Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A - Z | Page 8

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