Repertory of the Comedie Humaine, part 2 | Page 3

Honoré de Balzac
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REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE

PART II, L -- Z

L
LA BASTIE (Monsieur, Madame and Mademoiselle de). (See
Mignon.)
LA BASTIE LA BRIERE (Ernest de), member of a good family of
Toulouse, born in 1802; very similar in appearance to Louis XIII.; from
1824 to 1829, private secretary to the minister of finances. On the
advice of Madame d'Espard, and thus being of service to Eleonore de

Chaulieu, he became secretary to Melchior de Canalis and, at the same
time, referendary of the Cour des Comptes. He became a chevalier of
the Legion of Honor. In 1829 he conducted for Canalis a love romance
by correspondence, the heroine of the affair being
Marie-Modeste-Mignon de la Bastie (of Havre). He played this part so
successfully that she fell in love and marriage was agreed upon. This
union, which made him the wealthy Vicomte de la Bastie la Briere, was
effected the following February in 1830. Canalis and the minister of
1824 were witnesses for Ernest de la Briere, who fully deserved his
good fortune. [The Government Clerks. Modeste Mignon.]
LA BASTIE LA BRIERE (Madame Ernest de), wife of the preceding,
born Marie-Modeste Mignon about 1809, younger daughter of Charles
Mignon de la Bastie and of Bettina Mignon de la Bastie--born
Wallenrod. In 1829, while living with her family at Havre, with the
same love, evoked by a passion for literature, which Bettina Brentano
d'Arnim conceived for Goethe, she fell in love with Melchior de
Canalis; she wrote frequently to the poet in secret, and he responded
through the medium of Ernest de la Briere; thus there sprang up
between the young girl and the secretary a mutual love which resulted
in marriage. The witnesses for Marie-Modeste Mignon were the Duc
d'Herouville and Doctor Desplein. As one of the most envied women in
Parisian circles, in the time of Louis Philippe, she became the close
friend of Mesdames de l'Estorade and Popinot. [Modeste Mignon. The
Member for Arcis. Cousin Betty.] La Bastie is sometimes written La
Batie.
LA BAUDRAYE[*] (Jean-Athanase-Polydore Milaud de), born in
1780 in Berry, descended from the simple family of Milaud, recently
enobled. M. de la Baudraye's father was a good financier of pleasing
disposition; his mother was a Casteran la Tour. He was in poor health,
his weak constitution being the heritage left him by an immoral
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