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+REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE
+PART I, A -- K
+
+
+
+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, consulting counsel of the police service and
+counsel for the civil list. His salary for the various offices came to
+eighteen thousand francs. He was seated at Palais-Bourbon when the
+election of Dorlange-Sallenauve was contested. His connection with the
+police enabled him to save his family from the clutches of Mme.
+Valerie Crevel. In 1834 he owned a house on rue Louis-le-Grand. Seven
+or eight years later he sheltered nearly all the Hulots and their near
+kindred, but he could not prevent the second marriage of his father.
+[The Member for Arcis. Cousin Betty.]
+
+HULOT (Madame Victorin), wife of preceding, born Celestine Crevel;
+married as a result of a meeting between her father and her father-in-
+law, who were both libertines. She took part in the dissensions
+between the two families, replaced Lisbeth Fischer in the care of the
+house on rue Louis-le-Grand, and probably never saw the second Mme.
+Celestin Crevel, unless at the death-bed of the retired perfumer.
+[Cousin Betty.]
+
+HULOT (Hortense). (See Steinbock, Comtesse Wenceslas.)
+
+HULOT D'ERVY (Baronne Hector), nee Agathe Piquetard of Isigny, where
+she became the second wife of Hector Hulot d'Ervy. Went to Paris as
+kitchen-maid for Hulot about December, 1845, and was married to her
+master, then a widower, on February 1, 1846. [Cousin Betty.]
+
+HUMANN, celebrated Parisian tailor of 1836 and succeeding years. At
+the instance of the students Rabourdin and Juste he clothed the
+poverty-stricken Zephirin Marcas "as a politician." [Z. Marcas.]
+
+HUSSON (Madame.) (See Mme. Clapart.)
+
+HUSSON (Oscar), born about 1804, son of the preceding and of M. Husson
+--army-contractor; led a checkered career, explained by his origin and
+childhood. He scarcely knew his father, who made and soon lost a
+fortune. The previous fast life of his mother, who afterwards married
+again, gave rise to or upheld some more or less influential
+connections and made her, during the first Empire, the titular /femme
+de chambre/ to Madame Mere--Letitia Bonaparte. Napoleon's fall marked
+the ruin of the Hussons. Oscar and his mother--now married to M.
+Clapart--lived in a modest apartment on rue de la Cerisaie, Paris.
+Oscar obtained a license and became clerk in Desroches' law office in
+Paris, being coached by Godeschal. During this time he became
+acquainted with two young men, his cousins the Marests. One of them
+had previously instigated an early escapade of Oscar's, and it was now
+followed by one much more serious, on rue de Vendome at the house of
+Florentine Cabirolle, who was then maintained by Cardot, Oscar's
+wealthy uncle. Husson was forced to abandon law and enter military
+service. He was in the cavalry regiment of the Duc de Maufrigneuse and
+the Vicomte de Serizy. The interest of the dauphiness and of Abbe
+Gaudron obtained for him promotion and a decoration. He became in turn
+aide-de-camp to La Fayette, captain, officer of the Legion of Honor
+and lieutenant-colonel. A noteworthy deed made him famous on Algerian
+territory during the affair of La Macta; Husson lost his left arm in
+the vain attempt to save Vicomte de Serizy. Put on half-pay, he
+obtained the post of collector for Beaumont-sur-Oise. He then married
+--1838--Georgette Pierrotin and met again the accomplices or witnesses
+of his earlier escapades--one of the Marests, the Moreaus, etc. [A
+Start in Life.]
+
+HUSSON (Madame Oscar), wife of the preceding; born Georgette
+Pierrotin; daughter of the proprietor of the stage-service of Oise. [A
+Start in Life.]
+
+HYDE DE NEUVILLE (Jean-Guillaume, Baron)--1776-1857--belonged to the
+Martignac ministry of 1828; was, in 1797, one of the most active
+Bourbon agents. Kept civil war aflame in the West, and held a
+conference in 1799 with First Consul Bonaparte relative to the
+restoration of Louis XVIII. [The Chouans.]
+
+
+
+I
+
+IDAMORE, nick-name of Chardin junior while he was /claqueur/ in a
+theatre on the Boulevard du Temple, Paris. [Cousin Betty.]
+
+ISEMBERG (Marechal, Duc d'), probably belonged to the Imperial
+nobility. He lost at the gaming table, in November, 1809, in a grand
+fete given at Paris at Senator Malin de Gondreville's home, while the
+Duchesse de Lansac was acting as peacemaker between a youthful married
+couple. [Domestic Peace.]
+
+
+
+J
+
+JACMIN (Philoxene), of Honfleur; perhaps cousin of Jean Butscha; maid
+to Eleonore de Chaulieu; in love with Germain Bonnet, valet of
+Melchior de Canalis. [Modeste Mignon.]
+
+JACOMETY, head jailer of the Conciergerie, at Paris, in May, 1830,
+during Rubempre's imprisonment. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
+
+JACQUELIN, born in Normandy about 1776; in 1816 was employed by Mlle.
+Cormon, an old maid of Alencon. He married when she espoused M. du
+Bousquier. After the double marriage Jacquelin remained for some time
+in the service of the niece of the Abbe de Sponde. [Jealousies of a
+Country Town.]
+
+JACQUES, for a considerable period butler of Claire de Beauseant,
+following her to Bayeux. Essentially "aristocratic, intelligent and
+discreet," he understood the sufferings of his mistress. [Father
+Goriot. The Deserted Woman.]
+
+JACQUET (Claude-Joseph), a worthy bourgeois of the Restoration; head
+of a family, and something of a crank. He performed the duties of a
+deputy-mayor in Paris, and also had charge of the archives in the
+Department of Foreign Affairs. Was greatly indebted to his friend
+Jules Desmarets; so he deciphered for him, about 1820, a code letter
+of Gratien Bourignard. When Clemence Desmarets died, Jacquet comforted
+the broker in the Saint-Roch church and in the Pere-Lachaise cemetery.
+[The Thirteen.]
+
+JACQUINOT, said to have succeeded Cardot as notary at Paris, time of
+Louis Philippe [The Middle Classes.]; but since Cardot was succeeded
+by Berthier, his son-in-law, a discrepancy is apparent.
+
+JACQUOTTE, left the service of a cure for that of Dr. Benassis, whose
+house she managed with a devotion and care not unmixed with despotism.
+[The Country Doctor.]
+
+JAN,* a painter who cared not a fig for glory. About 1838 he covered
+with flowers and decorated the door of a bed-chamber in a suite owned
+by Crevel on rue du Dauphin, Paris. [Cousin Betty.]
+
+*   Perhaps the fresco-painter, Laurent-Jan, author of "Unrepentant
+    Misanthropy," and the friend of Balzac, to whom the latter
+    dedicated his drama, "Vautrin."
+
+JANVIER, priest in a village of Isere in 1829, a "veritable Fenelon
+shrunk to a cure's proportions"; knew, understood and assisted
+Benassis. [The Country Doctor.]
+
+JAPHET (Baron), celebrated chemist who subjected to hydrofluoric acid,
+to chloride of nitrogen, and to the action of the voltaic battery the
+mysterious "magic skin" of Raphael de Valentin. To his stupefaction
+the savant wrought no change on the tissue. [The Magic Skin.]
+
+JEAN, coachman and trusted servant of M. de Merret, at Vendome, in
+1816. [La Grande Breteche.]
+
+JEAN, landscape gardener and farm-hand for Felix Grandet, enagaged
+about November, 1819, in a field on the bank of the Loire, filling
+holes left by removed populars and planting other trees. [Eugenie
+Grandet.]
+
+JEAN, one of the keepers of Pere-Lachaise cemetery in 1820-21;
+conducted Desmarets and Jacquet to the tomb of Clemence Bourignard,
+who had recently been interred.* [The Thirteen.]
+
+*   In 1868, at Paris, MM. Ferdinand Dugue and Peaucellier presented a
+    play at the Gaite theatre, where one of the chief characters was
+    Clemence Bourignard-Desmarets.
+
+JEAN, lay brother of an abbey until 1791, when he found a home with
+Niseron, cure of Blangy, Burgundy; seldom left Gregoire Rigou, whose
+factotum he finally became. [The Peasantry.]
+
+JEANNETTE, born in 1758; cook for Ragon at Paris in 1818, in rue du
+Petit-Lion-Saint-Sulpice; distinguished herself at the Sunday
+receptions. [Cesar Birotteau.]
+
+JEANRENAUD (Madame), a Protestant, widow of a salt bargeman, by whom
+she had a son. A stout, ugly and vulgar woman, who recovered, during
+the Restoration, a fortune that had been stolen by the Catholic
+ancestors of D'Espard and was restored to him despite a suit to
+restrain him by injunction. Mme. Jeanrenaud lived at Villeparisis, and
+then at Paris, where she dwelt successively on rue de la Vrilliere--
+No. 8--and on Grand rue Verte. [The Commission in Lunacy.]
+
+JEANRENAUD, son of the preceding, born about 1792. He served as
+officer in the Imperial Guard, and, through the influence of D'Espard-
+Negrepelisse, became, in 1828, chief of squadron in the First regiment
+of the Cuirassiers of the Guard. Charles X. made him a baron. He then
+married a niece of Monegod. His beautiful villa on Lake Geneva is
+mentioned by Albert Savarus in "L'Ambitieux par Amour," published in
+the reign of Louis Philippe. [The Commission in Lunacy. Albert
+Savarus.]
+
+JENNY was, during the Restoration, maid and confidante of Aquilina de
+la Garde; afterwards, but for a very brief time, mistress of
+Castanier. [Melmoth Reconciled.]
+
+JEROME (Pere), second-hand book-seller on Pont Notre-Dame, Paris, in
+1821, at the time when Rubempre was making a start there. [A
+Distinguished Provincial at Paris.]
+
+JEROME, valet successively of Galard and of Albert Savarus at
+Besancon. He may have served the Parisian lawyer less sedulously
+because of Mariette, a servant at the Wattevilles, whose dowry he was
+after. [Albert Savarus.]
+
+JOHNSON (Samuel), assumed name of the police-agent, Peyrade.
+
+JOLIVARD, clerk of registry, rue de Normandie, Paris, about the end of
+Louis Philippe's reign. He lived on the first floor of the house owned
+by Pillerault, attended by the Cibots and tenanted by the Chapoulots,
+Pons and Schmucke. [Cousin Pons.]
+
+JONATHAS, valet of M. de Valentin senior; foster-father of Raphael de
+Valentin, whose steward he afterwards became when the young man was a
+multi-millionaire. He served him faithfully and survived him. [The
+Magic Skin.]
+
+JORDY (De) had been successively captain in a regiment of Royal-
+Suedois and professor in the Ecole Militaire. He had a refined nature
+and a tender heart; was the type of a poor but uncomplaining
+gentleman. His soul must have been the scene of sad secrets. Certain
+signs led one to believe that he had had children whom he had adored
+and lost. M. de Jordy lived modestly and quietly at Nemours. A
+similiarity of tastes and character drew him towards Denis Minoret
+whose intimate friend he became, and at whose home he conceived a
+liking for the doctor's young ward--Mme. Savinien de Portenduere. He
+had great influence over her, and left her an income of fourteen
+hundred francs when he died in 1823. [Ursule Mirouet.]
+
+JOSEPH, with Charles and Francois, was of the establishment of
+Montcornet at Aigues, Burgundy, about 1823. [The Peasantry.]
+
+JOSEPH, faithful servant of Rastignac at Paris, under the Restoration.
+In 1828 he carried to the Marquise de Listomere a letter written by
+his master to Mme. de Nucingen. This error, for which Joseph could
+hardly be held responsible, caused the scorn of the marquise when she
+discoverd that the missive was intended for another. [The Magic Skin.
+A Study of Woman.]
+
+JOSEPH, in the service of F. du Tillet, Paris, when his master was
+fairly launched in society and received Birotteau in state. [Cesar
+Birotteau.]
+
+JOSEPH, given name of a worthy chimney-builder of rue Saint-Lazare,
+Paris, about the end of the reign of Louis Philippe. Of Italian
+origin, the head of a family, saved from ruin by Adeline Hulot, who
+acted for Mme. de la Chanterie. Joseph was in touch with the scribe,
+Vyder, and when he took Mme. Hulot to see the latter she recognized in
+him her husband. [Cousin Betty.]
+
+JOSEPHA, (See Mirah, Josepha.)
+
+JOSETTE, cook for Claes at Douai; greatly attached to Josephine,
+Marguerite and Felicie Claes. Died about the end of the Restoration.
+[The Quest of the Absolute.]
+
+JOSETTE, old housekeeper for Maitre Mathias of Bordeaux during the
+Restoration. She accompanied her master when he bade farewell to Paul
+de Manerville the emigrant. [A Marriage Settlement.]
+
+JOSETTE, in and previous to 1816 chambermaid of Victoire-Rose Cormon
+of Alencon. She married Jacquelin when her mistress married du
+Bousquier. [Jealousies of a Country Town.]
+
+JUDICI (Atala), born about 1829, of Lombard descent; had a paternal
+grandfather, who was a wealthy chimney-builder of Paris during the
+first Empire, an employer of Joseph; he died in 1819. Mlle. Judici did
+not inherit her grandfather's fortune, for it was run through with by
+her father. In 1844 she was given by her mother--so the story goes--to
+Hector Hulot for fifteen thousand francs. She then left her family,
+who lived on rue de Charonne, and lived on Passage du Soleil. The
+pretty Atala was obliged to leave Hulot when his wife found him. Mme.
+Hulot promised her a dowry and to wed her to Joseph's oldest son. She
+was sometimes called Judix, which is a French corruption of the
+Italian name. [Cousin Betty.]
+
+JUDITH. (See Mme. Genestas.)
+
+JULIEN, one of the turnkeys of the Conciergerie in 1830, during the
+trial of Herrera--Vautrin--and Rubempre. [Scenes from a Courtesan's
+Life.]
+
+JULIEN, probably a native of Champagne; a young man in 1839, and in
+the service of Sub-Prefect Goulard, in Arcis-sur-Aube. He learned
+through Anicette, and revealed to the Beauvisages and Mollots, the
+Legitimist plots of the Chateau de Cinq-Cygne, where lived Georges de
+Maufrigneuse, Daniel d'Arthez, Laurence de Cinq-Cygne, Diane de
+Cadignan and Berthe de Maufrigneuse. [The Member for Arcis.]
+
+JULLIARD, head of the firm of Julliard in Paris, about 1806. At the
+"Ver Chinois," rue Saint-Denis, he sold silk in bolls. Sylvie Rogron
+was assistant saleswoman. Twenty years later he met her again in their
+native country of Provins, where he had retired in 1815, the head of a
+family grouped about the Guepins and the Guenees, thus forming three
+great clans. [Pierrette.]
+
+JULLIARD, elder son of the preceding; married the only daughter of a
+rich farmer and also conceived a platonic affection at Provins for
+Melanie Tiphaine, the most beautiful woman of the official colony
+during the Restoration. Julliard followed commerce and literature; he
+maintained a stage line, and a journal christened "La Ruche," in which
+latter he burned incense to Mme. Tiphaine. [Pierrette.]
+
+JUSSIEU (Julien), youthful conscript in the great draft of 1793. Sent
+with a note for lodgment to the home of Mme. de Dey at Carentan, where
+he was the innocent cause of that woman's sudden death; she was just
+then expecting the return of her son, a Royalist hunted by the
+Republican troops. [The Conscript.]
+
+JUSTE, born in 1811, studied medicine in Paris, and afterwards went to
+Asia to practice. In 1836 he lived on rue Corneille with Charles
+Rabourdin, when they helped the poverty-stricken Zephirin Marcas. [Z.
+Marcas.]
+
+JUSTIN, old and experienced valet of the Vidame de Pamiers; was
+secretly slain by order of Bourignard because he had discovered the
+real name, but carefully concealed, of the father of Mme. Desmarets.
+[The Thirteen.]
+
+JUSTINE, was maid to the Comtesse Foedora, in Paris, when her mistress
+received calls from M. de Valentin. [The Magic Skin.]
+
+
+
+K
+
+KATT, a Flemish woman, the nurse of Lydie de la Peyrade, whom she
+attended constantly in Paris on rue des Moineaux about 1829, and
+during her mistress' period of insanity on Rue Honore Chevalier in
+1840. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life. The Middle Classes.]
+
+KELLER (Francois), one of the influential and wealthy Parisian
+bankers, during a period extending perhaps from 1809 to 1839. As such,
+in November, 1809, under the Empire, he was one of the guests at a
+fine reception, given by Comte Malin de Gondreville, meeting there
+Isemberg, Montcornet, Mesdames de Lansac and de Vandemont, and a mixed
+company composed of members of the aristocracy and people illustrious
+under the Empire. At this time, moreover, Francois Keller was in the
+family of Malin de Gondreville, one of whose daughters he had married.
+This marriage, besides making him the brother-in-law of the Marechal
+de Carigliano, gave him assurance of the deputyship, which he obtained
+in 1816 and held until 1836. The district electors of Arcis-sur-Aube
+kept him in the legislature during that long period. Francois Keller
+had, by his marriage with Mademoiselle de Gondreville, one son,
+Charles, who died before his parents in the spring of 1839. As deputy,
+Francois Keller became one of the most noted orators of the Left
+Centre. He shone as a member of the opposition, especially from 1819
+to 1825. Adroitly he drew about himself the robe of philanthropy.
+Politics never turned his attention from finance. Francois Keller,
+seconded by his brother and partner, Adolphe Keller, refused to aid
+the needy perfumer, Cesar Birotteau. Between 1821 and 1823 the
+creditors of Guillaume Grandet, the bankrupt, unanimously selected him
+and M. des Grassins of Saumur as adjusters. Despite his display of
+Puritanical virtues, the private career of Francois Keller was not
+spotless. In 1825 it was known that he had an illegitimate and costly
+liaison with Flavie Colleville. Rallying to the support of the new
+monarchy from 1830 to 1836, Francois Keller saw his Philippist zeal
+rewarded in 1839. He exchanged his commission at the Palais-Bourbon
+for a peerage, and received the title of count. [Domestic Peace. Cesar
+Birotteau. Eugenie Grandet. The Government Clerks. The Member for
+Arcis.]
+
+KELLER (Madame Francois), wife of the preceding; daughter of Malin de
+Gondreville; mother of Charles Keller, who died in 1839. Under the
+Restoration, she inspired a warm passion in the heart of the son of
+the Duchesse de Marigny. [Domestic Peace. The Member for Arcis. The
+Thirteen.]
+
+KELLER, (Charles), born in 1809, son of the preceding couple, grandson
+of the Comte de Gondreville, nephew of the Marechale de Carigliano;
+his life was prematurely ended in 1839, at a time when a brilliant
+future seemed before him. As a major of staff at the side of the
+Prince Royal, Ferdinand d'Orleans, he took the field in Algeria. His
+bravery urged him on in pursuit of the Emir Abd-el-Kader, and he gave
+up his life in the face of the enemy. Becoming viscount as a result of
+the knighting of his father, and assured of the favors of the heir
+presumptive to the throne, Charles Keller, at the moment when death
+surprised him, was on the point of taking his seat in the Lower
+Chamber; for the body of electors of the district of Arcis-sur-Aube
+were almost sure to elect a man whom the Tuileries desired so
+ardently. [The Member for Arcis.]
+
+KELLER (Adolphe), brother--probably younger--of Francois and his
+partner; a very shrewd man, who was really in charge of the business,
+a "regular lynx." On account of his intimate relations with Nucingen
+and F. du Tillet, he flatly refused to aid Cesar Birotteau, who
+implored his assistance. [The Middle Classes. Pierrette. Cesar
+Birotteau.]
+
+KERGAROUET (Comte de), born about the middle of the eighteenth
+century; of the Bretagne nobility; entered the navy, served long and
+valiantly upon the sea, commanded the "Belle-Poule," and died a vice-
+admiral. Possessor of a great fortune, by his charity he made amends
+for the foulness of some of his youthful love affairs (1771 and
+following), and at Paris, near the Madeleine, towards the beginning of
+the nineteenth century, with much delicacy, he helped the Baronne
+Leseigneur de Rouville. A little later, at the age of seventy-two,
+having for a long time been a widower and retired from the navy, while
+enjoying the hospitality of his relatives, the Fontaines and the
+Planat de Baudrys, who lived in the neighborhood of Sceaux, Kergarouet
+married his niece, one of the daughters of Fontaine. He died before
+her. M. de Kergarouet was also a relative of the Portendueres and did
+not forget them. [The Purse. The Ball at Sceaux. Ursule Mirouet.]
+
+KERGAROUET (Comtesse de). (See Vandenesse, Marquise Charles de.)
+
+KERGAROUET (Vicomte de), nephew of the Comte de Kergarouet, husband of
+a Pen-Hoel, by whom he had four daughters. Evidently lived at Nantes
+in 1836. [Beatrix.]
+
+KERGAROUET (Vicomtesse de), wife of the preceding, born at Pen-Hoel
+in 1789; younger sister of Jacqueline; mother of four girls, very
+affected woman and looked upon as such by Felicite des Touches and
+Arthur de Rochefide. Lived in Nantes in 1836. [Beatrix.]
+
+KERGAROUET (Charlotte de), born in 1821, one of the daughters of the
+preceding, grand-niece of the Comte de Kergarouet; of his four nieces
+she was the favorite of the wealthy Jacqueline de Pen-Hoel; a good-
+hearted little country girl; fell in love with Calyste du Guenic in
+1836, but did not marry him. [Beatrix.]
+
+KOLB, an Alsatian, served as "man of all work" at the home of the
+Didots in Paris; had served in the cuirassiers. Under the Restoration
+he became "printer's devil" in the establishment of David Sechard of
+Angouleme, for whom he showed an untiring devotion, and whose servant,
+Marion, he married. [Lost Illusions.]
+
+KOLB (Marion), wife of the preceding, with whom she became acquainted
+while at the home of David Sechard. She was, at first, in the service
+of the Angouleme printer, Jerome-Nicholas Sechard, for whom she had
+less praise than for David. Marion Kolb was like her husband in her
+constant, childlike devotion. [Lost Illusions.]
+
+KOUSKI, Polish lancer in the French Royal Guards, lived very unhappily
+in 1815-16, but enjoyed life better the following year. At that time
+he lived at Issoudun in the home of the wealthy Jean-Jacques Rouget,
+and served the commandant, Maxence Gilet. The latter became the idol
+of the grateful Kouski. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
+
+KROPOLI (Zena), Montenegrin of Zahara, seduced in 1809 by the French
+gunner, Auguste Niseron, by whom she had a daughter, Genevieve. One
+year later, at Vincennes, France, she died as a result of her
+confinement. The necessary marriage papers, which would have rendered
+valid the situation of Zena Kropoli, arrived a few days after her
+death. [The Peasantry.]
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE
+PART I, A -- K
+
+
+
+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, consulting counsel of the police service and
+counsel for the civil list. His salary for the various offices came to
+eighteen thousand francs. He was seated at Palais-Bourbon when the
+election of Dorlange-Sallenauve was contested. His connection with the
+police enabled him to save his family from the clutches of Mme.
+Valerie Crevel. In 1834 he owned a house on rue Louis-le-Grand. Seven
+or eight years later he sheltered nearly all the Hulots and their near
+kindred, but he could not prevent the second marriage of his father.
+[The Member for Arcis. Cousin Betty.]
+
+HULOT (Madame Victorin), wife of preceding, born Celestine Crevel;
+married as a result of a meeting between her father and her father-in-
+law, who were both libertines. She took part in the dissensions
+between the two families, replaced Lisbeth Fischer in the care of the
+house on rue Louis-le-Grand, and probably never saw the second Mme.
+Celestin Crevel, unless at the death-bed of the retired perfumer.
+[Cousin Betty.]
+
+HULOT (Hortense). (See Steinbock, Comtesse Wenceslas.)
+
+HULOT D'ERVY (Baronne Hector), nee Agathe Piquetard of Isigny, where
+she became the second wife of Hector Hulot d'Ervy. Went to Paris as
+kitchen-maid for Hulot about December, 1845, and was married to her
+master, then a widower, on February 1, 1846. [Cousin Betty.]
+
+HUMANN, celebrated Parisian tailor of 1836 and succeeding years. At
+the instance of the students Rabourdin and Juste he clothed the
+poverty-stricken Zephirin Marcas "as a politician." [Z. Marcas.]
+
+HUSSON (Madame.) (See Mme. Clapart.)
+
+HUSSON (Oscar), born about 1804, son of the preceding and of M. Husson
+--army-contractor; led a checkered career, explained by his origin and
+childhood. He scarcely knew his father, who made and soon lost a
+fortune. The previous fast life of his mother, who afterwards married
+again, gave rise to or upheld some more or less influential
+connections and made her, during the first Empire, the titular /femme
+de chambre/ to Madame Mere--Letitia Bonaparte. Napoleon's fall marked
+the ruin of the Hussons. Oscar and his mother--now married to M.
+Clapart--lived in a modest apartment on rue de la Cerisaie, Paris.
+Oscar obtained a license and became clerk in Desroches' law office in
+Paris, being coached by Godeschal. During this time he became
+acquainted with two young men, his cousins the Marests. One of them
+had previously instigated an early escapade of Oscar's, and it was now
+followed by one much more serious, on rue de Vendome at the house of
+Florentine Cabirolle, who was then maintained by Cardot, Oscar's
+wealthy uncle. Husson was forced to abandon law and enter military
+service. He was in the cavalry regiment of the Duc de Maufrigneuse and
+the Vicomte de Serizy. The interest of the dauphiness and of Abbe
+Gaudron obtained for him promotion and a decoration. He became in turn
+aide-de-camp to La Fayette, captain, officer of the Legion of Honor
+and lieutenant-colonel. A noteworthy deed made him famous on Algerian
+territory during the affair of La Macta; Husson lost his left arm in
+the vain attempt to save Vicomte de Serizy. Put on half-pay, he
+obtained the post of collector for Beaumont-sur-Oise. He then married
+--1838--Georgette Pierrotin and met again the accomplices or witnesses
+of his earlier escapades--one of the Marests, the Moreaus, etc. [A
+Start in Life.]
+
+HUSSON (Madame Oscar), wife of the preceding; born Georgette
+Pierrotin; daughter of the proprietor of the stage-service of Oise. [A
+Start in Life.]
+
+HYDE DE NEUVILLE (Jean-Guillaume, Baron)--1776-1857--belonged to the
+Martignac ministry of 1828; was, in 1797, one of the most active
+Bourbon agents. Kept civil war aflame in the West, and held a
+conference in 1799 with First Consul Bonaparte relative to the
+restoration of Louis XVIII. [The Chouans.]
+
+
+
+I
+
+IDAMORE, nick-name of Chardin junior while he was /claqueur/ in a
+theatre on the Boulevard du Temple, Paris. [Cousin Betty.]
+
+ISEMBERG (Marechal, Duc d'), probably belonged to the Imperial
+nobility. He lost at the gaming table, in November, 1809, in a grand
+fete given at Paris at Senator Malin de Gondreville's home, while the
+Duchesse de Lansac was acting as peacemaker between a youthful married
+couple. [Domestic Peace.]
+
+
+
+J
+
+JACMIN (Philoxene), of Honfleur; perhaps cousin of Jean Butscha; maid
+to Eleonore de Chaulieu; in love with Germain Bonnet, valet of
+Melchior de Canalis. [Modeste Mignon.]
+
+JACOMETY, head jailer of the Conciergerie, at Paris, in May, 1830,
+during Rubempre's imprisonment. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]
+
+JACQUELIN, born in Normandy about 1776; in 1816 was employed by Mlle.
+Cormon, an old maid of Alencon. He married when she espoused M. du
+Bousquier. After the double marriage Jacquelin remained for some time
+in the service of the niece of the Abbe de Sponde. [Jealousies of a
+Country Town.]
+
+JACQUES, for a considerable period butler of Claire de Beauseant,
+following her to Bayeux. Essentially "aristocratic, intelligent and
+discreet," he understood the sufferings of his mistress. [Father
+Goriot. The Deserted Woman.]
+
+JACQUET (Claude-Joseph), a worthy bourgeois of the Restoration; head
+of a family, and something of a crank. He performed the duties of a
+deputy-mayor in Paris, and also had charge of the archives in the
+Department of Foreign Affairs. Was greatly indebted to his friend
+Jules Desmarets; so he deciphered for him, about 1820, a code letter
+of Gratien Bourignard. When Clemence Desmarets died, Jacquet comforted
+the broker in the Saint-Roch church and in the Pere-Lachaise cemetery.
+[The Thirteen.]
+
+JACQUINOT, said to have succeeded Cardot as notary at Paris, time of
+Louis Philippe [The Middle Classes.]; but since Cardot was succeeded
+by Berthier, his son-in-law, a discrepancy is apparent.
+
+JACQUOTTE, left the service of a cure for that of Dr. Benassis, whose
+house she managed with a devotion and care not unmixed with despotism.
+[The Country Doctor.]
+
+JAN,* a painter who cared not a fig for glory. About 1838 he covered
+with flowers and decorated the door of a bed-chamber in a suite owned
+by Crevel on rue du Dauphin, Paris. [Cousin Betty.]
+
+*   Perhaps the fresco-painter, Laurent-Jan, author of "Unrepentant
+    Misanthropy," and the friend of Balzac, to whom the latter
+    dedicated his drama, "Vautrin."
+
+JANVIER, priest in a village of Isere in 1829, a "veritable Fenelon
+shrunk to a cure's proportions"; knew, understood and assisted
+Benassis. [The Country Doctor.]
+
+JAPHET (Baron), celebrated chemist who subjected to hydrofluoric acid,
+to chloride of nitrogen, and to the action of the voltaic battery the
+mysterious "magic skin" of Raphael de Valentin. To his stupefaction
+the savant wrought no change on the tissue. [The Magic Skin.]
+
+JEAN, coachman and trusted servant of M. de Merret, at Vendome, in
+1816. [La Grande Breteche.]
+
+JEAN, landscape gardener and farm-hand for Felix Grandet, enagaged
+about November, 1819, in a field on the bank of the Loire, filling
+holes left by removed populars and planting other trees. [Eugenie
+Grandet.]
+
+JEAN, one of the keepers of Pere-Lachaise cemetery in 1820-21;
+conducted Desmarets and Jacquet to the tomb of Clemence Bourignard,
+who had recently been interred.* [The Thirteen.]
+
+*   In 1868, at Paris, MM. Ferdinand Dugue and Peaucellier presented a
+    play at the Gaite theatre, where one of the chief characters was
+    Clemence Bourignard-Desmarets.
+
+JEAN, lay brother of an abbey until 1791, when he found a home with
+Niseron, cure of Blangy, Burgundy; seldom left Gregoire Rigou, whose
+factotum he finally became. [The Peasantry.]
+
+JEANNETTE, born in 1758; cook for Ragon at Paris in 1818, in rue du
+Petit-Lion-Saint-Sulpice; distinguished herself at the Sunday
+receptions. [Cesar Birotteau.]
+
+JEANRENAUD (Madame), a Protestant, widow of a salt bargeman, by whom
+she had a son. A stout, ugly and vulgar woman, who recovered, during
+the Restoration, a fortune that had been stolen by the Catholic
+ancestors of D'Espard and was restored to him despite a suit to
+restrain him by injunction. Mme. Jeanrenaud lived at Villeparisis, and
+then at Paris, where she dwelt successively on rue de la Vrilliere--
+No. 8--and on Grand rue Verte. [The Commission in Lunacy.]
+
+JEANRENAUD, son of the preceding, born about 1792. He served as
+officer in the Imperial Guard, and, through the influence of D'Espard-
+Negrepelisse, became, in 1828, chief of squadron in the First regiment
+of the Cuirassiers of the Guard. Charles X. made him a baron. He then
+married a niece of Monegod. His beautiful villa on Lake Geneva is
+mentioned by Albert Savarus in "L'Ambitieux par Amour," published in
+the reign of Louis Philippe. [The Commission in Lunacy. Albert
+Savarus.]
+
+JENNY was, during the Restoration, maid and confidante of Aquilina de
+la Garde; afterwards, but for a very brief time, mistress of
+Castanier. [Melmoth Reconciled.]
+
+JEROME (Pere), second-hand book-seller on Pont Notre-Dame, Paris, in
+1821, at the time when Rubempre was making a start there. [A
+Distinguished Provincial at Paris.]
+
+JEROME, valet successively of Galard and of Albert Savarus at
+Besancon. He may have served the Parisian lawyer less sedulously
+because of Mariette, a servant at the Wattevilles, whose dowry he was
+after. [Albert Savarus.]
+
+JOHNSON (Samuel), assumed name of the police-agent, Peyrade.
+
+JOLIVARD, clerk of registry, rue de Normandie, Paris, about the end of
+Louis Philippe's reign. He lived on the first floor of the house owned
+by Pillerault, attended by the Cibots and tenanted by the Chapoulots,
+Pons and Schmucke. [Cousin Pons.]
+
+JONATHAS, valet of M. de Valentin senior; foster-father of Raphael de
+Valentin, whose steward he afterwards became when the young man was a
+multi-millionaire. He served him faithfully and survived him. [The
+Magic Skin.]
+
+JORDY (De) had been successively captain in a regiment of Royal-
+Suedois and professor in the Ecole Militaire. He had a refined nature
+and a tender heart; was the type of a poor but uncomplaining
+gentleman. His soul must have been the scene of sad secrets. Certain
+signs led one to believe that he had had children whom he had adored
+and lost. M. de Jordy lived modestly and quietly at Nemours. A
+similiarity of tastes and character drew him towards Denis Minoret
+whose intimate friend he became, and at whose home he conceived a
+liking for the doctor's young ward--Mme. Savinien de Portenduere. He
+had great influence over her, and left her an income of fourteen
+hundred francs when he died in 1823. [Ursule Mirouet.]
+
+JOSEPH, with Charles and Francois, was of the establishment of
+Montcornet at Aigues, Burgundy, about 1823. [The Peasantry.]
+
+JOSEPH, faithful servant of Rastignac at Paris, under the Restoration.
+In 1828 he carried to the Marquise de Listomere a letter written by
+his master to Mme. de Nucingen. This error, for which Joseph could
+hardly be held responsible, caused the scorn of the marquise when she
+discoverd that the missive was intended for another. [The Magic Skin.
+A Study of Woman.]
+
+JOSEPH, in the service of F. du Tillet, Paris, when his master was
+fairly launched in society and received Birotteau in state. [Cesar
+Birotteau.]
+
+JOSEPH, given name of a worthy chimney-builder of rue Saint-Lazare,
+Paris, about the end of the reign of Louis Philippe. Of Italian
+origin, the head of a family, saved from ruin by Adeline Hulot, who
+acted for Mme. de la Chanterie. Joseph was in touch with the scribe,
+Vyder, and when he took Mme. Hulot to see the latter she recognized in
+him her husband. [Cousin Betty.]
+
+JOSEPHA, (See Mirah, Josepha.)
+
+JOSETTE, cook for Claes at Douai; greatly attached to Josephine,
+Marguerite and Felicie Claes. Died about the end of the Restoration.
+[The Quest of the Absolute.]
+
+JOSETTE, old housekeeper for Maitre Mathias of Bordeaux during the
+Restoration. She accompanied her master when he bade farewell to Paul
+de Manerville the emigrant. [A Marriage Settlement.]
+
+JOSETTE, in and previous to 1816 chambermaid of Victoire-Rose Cormon
+of Alencon. She married Jacquelin when her mistress married du
+Bousquier. [Jealousies of a Country Town.]
+
+JUDICI (Atala), born about 1829, of Lombard descent; had a paternal
+grandfather, who was a wealthy chimney-builder of Paris during the
+first Empire, an employer of Joseph; he died in 1819. Mlle. Judici did
+not inherit her grandfather's fortune, for it was run through with by
+her father. In 1844 she was given by her mother--so the story goes--to
+Hector Hulot for fifteen thousand francs. She then left her family,
+who lived on rue de Charonne, and lived on Passage du Soleil. The
+pretty Atala was obliged to leave Hulot when his wife found him. Mme.
+Hulot promised her a dowry and to wed her to Joseph's oldest son. She
+was sometimes called Judix, which is a French corruption of the
+Italian name. [Cousin Betty.]
+
+JUDITH. (See Mme. Genestas.)
+
+JULIEN, one of the turnkeys of the Conciergerie in 1830, during the
+trial of Herrera--Vautrin--and Rubempre. [Scenes from a Courtesan's
+Life.]
+
+JULIEN, probably a native of Champagne; a young man in 1839, and in
+the service of Sub-Prefect Goulard, in Arcis-sur-Aube. He learned
+through Anicette, and revealed to the Beauvisages and Mollots, the
+Legitimist plots of the Chateau de Cinq-Cygne, where lived Georges de
+Maufrigneuse, Daniel d'Arthez, Laurence de Cinq-Cygne, Diane de
+Cadignan and Berthe de Maufrigneuse. [The Member for Arcis.]
+
+JULLIARD, head of the firm of Julliard in Paris, about 1806. At the
+"Ver Chinois," rue Saint-Denis, he sold silk in bolls. Sylvie Rogron
+was assistant saleswoman. Twenty years later he met her again in their
+native country of Provins, where he had retired in 1815, the head of a
+family grouped about the Guepins and the Guenees, thus forming three
+great clans. [Pierrette.]
+
+JULLIARD, elder son of the preceding; married the only daughter of a
+rich farmer and also conceived a platonic affection at Provins for
+Melanie Tiphaine, the most beautiful woman of the official colony
+during the Restoration. Julliard followed commerce and literature; he
+maintained a stage line, and a journal christened "La Ruche," in which
+latter he burned incense to Mme. Tiphaine. [Pierrette.]
+
+JUSSIEU (Julien), youthful conscript in the great draft of 1793. Sent
+with a note for lodgment to the home of Mme. de Dey at Carentan, where
+he was the innocent cause of that woman's sudden death; she was just
+then expecting the return of her son, a Royalist hunted by the
+Republican troops. [The Conscript.]
+
+JUSTE, born in 1811, studied medicine in Paris, and afterwards went to
+Asia to practice. In 1836 he lived on rue Corneille with Charles
+Rabourdin, when they helped the poverty-stricken Zephirin Marcas. [Z.
+Marcas.]
+
+JUSTIN, old and experienced valet of the Vidame de Pamiers; was
+secretly slain by order of Bourignard because he had discovered the
+real name, but carefully concealed, of the father of Mme. Desmarets.
+[The Thirteen.]
+
+JUSTINE, was maid to the Comtesse Foedora, in Paris, when her mistress
+received calls from M. de Valentin. [The Magic Skin.]
+
+
+
+K
+
+KATT, a Flemish woman, the nurse of Lydie de la Peyrade, whom she
+attended constantly in Paris on rue des Moineaux about 1829, and
+during her mistress' period of insanity on Rue Honore Chevalier in
+1840. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life. The Middle Classes.]
+
+KELLER (Francois), one of the influential and wealthy Parisian
+bankers, during a period extending perhaps from 1809 to 1839. As such,
+in November, 1809, under the Empire, he was one of the guests at a
+fine reception, given by Comte Malin de Gondreville, meeting there
+Isemberg, Montcornet, Mesdames de Lansac and de Vandemont, and a mixed
+company composed of members of the aristocracy and people illustrious
+under the Empire. At this time, moreover, Francois Keller was in the
+family of Malin de Gondreville, one of whose daughters he had married.
+This marriage, besides making him the brother-in-law of the Marechal
+de Carigliano, gave him assurance of the deputyship, which he obtained
+in 1816 and held until 1836. The district electors of Arcis-sur-Aube
+kept him in the legislature during that long period. Francois Keller
+had, by his marriage with Mademoiselle de Gondreville, one son,
+Charles, who died before his parents in the spring of 1839. As deputy,
+Francois Keller became one of the most noted orators of the Left
+Centre. He shone as a member of the opposition, especially from 1819
+to 1825. Adroitly he drew about himself the robe of philanthropy.
+Politics never turned his attention from finance. Francois Keller,
+seconded by his brother and partner, Adolphe Keller, refused to aid
+the needy perfumer, Cesar Birotteau. Between 1821 and 1823 the
+creditors of Guillaume Grandet, the bankrupt, unanimously selected him
+and M. des Grassins of Saumur as adjusters. Despite his display of
+Puritanical virtues, the private career of Francois Keller was not
+spotless. In 1825 it was known that he had an illegitimate and costly
+liaison with Flavie Colleville. Rallying to the support of the new
+monarchy from 1830 to 1836, Francois Keller saw his Philippist zeal
+rewarded in 1839. He exchanged his commission at the Palais-Bourbon
+for a peerage, and received the title of count. [Domestic Peace. Cesar
+Birotteau. Eugenie Grandet. The Government Clerks. The Member for
+Arcis.]
+
+KELLER (Madame Francois), wife of the preceding; daughter of Malin de
+Gondreville; mother of Charles Keller, who died in 1839. Under the
+Restoration, she inspired a warm passion in the heart of the son of
+the Duchesse de Marigny. [Domestic Peace. The Member for Arcis. The
+Thirteen.]
+
+KELLER, (Charles), born in 1809, son of the preceding couple, grandson
+of the Comte de Gondreville, nephew of the Marechale de Carigliano;
+his life was prematurely ended in 1839, at a time when a brilliant
+future seemed before him. As a major of staff at the side of the
+Prince Royal, Ferdinand d'Orleans, he took the field in Algeria. His
+bravery urged him on in pursuit of the Emir Abd-el-Kader, and he gave
+up his life in the face of the enemy. Becoming viscount as a result of
+the knighting of his father, and assured of the favors of the heir
+presumptive to the throne, Charles Keller, at the moment when death
+surprised him, was on the point of taking his seat in the Lower
+Chamber; for the body of electors of the district of Arcis-sur-Aube
+were almost sure to elect a man whom the Tuileries desired so
+ardently. [The Member for Arcis.]
+
+KELLER (Adolphe), brother--probably younger--of Francois and his
+partner; a very shrewd man, who was really in charge of the business,
+a "regular lynx." On account of his intimate relations with Nucingen
+and F. du Tillet, he flatly refused to aid Cesar Birotteau, who
+implored his assistance. [The Middle Classes. Pierrette. Cesar
+Birotteau.]
+
+KERGAROUET (Comte de), born about the middle of the eighteenth
+century; of the Bretagne nobility; entered the navy, served long and
+valiantly upon the sea, commanded the "Belle-Poule," and died a vice-
+admiral. Possessor of a great fortune, by his charity he made amends
+for the foulness of some of his youthful love affairs (1771 and
+following), and at Paris, near the Madeleine, towards the beginning of
+the nineteenth century, with much delicacy, he helped the Baronne
+Leseigneur de Rouville. A little later, at the age of seventy-two,
+having for a long time been a widower and retired from the navy, while
+enjoying the hospitality of his relatives, the Fontaines and the
+Planat de Baudrys, who lived in the neighborhood of Sceaux, Kergarouet
+married his niece, one of the daughters of Fontaine. He died before
+her. M. de Kergarouet was also a relative of the Portendueres and did
+not forget them. [The Purse. The Ball at Sceaux. Ursule Mirouet.]
+
+KERGAROUET (Comtesse de). (See Vandenesse, Marquise Charles de.)
+
+KERGAROUET (Vicomte de), nephew of the Comte de Kergarouet, husband of
+a Pen-Hoel, by whom he had four daughters. Evidently lived at Nantes
+in 1836. [Beatrix.]
+
+KERGAROUET (Vicomtesse de), wife of the preceding, born at Pen-Hoel
+in 1789; younger sister of Jacqueline; mother of four girls, very
+affected woman and looked upon as such by Felicite des Touches and
+Arthur de Rochefide. Lived in Nantes in 1836. [Beatrix.]
+
+KERGAROUET (Charlotte de), born in 1821, one of the daughters of the
+preceding, grand-niece of the Comte de Kergarouet; of his four nieces
+she was the favorite of the wealthy Jacqueline de Pen-Hoel; a good-
+hearted little country girl; fell in love with Calyste du Guenic in
+1836, but did not marry him. [Beatrix.]
+
+KOLB, an Alsatian, served as "man of all work" at the home of the
+Didots in Paris; had served in the cuirassiers. Under the Restoration
+he became "printer's devil" in the establishment of David Sechard of
+Angouleme, for whom he showed an untiring devotion, and whose servant,
+Marion, he married. [Lost Illusions.]
+
+KOLB (Marion), wife of the preceding, with whom she became acquainted
+while at the home of David Sechard. She was, at first, in the service
+of the Angouleme printer, Jerome-Nicholas Sechard, for whom she had
+less praise than for David. Marion Kolb was like her husband in her
+constant, childlike devotion. [Lost Illusions.]
+
+KOUSKI, Polish lancer in the French Royal Guards, lived very unhappily
+in 1815-16, but enjoyed life better the following year. At that time
+he lived at Issoudun in the home of the wealthy Jean-Jacques Rouget,
+and served the commandant, Maxence Gilet. The latter became the idol
+of the grateful Kouski. [A Bachelor's Establishment.]
+
+KROPOLI (Zena), Montenegrin of Zahara, seduced in 1809 by the French
+gunner, Auguste Niseron, by whom she had a daughter, Genevieve. One
+year later, at Vincennes, France, she died as a result of her
+confinement. The necessary marriage papers, which would have rendered
+valid the situation of Zena Kropoli, arrived a few days after her
+death. [The Peasantry.]
+
+
+
+
+
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