
court of Charles X. She and Mesdames de Listomere, d'Espard, de Camps
and de Nucingen were invited to the select receptions of the Minister of
Finance, in 1824. [The Government Clerks.]
FERRAUD (Jules), son of Comte Ferraud and Rose Chapotel, the
Comtesse Ferraud. While still a child, in 1817 or 1818, he was one day at
his mother's house when Colonel Chabert called. She wept and he asked
hotly if the officer was responsible for the grief of the countess. The latter
with her two children then played a maternal comedy which was successful
with the ingenuous soldier. [Colonel Chabert.]
FESSARD, grocer at Saumur during the Restoration. Astonished one day
by Nanon's, the servant's, purchase of a wax-candle, he asked if "the three
magi were visiting them." [Eugenie Grandet.]

FICHET (Mademoiselle), the richest heiress of Issoudun during the
Restoration. Godet, junior, one of the "Knights of Idlesse" paid court to her
mother in the hope of obtaining, as a reward for his devotion, the hand of
the young girl. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
FINOT (Andoche), managing-editor of journals and reviews, times of the
Restoration and Louis Philippe. Son of a hatter of rue du Coq (now rue
Marengo). Finot was abandoned by his father, a hard trader, and made a
poor beginning. He wrote a bombastic announcement for Popinot's
"Cephalic Oil." His first work was attending to announcements and
personals in the papers. He was invited to the Birotteau ball. Finot was
acquainted with Felix Gaudissart, who introduced him to little Anselme, as
a great promoter. He was previously on the editorial staff of the "Courrier
des Spectacles," and he had a piece performed at the Gaite. [Cesar
Birotteau.] In 1820 he ran a little theatrical paper whose office was located
on rue du Sentier. He was nephew of Giroudeau, a captain of dragoons; was
witness of the marriage of J.-J. Rouget. [A Bachelor's Establishment.] in
1821 Finot's paper was on rue Saint-Fiacre. Etienne Lousteau, Hector
Merlin, Felicien Vernou, Nathan, F. du Bruel and Blondet all contributed to
it. Then it was that Lucien de Rubempre made his reputation by a
remarkable report of "L'Alcade dans l'embarras," a three act drama
performed at the Panorama-Dramatique. Finot then lived on rue Feydeau.
[A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.] In 1824 he was at the Opera ball in a
group of dandies and litterateurs, which surrounded Lucien de Rubempre,
who was flirting with Esther Gobseck. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.] In
this year Finot was guest at an entertainment at the home of Rabourdin, the
chief of bureau, when he allowed himself to be won over to that official's
cause by his friend Chardin des Lupeaulx, who had asked him to exert the
voice of the press against Baudoyer, the rival of Rabourdin. [The
Government Clerks.] In 1825 he was present at a breakfast given at the
Rocher de Cancale, by Frederic Marest in celebration of his entrance to the
law office of Desroches; he was also at the orgy which followed at the
home of Florine. [A Start in Life.] In 1831 Gaudissart said that his friend
Finot had an income of thirty thousand francs, that he would be councillor
of state, and was booked for a peer of France. He aspired to end up as his
"shareholder." [Gaudissart the Great.] In 1836 Finot was dining with
Blondet, his fellow-editor, and with Couture, a man about town, in a private

room of a well-known restaurant, when he heard the story of the financial
trickeries of Nucingen, wittily related by Bixiou. [The Firm of Nucingen.]
Finot concealed "a brutal nature under a mild exterior," and his "impertinent
stupidity was flecked with wit as the bread of a laborer is flecked with
garlic." [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
FIRMIANI, a respectable quadragenarian who in 1813 married the lady
who afterwards became Mme. Octave de Camps. He was unable, so it was
said, to offer her more than his name and his fortune. He was formerly
receiver-general in the department of Montenotte. He died in Greece in
1823. [Madame Firmiani.]
FIRMIANI (Madame). (See Camps, Mme. de.)
FISCHER, the name of three brothers, laborers in a village situated on
the extreme frontiers of Lorraine, at the foot of the Vosges. They set out to
join the army of the Rhine by reason of Republican conscriptions. The first,
Pierre, father of Lisbeth—or "Cousin Betty" —was killed in 1815 in the
Francstireurs. The second, Andre, father of Adeline who became the wife of
Baron Hulot, died at Treves in 1820. The third, Johann, having committed
some acts of peculation, at the instigation of his nephew Hulot, while a
commissary contractor in Algiers, province of Oran, committed suicide in
1841. He was over seventy when he killed himself. [Cousin Betty.]
FISCHER (Adeline). (See Hulot, d'Ervy, Baronne Hector.)
FISCHER (Lisbeth), known as "Cousin Betty"; born in 1796; brought up
a peasant. In her childhood she had to give way to her first cousin, the
pretty Adeline, who was pampered by the whole family. In 1809 she was
called to Paris by Adeline's husband and placed as an apprentice with the
well-known Pons Brothers, embroiderers to the Imperial Court. She became
a skilled workwoman and was about to set up for herself when the Empire
was overthrown. Lisbeth was a Republican, of restive temperament,
capricious, independent and unaccountably savage. She habitually declined
to wed. She refused in succession a clerk of the minister of war, a major, an
army-contractor, a retired captain and a wealthy lace-maker. Baron Hulot
nick-named her the "Nanny-Goat." A resident of rue du Doyenne (which
ended at the Louvre and was obliterated about 1855), where she worked for
Rivet, a successor of Pons, she made the acquaintance of her neighbor,

Wenceslas Steinbock, a Livonian exile, whom she saved from poverty and
suicide, but whom she watched with a jealous strictness. Hortense Hulot
sought out and succeeded in seeing the Pole; a wedding followed between
the young people which caused Cousin Betty a deep resentment, cunningly
concealed, but terrific in its effects. Through her Wenceslas was introduced
to the irresistible Mme. Marneffe, and the happiness of a young household
was quickly demolished. The same thing happened to Baron Hulot whose
misconduct Lisbeth secretly abetted. Lisbeth died in 1844 of a pulmonary
phthisis, principally caused by chagrin at seeing the Hulot family reunited.
The relatives of the old maid never found out her evil actions. They
surrounded her bedside, caring for her and lamenting the loss of "the angel
of the family." Mlle. Fischer died on rue Louis-le-Grand, Paris, after having
dwelt in turn on rues du Doyenne, Vaneau, Plumet (now Oudinot) and du
Montparnasse, where she managed the household of Marshal Hulot,
through whom she dreamed of wearing the countess' coronet, and for whom
she donned mourning. [Cousin Betty.]
FITZ-WILLIAM (Miss Margaret), daughter of a rich and noble Irishman
who was the maternal uncle of Calyste du Guenic; hence the first cousin of
that young man. Mme. de Guenic, the mother, was desirous of mating her
son with Miss Margaret. [Beatrix.]
FLAMET. (See la Billardiere, Flamet de.)
FLEURANT (Mother), ran a cafe at Croisic which Jacques Cambremer
visited. [A Seaside Tragedy.]
FLEURIOT, grenadier of the Imperial Guard, of colossal size, to whom
Philippe de Sucy entrusted Stephanie de Vandieres, during the passage of
the Beresina in 1812. Unfortunately separated from Stephanie, the grenadier
did not find her again until 1816. She had taken refuge in an inn of
Strasbourg after escaping from an insane asylum. Both were then sheltered
by Dr. Fanjat and taken to Auvergne, where Fleuriot soon died. [Farewell.]
FLEURY, retired infantry captain, comptroller of the Cirque-Olympique,
and employed during the Restoration in Rabourdin's bureau, of the minister
of finance. He was attached to his chief, who had saved him from
destitution. A subscriber, but a poor payer, to "Victories and Conquests." A
zealous Bonapartist and Liberal. His three great men were Napoleon,

Bolivar and Beranger, all of whose ballads he knew by heart, and sang in a
sweet, sonorous voice. He was swamped with debt. His skill at fencing and
small-arms kept him from Bixiou's jests. He was likewise much feared by
Dutocq who flattered him basely. Fleury was discharged after the
nomination of Baudoyer as chief of division in December, 1824. He did not
take it to heart, saying that he had at his disposal a managing editorship in a
journal. [The Government Clerks.] In 1840, still working for the above
theatre, Fleury became manager of "L'Echo de la Bievre," the paper owned
by Thuillier. [The Middle Classes.]
FLICOTEAUX, rival of Rousseau the Aquatic. Historic, legendary and
strictly honest restaurant-keeper in the Latin quarter between rue de la
Harpe and rue des Gres—Cujas—enjoying the custom, in 1821-22, of
Daniel d'Arthez, Etienne Lousteau and Lucien Chardon de Rubempre. [A
Distinguished Provincial at Paris.]
FLORENT, partner of Chanor; they were manufacturers and dealers in
bronze, rue des Tournelles, Paris, time of Louis Philippe. [Cousin Betty.
Cousin Pons.]
FLORENTNE. (See Cabirolle, Agathe-Florentine.)
FLORIMOND (Madame), dealer in linens, rue Vielle-du-Temple, Paris,
1844-45. Maintained by an "old fellow" who made her his heir, thanks to
Fraisier, the man of business, whom she perhaps would have married
through gratitude, had it not been for his physical condition. [Cousin Pons.]
FLORINE. (See Nathan, Mme. Raoul.)
FLORVILLE (La), actress at the Panorama-Dramatique in 1821. Among
her contemporaries were Coralie, Florine, and Bouffe, or Vignol. On the
first night performance of "The Alcade," she played in a curtain-raiser,
"Bertram." For a few days she was the mistress of a Russian prince who
took her to Saint-Mande, paying her manager a good sum for her absence
from the theatre. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.]
FOEDORA (Comtesse), born about 1805. Of Russian lower class origin
and wonderfully beautiful. Espoused perhaps morganatically by a great lord
of the land. Left a widow she reigned over Paris in 1827. Supposed to have
an income of eighty thousand francs. She received in her drawing-rooms all

the notables of the period, and there "appeared all the works of fiction that
were not published anywhere else." Raphael de Valentin was presented to
the countess by Rastignac and fell desperately in love with her. But he left
her house one day never to return, being definitely persuaded that she was
"a woman without a heart." Her memory was cruel, and her address enough
to drive a diplomat to despair. Although the Russian ambassador did not
receive her, she had entry into the set of Mme. de Serizy; visited with Mme.
de Nucingen and Mme. de Restaud; received the Duchesse de Carigliano,
the haughtiest of the Bonapartist clique. She had listened to many young
dandies, and to the son of a peer of France, who had offered her their names
in exchange for her fortune. [The Magic Skin.]
FONTAINE (Madame), fortune teller, Paris, rue Vielle-du-Temple, time
of Louis Philippe. At one time a cook. Born in 1767. Earned a considerable
amount of money, but previously had lost heavily in a lottery. After the
suppression of this game of chance she saved up for the benefit of a
nephew. In her divinations Mme. Fontaine made use of a giant toad named
Astaroth, and of a black hen with bristling feathers, called Cleopatra or
Bilouche. These two animals caught Gazonal's eye in 1845, when in
company with De Lora and Bixiou he visited the fortune-teller's. The
Southerner, however, asked only a five-franc divination, while in the same
year Mme. Cibot, who came to consult her on an important matter, had to
pay a hundred francs. According to Bixiou, "a third of the lorettes, a fourth
of the statesmen and a half of the artists" consulted Mme. Fontaine. She
was the Egeria of a minister, and also looked for "a tidy fortune," which
Bilouche had promised her. [The Unconscious Humorists. Cousin Pons.]
FONTAINE (Comte de), one of the leaders of the Vendee, in 1799, and
then known as Grand-Jacques. [The Chouans.] One of the confidential
advisers of Louis XVIII. Field marshal, councillor of state, comptroller of
the extraordinary domains of the realm, deputy and peer of France under
Charles X.; decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honor and the Order
of Saint Louis. Head of one of the oldest houses of Poitou. Had married a
Mlle. de Kergarouet, who had no fortune, but who came of a very old
Brittany family related to the Rohans. Was the father of three sons and three
daughters. The oldest son became president of a court, married the daughter
of a multi-millionaire salt merchant. The second son, a lieutenant-general,
married Mlle. Monegod, a rich banker's daughter whom the aunt of Duc

d'Herouville had refused to consider for her nephew. [Modeste Mignon.]
The third son, director of a Paris municipality, then director-general in the
Department of Finance, married the only daughter of M. Grossetete,
receiver-general at Bourges. Of the three daughters, the first married M.
Planat at Baudry, receiver-general; the second married Baron de Villaine, a
magistrate of bourgeois origin ennobled by the king; the third, Emilie,
married her old uncle, the Comte de Kergarouet, and after his death,
Marquis Charles de Vandenesse. [The Ball at Sceaux.] The Comte de
Fontaine and his family were present at the Birotteau ball, and after the
perfumer's bankruptcy procured a situation for him. [Cesar Birotteau.] He
died in 1824. [The Government Clerks.]
FONTAINE (Baronne de), born Anna Grossetete, only daughter of the
receiver-general of Bourges. Attended the school of Mlles. Chamarolles
with Dinah Piedefer, who became Mme. de la Baudraye. Thanks to her
fortune she married the third son of the Comte de Fontaine. She removed to
Paris after her marriage and kept up correspondence with her old school-
mate who now lived at Sancerre. She kept her informed as to the prevailing
styles. Later at the first performance of one of Nathan's dramas, about the
middle of the reign of Louis Philippe, Anna de Fontaine affected not to
recognize this same Mme. de la Baudraye, then the known mistress of
Etienne Lousteau. [The Muse of the Department.]
FONTANIEU (Madame), friend and neighbor of Mme. Vernier at
Vouvray in 1831. The jolliest gossip and greatest joker in town. She was
present at the interview between the insane Margaritis and Felix Gaudissart,
when the drummer was so much at sea. [Gaudissart the Great.]
FONTANON (Abbe), born about 1770. Canon of Bayeux cathedral in the
beginning of the nineteenth century when he "guided the consciences" of
Mme. and Mlle. Bontems. In November, 1808, he got himself enrolled with
the Parisian clergy, hoping thus to obtain a curacy and eventually a
bishopric. He became again the confessor of Mlle. Bontems, now the wife
of M. de Granville, and contributed to the trouble of that household by the
narrowness of his provincial Catholicism and his inflexible bigotry. He
finally disclosed to the magistrate's wife the relations of Granville with
Caroline Crochard. He also brought sorrow to the last moments of Mme.
Crochard, the mother. [A Second Home.] In December, 1824, at Saint-Roch

he pronounced the funeral oration of Baron Flamet de la Billardiere. [The
Government Clerks.] Previous to 1824 Abbe Fontanon was vicar at the
church of Saint Paul, rue Saint-Antoine. [Honorine.] Confessor of Mme. de
Lanty in 1839, and always eager to pry into family secrets, he undertook an
affair with Dorlange-Sallenauve in the interest of Mariannina de Lanty.
[The Member for Arcis.]
FORTIN (Madame), mother of Mme. Marneffe. Mistress of General de
Montcornet, who had lavished money on her during his visits to Paris which
she had entirely squandered, under the Empire, in the wildest dissipations.
For twenty years she queened it, but died in poverty though still believing
herself rich. Her daughter inherited from her the tastes of a courtesan.
[Cousin Betty.]
FORTIN (Valerie), daughter of preceding and of General de Montcornet.
(See Crevel, Madame.)
FOSSEUSE (La), orphan daughter of a grave-digger, whence the nick-
name. Born in 1807. Frail, nervous, independent, retiring at first, she tried
hiring out, but then fell into vagrant habits. Reared in a village on the
outskirts of Grenoble, where Dr. Benassis came to live during the
Restoration, she became an object of special attention on the part of the
physician who became keenly interested in the gentle, loyal, peculiar and
impressionable creature. La Fosseuse though homely was not without
charm. She may have loved her benefactor. [The Country Doctor.]
FOUCHE (Joseph), Duc d'Otrante, born near Nantes in 1753; died in
exile at Trieste in 1820. Oratorian, member of the National Convention,
councillor of state, minister of police under the Consulate and Empire, also
chief of the department of the Interior and of the government of the Illyrian
provinces, and president of the provisional government in 1815. In
September, 1799, Colonel Hulot said: "Bernadotte, Carnot, even citizen
Talleyrand—all have left us. In a word we have with us but a single good
patriot, friend Fouche, who holds everything by means of the police.
There's a man for you!" Fouche took especial care of Corentin who was
perhaps his natural son. He sent him to Brittany during an uprising in the
year VIII, to accompany and direct Mlle. de Verneuil, who was
commissioned to betray and capture the Marquis de Montauran, the Chouan

leader. [The Chouans.] In 1806 he caused Senator Malin de Gondreville to
be kidnapped by masked men in order that the Chateau de Gondreville
might be searched for important papers which, however, proved as
compromising for Fouche as for the senator. This kidnapping, which was
charged against Michu, the Simeuses and the Hauteserres, led to the
execution of the first and the ruin of the others. In 1833, Marsay, president
of the ministerial chamber, while explaining the mysteries of the affair to
the Princesse de Cadignan, paid this tribute to Fouche: "A genius dark, deep
and extraordinary, little understood but certainly the peer of Philip II.,
Tiberius or Borgia." [The Gondreville Mystery.] In 1809 Fouche and
Peyrade saved France in connection with the Walcheren episode; but on the
return of the Emperor from the Wagram campaign Fouche was rewarded by
dismissal. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
FOUQUEREAU, concierge to M. Jules Desmarets, stock-broker, rue
Menars in 1820. Specially employed to look after Mme. Desmarets. [The
Thirteen.]
FOURCHON, retired farmer of the Ronquerolles estate, near the forest of
Aigues, Burgundy. Had also been a schoolmaster and a mail-carrier. An old
man and a confirmed toper since his wife's death. At Blangy in 1823 he
performed the three-fold duties of public clerk for three districts, assistant
to a justice of the peace, and clarionet player. At the same time he followed
the trade of rope-maker with his apprentice Mouche, the natural son of one
of his natural daughters. But his chief income was derived from catching
otters. Fourchon was the father-in-law of Tonsard, who ran the Grand-I-Vert
tavern. [The Peasantry.]
FOY (Maximilien-Sebastien), celebrated general and orator born in 1775
at Ham; died at Paris in 1825. [Cesar Birotteau.] In 1821, General Foy,
while in the shop of Dauriat talking with an editor of the "Constitutionnel"
and the manager of "La Minerve," noticed the beauty of Lucien de
Rubempre, who had come in with Lousteau to dispose of some sonnets. [A
Distinguished Provincial at Paris.]
FRAISIER, born about 1814, probably at Mantes. Son of a cobbler; an
advocate and man of business at No. 9 rue de la Perle, Paris, in 1844-45.
Began as copy-clerk at Couture's office. After serving Desroches as head-

clerk for six years he bought the practice of Levroux, an advocate of
Mantes, where he had occasion to meet Leboeuf, Vinet, Vatinelle and
Bouyonnet. But he soon had to sell out and leave town on account of
violating professional ethics. Whereupon he opened up a consultation office
in Paris. A friend of Dr. Poulain who attended the last days of Sylvain Pons,
he gave crafty counsel to Mme. Cibot, who coveted the chattels of the old
bachelor. He also assured the Camusot de Marvilles that they should be the
legatees of the old musician despite the faithful Schmucke. In 1845 he
succeeded Vitel as justice of the peace; the coveted place being secured for
him by Camusot de Marville, as a fee for his services. In Normandy he
again acted successfully for this family. Fraisier was a dried-up little man
with a blotched face and an unpleasant odor. At Mantes a certain Mme.
Vatinelle nevertheless "made eyes at him"; and he lived at Marais with a
servant-mistress, Dame Sauvage. But he missed more than one marriage,
not being able to win either his client, Mme. Florimond, or the daughter of
Tabareau. To tell the truth De Marville advised him to leave the latter alone.
[Cousin Pons.]
FRANCHESSINI (Colonel), born about 1789, served in the Imperial
Guard, and was one of the most dashing colonels of the Restoration, but
was forced to resign on account of a slur on his character. In 1808, to
provide for foolish expenditures into which a woman led him, he forged
certain notes. Jacques Collin—Vautrin—took the crime to himself and was
sent to the galleys for several years. In 1819 Franchessini killed young
Taillefer in a duel, at the instigation of Vautrin. The following year he was
with Lady Brandon—probably his mistress—at the grand ball given by the
Vicomtesse de Beauseant, just before her flight. In 1839, Franchessini was a
leading member of the Jockey club, and held the rank of colonel in the
National Guard. Married a rich Irishwoman who was devout and charitable
and lived in one of the finest mansions of the Breda quarter. Elected deputy,
and being an intimate friend of Rastignac, he evinced open hostility for
Sallenauve and voted against his being seated in order to gratify Maxime de
Trailles. [Father Goriot. The Member for Arcis.]
FRANCOIS (Abbe), cure of the parish at Alencon in 1816. "A Cheverus
on a small scale" he had taken the constitutional oath during the Revolution
and for this reason was despised by the "ultras" of the town although he was
a model of charity and virtue. Abbe Francois frequented the homes of M.

and Mme. du Bousquier and M. and Mme. Granson; but M. du Bousquier
and Athanase Granson were the only ones to give him cordial welcome. In
his last days he became reconciled with the curate of Saint-Leonard,
Alencon's aristocratic church, and died universally lamented. [Jealousies of
a Country Town.]
FRANCOIS, head valet to Marshal de Montcornet at Aigues in 1823.
Attached specially to Emile Blondet when the journalist visited them.
Salary twelve hundred francs. In his master's confidence. [The Peasantry.]
FRANCOIS, in 1822, stage-driver between Paris and Beaumont-sur-
Oise, in the service of the Touchard Company. [A Start in Life.]
FRANCOISE, servant of Mme. Crochard, rue Saint-Louis in Marais in
1822. Toothless woman of thirty years' service. Was present at her mistress'
death-bed. This was the fourth she had buried. [A Second Home.]
FRAPPART, in 1839, at Arcis-sur-Aube, proprietor of a dance-hall where
was held the primary, presided over by Colonel Giguet, which nominated
Sallenauve. [The Member for Arcis.]
FRAPPIER, finest carpenter in Provins in 1827-28. It was to him that
Jacques Brigaut came as apprentice when he went to the town to be near his
childhood's friend, Pierrette Lorrain. Frappier took care of her when she left
Rogron's house. Frappier was married. [Pierrette.]
FREDERIC, one of the editors of Finot's paper in 1821, who reported the
Theatre-Francais and the Odeon. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.]
FRELU (La Grande), girl of Croisic who had a child by Simon Gaudry.
Nurse to Pierrette Cambremer whose mother died when she was very
young. [A Seaside Tragedy.]
FRESCONI, an Italian who, during the Restoration and until 1828, ran a
nursery on Boulevard du Montparnasse. The business was not a success.
Barbet the book-seller was interested in it; he turned it into a lodging-house,
where dwelt Baron Bourlac. [The Seamy Side of History.]
FRESQUIN, former supervisor of roads and bridges. Married and father
of a family. Employed, time of Louis Philippe, by Gregoire Gerard in the

hydraulic operations for Mme. Graslin at Montegnac. In 1843 Fresquin was
appointed district tax collector. [The Country Parson.]
FRISCH (Samuel), Jewish jeweler on rue Saint-Avoie in 1829. Furnisher
and creditor of Esther Gobseck. A general pawnbroker. [Scenes from a
Courtesan's Life.]
FRITAUD (Abbe), priest of Sancerre in 1836. [The Muse of the
Department.]
FRITOT, dealer in shawls on the stock exchange, Paris, time of Louis
Philippe. Rival of Gaudissart. He sold an absurd shawl for six thousand
francs to Mistress Noswell, an eccentric Englishwoman. Fritot was once
invited to dine with the King. [Gaudissart II.]
FRITOT (Madame), wife of preceding. [Gaudissart II.]
FROIDFROND (Marquis de), born about 1777. Gentleman of Maine-et-
Loire. While very young he became insolvent and sold his chateau near
Saumur, which was bought at a low price for Felix Grandet by Cruchot the
notary, in 1811. About 1827 the marquis was a widower with children, and
was spoken of as a possible peer of France. At this time Mme. des Grassins
tried to persuade Eugenie Grandet, now an orphan, that she would do well
to wed the marquis, and that this marriage was a pet scheme of her father.
And again in 1832 when Eugenie was left a widow by Cruchot de Bonfons,
the family of the marquis tried to arrange a marriage with him. [Eugenie
Grandet.]
FROMAGET, apothecary at Arcis-sur-Aube, time of Louis Philippe. As
his patronage did not extend to the Gondrevilles, he was disposed to work
against Keller; that is why he probably voted for Giguet in 1839. [The
Member for Arcis.]
FROMENTEAU, police-agent. With Contenson he had belonged to the
political police of Louis XVIII. In 1845 he aided in unearthing prisoners for
debt. Being encountered at the home of Theodore Gaillard by Gazonal, he
revealed some curious details concerning different kinds of police to the
bewildered countryman. [The Unconscious Humorists.]

FUNCAL (Comte de), an assumed name of Bourignard, when he was
met at the Spanish Embassy, Paris, about 1820, by Henri de Marsay and
Auguste de Maulincour. There was a real Comte de Funcal, a Portuguese-
Brazilian, who had been a sailor, and whom Bourignard duplicated exactly.
He may have been "suppressed" violently by the usurper of his name. [The
Thirteen.]

G
GABILLEAU, deserter from the Seventeenth infantry; chauffeur
executed at Tulle, during the Empire, on the very day when he had planned
an escape. Was one of the accomplices of Farrabesche who profited by a
hole made in his dungeon by the condemned man to make his own escape.
[The Country Parson.]
GABRIEL, born about 1790; messenger at the Department of Finance,
and check-receiver at the Theatre Royal, during the Restoration. A
Savoyard, and nephew of Antoine, the oldest messenger in the department.
Husband of a skilled lace-maker and shawl-mender. He lived with his uncle
Antoine and another relative employed in the department, Laurent. [The
Government Clerks.]
GABUSSON, cashier in the employ of Dauriat the editor in 1821. [A
Distinguished Provincial at Paris.]
GAILLARD (Theodore), journalist, proprietor or manager of
newspapers. In 1822 he and Hector Merlin established a Royalist paper in
which Rubempre, palinodist, aired opinions favorable to the existing
government, and slashed a very good book of his friend Daniel d'Arthez. [A
Distinguished Provincial at Paris.] Under Louis Philippe he was one of the
owners of a very important political sheet. [Beatrix. Scenes from a
Courtesan's Life.] In 1845 he ran a strong paper. At first a man of wit, "he
ended by becoming stupid on account of staying in the same environment."
He interlarded his speech with epigrams from popular pieces, pronouncing
them with the emphasis given by famous actors. Gaillard was good with his
Odry and still better with Lemaitre. He lived at rue Menars. There he was
met by Lora, Bixiou and Gazonal. [The Unconscious Humorists.]
GAILLARD (Madame Theodore), born at Alencon about 1800. Given
name Suzanne. "A Norman beauty, fresh, blooming, and sturdy." One of the
employes of Mme. Lardot, the laundress, in 1816, the year when she left her
native town after having obtained some money of M. du Bousquier by
persuading him that she was with child by him. The Chevalier de Valois

liked Suzanne immensely, but did not allow himself to be caught in this
trap. Suzanne went to Paris and speedily became a fashionable courtesan.
Shortly thereafter she reappeared at Alencon for a visit to attend Athanase
Granson's funeral. She mourned with the desolate mother, saying to her on
leaving: "I loved him!" At the same time she ridiculed the marriage of Mlle.
Cormon with M. du Bousquier, thus avenging the deceased and Chevalier
de Valois. [Jealousies of a Country Town.] Under the name of Mme. du Val-
Noble she became noted in the artistic and fashionable set. In 1821-22, she
became the mistress of Hector Merlin. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.
A Bachelor's Establishment.] After having been maintained by Jacques
Falleix, the broker who failed, she was for a short time in 1830 mistress of
Peyrade who was concealed under the name of Samuel Johnson, "the
nabob." She was acquainted with Esther Gobseck, who lived on rue Saint-
Georges in a mansion that had been fitted up for her—Suzanne —by
Falleix, and obtained by Nucingen for Esther. [Scenes in a Courtesan's
Life.] In 1838 she married Theodore Gaillard her lover since 1830. In 1845
she received Lora, Bixiou, and Gazonal. [Beatrix. The Unconscious
Humorists.]
GAILLARD, one of three guards who succeeded Courtecuisse, and under
the orders of Michaud, in the care of the estate of General de Montcornet at
Aigues. [The Peasantry.]
GALARD, market-gardener of Auteuil; father of Mme. Lemprun,
maternal grandfather of Mme. Jerome Thuillier. He died, very aged, of an
accident in 1817. [The Peasantry.]
GALARD (Mademoiselle), old maid, landed proprietor at Besancon, rue
du Perron. She let the first floor of her house to Albert Savarus, in 1834.
[Albert Savarus.]
GALARDON (Madame), nee Tiphaine, elder sister of M. Tiphaine,
president of the court at Provins. Married at first to a Guenee, she kept one
of the largest retail dry-goods shops in Paris, on rue Saint-Denis. Towards
the end of the year 1815 she sold out to Rogron and went back to Provins.
She had three daughters whom she provided with husbands in the little
town: the eldest married M. Lesourd, king's attorney; the second, M.
Martener a physician; the third, M. Auffray a notary. Finally she herself

married for her second husband, M. Galardon, receiver of taxes. She
invariably added to her signature, "nee Tiphaine." She defended Pierrette
Lorrain, and was at outs with the Liberals of Provins, who were induced to
persecute Rogron's ward. [Pierrette.]
GALATHIONNE (Prince and Princess), Russians. The prince was one of
the lovers of Diane de Maufrigneuse. [The Secrets of a Princess.] In
September, 1815, he protected La Minoret a celebrated opera dancer, to
whose daughter he gave a dowry. [The Middle Classes.] In 1819 Marsay,
appearing in the box of the Princess Galathionne, at the Italiens, had Mme.
de Nucingen at his mercy. [Father Goriot.] In 1821 Lousteau said that the
story of the Prince Galathionne's diamonds, the Maubreuil affair and the
Pombreton will, were fruitful newspaper topics. [A Distinguished
Provincial at Paris.] In 1834-35, the princess gave balls which the Comtesse
Felix de Vandenesse attended. [A Daughter of Eve.] About 1840 the prince
tried to get Mme. Schontz away from the Marquis de Rochefide; but she
said: "Prince, you are no handsomer, but you are older than Rochefide. You
would beat me, while he is like a father to me." [Beatrix.]
GALOPE-CHOPINE. (See Cibot.)
GAMARD (Sophie), old maid; owner of a house at Tours on rue de la
Psalette, which backed the Saint Gatien church. She let part of it to priests.
Here lodged the Abbes Troubert, Chapeloud and Francois Birotteau. The
house had been purchased during the Terror by the father of Mlle. Gamard,
a dealer in wood, a kind of parvenu peasant. After receiving Abbe Birotteau
most cordially she took a disliking to him which was secretly fostered by
Troubert, and she finally dispossessed him, seizing the furniture which he
valued so greatly. Mlle. Gamard died in 1826 of a chill. Troubert circulated
the report that Birotteau had caused her death by the sorrow which he had
caused the old maid. [The Vicar of Tours.]
GAMBARA (Paolo), musician, born at Cremona in 1791; son of an
instrument-maker, a moderately good performer and a great composer who
was driven from his home by the French and ruined by the war. These
events consigned Paolo Gambara to a wandering existence from the age of
ten. He found little quietude and obtained no congenial situation till about
1813 in Venice. At this time he put on an opera, "Mahomet," at the Fenice

theatre, which failed miserably. Nevertheless he obtained the hand of
Marianina, whom he loved, and with her wandered through Germany to
settle finally in Paris in 1831, in a wretched apartment on rue Froidmanteau.
The musician, an accomplished theorist, could not interpret intelligently any
of his remarkable ideas and he would play to his wondering auditors
jumbled compositions which he thought to be sublime inspirations.
However he enthusiastically analyzed "Robert le Diable," having heard
Meyerbeer's masterpiece while a guest of Andrea Marcosini. In 1837 he
was reduced to mending musical instruments, and occasionally he went
with his wife to sing duets in the open air on the Champs-Elysees, to pick
up a few sous. Emilio and Massimilla de Varese were deeply sympathetic of
the Gambaras, whom they met in the neighborhood of Faubourg Saint-
Honore. Paolo Gambara had no commonsense except when drunk. He had
invented an outlandish instrument which he called the "panharmonicon."
[Gambara.]
GAMBARA (Marianina), Venetian, wife of Paolo Gambara. With him
she led a life of almost continual poverty, and for a long time maintained
them at Paris by her needle. Her clients on rue Froidmanteau were mostly
profligate women, who however were kind and generous towards her. From
1831 to 1836 she left her husband, going with a lover, Andrea Marcosini,
who abandoned her at the end of five years to marry a dancer; and in
January, 1837, she returned to her husband's home emaciated, withered and
faded, "a sort of nervous skeleton," to resume a life of still greater squalor.
[Gambara.]
GANDOLPHINI (Prince), Neapolitan, former partisan of King Murat. A
victim of the last Revolution he was, in 1823, banished and poverty
stricken. At this time he was sixty-five years old, though he looked eighty.
He lived modestly enough with his young wife at Gersau —Lucerne—
under the English name of Lovelace. He also passed for a certain
Lamporani, who was at that time a well-known publisher of Milan. When in
the presence of Rodolphe the prince resumed his true self he said: "I know
how to make up. I was an actor during the Empire with Bourrienne, Mme.
Murat, Mme. d'Abrantes, and any number of others."—Character in a novel
"L'Ambitieux par Amour," published by Albert Savarus, in the "Revue de
l'Est," in 1834. Under this fictitious name the author related his own history:

Rodolphe was himself and the Prince and Princesse Gandolphini were the
Duc and Duchesse d'Argaiolo. [Albert Savarus.]
GANDOLPHINI (Princesse), nee Francesca Colonna, a Roman of
illustrious origin, fourth child of the Prince and Princess Colonna. While
very young she married Prince Gandolphini, one of the richest landed
proprietors of Sicily. Under the name of Miss Lovelace, she met Rodolphe
in Switzerland and he fell in love with her.—Heroine of a novel entitled
"L'Ambitieux par Amour," by Albert Savarus. [Albert Savarus.]
GANIVET, bourgeois of Issoudun, In 1822, in a conversation where
Maxence Gilet was discussed, Commandant Potel threatened to make
Ganivet "swallow his tongue without sauce" if he continued to slander the
lover of Flore Brazier. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
GANIVET (Mademoiselle), a woman of Issoudun "as ugly as the seven
capital sins." Nevertheless she succeeded in winning a certain Borniche-
Hereau who in 1778 left her an income of a thousand crowns. [A Bachelor's
Establishment.]
GANNERAC, in transfer business at Angouleme. In 1821-22 he was
involved in the affair of the notes endorsed by Rubempre in imitation of the
signature of his brother-in-law Sechard. [Lost Illusions.]
GARANGEOT, in 1845 conducted the orchestra in a theatre run by Felix
Gaudissart, succeeding Sylvain Pons to the baton. Cousin of Heloise
Brisetout, who obtained the place for him. [Cousin Pons.]
GARCELAND, mayor of Provins during the Restoration. Son-in-law of
Guepin. Indirectly protected Pierrette Lorrain from the Liberals of the
village led by Maitre Vinet, who acted for Rogron. [Pierrette.]
GARCENAULT (De), first president of the Court of Besancon in 1834.
He got the chapter of the cathedral to secure Albert Savarus as counsel in a
lawsuit between the chapter and the city. Savarus won the suit. [Albert
Savarus.]
GARNERY, one of two special detectives in May, 1830, authorized by
the attorney-general, De Granville, to seize certain letters written to Lucien

de Rubempre by Mme. de Serizy, the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse and Mlle.
Clotilde de Grandlieu. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
GASNIER, peasant living near Grenoble; born about 1789. Married and
the father of several children whom he loved dearly. Inconsolable at the loss
of the eldest. Doctor Benassis, mayor of the commune, mentioned this
parental affection as a rare instance among tillers of the soil. [The Country
Doctor.]
GASSELIN, a Breton born in 1794; servant of the Guenics of Guerande,
in 1836, having been in their employ since he was fifteen. A short, stout
fellow with black hair, furrowed face; silent and slow. He took care of the
garden and stables. In 1832 in the foolish venture of Duchesse de Berry, in
which Gasselin took part with the Baron du Guenic and his son Calyste, the
faithful servant received a sabre cut on the shoulder, while shielding the
young man. This action seemed so natural to the family that Gasselin
received small thanks. [Beatrix.]
GASTON (Louis), elder natural son of Lady Brandon, born in 1805. Left
an orphan in the early years of the Restoration, he was, though still a child,
like a father to his younger brother Marie Gaston, whom he placed in
college at Tours; after which he himself shipped as cabin-boy on a man-of-
war. After being raised to the rank of captain of an American ship and
becoming wealthy in India, he died at Calcutta, during the first part of the
reign of Louis Philippe, as a result of the failure of the "famous Halmer,"
and just as he was starting back to France, married and happy. [La
Grenadiere. Letters of Two Brides.]
GASTON (Marie), second natural son of Lady Brandon; born in 1810.
Educated at the college of Tours, which he quitted in 1827. Poet; protege of
Daniel d'Arthez, who often gave him food and shelter. In 1831 he met
Louise de Chaulieu, the widow of Macumer, at the home of Mme. d'Espard.
He married her in October, 1833, though she was older than he, and he was
encumbered with debts amounting to 30,000 francs. The couple living
quietly at Ville-d'Avray, were happy until a day when the jealous Louise
conceived unjustifiable suspicions concerning the fidelity of her husband;
on which account she died after they had been married two years. During
these two years Gaston wrote at least four plays. One of them written in

collaboration with his wife was presented with the greatest success under
the names of Nathan and "others." [La Grenadiere. Letters of Two Brides.]
In his early youth Gaston had published, at the expense of his friend
Dorlange, a volume of poetry, "Les Perce-neige," the entire edition of which
found its way, at three sous the volume, to a second-hand book-shop,
whence, one fine day, it inundated the quays from Pont Royal to Pont
Marie. [The Member for Arcis.]
GASTON (Madame Louis), an Englishwoman of cold, distant manners;
wife of Louis Gaston; probably married him in India where he died as a
result of unfortunate business deals. As a widow she came to France with
two children, where without resource she became a charge to her brother-in-
law who visited and aided her secretly. She lived in Paris on rue de la Ville-
Eveque. The visits made by Marie Gaston were spoken of to his wife who
became jealous, not knowing their object. Mme. Louis Gaston was thus
innocently the cause of Mme. Marie Gaston's death. [Letters of Two
Brides.]
GASTON (Madame Marie), born Armande-Louise-Marie de Chaulieu, in
1805. At first destined to take the veil; educated at the Carmelite convent of
Blois with Renee de Maucombe who became Mme. de l'Estorade. She
remained constant in her relations with this faithful friend—at least by letter
—who was a prudent and wise adviser. In 1825 Louise married her
professor in Spanish, the Baron de Macumer, whom she lost in 1829. In
1833 she married the poet Marie Gaston. Both marriages were sterile. In the
first she was adored and believed that she loved; in the second she was
loved as much as she loved, but her insane jealousy, and her horseback rides
from Ville-d'Avray to Verdier's were her undoing, and she died in 1835 of
consumption, contracted purposely through despair at the thought that she
had been deceived. After leaving the convent she had lived successively at
the following places: on Faubourg Saint-Germain, Paris, where she saw M.
de Bonald; at Chantepleur, an estate in Burgundy, at La Crampade, in
Provence, with Mme. de l'Estorade; in Italy; at Ville-d'Avray, where she
sleeps her last sleep in a park of her own planning. [Letters of Two Brides.]
GATIENNE, servant of Mme. and Mlle. Bontems, at Bayeux, in 1805. [A
Second Home.]

GAUBERT, one of the most illustrious generals of the Republic; first
husband of a Mlle. de Ronquerolles whom he left a widow at the age of
twenty, making her his heir. She married again in 1806, choosing the Comte
de Serizy. [A Start in Life.]
GAUBERTIN (Francois), born about 1770; son of the ex-sheriff of
Soulanges, Burgundy, before the Revolution. About 1791, after five years'
clerkship to the steward of Mlle. Laguerre at Aigues, he succeeded to the
stewardship. His father having become public prosecutor in the department,
time of the Republic, he was made mayor of Blangy. In 1796 he married the
"citizeness" Isaure Mouchon, by whom he had three children: a son,
Claude, and two daughters, Jenny—Mme. Leclercq—and Eliza. He had
also a natural son, Bournier, whom he placed in charge of a local
newspaper. At the death of Mlle. Laguerre, Gaubertin, after twenty-five
years of stewardship, possessed 600,000 francs. He ended by dreaming of
acquiring the estate at Aigues; but the Comte de Montcornet purchased it,
retained him in charge, caught him one day in a theft and discharged him
summarily. Gaubertin received at that time sundry lashes with a whip of
which he said nothing, but for which he revenged himself. The old steward
became, nevertheless, a person of importance. In 1820 he was mayor of
Ville-aux-Fayes, and supplied one-third of the Paris wood. Being general
agent of this rural industry, he managed the forests, lumber and guards.
Gaubertin was related throughout a whole district, like a "boa-constrictor
twisted around a gigantic tree"; the church, the magistracy, the municipality,
the government—all did his bidding. Even the peasantry served his interests
indirectly. When the general, disgusted by the numberless vexations of his
estate, wished to sell the property at Aigues, Gaubertin bought the forests,
while his partners, Rigou and Soudry, acquired the vineyards and other
grounds. [The Peasantry.]
GAUBERTIN (Madame), born Isaure Mouchon in 1778. Daughter of a
member of the Convention and friend of Gaubertin senior. Wife of Francois
Gaubertin. An affected creature of Ville-aux-Fayes who played the great
lady mightily. [The Peasantry.]
GAUBERTIN (Claude), son of Francois Gaubertin, godson of Mlle.
Laguerre, at whose expense he was educated at Paris. The busiest attorney

at Ville-aux-Fayes in 1823. After five years' practice he spoke of selling his
office. He probably became judge. [The Peasantry.]
GAUBERTIN (Jenny), elder daughter of Francois Gaubertin. (See
Leclercq, Madame.)
GAUBERTIN (Elisa or Elise), second daughter of Francois Gaubertin.
Loved, courted and longed for since 1819 by the sub-prefect of Ville-aux-
Fayes, M. des Lupeaulx—the nephew. M. Lupin, notary at Soulanges,
sought on his part the young girl's hand for his only son Amaury. [The
Peasantry.]
GAUBERTIN-VALLAT (Mademoiselle), old maid, sister of Mme.
Sibilet, wife of the clerk of the court at Ville-aux-Fayes, in 1823. She ran
the town's stamp office. [The Peasantry.]
GAUCHER was in 1803 a boy working for Michu. [The Gondreville
Mystery.]
GAUDET, second clerk in Desroches' law office in 1824. [A Start in
Life.]
GAUDIN, chief of squadron in the mounted grenadiers of the Imperial
Guard; made baron of the Empire, with the estate of Wistchnau. Made
prisoner by Cossacks at the passage of the Beresina, he escaped, going to
India where he was lost sight of. However he returned to France about
1830, in bad health, but a multi-millionaire. [The Magic Skin.]
GAUDIN (Madame), wife of foregoing, managed the Hotel Saint-
Quentin, rue des Cordiers, Paris, during the Restoration. Among her guests
was Raphael de Valentin. Her husband's return in 1830 made her wealthy
and a baroness. [The Magic Skin.]
GAUDIN (Pauline), daughter of the foregoing. Was acquainted with,
loved, and modestly aided Raphael de Valentin, a poor lodger at Hotel
Saint-Quintin. After the return of her father she lived with her parents on
rue Saint-Lazare. For a long time her whereabouts were unknown to
Raphael who had quitted the hotel abruptly; then he met her again one
evening at the Italiens. They fell into each other's arms, declaring their
mutual love. Raphael who also had become rich resolved to espouse

Pauline; but frightened by the shrinkage of the "magic skin" he fled
precipitately and returned to Paris. Pauline hastened after him, only to
behold him die upon her breast in a transport of furious, impotent love. [The
Magic Skin.]
GAUDISSART (Jean-Francois), father of Felix Gaudissart. [Cesar
Birotteau.]
GAUDISSART (Felix), native of Normandy, born about 1792, a "great"
commercial traveler making a specialty of the hat trade. Known to the
Finots, having been in the employ of the father of Andoche. Also handled
all the "articles of Paris." In 1816 he was arrested on the denunciation of
Peyrade—Pere Canquoelle. He had imprudently conversed in the David
cafe with a retired officer concerning a conspiracy against the Bourbons
that was about to break out. Thus the conspiracy was thwarted and two men
were sent to the scaffold. Gaudissart being released by Judge Popinot was
ever after grateful to the magistrate and devoted to the interests of his
nephew. When he became minister, Anselme Popinot obtained for
Gaudissart license for a large theatre on the boulevard, which in 1834 aimed
to supply the demand for popular opera. This theatre employed Sylvain
Pons, Schmucke, Schwab, Garangeot and Heloise Brisetout, Felix's
mistress. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life. Cousin Pons.] "Gaudissart the
Great," then a young man, attended the Birotteau ball. About that time he
probably lived on rue des Deux-Ecus, Paris. [Cesar Birotteau.] During the
Restoration, a "pretended florist's agent" sent by Judge Popinot to Comte
Octave de Bauvan, he bought at exorbitant prices the artificial flowers made
by Honorine. [Honorine.] At Vouvray in 1831 this man, so accustomed to
fool others, was himself mystified in rather an amusing manner by a retired
dyer, a sort of "country Figaro" named Vernier. A bloodless duel resulted.
After the episode, Gaudissart boasted that the affair had been to his
advantage. He was "in this Saint-Simonian period" the lover of Jenny
Courand. [Gaudissart the Great.]
GAUDRON (Abbe), an Auvergnat; vicar and then curate of the church of
Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis, rue Saint-Antoine, Paris, during the Restoration and
the Government of July. A peasant filled with faith, square below and
above, a "sacerdotal ox" utterly ignorant of the world and of literature.
Being confessor of Isidore Baudoyer he endeavored in 1824 to further the

promotion of that incapable chief of bureau in the Department of Finance.
In the same year he was present at a dinner at the Comte de Bauvan's when
were discussed questions relating to woman. [The Government Clerks.
Honorine.] In 1826 Abbe Gaudron confessed Mme. Clapart and led her into
devout paths; the former Aspasia of the Directory had not confessed for
forty years. In February, 1830, the priest obtained the Dauphiness'
protection for Oscar Husson, son of Mme. Clapart by her first husband, and
that young man was promoted to a sub-lieutenancy in a regiment where he
had been serving as subaltern. [A Start in Life.]
GAULT, warden of the Conciergerie in May, 1830, when Jacques Collin
and Rubempre were imprisoned there. He was then aged. [Scenes from a
Courtesan's Life.]
GAY, boot-maker in Paris, rue de la Michodiere, in 1821, who furnished
the boots for Rubempre which aroused Matifat's suspicion. [A
Distinguished Provincial at Paris.]
GAZONAL (Sylvestre-Palafox-Castel), one of the most skillful weavers
in the Eastern Pyrenees; commandant of the National Guard, September,
1795. On a visit to Paris in 1845 for the settlement of an important lawsuit
he sought out his cousin, Leon de Lora, the landscape artist, who in one
day, with Bixiou the caricaturist, showed him the under side of the city,
opening up to him a whole gallery full of "unconscious humorists"—
dancers, actresses, police-agents, etc. Thanks to his two cicerones, he won
his lawsuit and returned home. [The Unconscious Humorists.]
GENDRIN, caricaturist, tenant of M. Molineux, Cour Batave, in 1818.
According to his landlord, the artist was a profoundly immoral man who
drew caricatures against the government, brought bad women home with
him and made the hall uninhabitable. [Cesar Birotteau.]
GENDRIN, brother-in-law of Gaubertin the steward of Aigues. He also
had married a daughter of Mouchon. Formerly an attorney, then for a long
time a judge of the Court of First Instance at Ville-aux-Fayes, he at last
became president of the court, through the influence of Comte de
Soulanges, under the Restoration. [The Peasantry.]

GENDRIN, court counselor of a departmental seat in Burgundy, and a
distant relative of President Gendrin. [The Peasantry.]
GENDRIN, only son of President Gendrin; recorder of mortgages in that
sub-prefecture in 1823. [The Peasantry.]
GENDRIN-WATTEBLED (or Vatebled), born about 1733. General
supervisor of streams and forests at Soulanges, Burgundy, from the reign of
Louis XV. Was still in office in 1823. A nonagenarian he spoke, in his lucid
moments, of the jurisdiction of the Marble Table. He reigned over
Soulanges before Mme. Soudry's advent. [The Peasantry.]
GENESTAS (Pierre-Joseph), cavalry officer, born in 1779. At first a
regimental lad, then a soldier. Sub-lieutenant in 1802; officer of the Legion
of Honor after the battle of Moskowa; chief of squadron in 1829. In 1814 he
married the widow of his friend Renard, a subaltern. She died soon after,
leaving a child that was legally recognized by Genestas, who entrusted him,
then a young man, to the care of Dr. Benassis. In December, 1829, Genestas
was promoted to be a lieutenant-colonel in a regiment quartered at Poitiers.
[The Country Doctor.]
GENESTAS (Madame Judith), Polish Jewess, born in 1795. Married in
1812 after the Sarmatian custom to her lover Renard, a French
quartermaster, who was killed in 1813. Judith gave him one son, Adrien,
and survived the father one year. In extremis she married Genestas a former
lover, who adopted Adrien. [The Country Doctor.]
GENESTAS (Adrien), adopted son of Commandant Genestas, born in
1813 to Judith the Polish Jewess and Renard who was killed before the birth
of his son. Adrien was a living picture of his mother—olive complexion,
beautiful black eyes of a spirituelle sadness, and a head of hair too heavy
for his frail body. When sixteen he seemed but twelve. He had fallen into
bad habits, but after living with Dr. Benassis for eight months, he was cured
and became robust. [The Country Doctor.]
GENEVIEVE, an idiotic peasant girl, ugly and comparatively rich.
Friend and companion of the Comtesse de Vandieres, then insane and an
inmate of the asylum of Bons-Hommes, near Isle-Adam, during the

Restoration. Jilted by a mason, Dallot, who had promised to marry her,
Genevieve lost what little sense love had aroused in her. [Farewell.]
GENOVESE, tenor at the Fenice theatre, Venice, in 1820. Born at
Bergamo in 1797. Pupil of Veluti. Having long loved La Tinti, he sang
outrageously in her presence, so long as she resisted his advances, but
regained all his powers after she yielded to him. [Massimilla Doni.] In the
winter of 1823-24, at the home of Prince Gandolphini, in Geneva,
Genovese sang with his mistress, an exiled Italian prince, and Princess
Gandolphini, the famous quartette, "Mi manca la voce." [Albert Savarus.]
GENTIL, old valet in service of Mme. de Bargeton, during the
Restoration. During the summer of 1821, with Albertine and Lucien de
Rubempre, he accompanied his mistress to Paris. [A Distinguished
Provincial at Paris.]
GENTILLET, sold in 1835 an old diligence to Albert Savarus when the
latter was leaving Besancon after the visit on the part of Prince Soderini.
[Albert Savarus.]
GENTILLET (Madame), maternal grandmother of Felix Grandet. She
died in 1806 leaving considerable property. In Grandet's "drawing room" at
Saumur was a pastel of Mme. Gentillet, representing her as a shepherdess.
[Eugenie Grandet.]
GEORGES, confidential valet of Baron de Nucingen, at Paris, time of
Charles X. Knew of his aged master's love affairs and aided or thwarted
him at will. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
GERARD (Francois-Pascal-Simon, Baron), celebrated painter—1770-
1837 —procured for Joseph Bridau in 1818 two copies of Louis XVIII.'s
portrait which were worth to the beginner, then very poor, a thousand
francs, a tidy sum for the Bridau family. [A Bachelor's Establishment.] The
Parisian salon of Gerard, much sought after, had a rival at Chaussee-d'Antin
in that of Mlle. de Touches. [Beatrix.]
GERARD, adjutant-general of the Seventy-second demi-brigade,
commanded by Hulot. A careful education had developed a superior
intellect in Gerard. He was a staunch Republican. Killed by the Chouan,
Pille-Miche, at Vivetiere, December 1799. [The Chouans.]

GERARD (Gregoire), born in 1802, probably in Limousin. Protestant of
somewhat uncouth exterior, son of a journeyman carpenter who died when
rather young; godson of F. Grossetete. From the age of twelve the banker
had encouraged him in the study of the exact sciences for which he had
natural aptitude. Studied at Ecole Polytechnique from nineteen to twenty-
one; then entered as a pupil of engineering in the National School of Roads
and Bridges, from which he emerged in 1826 and stood the examinations
for ordinary engineer two years later. He was cool-headed and warm-
hearted. He became disgusted with his profession when he ascertained its
many limitations, and he plunged into the July (1830) Revolution. He was
probably on the point of adopting the Saint-Simonian doctrine, when M.
Grossetete prevailed upon him to take charge of some important works on
the estate of Mme. Pierre Graslin in Haute-Vienne. Gerard wrought
wonders aided by Fresquin and other capable men. He became mayor of
Montegnac in 1838. Mme. Graslin died about 1844. Gerard followed out
her final wishes, and lived with her children, assuming guardianship of
Francis Graslin. Three months later, again furthering the desires of the
deceased, Gerard married a native girl, Denise Tascheron, the sister of a
man who had been executed in 1829. [The Country Parson.]
GERARD (Madame Gregoire), wife of foregoing, born Denise
Tascheron, of Montegnac, Limousin; youngest child of a rather large family.
She lavished her sisterly affection on her brother, the condemned Tasheron,
visiting him in prison and softening his savage nature. With the aid of
another brother, Louis-Marie, she made away with certain compromising
clues of her eldest brother's crime, and restored the stolen money,
afterwards she emigrated to America, where she became wealthy. Becoming
homesick she returned to Montegnac, fifteen years later, where she
recognized Francis Graslin, her brother's natural son, and became a second
mother to him when she married the engineer, Gerard. This marriage of a
Protestant with a Catholic took place in 1844. "In grace, modesty, piety and
beauty, Mme. Gerard resembled the heroine of 'Edinburgh Prison.'" [The
Country Parson.]
GERARD (Madame), widow, poor but honest, mother of several grown-
up daughters; kept a furnished hotel on rue Louis-le-Grand, Paris, about the
end of the Restoration. Being under obligations to Suzanne du Val-Noble—
Mme. Theodore Gaillard—she sheltered her when the courtesan was driven

away from a fine apartment on rue Saint-Georges, following the ruin and
flight of her lover, Jacques Falleix, the stockbroker. Mme. Gerard was not
related to the other Gerards mentioned above. [Scenes from a Courtesan's
Life.]
GIARDINI, Neapolitan cook somewhat aged. He and his wife ran a
restaurant in rue Froidmanteau, Paris, in 1830-31. He had established, so he
said, three restaurants in Italy: at Naples, Parma and Rome. In the first years
of Louis Philippe's reign, his peculiar cookery was the fare of Paolo
Gambara. In 1837 this crank on the subject of special dishes had fallen to
the calling of broken food huckster on rue Froidmanteau. [Gambara.]
GIBOULARD (Gatienne), a very pretty daughter of a wealthy carpenter
of Auxerre; vainly desired, about 1823, by Sarcus for wife, but his father,
Sarcus the Rich, would not consent. Later the social set of Mme. Soudry,
the leading one of a neighboring village, dreamed for a moment of avenging
themselves on the people of Aigues by winning over Gatienne Giboulard.
She could have embroiled M. and Mme. Montcornet, and perhaps even
compromised Abbe Brossette. [The Peasantry.]
GIGELMI, Italian orchestra conductor, living in Paris with the
Gambaras. After the Revolution of 1830, he dined at Giardini's on rue
Froidmanteau. [Gambara.]
GIGONNET. (See Bidault.)
GIGUET (Colonel), native probably of Arcis-sur-Aube, where he lived
after retirement. One of Mme. Marion's brothers. One of the most highly
esteemed officers of the Grand Army. Had a fine sense of honor; was for
eleven years merely captain of artillery; chief of battalion in 1813; major in
1814. On account of devotion to Napoleon he refused to serve the Bourbons
after the first abdication; and he gave such proofs of his fidelity in 1815,
that he would have been exiled had it not been for the Comte de
Gondreville, who obtained for him retirement on half-pay with the rank of
colonel. About 1806 he married one of the daughters of a wealthy Hamburg
banker, who gave him three children and died in 1814. Between 1818 and
1825 Giguet lost the two younger children, a son named Simon alone
surviving. A Bonapartist and Liberal, the colonel was, during the
Restoration, president of the committee at Arcis, where he came in touch

with Grevin, Beauvisage and Varlet, notables of the same stamp. He
abandoned active politics after his ideas triumphed, and, during the reign of
Louis Philippe, he became a noted horticulturist, the creator of the famous
Giguet rose. Nevertheless the colonel continued to be the god of his sister's
very influential salon where he appeared at the time of the legislative
elections of 1839. In the first part of May of that year the little old man,
wonderfully preserved, presided over an electoral convention at Frappart's,
the candidates in the field being his own son, Simon Giguet, Phileas
Beauvisage, and Sallenauve-Dorlange. [The Member for Arcis.]
GIGUET (Colonel), brother of the preceding and of Mme. Marion; was
brigadier of gendarmes at Arcis-sur-Aube in 1803; promoted to a
lieutenancy in 1806. As brigadier Giguet was one of the most experienced
men in the service. The commandant of Troyes mentioned him especially to
the two Parisian detectives, Peyrade and Corentin, entrusted with watching
the actions of the Simeuses and the Hauteserres which resulted in the ruin
of these young Royalists on account of the pretended seizure of
Gondreville. However, an adroit manoeuvre on the part of Francois Michu
at first prevented Brigadier Giguet from seizing these conspirators whom he
had tracked to earth. After his promotion to lieutenant he succeeded in
arresting them. He finally became colonel of the gendarmes of Troyes,
whither Mme. Marion, then Mlle. Giguet, went with him. He died before
his brother and sister, and made her his heir. [The Gondreville Mystery. The
Member for Arcis.]
GIGUET (Simon), born during the first Empire, the oldest and only
surviving child of Colonel Giguet of the artillery. In 1814 he lost his
mother, the daughter of a rich Hamburg banker, and in 1826 his maternal
grandfather who left him an income of two thousand francs, the German
having favored others of the large family. He did not hope for any further
inheritance save that of his father's sister, Mme. Marion, which had been
augmented by the legacy of Colonel Giguet of the gendarmes. Thus it was
that, after studying law with the subprefect Antonin Goulard, Simon Giguet,
deprived of a fortune which at first seemed assured to him, became a simple
attorney in the little town of Arcis, where attorneys are of little service. His
aunt's and his father's position fired him with ambition for a political career.
Giguet ogled at the same time for the hand and dowry of Cecile
Beauvisage. Of mediocre ability; upheld the Left Centre, but failed of

election in May, 1839, when he presented himself as candidate for Arcis-
sur-Aube. [The Member for Arcis.]
GILET (Maxence), born in 1789. He passed at Issoudun for the natural
son of Lousteau, the sub-delegate. Others thought him the son of Dr.
Rouget, a friend and rival of Lousteau. In short "fortunately for the child
both claimed him"; though he belonged to neither. His true father was found
to be a "charming officer of dragoons in the garrison at Bourges." His
mother, the wife of a poor drunken cobbler of Issoudun, had the marvelous
beauty of a Transteverin. Her husband was aware of his wife's actions and
profited by them: through interested motives, Lousteau and Rouget were
allowed to believe whatever they wished about the child's paternity, for
which reason both contributed to the education of Maxence, usually known
as Max. In 1806, at the age of seventeen, Max enlisted in a regiment going
to Spain. In 1809 he was left for dead in Portugal in an English battery;
taken by the English and conveyed to the Spanish prison-hulks at Cabrera.
There he remained from 1810 to 1814. When he returned to Issoudun his
father and his mother had both died in the hospital. On the return of
Bonaparte, Max served as captain in the Imperial Guard. During the second
Restoration he returned to Issoudun and became leader of the "Knights of
Idlesse" which were addicted to nocturnal escapades more or less agreeable
to the inhabitants of the town. "Max played at Issoudun a part almost
identical with that of Smith in 'The Fair Maid of Perth'; he was the
champion of Bonapartism and opposition. They relied upon him, as the
citizens of Perth had relied upon Smith on great occasions." A possible
Caesar Borgia on more extensive ground, Gilet lived very comfortably,
although without a personal income. And that is why Max with certain
inherited qualities and defects rashly went to live with his supposed natural
father, Jean-Jacques Rouget, a rich and witless old bachelor who was under
the thumb of a superb servant-mistress, Flore Brazier, known as La
Rabouilleuse. After 1816 Gilet lorded it over the household; the handsome
chap had won the heart of Mlle. Brazier. Surrounded by a sort of staff,
Maxence contested the important inheritance of Rouget, maintaining his
ground with marvelous skill against the two lawful heirs, Agathe and
Joseph Bridau; and he would have appropriated it but for the intervention of
a third heir, Philippe Bridau. Max was killed in a duel by Philippe Bridau in
the early part of December, 1822. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]

GILLE, once printer to the Emperor; owner of script letters which
Jerome-Nicolas Sechard made use of in 1819, claiming for them that they
were the ancestors of the English type of Didot. [Lost Illusions.]
GINA, character in "L'Ambitieux par Amour," autobiographical novel by
Albert Savarus; a sort of "ferocious" Sormano. Represented as a young
Sicilian girl, fourteen years old, in the services of the Gandolphinis,
political refugees at Gersau, Switzerland, in 1823. So devoted as to pretend
dumbness on occasion, and to wound more or less seriously the hero of the
romance, Rodolphe, who had secretly entered the Gandolphini home.
[Albert Savarus.]
GINETTA (La), young Corsican girl. Very small and slender, but no less
clever. Mistress of Theodore Calvi, and an accomplice in the double crime
committed by her lover, towards the end of the Restoration, when she was
able on account of her small size to creep down an open chimney at the
widow Pigeau's, and thus to open the house door for Theodore who robbed
and murdered the two inmates, the widow and the servant. [Scenes from a
Courtesan's Life.]
GIRARD, banker and discounter at Paris during the Restoration; perhaps
also somewhat of a pawnbroker; an acquaintance of Esther Gobseck's. Like
Palma, Werbrust and Gigonnet, he held a number of notes signed by
Maxime de Trailles; and Gobseck who knew it used them against the count,
then the lover of Mme. de Restaud, when Trailles went to the usurer in rue
des Gres and besought assistance in vain. [Gobseck.]
GIRARD (Mother), who ran a little restaurant at Paris in rue de Tournon,
prior to 1838, had a successor with whom Godefroid promised to board
when he was inspecting the left bank of the Seine, and trying to aid the
Bourlac-Mergis. [The Seamy Side of History.]
GIRARDET, attorney at Besancon, between 1830 and 1840. A talkative
fellow and adherent of Albert Savarus, he followed, probably in the latter's
interest, the beginning of the Watteville suit. When Savarus left Besancon
suddenly, Girardet tried to straighten out his colleague's affairs, and
advanced him five thousand francs. [Albert Savarus.]

GIRAUD (Leon), was at Paris in 1821 member of the Cenacle of rue des
Quatre-Vents, presided over by Daniel d'Arthez. He represented the
philosophical element. His "doctrines" predicted the end of Christianity and
of the family. In 1821 he was also in charge of a "grave and dignified"
opposition journal. He became the head of a moral and political school,
whose "sincerity atoned for its errors." [A Distinguished Provincial at
Paris.] About the same time Giraud frequented the home of the mother of
his friend Joseph Bridau, and was going there at the time when the painter's
elder brother, the Bonapartist Philippe, got into trouble. [A Bachelor's
Establishment.] The Revolution of July opened the political career of Leon
Giraud who became master of requests in 1832, and afterwards councillor
of state. In 1845 Giraud was a member of the Chamber, sitting in the Left
Centre. [The Secrets of a Princess. The Unconscious Humorists.]
GIREL, of Troyes. According to Michu, Girel, a Royalist like himself,
during the first Revolution, played the Jacobin in the interest of his fortune.
From 1803 to 1806, at any rate, he was in correspondence with the
Strasbourg house of Breintmayer, which dealt with the Simeuse twins when
they were tracked by Bonaparte's police. [The Gondreville Mystery.]
GIRODET (Anne-Louis), celebrated painter, born at Montargis, in 1767,
died at Paris in 1824. Under the Empire he was on friendly terms with his
colleague, Theodore de Sommervieux. One day in the latter's studio he
greatly admired a portrait of Augustine Guillaume and an interior, which he
advised him, but in vain not to exhibit at the Salon, thinking the two works
too true to nature to be appreciated by the public. [At the Sign of the Cat
and Racket.]
GIROUD (Abbe), confessor of Rosalie de Watteville at Besancon
between 1830 and 1840. [Albert Savarus.]
GIROUDEAU, born about 1774. Uncle of Andoche Finot; began as
simple soldier in the army of Sambre and Meuse; five years master-at-arms
in the First Hussars—army of Italy; charged at Eylau with Colonel Chabert.
He passed into the dragoons of the Imperial Guard, where he was captain in
1815. The Restoration interrupted his military career. Finot, manager of
various Parisian papers and reviews, put him in charge of the cash and
accounts of a little journal devoted to dramatic news, which he ran from

1821 to 1822. Giroudeau was also editor, and his duty it was to wage the
warfare; beyond that he lived a gay life. Although on the wrong side of
forty and afflicted with catarrh he had for mistress Florentine Cabirolle of
the Gaite. He went with the high-livers—among others with his former
mess-mate Philippe Bridau, at whose wedding with Flore Brazier he was
present in 1824. In November, 1825, Frederic Marest gave a grand
breakfast to Desroches' clerks at the Rocher de Cancale, to which
Giroudeau was invited. All spent the evening with Florentine Cabirolle who
entertained them royally but involuntarily got Oscar Husson into trouble.
Ex-Captain Giroudeau bore firearms during the "three glorious days," re-
entered the service after the accession of citizen royalty and soon became
colonel then general, 1834-35. At this time he was enabled to satisfy a
legitimate resentment against his former friend, Bridau, and block his
advancement. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris. A Start in Life. A
Bachelor's Establishment.]
GIVRY, one of several names of the second son of the Duc de Chaulieu,
who became by his marriage with Madeleine de Mortsauf a Lenoncourt-
Givry-Chaulieu. [Letters of Two Brides. The Lily of the Valley. Scenes from
a Courtesan's Life.]
GOBAIN (Madame Marie), formerly cook to a bishop; lived during the
Restoration in Paris on rue Saint-Maur, Popinot quarter, under very peculiar
circumstances. She was in the service of Octave de Bauvan. Was the maid
and housekeeper of Comtesse Honorine when the latter left home and
became a maker of artificial flowers. Mme. Gobain had been secretly
engaged by M. de Bauvan, who through her was enabled to keep watch
over his wife. Gobain displayed the greatest loyalty. At one time the
comtesse took the servant's name. [Honorine.]
GOBENHEIM, brother-in-law of Francois and Adolphe Keller, whose
name he added to his own. About 1819 in Paris he was at first made
receiver in the Cesar Birotteau bankruptcy, but was later replaced by
Camusot. [Cesar Birotteau.] Under Louis Philippe, Gobenheim, as broker
for the Paris prosecuting office, invested the very considerable savings of
Mme. Fabien du Ronceret. [Beatrix.]

GOBENHEIM, nephew of Gobenheim-Keller of Paris; young banker of
Havre in 1829; visited the Mignons, but not as a suitor for the heiress' hand.
[Modeste Mignon.]
GOBET (Madame), in 1829 at Havre made shoes for Mme. and Mlle.
Mignon. Was scolded by the latter for lack of style. [Modeste Mignon.]
GOBSECK (Jean-Esther Van), usurer, born in 1740 at Antwerp of a
Jewess and a Dutchman. Began as a cabin-boy. Was only ten years of age
when his mother sent him off to the Dutch possessions in India. There and
in America he met distinguished people, also several corsairs; traveled all
over the world and tried many trades. The passion for money took entire
hold of him. Finally he came to Paris which became the centre of his
operations, and established himself on rue des Gres. There Gobseck, like a
spider in his web, crushed the pride of Maxime de Trailles and brought tears
to the eyes of Mme. de Restaud and Jean-Joachim Goriot—1819. About this
same time Ferdinand du Tillet sought out the money-lender to make some
deals with him, and spoke of him as "Gobseck the Great, master of Palma,
Gigonnet, Werbrust, Keller and Nucingen." Gobseck went every evening to
the Themis cafe to play dominoes with his friend Bidault-Gigonnet. In
December, 1824, he was found there by Elisabeth Baudoyer, whom he
promised to aid; indeed, supported by Mitral, he was able to influence
Lupeaulx to put in Isidore Baudoyer as chief of division succeeding La
Billardiere. In 1830, Gobseck, then an octogenarian, died in his wretched
hole on rue des Gres though he was enormously wealthy. Derville received
his last wishes. He had obtained a wife for the lawyer and entrusted him
with several confidences. Fifteen years after the Dutchman's death, he was
spoken of on the boulevard as the "Last of the Romans"—among the old-
fashioned money-lenders like Gigonnet, Chaboisseau, and Samanon,
against whom Lora and Bixiou set the modern Vauvinet. [Gobseck. Father
Goriot. Cesar Birotteau. The Government Clerks. The Unconscious
Humorists.]
GOBSECK (Sarah Van), called "La Belle Hollandaise." A peculiarity of
this family—as well as the Maranas—that the female side always kept the
family name. Thus Sarah Van Gobseck was the grand-niece of Jean-Esther
Van Gobseck. This prostitute, mother of Esther, who was also a courtesan,
was a typical daughter of Paris. She caused the bankruptcy of Roguin,

Birotteau's attorney, and was herself ruined by Maxime de Trailles whom
she adored and maintained when he was a page to Napoleon. She died in a
house on Palais-Royal, the victim of a love-mad captain, December, 1818.
The affair created a stir. Juan and Francis Diard had something to say about
it. Esther's name lived after her. The Paris of the boulevards from 1824 to
1839 often mentioned her prodigal and stormy career. [Gobseck. Cesar
Birotteau. The Maranas. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life. The Member for
Arcis.]
GOBSECK (Esther Van), born in 1805 of Jewish origin; daughter of the
preceding and great-grand-niece of Jean. For a long time in Paris she
followed her mother's calling, and having begun it early in life she knew its
varied phases. Was nick-named "La Torpille." Was for some time one of the
"rats" of the Royal Academy of Music, and numbered among her protectors,
Lupeaulx. In 1823 her reduced circumstances almost forced her to leave
Paris for Issoudun, where, for a machiavellian purpose, Philippe Bridau
would have made her the mistress of Jean-Jacques Rouget. The affair did
not materialize. She went to Mme. Meynardie's house where she remained
till about the end of 1823. One evening, while passing the Porte-Saint-
Martin theatre, she chanced to meet Lucien de Rubempre, and they loved
each other at first sight. Their passion led into many vicissitudes. The poet
and the ex-prostitute were rash enough to attend an Opera ball together in
the winter of 1824. Unmasked and insulted Esther fled to rue de Langlade,
where she lived in dire poverty. The dangerous, powerful and mysterious
protector of Rubempre, Jacques Collin, followed her there, lectured her and
shaped her future life, making her a Catholic, educating her carefully and
finally installing her with Lucien on rue Taitbout, under the surveillance of
Jacqueline Collin, Paccard and Prudence Servien. She could go out only at
night. Nevertheless, the Baron de Nucingen discovered her and fell madly
in love with her. Jacques Collin profited by the episode; Esther received the
banker's attentions, to the enrichment of Lucien. In 1830 she owned a house
on rue Saint-Georges which had belonged previously to several celebrated
courtesans; there she received Mme. du Val-Noble, Tullia and Florentine—
two dancers, Fanny Beaupre and Florine—two actresses. Her new position
resulted in police intervention on the part of Louchard, Contenson, Peyrade
and Corentin. On May 13, 1830, unable longer to endure Nucingen, La
Torpille swallowed a Javanese poison. She died without knowing that she

had fallen heir to seven millions left by her great-grand-uncle. [Gobseck.
The Firm of Nucingen. A Bachelor's Establishment. Scenes from a
Courtesan's Life.]
GODAIN, born in 1796, in Burgundy, near Soulanges, Blangy and Ville-
aux-Fayes; nephew of one of the masons who built Mme. Soudry's house. A
shiftless farm laborer, exempt from military duty on account of smallness of
stature; was at first the lover, then the husband, of Catherine Tonsard, whom
he married about 1823. [The Peasantry.]
GODAIN (Madame Catherine), the eldest of the legitimate daughters of
Tonsard, landlord of the Grand-I-Vert, situated between Conches and Ville-
aux-Fayes in Burgundy. Of coarse beauty and by nature depraved; a hanger-
on at the Tivoli-Socquard, and a devoted sister to Nicolas Tonsard for
whom she tried to obtain Genevieve Niseron. Courted by Charles, valet at
Aigues. Feared by Amaury Lupin. Married Godain one of her lovers, giving
a dowry of a thousand francs cunningly obtained from Mme. Montcornet.
[The Peasantry.]
GODARD (Joseph), born in 1798, probably at Paris; related slightly to
the Baudoyers through Mitral. Stunted and puny; fifer in the National
Guard; "crank" collector of curios; a virtuous bachelor living with his sister,
a florist on rue Richelieu. Between 1824 and 1825 a possible assistant in the
Department of Finance in the bureau managed by Isidore Baudoyer, whose
son-in-law he dreamed of becoming. An easy mark for Bixiou's practical
jokes. With Dutocq he was an unwavering adherent of the Baudoyers and
their relatives the Saillards. [The Government Clerks. The Middle Classes.]
GODARD (Mademoiselle), sister of the foregoing, and lived on rue
Richelieu, Pais, where in 1824 she ran a florist's shop. Mlle. Godard
employed Zelie Lorain who became later the wife of Minard. She received
him and Dutocq. [The Government Clerks.]
GODARD (Manon), serving-woman of Mme. de la Chanterie; arrested in
1809, between Alencon and Mortagne, implicated in the Chauffeurs trial
which ended in the capital punishment of Mme. des Tours-Minieres,
daughter of Mme. de la Chanterie. Manon Godard was sentenced by default
to twenty-two years imprisonment, and gave herself up in order not to
abandon her mistress. A long time after the baroness was set free, time of

Louis Philippe, Manon was still living with her, on rue Chanoinesse, in the
house which sheltered Alain, Montauran and Godefroid. [The Seamy Side
of History.]
GODDET, retired surgeon-major of the Third regiment of the line; the
leading physician of Issoudun in 1823. His son was one of the "Knights of
Idlesse." Goddet junior pretended to pay court to Mme. Fichet, in order to
reach her daughter who had the best dowry in Issoudun. [A Bachelor's
Establishment.]
GODEFROID, known by his given name; born about 1806, probably at
Paris; son of a wealthy merchant; educated at the Liautard Institution;
naturally feeble, morally and physically; tried his hand at and made a failure
of: law, governmental work, letters, pleasure, journalism, politics and
marriage. At the close of 1836 he found himself poor and forsaken;
thereupon he tried to pay his debts and live economically. He left Chaussee-
d'Antin and took up his abode on rue Chanoinesse, where he became one of
Mme. de la Chanteries' boarders, known as the "Brotherhood of the
Consolation." The recommendation of the Monegods, bankers, led to his
admission. Abbe de Veze, Montauran, Tresnes, Alain, and above all the
baroness initiated him, coached him, and entrusted to him various charitable
missions. Among others, about the middle of the reign of Louis Philippe, he
took charge of and relieved the frightful poverty of the Bourlacs and the
Mergis, the head of which as an imperial judge in 1809 had sentenced
Mme. de la Chanterie and her daughter. After he succeeded with this
generous undertaking, Godefroid was admitted to the Brotherhood. [The
Seamy Side of History.]
GODENARS (Abbe de), born about 1795; one of the vicars-general of
the archbishop of Besancon between 1830 and 1840. From 1835 on he tried
to get a bishopric. One evening he was present at the aristocratic salon of
the Wattevilles, at the time of the sudden flight of Albert Savarus, caused by
their young daughter. [Albert Savarus.]
GODESCHAL (Francois-Claude-Marie), born about 1804. In 1818, at
Paris, he was third clerk in the law office of Derville, rue Vivienne, when
the unfortunate Chabert appeared upon the scene. [Colonel Chabert.] In
1820, then an orphan and poor, he and his sister, the dancer Mariette, to

whom he was devoted, lived on an eighth floor on rue Vielle-du-Temple. He
had already given evidence of a practical temperament, independent and
self-seeking, but upright and capable of generous outbursts. [A Bachelor's
Establishment.] In 1822, having risen to second clerk, he left Maitre
Derville to become head-clerk in Desroches' office, who was greatly
pleased with him. Godeschal even undertook to reform Oscar Husson. [A
Start in Life.] Six years later, while still Desroches' head-clerk, he drew up a
petition wherein Mme. d'Espard prayed a guardian for her husband. [The
Commission in Lunacy.] Under Louis Philippe he became one of the
advocates of Paris and paid half his fees—1840—proposing to pay the other
half with the dowry of Celeste Colleville, whose hand was refused him,
despite the recommendation of Cardot the notary. Was engaged for Peyrade,
in the purchase of a house near the Madeleine. [The Middle Classes.] About
1845 Godeschal was still practicing, and numbered among his clients the
Camusots de Marville. [Cousin Pons.]
GODESCHAL (Marie), born about 1804. She maintained, almost all her
life, the nearest and most tender relations with her brother Godeschal the
notary. Without relatives or means, she kept house with him in 1820, on the
eighth floor of a house on rue Vielle-du-Temple, Paris. Ambition and love
for her brother caused her to become a dancer. She had studied her
profession from her tenth year. The famous Vestris instructed her and
predicted great things for her. Under the name of Mariette, she was engaged
at the Porte-Saint-Martin and the Royal Academy of Music. Her success
displeased the famous Begrand. In January, 1821, her angelic beauty,
maintained despite her profession, opened to her the doors of the Opera.
Then she had lovers. The aristocratic and elegant Maufrigneuse protected
her for several years. Mariette also favored Philippe Bridau and was the
innocent cause of a theft committed by him in order to enable him to
contend with Maufrigneuse. Four months later she went to London, where
she won the rich members of the House of Lords, and returned as premiere
to the Academy of Music. She was intimate with Florentine Cabirolle, who
often received in the Marais. There it was that Mariette kept Oscar Husson
out of serious trouble. Mariette attended many festivities. And at the close
of the reign of Louis Philippe, she was still a leading figure in the Opera. [A
Bachelor's Establishment. A Start in Life. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.
Cousin Pons.]

GODIN, under Louis Philippe, a Parisian bourgeois engaged in a lively
dispute with a friend of La Palferine's. [A Prince of Bohemia.]
GODIN (La), peasant woman of Conches, Burgundy, about 1823, whose
cow Vermichel threatened to seize for the Comte de Montcornet. [The
Peasantry.]
GODIVET, recorder of registry of Arcis-sur-Aube in 1839. Through the
scheming of Pigoult he was chosen as one of two agents for an electoral
meeting called by Simon Giguet, one of the candidates, and presided over
by Phileas Beauvisage. [The Member for Arcis.]
GODOLLO (Comtesse Torna de), probably a Hungarian; police spy
reporting to Corentin. Was ordered to prevent the marriage of Theodose de
la Peyrade and Celeste Colleville. To accomplish this she went to live in the
Thuilliers' house, Paris, in 1840, cultivated them and finally ruled them. She
sometimes assumed the name of Mme. Komorn. Her wit and beauty
exercised a passing effect upon Peyrade. [The Middle Classes.]
GOGUELAT, infantryman of the first Empire, entered the Guard in 1812;
was decorated by Napoleon on the battlefield of Valontina; returned during
the Restoration to the village of Isere, of which Benassis was mayor, and
became postman. [The Country Doctor.]
GOHIER, goldsmith to the King of France in 1824; supplied Elisabeth
Baudoyer with the monstrance with which she decorated the church of Saint
Paul, in order to bring about Isidore Baudoyer's promotion in office. [The
Government Clerks.]
GOMEZ, captain of the "Saint Ferdinand," a Spanish brig which in 1833
conveyed the newly-enriched Marquis d'Aiglemont from America to
France. Gomez was boarded by a Columbian corsair whose captain, the
Parisian, ordered him cast overboard. [A Woman of Thirty.]
GONDRAND (Abbe), confessor, under the Restoration, at Paris, of the
Duchesse Antoinette de Langeais, whose excellent dinners and petty sins he
dealt with at his ease in her salon where Montriveau often found him. [The
Thirteen.]

GONDREVILLE (Malin, his real name; more frequently known as the
Comte de), born in 1763, probably at Arcis-sur-Aube. Short and stout;
grandson of a mason employed by Marquis de Simeuse in the building of
the Gondreville chateau; only son of the owner of a house at Arcis where
dwelt his friend Grevin in 1839. On the recommendation of Danton, he
entered the office of the attorney at the chatelet, Paris, in 1787. Head clerk
for Maitre Bordin in the same city, the same year. Returned to the country
two years later to become a lawyer at Troyes. Became an obscure and
cowardly member of the Convention. Acquired the friendship of Talleyrand
and Fouche, in June, 1800, under singular and opportune circumstances.
Successively and rapidly became tribune, councillor of state, count of the
Empire—created Comte de Gondreville —and finally senator. As councillor
of state, Gondreville devoted his attention to the preparation of the code. He
cut a dash at Paris. He had purchased one of the finest mansions in
Faubourg Saint-Germain and married the only daughter of Sibuelle, a
wealthy contractor of "shady" character whom Gondreville made co-
receiver of Aube, with Marion. The marriage was celebrated during the
Directory or the Consulate. Three children were the result of this union:
Charles de Gondreville, Marechale de Carigliano, Mme. Francois Keller. In
his own interest, Malin attached himself to Bonaparte. Later, in the presence
of the Emperor and of Dubois, the prefect of police, Gondreville selfishly
simulated a false generosity and asked that the Hauteserres and Simeuses be
striken from the list of the proscribed. Afterwards they were falsely accused
of kidnapping him. As senator in 1809, Malin gave a grand ball at Paris,
when he vainly awaited the Emperor's appearance, and when Mme. de
Lansac reconciled the Soulanges family. Louis XVIII. made him a peer of
France. His wide experience and ownership of many secrets aided
Gondreville, whose counsels hindered Decazes and helped Villele. Charles
X. disliked him because he remained too intimate with Talleyrand. Under
Louis Philippe this bond was relaxed. The July monarchy heaped honors
upon him by making him peer once more. One evening in 1833 he met at
the home of the Princesse de Cadignan, Henri de Marsay, the prime
minister, who had an inexhaustible fund of political stories, new to all the
company save Gondreville. He was much engrossed with the elections of
1839, and gave his influence to his grandson, Charles Keller, for Arcis. He
concerned himself little with the candidates, who were finally elected;
Dorlange-Sallenauve, Phileas Beauvisage, Trailles and Giguet. [The

Gondreville Mystery. A Start in Life. Domestic Peace. The Member for
Arcis.]
GONDREVILLE (Comtesse Malin de), born Sibuelle; wife of foregoing;
person whose complete insignificance was manifest at the great ball given
in Paris by the count in 1809. [Domestic Peace.]
GONDREVILLE (Charles de), son of the preceding, and sub-lieutenant
of dragoons in 1818. Young and wealthy, he died in the Spanish campaign
of 1823. His death caused great sorrow to his mistress, Mme. Colleville.
[The Middle Classes.]
GONDRIN, born in 1774, in the department of Isere. Conscripted in
1792 and put in the artillery. Was in the Italian and Egyptian campaigns
under Bonaparte, as a private, and returned east after the Peace of Amiens.
Enrolled, during the Empire, in the pontoon corps of the Guard, he marched
through Germany and Russia; was in the battle at Beresina aiding to build
the bridge by which the remnant of the army escaped; with forty-one
comrades, received the praise of General Eble who singled him out
particularly. Returned to Wilna, as the only survivor of the corps after the
death of Eble and in the beginning of the Restoration. Unable to read or
write, deaf and decrepit, Gondrin forlornly left Paris which had treated him
inhospitably, and returned to the village in Dauphine, where the mayor, Dr.
Benassis, gave him work as a ditcher and continued to aid him in 1829.
[The Country Doctor.]
GONDRIN (Abbe), young Parisian priest about the middle of the reign
of Louis Philippe. Exquisite and eloquent. Knew the Thuilliers. [The
Middle Classes.]
GONDUREAU, assumed name of Bibi-Lupin.
GONORE (La), widow of Moses the Jew, chief of the southern rouleurs,
in May, 1830; mistress of Dannepont the thief and assassin; ran a house of
ill-repute on rue Sainte-Barbe for Mme. Nourrisson. [Scenes from a
Courtesan's Life.]
GORDES (Mademoiselle de), at the head of an aristocratic salon of
Alencon, about 1816, while her father, the aged Marquis de Gordes, was
still living with her. [Jealousies of a Country Town.]

GORENFLOT, mason of Vendome, who walled up the closet concealing
Mme. de Merret's lover, the Spaniard Bagos de Feredia. [La Grande
Breteche.]
GORENFLOT, probably posed for Quasimodo of Hugo's "Notre-Dame."
Decrepit, misshapen, deaf, diminutive, he lived in Paris about 1839, and
was organ-blower and bell-ringer in the church of Saint-Louis en l'Ile. He
also acted as messenger in the confidential financial correspondence
between Bricheteau and Dorlange-Sallenauve. [The Member for Arcis.]
GORIOT,* (Jean-Joachim), born about 1750; started as a porter in the
grain market. During the first Revolution, although he had received no
education, but having a trader's instinct, he began the manufacture of
vermicelli and made a fortune out of it. Thrift and fortune favored him
under the Terror. He passed for a bold citizen and fierce patriot. Prosperity
enabled him to marry from choice the only daughter of a wealthy farmer of
Brie, who died young and adored. Upon their two children, Anastasie and
Delphine, he lavished all the tenderness of which their mother had been the
recipient, spoiling them with fine things. Goriot's griefs date from the day
he set each up in housekeeping in magnificent fashion on Chaussee-d'Antin.
Far from being grateful for his pecuniary sacrifices, his sons-in-law,
Restaud and Nucingen, and his daughters themselves, were ashamed of his
bourgeois exterior. In 1813 he had retired saddened and impoverished to the
Vauquer boarding-house on rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve. The quarrels of
his daughters and the greedy demands for money increased and in 1819
followed him thither. Almost all the guests of the house and especially
Mme. Vauquer herself—whose ambitious designs upon him had come to
naught—united in persecuting Goriot, now well-nigh poverty-stricken. He
found an agreeable respite when he acted as a go-between for the illicit love
affair of Mme. de Nucingen and Rastignac, his fellow-lodger. The financial
distress of Mme. de Restaud, Trailles' victim, gave Goriot the finishing
blow. He was compelled to give up the final and most precious bit of his
silver plate, and beg the assistance of Gobseck the usurer. He was crushed.
A serious attack of apoplexy carried him off. He died on rue Neuve-Sainte-
Genevieve. Rastignac watched over him, and Bianchon, then an interne,
attended him. Only two men, Christophe, Mme. Vauquer's servant, and
Rastignac, followed the remains to Saint-Etienne du Mont and to Pere-

Lachaise. The empty carriages of his daughters followed as far as the
cemetery. [Father Goriot.]
* Two Parisian theatres and five authors have depicted Goriot's life
on the stage; March 6, 1835, at the Vaudeville, Ancelot and Paul
Dupont; the same year, the month following, at the Varietes,
Theaulon, Alexis de Comberousse and Jaime Pere. Also the Boeuf
Gras of a carnival in a succeeding year bore the name of Goriot.

GORITZA (Princesse), a charming Hungarian, celebrated for her beauty,
towards the end of Louis XV.'s reign, and to whom the youthful Chevalier
de Valois became so attached that he came near fighting on her account
with M. de Lauzun; nor could he ever speak of her without emotion. From
1816 to 1830, the Alencon aristocracy were given glimpses of the princess's
portrait, which adorned the chevalier's gold snuff-box. [Jealousies of a
Country Town.]
GORJU (Madame), wife of the mayor of Sancerre, in 1836, and mother
of a daughter "whose figure threatened to change with her first child," and
who sometimes came with her to the receptions of Mme. de la Baudraye,
the "Muse of the Department." One evening, in the fall of 1836, she heard
Lousteau reading ironically fragments of "Olympia." [The Muse of the
Department.]
GOTHARD, born in 1788; lived about 1803 in Arcis-sur-Aube, where his
courage and address obtained for him the place of groom to Laurence de
Cinq-Cygne. Devoted servant of the countess; he was one of the principals
acquitted in the trial which ended with the execution of Michu. [The
Gondreville Mystery.] Gothard never left the service of the Cinq-Cygne
family. Thirty-six years later he was their steward. With his brother-in-law,
Poupard, the Arcis tavern-keeper, he electioneered for his masters. [The
Member for Arcis.]
GOUJET (Abbe), cure of Cinq-Cygne, Aube, about 1792, discovered for
the son of Beauvisage the farmer, who were still good Catholics, the Greek
name of Phileas, one of the few saints not abolished by the new regime.
[The Member for Arcis.] Former abbe of the Minimes, and a friend of
Hauteserre. Was the tutor of Adrien and Robert Hauteserre; enjoyed a game
of boston with their parents—1803. His political prudence sometimes led
him to censure the audacity of their kinswoman, Mlle. de Cinq-Cygne.
Nevertheless, he held his own with the persecutor of the house, Corentin the

police-agent; and attended Michu when that victim of a remarkable trial,
known as "the abduction of Gondreville," went to the scaffold. During the
Restoration he became Bishop of Troyes. [The Gondreville Mystery.]
GOUJET (Mademoiselle), sister of the foregoing; good-natured old maid,
ugly and parsimonious, who lived with her brother. Almost every evening
she played boston at the Hauteserres and was terrified by Corentin's visits.
[The Gondreville Mystery.]
GOULARD, mayor of Cinq-Cygne, Aube, in 1803. Tall, stout and
miserly; married a wealthy tradeswoman of Troyes, whose property,
augmented by all the lands of the rich abbey of Valdes-Preux, adjoined
Cinq-Cygne. Goulard lived in the old abbey, which was very near the
chateau of Cinq-Cygne. Despite his revolutionary proclivities, he closed his
eyes to the actions of the Hauteserres and Simeuses who were Royalist
plotters. [The Gondreville Mystery.]
GOULARD (Antonin), native of Arcis, like Simon Giguet. Born about
1807; son of the former huntsman of the Simeuse family, enriched by the
purchase of public lands. (See preceding biography.) Early left motherless,
he came to Arcis to live with his father, who abandoned the abbey of
Valpreux. Went to the Imperial lyceum, where he had Simon Giguet for
school-mate, whom he afterwards met again on the benches of the Law
school at Paris. Obtained, through Gondreville, the Cross of the Legion of
Honor. The royal government of 1830 opened up for him a career in the
public service. In 1839 he became sub-prefect for Arcis-sur-Aube, during
the electoral period. The delegate, Trailles, satisfied Antonin's rancor
against Giguet: his official recommendations caused the latter's defeat. Both
the would-be prefect and the sub-prefect vainly sought the hand of Cecile
Beauvisage. Goulard cultivated the society of officialdom: Marest, Vinet,
Martener, Michu. [The Member for Arcis.]
GOUNOD, nephew of Vatel, keeper of the Montcornet estate at Aigues,
Burgundy. About 1823 he probably became assistant to the head-keeper,
Michaud. [The Peasantry.]
GOUPIL (Jean-Sebastien-Marie), born in 1802; a sort of humpless
hunchback; son of a well-to-do farmer. After running through with his
inheritance, in Paris, he became head-clerk of the notary Cremiere-Dionis,

of Nemours—1829. On account of Francois Minoret-Levrault, he annoyed
in many ways, even anonymously, Ursule Mirouet, after the death of Dr.
Minoret. Afterwards he repented his actions, repaid their instigator, and
succeeded the notary, Cremiere-Dionis. Thanks to his wit, he became
honorable, straightforward and completely transformed. Once established,
Goupil married Mlle. Massin, eldest daughter of Massin-Levrault junior,
clerk to the justice of the peace at Nemours. She was homely, had a dowry
of 80,000 francs, and gave him rickety, dropsical children. Goupil took part
in the "three glorious days" and had obtained a July decoration. He was
very proud of the ribbon. [Ursule Mirouet.]
GOURAUD (General, Baron), born in 1782, probably at Provins. Under
the Empire he commanded the Second regiment of hussars, which gave him
his rank. The Restoration caused his impoverished years at Provins. He
mixed in politics and the opposition there, sought the hand and above all the
dowry of Sylvie Rogron, persecuted the apparent heiress of the old maid,
Mlle. Pierrette Lorrain—1827—and, seconded by Vinet the attorney, reaped
in July, 1830, the fruits of his cunning liberalism. Thanks to Vinet, the
ambitious parvenu, Gouraud married, in spite of his gray hair and stout
frame, a girl of twenty-five, Mlle. Matifat, of the well-known drug-firm of
rue des Lombards, who brought with her fifty thousand crowns. Titles,
offices and emoluments now flowed in rapidly. He resumed the service,
became general, commanded a division near the capital and obtained a
peerage. His conduct during the ministry of Casimir Perier was thus
rewarded. Futhermore he received the grand ribbon of the Legion of Honor,
after having stormed the barricades of Saint-Merri, and was "delighted to
thrash the bourgeois who had been an eye-sore to him" for fifteen years.
[Pierrette.] About 1845 he had stock in Gaudissart's theatre. [Cousin Pons.]
GOURDON, the elder, husband of the only daugher of the old head-
keeper of streams and forests, Gendrin-Wattebled; was in 1823 physician at
Soulanges and attended Michaud. Nevertheless he went among the best
people of Soulanges, headed by Mme. Soudry, who regarded him in the
light of an unknown and neglected savant, when he was but a parrot of
Buffon and Cuvier, a simple collector and taxidermist. [The Peasantry.]
GOURDON, the younger, brother of the preceding; wrote the poem of
"La Bilboqueide" published by Bournier. Married the niece and only heiress

of Abbe Tupin, cure of Soulanges, where he himself had been in 1823 clerk
for Sarcus. He was wealthier than the justice. Mme. Soudry and her set
gave admiring welcome to the poet, preferring him to Lamartine, with
whose works they slowly became acquainted. [The Peasantry.]
GOUSSARD (Laurent) was a member of the revolutionary municipality
of Arcis-sur-Aube. Particular friend of Danton, he made use of the tribune's
influence to save the head of the ex-superior of the Ursulines at Arcis,
Mother Marie des Anges, whose gratitude for his generous and skillful
action caused substantial enrichment to this purchaser of the grounds of the
convent, which was sold as "public land." Thus it was that forty years
afterwards this adroit Liberal owned several mills on the river Aube, and
was still at the head of the advanced Left in that district. The various
candidates for deputy in the spring of 1839, Keller, Giguet, Beauvisage,
Dorlange-Sallenauve, and the government agent, Trailles, treated Goussard
with the consideration he deserved. [The Member for Arcis.]
GRADOS had in his hands the notes of Vergniaud the herder. By means
of funds from Derville the lawyer, Grados was paid in 1818 by Colonel
Chabert. [Colonel Chabert.]
GRAFF (Johann), brother of a tailor established in Paris under Louis
Philippe. Came himself to Paris after having been head-waiter in the hotel
of Gedeon Brunner at Frankfort; and ran the Hotel du Rhin in rue du Mail
where Frederic Brunner and Wilhelm Schwab alighted penniless in 1835.
The landlord obtained small positions for the two young men; for the
former with Keller; for the latter with his brother the tailor. [Cousin Pons.]
GRAFF (Wolfgang), brother of the foregoing, and rich tailor of Paris, at
whose shop in 1838 Lisbeth Fischer fitted out Wenceslas Steinbock. On his
brother's recommendation, he employed Wilhelm Schwab, and, six years
later, took him into the family by giving him Emilie Graff in marriage.
[Cousin Betty. Cousin Pons.]
GRANCEY (Abbe de), born in 1764. Took orders because of a
disapointment in love; became priest in 1786, and cure in 1788. A
distinguished prelate who refused three bishoprics in order not to leave
Besancon. In 1834 he became vicar-general of that diocese. The abbe had a
handsome head. He gave free vent to cutting speeches. Was acquainted with

Albert Savarus whom he liked and aided. A frequenter of the Watteville
salon he found out and rebuked Rosalie, the singular and determined enemy
of the advocate. He also intervened between Madame and Mademoiselle de
Watteville. He died at the end of the winter of 1836-37. [Albert Savarus.]
GRANCOUR (Abbe de), one of the vicars-general of the bishopric of
Limoges, about the end of the Restoration; and the physical antithesis of the
other vicar, the attenuated and moody Abbe Dutheil whose lofty and
independent liberal doctrines he, with cowardly caution, secretly shared.
Grancour frequented the Graslin salon and doubtless knew of the Tascheron
tragedy. [The Country Parson.]
GRANDEMAIN was in 1822 at Paris clerk for Desroches. [A Start in
Life.]
GRANDET (Felix), of Saumur, born between 1745 and 1749. Well-to-do
master-cooper, passably educated. In the first years of the Republic he
married the daughter of a rich lumber merchant, by whom he had in 1796
one child, Eugenie. With their united capital, he bought at a bargain the best
vineyards about Saumur, in addition to an old abbey and several farms.
Under the Consulate he became successively member of the district
government and mayor of Saumur. But the Empire, which supposed him to
be a Jacobin, retired him from the latter office, although he was the town's
largest tax-payer. Under the Restoration the despotism of his extraordinary
avarice disturbed the peace of his family. His younger brother, Guillaume,
failed and killed himself, leaving in Felix's hands the settlement of his
affairs, and sending to him his son Charles, who had hastened to Saumur,
not knowing his father's ruin. Eugenie loved her cousin and combated her
father's niggardliness, which looked after his own interests to the neglect of
his brother. The struggle between Eugenie and her father broke Mme.
Grandet's heart. The phases of the terrible duel were violent and numerous.
Felix Grandet's passion resorted to stratagem and stubborn force. Death
alone could settle with this domestic tyrant. In 1827, an octogenarian and
worth seventeen millions, he was carried off by a stroke of paralysis.
[Eugenie Grandet.]
GRANDET (Madame Felix), wife of the preceding; born about 1770;
daughter of a rich lumber merchant, M. de la Gaudiniere; married in the

beginning of the Republic, and gave birth to one child, Eugenie, in 1796. In
1806 she added considerably to the combined wealth of the family through
two large inheritances—from her mother and M. de la Bertelliere, her
maternal grandfather. A devout, shrinking, insignificant creature, bowed
beneath the domestic yoke, Mme. Grandet never left Saumur, where she
died in October, 1822, of lung trouble, aggravated by grief at her daughter's
rebellion and her husband's severity. [Eugenie Grandet.]
GRANDET (Victor-Ange-Guillaume), younger brother of Felix Grandet;
became rich at Paris in wine-dealing. In 1815 before the battle of Waterloo,
Frederic de Nucingen bought of him one hundred and fifty thousand bottles
of champagne at thirty sous, and sold them at six francs; the allies drank
them during the invasion—1817-19. [The Firm of Nucingen.] The
beginning of the Restoration favored Guillaume. He was the husband of a
charming woman, the natural daughter of a great lord, who died young after
giving him a child. Was colonel of the National Guard, judge of the Court
of Commerce, governor of one of the arrondissements of Paris and deputy.
Saumur accused him of aspiring still higher and wishing to become the
father-in-law of a petty duchess of the imperial court. The bankruptcy of
Maitre Roguin was the partial cause of the ruin of Guillaume, who blew out
his brains to avoid disgrace, in November, 1819. In his last requests,
Guillaume implored his elder brother to care for Charles whom the suicide
had rendered doubly an orphan. [Eugenie Grandet.]
GRANDET, (Charles), only lawful child of the foregoing; nephew of
Felix Grandet; born in 1797. He led at first the gay life of a young gallant,
and maintained relations with a certain Annette, a married woman of good
society. The tragic death of his father in November, 1819, astounded him
and led him to Saumur. He thought himself in love with his cousin Eugenie
to whom he swore fidelity. Shortly thereafter he left for India, where he
took the name of Carl Sepherd to escape the consequences of treasonable
actions. He returned to France in 1827 enormously wealthy, debarked at
Bordeaux in June of that year, accompanying the Aubrions whose daughter
Mathilde he married, and allowed Eugenie Grandet to complete the
settlement with the creditors of his father. [Eugenie Grandet.] By his
marriage he became Comte d'Aubrion. [The Firm of Nucingen.]
GRANDET (Eugenie).* (See Bonfons, Eugenie Cruchot de.)

* The incidents of her life have been dramatized by Bayard for the
Gymnase-Dramatique, under the title of "The Miser's Daughter."

GRANDLIEU (Comtesse de), related to the Herouvilles; lived in the first
part of the seventeenth century; probably ancestress of the Grandlieus, well
known in France two centuries later. [The Hated Son.]
GRANDLIEU (Mademoiselle), under the first Empire married an
imperial chamberlain, perhaps also the prefect of Orne, and was received,
alone, in Alencon among the exclusive and aristocratic set lorded over by
the Esgrignons. [Jealousies of a Country Town.]
GRANDLIEU (Duc Ferdinand de), born about 1773; may have
descended from the Comtesse de Grandlieu who lived early in the
seventeenth century, and consequently connected with the old and worthy
nobility of the Duchy of Brittany whose device was "Caveo non timeo." At
the end of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries,
Ferdinand de Grandlieu was the head of the elder branch, wealthy and
ducal, of the house of Grandlieu. Under the Consulate and the Empire his
high and assured rank enabled him to intercede with Talleyrand in behalf of
M. d'Hauteserre and M. de Simeuse, compromised in the fictitious
abduction of Malin de Gondreville. Grandlieu by his marriage with an
Ajuda of the elder branch, connected with the Barganzas and of Portuguese
descent, had several daughters, the eldest of whom assumed the veil in
1822. His other daughters were Clotilde-Frederique, born in 1802;
Josephine the third; Sabine born in 1809; Marie-Athenais, born about 1820.
An uncle by marriage of Mme. de Langeais, he had at Paris, in Faubourg
Saint-Germain, a hotel where, during the reign of Louis XVIII., the
Princesse de Blamont-Chauvry, the Vidame de Pamiers and the Duc de
Navarreins assembled to consider a startling escapade of Antoinette de
Langeais. At least ten years later Grandlieu availed himself of his intimate
friend Henri de Chaulieu and also of Corentin—Saint-Denis—in order to
stay the suit against Lucien de Rubempre which was about to compromise
his daughter Clotilde-Frederique. [The Gondreville Mystery. The Thirteen.
A Bachelor's Establishment. Modeste Mignon. Scenes from a Courtesan's
Life.]
GRANDLIEU (Duchesse Ferdinand de), of Portuguese descent, born
Ajuda and of the elder branch of that house connected with the Braganzas.

Wife of Ferdinand de Grandlieu, and mother of several daughters. Of
sedentary habits, proud, pious, good-hearted and beautiful, she wielded in
Paris during the Restoration a sort of supremacy over the Faubourg Saint-
Germain. The second and the next to the youngest of her children gave her
much anxiety. Combating the hostility of those about her she welcomed
Rubempre, the suitor of her daughter Clotilde-Frederique—1829-30. The
unfortunate results of the marriage of her other daughter Sabine, Baronne
Calyste du Guenic, occupied Mme. de Grandlieu's attention in 1837, and
she succeeded in reconciling the young couple, with the assistance of Abbe
Brossette, Maxime de Trailles, and La Palferine. Her religious scruples had
made her halt a moment; but they fell like her political fidelity, and, with
Mmes. d'Espard, de Listomere and des Touches, she tacitly recognized the
bourgeois royalty, a few years after a new reign began, and re-opened the
doors of her salon. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life. Beatrix. A Daughter of
Eve.]
GRANDLIEU (Mademoiselle de), eldest daughter of the Duc and
Duchesse de Grandlieu, took the veil in 1822. [A Bachelor's Establishment.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
GRANDLIEU (Clotilde-Frederique de), born in 1802; second daughter
of the Duc and Duchesse de Grandlieu; a long, flat creature, the caricature
of her mother. She had no consent save that of her mother when she fell in
love with and wished to marry the ambitious Lucien de Rubempre in the
spring of 1830. She saw him for the last time on the road to Italy in the
forest of Fontainbleu near Bouron and under very painful circumstances the
young man was arrested before her very eyes. [Scenes from a Courtesan's
Life.]
GRANDLIEU (Josephine de). (See Ajuda-Pinto, Marquise Miguel d'.)
GRANDLIEU (Sabine de). (See Guenic, Baronne Calyste du.)
GRANDLIEU (Marie-Athenais de). (See Grandlieu, Vicomtesse Juste
de.)
GRANDLIEU (Vicomtesse de), sister of Comte de Born; descended
more directly than the duke from the countess of the seventeenth century.
From 1813, the time of her husband's death, the head of the younger

Grandlieu house whose device was "Grands faits, grand lieu." Mother of
Camille and of Juste de Grandlieu, and the mother-in-law of Ernest de
Restaud. Returned to France with Louis XVIII. At first she lived on royal
bounty, but afterwards regained a considerable portion of her property
through the efforts of Maitre Derville, about the beginning of the
Restoration. She was very grateful to the lawyer, who also took her part
against the Legion of Honor, was admitted to her confidential circle and
told her the secrets of the Restaud household, one evening in the winter of
1830 when Ernest de Restaud, son of the Comtesse Anastasie, was paying
court to Camille whom he finally married. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.
Colonel Chabert. Gobseck.]
GRANDLIEU (Camille de). (See Restaud, Comtesse Ernest de.)
GRANDLIEU (Vicomte Juste de), son of Vicomtesse de Grandlieu;
brother of Comtesse Ernest de Restaud; cousin and afterwards husband of
Marie-Athenais de Grandlieu, combining by this marriage the fortunes of
the two houses of Grandlieu and obtaining the title of duke. [Scenes from a
Courtesan's Life. Gobseck.]
GRANDLIEU (Vicomtesse Juste de), born about 1820, Marie-Athenais
de Grandlieu; last daughter of Duc and Duchesse de Grandlieu; married to
her cousin, the Vicomte Juste de Grandlieu. She received at Paris in the first
days of the July government, a young married woman like herself, Mme.
Felix de Vandenesse, then in the midst of a flirtation with Raoul Nathan.
[Scenes from a Courtesan's Life. Gobseck. A Daughter of Eve.]
GRANET, deputy-mayor of the second arrondissement of Paris, in 1818,
under La Billardiere. With his homely wife he was invited to the Birotteau
ball. [Cesar Birotteau.]
GRANET, one of the leading men of Besancon, under Louis Philippe. In
gratitude for a favor done him by Albert Savarus he nominated the latter for
deputy. [Albert Savarus.]
GRANSON (Madame), poor widow of a lieutenant-colonel of artillery
killed at Jena, by whom she had a son, Athanase. From 1816 she lived at
No. 8 rue du Bercail in Alencon, where the benevolence of a distant
relative, Mme. du Bousquier, put in her charge the treasury of a maternal

society against infanticide, and brought her into contact, under peculiar
circumstances, with the woman who afterwards became Mme. Theodore
Gaillard. [Jealousies of a Country Town.]
GRANSON (Athanase), son of the preceding; born in 1793; subordinate
in the mayor's office at Alencon in charge of registry. A sort of poet, liberal
in politics and filled with ambition; weary of poverty and overflowing with
grandiose sentiments. In 1816 he loved, with a passion that his
commonsense combated, Mme. du Bousquier, then Mlle. Cormon, his
senior by more than seventeen years. In 1816 the marriage dreaded by him
took place. He could not brook the blow and drowned himself in the Sarthe.
He was mourned only by his mother and Suzanne du Val-Noble. [Jealousies
of a Country Town.] Nevertheless, eight years after it was said of him: "The
Athanase Gransons must die, withered up, like the grains which fall on
barren rock." [The Government Clerks.]
GRANVILLE (Comte de), had a defective civil status, the orthography
of the name varying frequently through the insertion of the letter "d"
between the "n" and "v." In 1805 at an advanced age he lived at Bayeux,
where he was probably born. His father was a president of the Norman
Parliament. At Bayeux the Comte married his son to the wealthy Angelique
Bontems. [A Second Home.]
GRANVILLE (Vicomte de), son of Comte de Granville, and comte upon
his father's death; born about 1779; a magistrate through family tradition.
Under the guidance of Cambaceres he passed through all the administrative
and judicial grades. He studied with Maitre Bordin, defended Michu in the
trial resulting from the "Gondreville Mystery," and learned officially and
officiously of one of its results a short time after his marriage with a young
girl of Bayeux, a rich heiress and the acquirer of extensive public lands.
Paris was generally the theatre for the brilliant career of Maitre Granville
who, during the Empire, left the Augustin quai where he had lived to take
up his abode with his wife on the ground-floor of a mansion in the Marais,
between rue Vielle-du-Temple and rue Nueve-Saint-Francois. He became
successively advocate-general at the court of the Seine, and president of one
of its chambers. At this time a domestic drama was being enacted in his life.
Hampered in his open and broad-minded nature by the bigotry of Mme. de
Granville, he sought domestic happiness outside his home, though he

already had a family of four children. He had met Caroline Crochard on rue
du Tourniquet-Saint-Jean. He installed her on rue Taitbout and found in this
relation, though it was of brief duration, the happiness vainly sought in his
proper home. Granville screened this fleeting joy under the name of Roger.
A daughter Eugenie, and a son Charles, were born of this adulterous union
which was ended by the desertion of Mlle. Crochard and the misconduct of
Charles. Until the death of Mme. Crochard, the mother of Caroline,
Granville was able to keep up appearances before his wife. Thus it
happened that he accompanied her to the country, Seine-et-Oise, when he
assisted M. d'Albon and M. de Sucy. The remainder of Granville's life, after
his wife and his mistress left him, was passed in comparative solitude in the
society of intimate friends like Octave de Bauvan and Serizy. Hard work
and honors partially consoled him. His request as attorney-general caused
the reinstatement of Cesar Birotteau, one of the tenants at No. 397 rue
Saint-Honore. He and his wife had been invited to the famous ball given by
Birotteau more than three years previously. As attorney-general of the Court
of Cassation, Granville secretly protected Rubempre during the poet's
famous trial, thus drawing upon himself the powerful affection of Jacques
Collin, counterbalanced by the enmity of Amelie Camusot. The Revolution
of July upheld Granville's high rank. He was peer of France under the new
regime, owning and occupying a small mansion on rue Saint-Lazare, or
traveling in Italy. At this time he was one of Dr. Bianchon's patients. [The
Gondreville Mystery. A Second Home. Farewell. Cesar Birotteau. Scenes
from a Courtesan's Life. A Daughter of Eve. Cousin Pons.]
GRANVILLE (Comtesse Angelique de), wife of preceding, and daughter
of Bontems, a farmer and sort of Jacobin whom the Revolution enriched
through the purchase of evacuated property at low prices. She was born at
Bayeux in 1787, and received from her mother a very bigoted education. At
the beginning of the Empire she married the son of one of the neighbors of
the family, then Vicomte and later Comte de Granville; and, under the
influence of Abbe Fontanon, she maintained at Paris the manners and
customs of an extreme devotee. She thus evoked the infidelity of her
husband who had begun by simply neglecting her. Of her four children she
retained charge of the education of her two daughters. She broke off entirely
from her husband when she discovered the existence of her rival, Mlle. de
Bellefeuille—Caroline Crochard—and returned to Bayeux to end her days,

remaining to the last the austere, stingy sanctified creature who had
formerly been scandalized by the openness of the affair of Montriveau and
Mme. de Langeais. She died in 1822. [A Second Home. The Thirteen. A
Daughter of Eve.]
GRANVILLE (Vicomte de), elder son of the preceding. Was reared by
his father. In 1828 he was deputy-attorney at Limoges, where he afterwards
became advocate-general. He fell in love with Veronique Graslin, but
incurred her secret disfavor by his proceedings against the assassin
Tascheron. The vicomte had a career almost identical with that of his father.
In 1833 he was made first president at Orleans, and in 1844 attorney-
general. Later near Limoges he came suddenly upon a scene which moved
him deeply: the public confession of Veronique Graslin. The vicomte had
unknowingly been the executioner of the chatelaine of Montegnac. [A
Second Home. A Daughter of Eve. The Country Parson.]
GRANVILLE (Baron Eugene de), younger brother of the foregoing.
King's attorney at Paris from May, 1830. Three years later he still held this
office, when he informed his father of the arrest of a thief named Charles
Crochard, who was the count's natural son. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.
A Second Home.]
GRANVILLE (Marie-Angelique de). (See Vandenesse, Comtesse Felix
de.)
GRANVILLE (Marie-Eugenie de). (See Tillet, Madame Ferdinand du.)
GRASLIN (Pierre), born in 1775. An Auvergnat, compatriot and friend
of Sauviat, whose daughter Veronique he married in 1822. He began as a
bank-clerk with Grosstete & Perret, a first-class firm of the town. A man of
business and a hard worker he became successor to his employers. His
fortune, increased by lucky speculations with Brezac, enabled him to buy
one of the finest places in the chief city of Haute-Vienne. But he was not
able to win his wife's heart. His physical unattractiveness, added to by his
carelessness and grinding avarice, were complicated by a domestic tyranny
which soon showed itself. Thus it was that he was only the legal father of a
son named Francis, but he was ignorant of this fact, for, in the capacity of
juror in the Court of Assizes dealing with the fate of Tascheron, the real
father of the child, he urged but in vain the acquittal of the prisoner. Two

years after the boy's birth and the execution of the mother's lover, in April,
1831, Pierre Graslin died of weakness and grief. The July Revolution
suddenly breaking forth had shaken his financial standing, which was
regained only with an effort. It was at the time when he had brought
Montegnac from the Navarreins. [The Country Parson.]
GRASLIN (Madame Pierre), wife of preceding; born Veronique Sauviat,
at Limoges in May, 1802; beautiful in spite of traces of small-pox; had had
the spoiled though simple childhood of an only daughter. When twenty she
married Pierre Graslin. Soon after marriage her ingenuous nature, romantic
and refined, suffered in secret from the harsh tyranny of the man whose
name she bore. Veronique, however, held aloof from the gallants who
frequented her salon, especially the Vicomte de Granville. She had become
the secret mistress of J.-F. Tascheron, a porcelain worker. She was on the
point of eloping with him when a crime committed by him was discovered.
Mme. Graslin suffered the most poignant anguish, giving birth to the child
of the condemned man at the very moment when the father was led to
execution. She inflicted upon herself the bitterest flagellations. She could
devote herself more freely to penance after her husband's death, which
occurred two years later. She left Limoges for Montegnac, where she made
herself truly famous by charitable works on a huge scale. The sudden return
of the sister of her lover dealt her the final blow. Still she had energy
enough to bring about the union of Denise Tascheron and Gregoire Gerard,
gave her son into their keeping, left important bequests destined to keep
alive her memory, and died during the summer of 1844 after confessing in
public in the presence of Bianchon, Dutheil, Granville, Mme. Sauviat and
Bonnet who were all seized with admiration and tenderness for her. [The
Country Parson.]
GRASLIN (Francis), born at Limoges in August, 1829. Only child of
Veronique Graslin, legal son of Pierre Graslin, but natural son of J.-F.
Tascheron. He lost his legal father two years after his birth, and his mother
thirteen years later. His tutor M. Ruffin, his maternal grandmother Mme.
Sauviat, and above all the Gregoire Gerards watched over his boyhood at
Montegnac. [The Country Parson.]
GRASSET, bailiff and successor of Louchard. On the demand of Lisbeth
Fischer and by Rivet's advice, in 1838, he arrested W. Steinbock in Paris

and took him to Clichy prison. [Cousin Betty.]
GRASSINS (Des), ex-quartermaster of the Guard, seriously wounded at
Austerlitz, pensioned and decorated. Time of Louis XVIII. he became the
richest banker in Saumur, which he left for Paris where he located with the
purpose of settling the unfortunate affairs of the suicide, Guillaume Grandet
and where he was later made a deputy. Although the father of a family he
conceived a passion for Florine, a pretty actress of the Theatre du
Madame,* to the havoc of his fortune. [Eugenie Grandet.]
* The name of this theatre was changed, in 1830, to
Gymnase-Dramatique.

GRASSINS (Madame des), born about 1780; wife of foregoing, giving
him two children; spent most of her life at Saumur. Her husband's position
and sundry physical charms which she was able to preserve till nearly her
fortieth year enabled her to shine somewhat in society. With the Cruchots
she often visited the Grandets, and, like the family of the President de
Bonfons, she dreamed of mating Eugenie with her son Adolphe. The
dissipated life of her husband at Paris and the combination of the Cruchots
upset her plans. Nor was she able to do much for her daughter. However,
deprived of much of her property and making the best of things, Mme. des
Grassins continued unaided the management of the bank at Saumur.
[Eugenie Grandet.]
GRASSINS (Adolphe des), born in 1797, son of M. and Mme. des
Grassins; studied law at Paris where he lived in a lavish way. A caller at the
Nucingens where he met Charles Grandet. Returned to Saumur in 1819 and
vainly courted Eugenie Grandet. Finally he returned to Paris and rejoined
his father whose wild life he imitated. [Eugenie Grandet.]
GRASSOU (Pierre), born at Fougeres, Brittany, in 1795. Son of a
Vendean peasant and militant Royalist. Removing at an early age to Paris he
began as clerk to a paint-dealer who was from Mayenne and a distant
relative of the Orgemonts. A mistaken idea led him toward art. His Breton
stubbornness led him successively to the studios of Servin, Schinner and
Sommervieux. He afterwards studied, but fruitlessly, the works of Granet
and Drolling; then he completed his art studies with Duval-Lecamus.
Grassou profited nothing by his work with these masters, nor did his
acquaintance with Lora or Joseph Bridau assist him. Though he could

understand and admire he lacked the creative faculty and the skill in
execution. For this reason Grassou, usually called Fougeres by his
comrades, obtained their warm support and succeeded in getting admission
into the Salon of 1829, for his "Toilet of a Condemned Chouan," a very
mediocre painting palpably along the lines of Gerard Dow. The work
obtained for him from Charles X. the cross of the Legion of Honor. At last
his canvasses found purchasers. Elie Magus gave him an order for pictures
after the Flemish school, which he sold to Vervelle as works of Dow or
Teniers. At that time Grassou lived at No. 2 rue de Navarin. He became the
son-in-law of Vervelle, in 1832, marrying Virginie Vervelle, the heiress of
the family, who brought him a dowry of one hundred thousand francs, as
well as country and city property. His determined mediocrity opened the
doors of the Academy to him and made him an officer in the Legion of
Honor in 1830, and major of a battalion in the National Guard after the riots
of May 12. He was adored by the middle classes, becoming their accredited
artist. Painted portraits of all the members of the Crevel and Thuillier
families, and also of the director of the theatre who preceded Gaudissart.
Left many frightful and ridiculous daubs, one of which found its way into
Topinard's humble home. [Pierre Grassou. A Bachelor's Establishment.
Cousin Betty. The Middle Classes. Cousin Pons.]
GRASSOU (Madame Pierre), born Virginie Vervelle; red-haired and
homely; sole heiress of wealthy dealers in cork, on rue Boucherat. Wife of
the preceding whom she married in Paris in 1832. There is a portrait of her
painted in this same year before her marriage, which at first was a colorless
study by Grassou, but was dexterously retouched by Joseph Bridau. [Pierre
Grassou.]
GRAVELOT brothers, lumber-merchants of Paris, who purchased in
1823 the forests of Aigues, the Burgundy estate of General de Montcornet.
[The Peasantry.]
GRAVIER, paymaster-general of the army during the first Empire, and
interested at that time in large Spanish affairs with certain commanding
officers. Upon the return of the Bourbons he purchased at twenty thousand
francs of La Baudraye the office of tax-receiver for Sancerres, which office
he still held about 1836. With the Abbe Duret and others he frequented the
home of Mme. Dinah de la Baudraye. He was little, fat and common. His

court made little way with the baroness, despite his talent and his worldly-
wise ways of a bachelor. He sang ballads, told stories, and displayed
pseudo-rare autographs. [The Muse of the Department.]
GRAVIER, of Grenoble; head of a family; father-in-law of a notary; chief
of division of the prefecture of Isere in 1829. Knew Genestas and
recommended to him Dr. Benassis, the mayor of the village of which he
himself was one of the benefactors, as the one to attend Adrien Genestas-
Renard. [The Country Doctor.]
GRENIER, known as Fleur-de-Genet; deserter from the Sixty-ninth
demi-brigade; chauffeur executed in 1809. [The Seamy Side of History.]
GRENOUVILLE, proprietor of a large and splendid notion store in
Boulevard des Italiens, Paris, about 1840; a customer of the Bijous,
embroiderers also in business at Paris. At this time an ardent admirer of
Mlle. Olympe Bijou, former mistress of Baron Hulot and Idamore Chardin.
He married her and gave an income to her parents. [Cousin Betty.]
GRENOUVILLE (Madame), wife of the preceding; born Olympe Bijou,
about 1824. In the middle of the reign of Louis Philippe she lived in Paris
near La Courtille, in rue Saint-Maur-du-Temple. Was a pretty but poor
embroiderer surrounded by a numerous and poverty-stricken family when
Josepha Mirah obtained for her old Baron Hulot and a shop. Having
abandoned Hulot for Idamore Chardin, who left her, Olympe married
Grenouville and became a well-known tradeswoman. [Cousin Betty.]
GRENVILLE (Arthur-Ormond, Lord), wealthy Englishman; was being
treated at Montpellier for lung trouble when the rupture of the treaty of
peace of Amiens confined him to Tours. About 1814 he fell in love with the
Marquise Victor d'Aiglemont, whom he afterwards met elsewhere. Posing
as a physician he attended her in an illness and succeeded in curing her. He
visited her also in Paris, finally dying to save her honor, after suffering his
fingers to be crushed in a door—1823. [A Woman of Thirty.]
GREVIN of Arcis, Aube, began life in the same way as his compatriot
and intimate friend Malin de Gondreville. In 1787, he was second clerk to
Maitre Bordin, attorney of the Chatelet, Paris. Returned to Champagne at
the outbreak of the Revolution. There he received the successive protection

of Danton, Bonaparte and Gondreville. By virtue of them he became an
oracle to the Liberals, was enabled to marry Mlle. Varlet, the only daughter
of the best physician of the city, to purchase a notary's practice, and to
become wealthy. A level-headed man, Grevin often advised Gondreville,
and he directed the mysterious and fictitious abduction—1803 and the years
following. Of his union with Mlle. Varlet, who died rather young, one
daughter was born, Severine, who became Mme. Phileas Beauvisage. In his
old age he devoted a great deal of attention to his children and their brilliant
future, especially during the election of May, 1839. [A Start in Life. The
Gondreville Mystery. The Member for Arcis.]
GREVIN (Madame), wife of foregoing; born Varlet; daughter of the best
doctor of Arcis-sur-Aube; sister of another Varlet, a doctor in the same
town; mother of Mme. Severine Phileas Beauvisage. With Mme. Marion
she was more or less implicated in the Gondreville mystery. She died rather
young. [The Gondreville Mystery.]
GREVIN, corsair, who served under Admiral de Simeuse in the Indies. In
1816, paralyzed and deaf, he lived with his granddaughter, Mme. Lardot, a
laundress of Alencon, who employed Cesarine and Suzanne and was
patronized by the Chevalier de Valois. [Jealousies of a Country Town.]
GRIBEAUCOURT (Mademoiselle de), old maid of Saumur and friend of
the Cruchots during the Restoration. [Eugenie Grandet.]
GRIFFITH (Miss), born in 1787; Scotch woman, daughter of a minister
in straitened circumstances; under the Restoration she was governess of
Louise de Chaulieu, whose love she won by reason of her kindliness and
penetration. [Letters of Two Brides.]
GRIGNAULT (Sophie). (See Nathan, Mme. Raoul.)
GRIMBERT, held, in 1819, at Ruffec, Charente, the office of the Royal
Couriers. At that time he received from Mlles. Laure and Agathe de
Rastignac, a considerable sum of money addressed to their brother Eugene,
at the Pension Vauquer, Paris. [Father Goriot.]
GRIMONT, born about 1786; a priest of some capability; cure of
Guerande, Brittany. In 1836, a constant visitor at the Guenics, he exerted a
tardily acquired influence over Felicite des Touches, whose

disappointments in love he fathomed and whom he determined to turn
towards a religious life. Her conversion gave Grimont the vicar-generalship
of the diocese of Nantes. [Beatrix.]
GRIMPEL, physician at Paris in the Pantheon quarter, time of Louis
XVIII. Among his patients was Mme. Vauquer, who sent for him to attend
Vautrin when the latter was overcome by a narcotic treacherously
administered by Mlle. Michonneau. [Father Goriot.]
GRINDOT, French architect in the first half of the nineteenth century;
won the Roman prize in 1814. His talent, which met the approval of the
Academy, was heartily recognized by the masses of Paris. About the end of
1818 Cesar Birotteau gave him carte-blanche in the remodeling of his
apartments on rue Saint-Honore, and invited him to his ball. Matifat,
between the years 1821 and 1822, commissioned him to ornament the suite
of Mme. Raoul Nathan on rue de Bondy. The Comte de Serizy employed
him likewise in 1822 in the restoration of his chateau of Presles near
Beaumont-sur-Oise. About 1829 Grindot embellished a little house on rue
Saint-Georges where successively dwelt Suzanne Gaillard and Esther van
Gobseck. Time of Louis Philippe, Arthur de Rochefide, and M. and Mme.
Fabien du Ronceret gave him contracts. His decline and that of the
monarchy coincided. He was no longer in vogue during the July
government. On motion of Chaffaroux he received twenty-five thousand
francs for the decoration of four rooms of Thuillier's. Lastly Crevel, an
imitator and grinder, utilized Grindot on rue des Saussaies, rue du Dauphin
and rue Barbet-de-Jouy for his official and secret habitations. [Cesar
Birotteau. Lost Illusions. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris. A Start in
Life. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life. Beatrix. The Middle Classes. Cousin
Betty.]
GROISON, non-commissioned officer of cavalry in the Imperial Guard;
later, during the Restoraton, estate-keeper of Blangy, where he succeeded
Vaudoyer at a salary of three hundred francs. Montcornet, mayor of that
commune arranged a marriage between the old soldier and the orphan
daughter of one of his farmers who brought him three acres of vineyards.
[The Peasantry.]

GROS (Antoine-Jean), celebrated painter born in Paris in 1771, drowned
himself June, 1835. Was the teacher of Joseph Bridau and, despite his
parsimonious habits, supplied materials—about 1818—to the future painter
of "The Venetian Senator and the Courtesan" enabling him to obtain five
thousand francs from a double government position. [A Bachelor's
Establishment.]
GROSLIER, police commissioner of Arcis-sur-Aube at the beginning of
the electoral campaign of 1839. [The Member for Arcis.]
GROSMORT, small boy of Alencon in 1816. Left the town in that year
and went to Prebaudet, an estate of Mme. du Bousquier, to tell her of
Troisville's arrival. [Jealousies of a Country Town.]
GROSS-NARP (Comte de), son-in-law, no doubt fictitious, of a very
great lady, invented and represented by Jacqueline Collin to serve the
menaced interests of Jacques Collin in Paris about the end of the
Restoration. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
GROSSTETE (F.), director, with Perret, of a Limoges banking-house,
during the Empire and Restoration. His clerk and successor was Pierre
Graslin. Retired from business, a married man, wealthy, devoted to
horticulture, he spent much of his time in the fields in the outskirts of
Limoges. Endowed with a superior intellect, he seemed to understand
Veronique Graslin, whose society he sought and whose secrets he tried to
fathom. He introduced his godson, Gregoire Gerard, to her. [The Country
Parson.]
GROSSTETE (Madame F.), wife of preceding; a person of some
importance in Limoges, time of the Restoration. [The Country Parson.]
GROSSTETE, younger brother of F. Grosstete. Receiver-general at
Bourges during the Restoration. He had a large fortune which enabled his
daughter Anna to wed a Fontaine about 1823. [The Country Parson. The
Muse of the Department.]
GROZIER (Abbe) was chosen, in the early part of the Restoration, to
arbitrate the dispute of two proof-readers—one of whom was Saint-Simon
—over Chinese paper. He proved that the Chinese make their paper from
bamboo. [Lost Illusions.] He was librarian of the Arsenal at Paris. Was tutor

of the Marquis d'Espard. Was learned in the history and manners of China.
Taught this knowledge to his pupil. [The Commission in Lunacy.]*
* Abbe Grozier, or Crozier (Jean Baptiste-Gabriel-Alexandre), born
March 1, 1743, at Saint-Omer, died December 8, 1823, at Paris;
collaborator of the "Literary Year" with Freron and Geoffroy, and
author of a "General History of China"—Paris 1777-1784, 12 vols.

GRUGET (Madame Etienne), born in the latter part of the eighteenth
century. About 1820, lace-maker at No. 12 rue des Enfants-Rouges, Paris,
where she concealed and cared for Gratien Bourignard, the lover of her
daughter Ida, who drowned herself. Bourignard was the father of Mme.
Jules Desmarets. [The Thirteen.] Becoming a nurse about the end of 1824,
Mme. Gruget attended the division-chief, La Billiardiere, in his final
sickness. [The Government Clerks.] In 1828 she followed the same
profession for ten sous a day, including board. At that time she attended the
last illness of Comtesse Flore Philippe de Brambourg, on rue Chaussee-
d'Antin, before the invalid was removed to the Dubois hospital. [A
Bachelor's Establishment.]
GRUGET (Ida), daughter of the preceding. About 1820 was a corset-
fitter at No. 14 rue de la Corderie-du-Temple, Paris; employed by Mme.
Meynardie. She was also the mistress of Gatien Bourignard. Passionately
jealous, she rashly made a scene in the home of Jules Desmarets, her lover's
son-in-law. Then she drowned herself, in a fit of despair, and was buried in
a little cemetery of a village of Seine-et-Oise. [The Thirteen.]
GUA SAINT-CYR (Madame du), in spite of the improbability aroused
on account of her age, passed for a time, in 1799, as the mother of Alphonse
de Montauran. She had been married and was then a widow; Gua was not
her true name. She was the last mistress of Charette and, being still young,
took his place with the youthful Alphonse de Montauran. She displayed a
savage jealousy for Mlle. de Verneuil. One of the first Vendean sallies of
1799, planned by Mme. du Gua, was unsuccessful and absurd. The old
"mare of Charette" caused the coach between Mayenne and Fougeres to be
waylaid; but the money stolen was that which was being sent her by her
mother. [The Chouans.]
GUA SAINT-CYR (Du), name assumed in Brittany, in 1799, by
Alphonse de Montauran, the Chouan leader. [The Chouans.]

GUA SAINT-CYR (Monsieur and Madame du), son and mother; rightful
bearers of the name were murdered, with the courier, in November by the
Chouans. [The Chouans.]
GUDIN (Abbe), born about 1759; was one of the Chouan leaders in
1799. He was a formidable fellow, one of the Jesuits stubborn enough,
perhaps devoted enough, to oppose upon French soil the proscriptive edict
of 1793. This firebrand of Western conflict fell, slain by the Blues, almost
under the eyes of his patriot nephew, the sub-lieutenant, Gudin. [The
Chouans.]
GUDIN, nephew of the preceding, and nevertheless a patriot conscript
from Fougeres, Brittany, during the campaign of 1799; successively
corporal and sub-lieutenant. The former grade was obtained through Hulot.
Was the superior of Beau-Pied. Gudin was killed near Fougeres by Marie de
Verneuil, who had assumed the attire of her husband, Alphonse de
Montauran. [The Chouans.]
GUENEE (Madame). (See Galardon, Madame.)
GUENIC (Gaudebert-Calyste-Charles, Baron du), born in 1763. Head of
a Breton house of very ancient founding, he justified throughout his long
life the device upon his coat-of-arms, which read: "Fac!" Without hope of
reward he constantly defended, in Vendee and Brittany, his God and his
king by service as private soldier and captain, with Charette, Chatelineau,
La Rochejacquelein, Elbee, Bonchamp and the Prince of Loudon. Was one
of the commanders of the campaign of 1799 when he bore the name of
"L'Intime," and was, with Bauvan, a witness to the marriage in extremis of
Alphonse de Montauran and Marie de Verneuil. Three years later he went to
Ireland, where he married Miss Fanny O'Brien, of a noble family of that
country. Events of 1814 permitted his return to Guerande, Loire-Inferieure,
where his house, though impoverished, wielded great influence. In
recognition of his unfaltering devotion to the Royalist cause, M. du Guenic
received only the Cross of Saint-Louis. Incapable of protesting, he
intrepidly defended his town against the battalions of General Travot in the
following year. The final Chouan insurrection, that of 1832, called him to
arms once again. Accompanied by Calyste, his only son, and a servant,
Gasselin, he returned to Guerande, lived there for some years, despite his

numerous wounds, and died suddenly, at the age of seventy-four, in 1837.
[The Chouans. Beatrix.]
GUENIC (Baronne du), wife of the preceding; native of Ireland; born
Fanny O'Brien, about 1793, of aristocratic lineage. Poor and surrounded by
wealthy relatives, beautiful and distinguished, she married, in 1813, Baron
du Guenic, following him the succeeding year to Guerande and devoting
her life and youth to him. She bore one son, Calyste, to whom she was more
like an elder sister. She watched closely the two mistresses of the young
man, and finally understood Felicite des Touches; but she always was in a
tremor on account of Beatrix de Rochefide, even after the marriage of
Calyste, which took place in the year of the baron's death. [Beatrix.]
GUENIC (Gaudebert-Calyste-Louis du), probably born in 1815, at
Guerande, Loire-Inferieure; only son of the foregoing, by whom he was
adored, and to whose dual influence he was subject. He was the physical
and moral replica of his mother. His father wished to make him a gentleman
of the old school. In 1832 he fought for the heir of the Bourbons. He had
other aspirations which he was able to satisfy at the home of an illustrious
chatelaine of the vicinity, Mlle. Felicite des Touches. The chevalier was
much enamored of the celebrated authoress, who had great influence over
him, did not accept him and turned him over to Mme. de Rochefide. Beatrix
played with the heir of the house of Guenic the same ill-starred comedy
carried through by Antoinette de Langeais with regard to Montriveau.
Calyste married Mlle. Sabine de Grandlieu, and took the title of baron after
his father's death. He lived in Paris on Faubourg Saint-Germain, and
between 1838 and 1840 was acquainted with Georges de Maufrigneuse,
Savinien de Portenduere, the Rhetores, the Lenoncourt-Chaulieus and Mme.
de Rochefide—whose lover he finally became. The intervention of the
Duchesse de Grandlieu put an end to this love affair. [Beatrix.]
GUENIC (Madame Calyste du), born Sabine de Grandlieu; wife of the
preceding, whom she married about 1837. Nearly three years later she was
in danger of dying upon hearing, at her confinement, that she had a
fortunate rival in the person of Beatrix de Rochefide. [Beatrix.]
GUENIC (Zephirine du) born in 1756 at Guerande; lived almost all her
life with her younger brother, the Baron du Guenic, whose ideas, principles

and opinions she shared. She dreamed of a rehabilitation of her
improverished house, and pushed her economy to the point of refusng to
undergo an operation for cataract. For a long time she wished that Mlle.
Charlotte de Kergarouet might become her niece by marriage. [Beatrix.]
GUEPIN, of Provins, located in Paris. He had at the "Trois Quenouilles"
one of the largest draper's shops on rue Saint-Denis. His head-clerk was his
compatriot, Jerome-Denis Rogron. In 1815, he turned over his business to
his grandson and returned to Provins, where his family formed a clan. Later
Rogron retired also and rejoined him there. [Pierrette.]
GUERBET, wealthy farmer in the country near Ville-aux-Fayes; married,
in the last of the eighteenth or first of the nineteenth century, the only
daughter of Mouchon junior, then postmaster of Conches, Burgundy. After
the death of his father-in-law, about 1817, he succeeded to the office. [The
Peasantry.]
GUERBET, brother of the foregoing, and related to the Gaubertins and
Gendrins. Rich tax-collector of Soulanges, Burgundy. Stout, dumpy fellow
with a butter face, wig, earrings, and immense collars; given to pomology;
was the wit of the village and one of the lions of Mme. Soudry's salon. [The
Peasantry.]
GUERBET, circuit judge of Ville-aux-Fayes, Burgundy, in 1823. Like his
uncle, the postmaster, and his father, the tax-collector, he was entirely
devoted to Gaubertin. [The Peasantry.]
GUILLAUME, in the course of, or at the end of the eighteenth century,
began as clerk to Chevrel, draper, on rue Saint-Denis, Paris, "at the Sign of
the Cat and Racket"; afterwards became his son-in-law, succeeded him,
became wealthy and retired, during the first Empire, after marrying off his
two daughters, Virginie and Augustine, in the same day. He became
member of the Consultation Committee for the uniforming of the troops,
changed his home, living in a house of his own on rue du Colombier, was
intimate with the Ragons and the Birotteaus, being invited with his wife to
the ball given by the latter. [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket. Cesar
Birotteau.]

GUILLAUME (Madame), wife of the preceding; born Chevrel; cousin of
Mme. Roguin; a stiff-necked, middle-class woman, who was scandalized by
the marriage of her second daughter, Augustine, with Theodore de
Sommervieux. [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket.]
GUILLAUME, servant of Marquis d'Aiglemont in 1823. [A Woman of
Thirty.]
GUINARD (Abbe), priest of Sancerre in 1836. [The Muse of the
Department.]
GYAS (Marquise de), lived at Bordeaux during the Restoration; gave
much thought to marrying off her daughter, and, being intimate with Mme.
Evangelista, felt hurt when Natalie Evangelista married Paul de Manerville
in 1822. However, the Marquis de Gyas was one of the witnesses at the
wedding. [A Marriage Settlement.]

H
HABERT (Abbe), vicar at Provins under the Restoration; a stern,
ambitious prelate, a source of annoyance to Vinet; dreamed of marrying his
sister Celeste to Jerome-Denis Rogron. [Pierrette.]
HABERT (Celeste), sister of the preceding; born about 1797; managed a
girls' boarding-school at Provins, in the closing years of Charles X.'s reign.
Visited at the Rogrons. Gouraud and Vinet shunned her. [Pierrette.]
HADOT (Madame), who lived at La Charite, Nievre, in 1836, was
mistaken for Mme. Barthelemy-Hadot, the French novelist, whose name
was mentioned at Mme. de la Baudraye's, near Sancerre. [The Muse of the
Department.]
HALGA (Chevalier du), naval officer greatly esteemed by Suffren and
Portenduere; captain of Kergarouet's flagship; lover of that admiral's wife,
whom he survived. He served in the Indian and Russian waters, refused to
take up arms against France, and returned with a petty pension after the
emigration. Knew Richelieu intimately. Remained in Paris the inseparable
friend and adherent of Kergarouet. Called near the Madeleine upon the
Mesdames de Rouville, other protegees of his patron. The death of Louis
XVIII. took Halga back to Guerande, his native town, where he became
mayor and was still living in 1836. He was well acquainted with the
Guenics and made himself ridiculous by his fancied ailments as well as by
his solicitude for his dog, Thisbe. [The Purse. Beatrix.]
HALPERSOHN (Moses), a refugee Polish Jew, excellent physician,
communist, very eccentric, avaricious, friend of Lelewel the insurrectionist.
Time of Louis Philippe at Paris, he attended Vanda de Mergi, given up by
several doctors, and also diagnosed her complicated disease. [The Seamy
Side of History.]
HALPERTIUS, assumed name of Jacques Collin.

HANNEQUIN (Leopold), Parisian notary. The "Revue de l'Est," a paper
published at Besancon, time of Louis Philippe, gave, in an autobiographical
novel of its editor-in-chief, Albert Savarus, entitled "L'Ambitieux par
Amour," the story of the boyhood of Leopold Hannequin, the author's
inseparable friend. Savarus told of their joint travels, and of the quiet
preparation made by his friend for a notaryship during the time known as
the Restoration. During the monarchy of the barricades Hannequin
remained the steadfast friend of Savarus, being one of the first to find his
hiding-place. At that time the notary had an office in Paris. He married there
to advantage, became head of a family, and deputy-mayor of a precinct, and
obtained the decoration for a wound received at the cloister of Saint-Merri.
He was welcomed and made use of in the Faubourg Saint-Germain, the
Saint-Georges quarter and the Marais. At the Grandlieus' request he drew
up the marriage settlement of their daughter Sabine with Calyste du Guenic
—1837. Four years later he consulted with old Marshal Hulot, on rue du
Montparnasse, regarding his will in behalf of Mlle. Fischer and Mme.
Steinbock. About 1845, at the request of Heloise Brisetout, he drew up
Sylvain Pons' will. [Albert Savarus. Beatrix. Cousin Betty. Cousin Pons.]
HAPPE & DUNCKER, celebrated bankers of Amsterdam, amateur art-
collectors, and snobbish parvenus, bought, in 1813, the fine gallery of
Balthazar Claes, paying one hundred thousand ducats for it. [The Quest of
the Absolute.]
HAUDRY, doctor at Paris during the first part of the nineteenth century.
An old man and an upholder of old treatments; having a practice mainly
among the middle class. Attended Cesar Birotteau, Jules Desmarets, Mme.
Descoings and Vanda de Mergi. His name was still cited at the end of Louis
Philippe's reign. [Cesar Birotteau. The Thirteen. A Bachelor's
Establishment. The Seamy Side of History. Cousin Pons.]
HAUGOULT (Pere), oratorian and regent of the Vendome college, about
1811. Stern and narrow-minded, he did not comprehend the budding genius
of one of his pupils, Louis Lambert, but destroyed the "Treatise on the
Will," written by the lad. [Louis Lambert.]
HAUTESERRE (D'), born in 1751; grandfather of Marquis de Cinq-
Cygne; guardian of Laurence de Cinq-Cygne; father of Robert and Adrien

d'Hauteserre. A gentleman of caution he would willingly have parleyed with
the Revolution; he made this evident after 1803 in the Arcis precinct where
he resided, and especially during the succeeding years marked by an affair
which jeopardized the lives of some of his family. Gondreville, Peyrade,
Corentin, Fouche and Napoleon were bugaboos to d'Hauteserre. He outlived
his sons. [The Gondreville Mystery. The Member for Arcis.]
HAUTESERRE (Madame d'), wife of the preceding; born in 1763;
mother of Robert and Adrien; showed throughout her wearied, saddened
frame the marks of the old regime. Following Goujet's advice she
countenanced the deeds of Mlle. de Cinq-Cygne, the bold, dashing counter-
revolutionist of Arcis during 1803 and succeeding years. Mme. Hauteserre
survived her sons. [The Gondreville Mystery.]
HAUTESERRE (Robert d'), elder son of the foregoing. Brusque,
recalling the men of mediaeval times, despite his feeble constitution. A man
of honor, he followed the fortunes of his brother Adrien and his kinsmen the
Simeuses. Like them, he emigrated during the first Revolution, and returned
to the neighborhood of Arcis about 1803. Like them again he became
enamored of Mlle. de Cinq-Cygne. Wrongly accused of having abducted
the senator, Malin de Gondreville, and sentenced to ten years' hard labor, he
obtained the Emperor's pardon and was made sub-lieutenant in the cavalry.
He died as colonel at the storming of Moskowa, September 7, 1812. [The
Gondreville Mystery.]
HAUTESERRE (Adrien d'), second son of M. and Mme. d'Hauteserre;
was of different stamp from his older brother Robert, yet had many things
in common with the latter's career. He also was influenced by honor. He
also emigrated and, on his return, fell under the same sentence. He also
obtained Napoleon's pardon and a commission in the army, taking Robert's
place in the attack on Moskowa; and in recognition of his severe wounds
became brigadier-general after the battle of Dresden, August 26, 27, 1813.
The doors of the Chateau de Cinq-Cygne were opened to admit the
mutilated soldier, who married his mistress, Laurence, though his affection
was not requited. This marriage made Adrien Marquis de Cinq-Cygne.
During the Restoration he was made a peer, promoted to lieutenant-general,
and obtained the Cross of Saint-Louis. He died in 1829, lamented by his
wife, his parents and his children. [The Gondreville Mystery.]

HAUTESERRE (Abbe d'), brother of M. d'Hauteserre; somewhat like his
young kinsman in disposition; made some ado over his noble birth; thus it
happened that he was killed, shot in the attack on the Hotel de Cinq-Cygne
by the people of Troyes, in 1792. [The Gondreville Mystery.]
HAUTOY (Francis du), gentleman of Angouleme; was consul at Valence.
Lived in the chief city of Charente between 1821 and 1824; frequented the
Bargetons; was on the most intimate terms with the Senonches, and was
said to be the father of Francoise de la Haye, daughter of Mme. de
Senonches. Hautoy seemed slightly superior to his associates. [Lost
Illusions.]
HENRI, police-agent at Paris in 1840, given special assignments by
Corentin, and placed as servant successively at the Thuilliers, and with
Nepomucene Picot, with the duty of watching Theodose de la Peyrade. [The
Middle Classes.]
HERBELOT, notary of Arcis-sur-Aube during the electoral period of
spring, 1839; visited the Beauvisages, Marions and Mollots. [The Member
for Arcis.]
HERBELOT (Malvina), born in 1809; sister of the preceding, whose
curiosity she shared, when the Arcis elections were in progress. She also
called on the Beauvisages and the Mollots, and, despite her thirty years,
sought the society of the young women of these houses. [The Member for
Arcis.]
HERBOMEZ, of Mayenne, nick-named General Hardi; chauffeur
implicated in the Royalist uprising in which Henriette Bryond took part,
during the first Empire. Like Mme. de la Chanterie's daughter, Herbomez
paid with his head his share in the rebellion. His execution took place in
1809. [The Seamy Side of History.]
HERBOMEZ (D'), brother of the foregoing, but more fortunate, he ended
by becoming a count and receiver-general. [The Seamy Side of History.]
HEREDIA (Marie). (See Soria, Duchesse de.)
HERMANN, a Nuremberg merchant who commanded a free company
enlisted against the French, in October, 1799. Was arrested and thrown into

a prison of Andernach, where he had for fellow-prisoner, Prosper Magnan, a
young assistant surgeon, native of Beauvais, Oise. Hermann thus learned
the terrible secret of an unjust detention followed by an execution equally
unjust. Many years after, in Paris, he told the story of the martyrdom of
Magnan in the presence of F. Taillefer, the unpunished author of the dual
crime which had caused the imprisonment and death of an innocent man.
[The Red Inn.]
HERON, notary of Issoudun in the early part of the nineteenth century,
who was attorney for the Rougets, father and son. [A Bachelor's
Establishment.]
HEROUVILLE (Marechal d'), whose ancestors' names were inscribed in
the pages of French history, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,
replete with glory and dramatic mystery; was Duc de Nivron. He was the
last governor of Normandy, returned from exile with Louis XVIII. in 1814,
and died at an advanced age in 1819. [The Hated Son. Modeste Mignon.]
HEROUVILLE (Duc d'), son of the preceding; born in 1796, at Vienna,
Austria, during the emigration, "fruit of the matrimonial autumn of the last
governor of Normandy"; descendant of a Comte d'Herouville, a Norman
free-lance who lived under Henri IV. and Louis XIII. He was Marquis de
Saint-Sever, Duc de Nivron, Comte de Bayeux, Vicomte d'Essigny, grand
equerry and peer of France, chevalier of the Order of the Spur and of the
Golden Fleece, and grandee of Spain. A more modest origin, however, was
ascribed to him by some. The founder of his house was supposed to have
been an usher at the court of Robert of Normandy. But the coat-of-arms
bore the device "Herus Villa"—House of the Chief. At any rate, the physical
unattractiveness and comparative lack of means of D'Herouville, who was a
kind of dwarf, contrasted with his aristocratic lineage. However, his income
allowed him to keep a house on rue Saint-Thomas du Louvre, Paris, and to
keep on good terms with the Chaulieus. He maintained Fanny Beaupre, who
apparently cost him dear; for, about 1829, he sought the hand of the Mignon
heiress. During the reign of Louis Philippe, D'Herouville, then a social
leader, had acquaintance with the Hulots, was known as a celebrated art
amateur, and resided on rue de Varenne, in Faubourg Saint-Germain. Later
he took Josepha Mirah from Hulot, and installed her in fine style on rue

Saint-Maur-du-Temple with Olympe Bijou. [The Hated Son. Jealousies of a
Country Town. Modeste Mignon. Cousin Betty.]
HEROUVILLE (Mademoiselle d'), aunt of the preceding; dreamed of a
rich marriage for that stunted creature, who seemed a sort of reproduction
of an evil Herouville of past ages. She desired Modeste Mignon for him;
but her aristocratic pride revolted at the thought of Mlle. Monegod or
Augusta de Nucingen. [Modeste Mignon.]
HEROUVILLE (Helene d'), niece of the preceding; sister of Duc
d'Herouville; accompanied her relatives to Havre in 1829; afterwards knew
the Mignons. [Modeste Mignon.]
HERRERA (Carlos), unacknowledged son of the Duc d'Ossuna; canon of
the cathedral of Toledo, charged with a political mission to France by
Ferdinand VII. He was drawn into an ambush by Jacques Collin, who killed
him, stripped him and then assumed his name until about 1830. [Lost
Illusions. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
HICLAR, Parisian musician, in 1845, who received from Dubourdieu, a
symbolical painter, author of a figure of Harmony, an order to compose a
symphony suitable of being played before the picture. [The Unconscious
Humorists.]
HILEY, alias the Laborer, a chauffeur and the most cunning of minor
participants in the Royalist uprising of Orne. Was executed in 1809. [The
Seamy Side of History.]
HIPPOLYTE, young officer, aide-de-camp to general Eble in the Russian
campaign; friend of Major Philippe de Sucy. Killed in an attack on the
Russians near Studzianka, November 18, 1812. [Farewell.]
HOCHON, born at Issoudun about 1738; was tax-receiver at Selles,
Berry. Married Maximilienne, the sister of Sub-Delegate Lousteau. Had
three children, one of whom became Mme. Borniche. Hochon's marriage
and the change of the political horizon brought him back to his native town
where he and his family were long known as the Five Hochons. Mlle.
Hochon's marriage and the death of her brothers made the jest still tenable;
for M. Hochon, despite a proverbial avarice, adopted their posterity—
Francois Hochon, Baruch and Adolphine Borniche. Hochon lived till an

advanced age. He was still living at the end of the Restoration, and gave
shrewd advice to the Bridaus regarding the Rouget legacy. [A Bachelor's
Establishment.]
HOCHON (Madame), wife of the preceding, born Maximilienne
Lousteau about 1750; sister of the sub-delegate; also god-mother of Mme.
Bridau, nee Rouget. During her whole life she displayed a sweet and
resigned sympathy. The neglected and timorous mother of a family, she
bore the matrimonial yoke of a second Felix Grandet. [A Bachelor's
Establishment.]
HOCHON, elder son of the foregoing; survived his brother and sister;
married at an early age to a wealthy woman by whom he had one son; died
a year before her, in 1813, slain at the battle of Hanau. [A Bachelor's
Establishment.]
HOCHON (Francois), son of the preceding, born in 1798. Left an orphan
at sixteen he was adopted by his paternal grandparents and lived in
Issoudun with his cousins, the Borniche children. He affiliated secretly with
Maxence Gilet, being one of the "Knights of Idlesse," till his conduct was
discovered. His stern grandmother sent the young man to Poitiers where he
studied law and received a yearly allowance of six hundred francs. [A
Bachelor's Establishment.]
HONORINE, (See Bauvan, Comtesse Octave de.)
HOPWOOD (Lady Julia), English; made a journey to Spain between
1818 and 1819, and had there for a time a chamber-maid known as
Caroline, who was none other than Antoinette de Langeais, who had fled
from Paris after Montriveau jilted her. [The Thirteen.]
HOREAU (Jacques), alias the Stuart, had been lieutenant in the Sixty-
ninth demi-brigade. Became one of the associates of Tinteniac, known
through his participation in the Quiberon expedition. Turned chauffeur and
compromised himself in the Orne Royalist uprising. Was executed in 1809.
[The Seamy Side of History.]
HORTENSE was, under Louis Philippe, one of the numerous mistresses
of Lord Dudley. She lived on rue Tronchet when Cerizet employed Antonia

Chocardelle to hoodwink Maxime de Trailles. [A Man of Business. The
Member for Arcis.]
HOSTAL (Maurice de l'), born in 1802; living physical portrait of Byron;
nephew and like an adopted son of Abbe Loraux. He became, at Marais, in
rue Payenne, the secretary and afterwards the confidant of Octave de
Bauvan. Was acquainted with Honorine de Bauvan on rue Saint-Maur-
Popincourt and all but fell in love with her. Turned diplomat, left France,
married the Italian, Onorina Pedrotti, and became head of a family. While
consul to Genoa, about 1836, he again met Octave de Bauvan, then a
widower and near his end, who entrusted his son to him. M. de l'Hostal
once entertained Claude Vignon, Leon de Lora and Felicite des Touches, to
whom he related the marital troubles of the Bauvans. [Honorine.]
HOSTAL (Madame Maurice de l'), wife of the preceding, born Onorina
Pedrotti. A beautiful and unusually rich Genoese; slightly jealous of the
consul; perhaps overhead the story of the Bauvans. [Honorine.]
HULOT, born in 1766, served under the first Republic and Empire. Took
an active part in the wars and tragedies of the time. Commanded the
Seventy-second demi-brigade, called the Mayencaise, during the Chouan
uprising of 1799. Fought against Montauran. His career as private and
officer had been so filled that his thirty-three years seemed an age. He went
out a great deal. Rubbed elbows with Montcornet; called on Mme. de la
Baudraye. He remained a democrat during the Empire; nevertheless
Bonaparte recognized him. Hulot was made colonel of the grenadiers of the
Guard, Comte de Forzheim and marshal. Retired to his splendid home on
rue du Montparnasse, where he passed his declining years simply, being
deaf, remaining a friend of Cottin de Wissembourg, and often surrounded
by the family of a brother whose misconduct hastened his end in 1841.
Hulot was given a superb funeral. [The Chouans. The Muse of the
Department. Cousin Betty.]
HULOT D'ERVY (Baron Hector), born about 1775; brother of the
preceding; took the name of Hulot d'Ervy early in life in order to make a
distinction between himself and his brother to whom he owed the brilliant
beginning of a civil and military career. Hulot d'Ervy became ordonnance
commissary during the Republic. The Empire made him a baron. During

one of these periods he married Adeline Fischer, by whom he had two
children. The succeeding governments, at least that of July, also favored
Hector Hulot, and he became in turn, intendant-general, director of the War
Department, councillor of state, and grand officer of the Legion of Honor.
His private misbehavior dated from these periods and gathered force while
he lived in Paris. Each of his successive mistresses—Jenny Cadine, Josepha
Mirah, Valerie Marneffe, Olympe Bijou, Elodie Chardin, Atala Judici,
Agathe Piquetard —precipitated his dishonor and ruin. He hid under
various names, as Thoul, Thorec and Vyder, anagrams of Hulot, Hector and
d'Ervy. Neither the persecutions of the money-lender Samanon nor the
influence of his family could reform him. After his wife's death he married,
February 1, 1846, Agathe Piquetard, his kitchen-girl and the lowest of his
servants. [Cousin Betty.]
HULOT D'ERVY (Baronne Hector), wife of the preceding; born Adeline
Fischer, about 1790, in the village of Vosges; remarkable for her beauty;
was married for mutual love, despite her inferior birth, and for some time
lived caressed and adored by her husband and venerated by her brother-in-
law. At the end of the Empire probably commenced her sorrows and the
faithlessness of Hector, notwithstanding the two children born of their
union, Victorin and Hortense. Had it not been for her maternal solicitude the
baroness could have condoned the gradual degradation of her husband. The
honor of the name and the future of her daughter gave her concern. No
sacrifice was too great for her. She vainly offered herself to Celestin Crevel,
whom she had formerly scorned, and underwent the parvenu's insults; she
besought Josepha Mirah's aid, and rescued the baron from Atala Judici. The
closing years of her life were not quite so miserable. She devoted herself to
charitable offices, and lived on rue Louis-le-Grand with her married
children and their reclaimed father. The intervention of Victorin, and the
deaths of the Comte de Forzheim, of Lisbeth Fischer and of M. and Mme.
Crevel, induced comfort and security that was often menaced. But the
conduct of Hector with Agathe Piquetard broke the thread of Mme. Hulot
d'Ervy's life; for some time she had had a nervous trouble. She died aged
about fifty-six. [Cousin Betty.]
HULOT (Victorin), elder child of the foregoing. Married Mlle. Celestine
Crevel and was father of a family. Became under Louis Philippe one of the
leading attorneys of Paris. Was deputy, counsel of the War Department,