Repertory of the Comedie Humaine, part 2 | Page 6

to try to bring about the marriage of Vyder--Hector
Hulot d'Ervy--and Atala Judici. [The Seamy Side of History. Cousin
Betty.] The Revolution having done away with titles, Madame de la
Chanterie called herself momentarily Madame, or Citizeness,
Lechantre.
LACROIX, restaurant-keeper on Place du Marche, Issoudun, 1822, in
whose house the Bonapartist officers celebrated the crowning of the

Emperor. On December 2, of the same year, the duel between Philippe
Bridau and Maxence took place after the entertainment. [A Bachelor's
Establishment.]
LAFERTE (Nicolas). (See Cochegrue, Jean.)
LA GARDE (Madame de). (See Aquilina.)
LA GAUDINIERE (Madame), born La Bertelliere, mother of Madame
Felix Grandet; very avaricious; died in 1806; leaving the Felix
Grandets an inheritance, "the amount of which no one knew." [Eugenie
Grandet.]
LAGINSKI (Comte Adam Mitgislas), a wealthy man who had been
proscribed, belonged to one of the oldest and most illustrious families
of Poland, and counted among his relations the Sapiehas, the
Radziwills, the Mniszechs, the Rezwuskis, the Czartoriskis, the
Lecszinskis, and the Lubomirskis. He had relations in the German
nobility and his mother was a Radziwill. Young, plain, yet with a
certain distinguished bearing, with an income of eighty thousand francs,
Laginski was a leading light in Paris, during the reign of Louis Philippe.
After the Revolution of July, while still unsophisticated, he attended an
entertainment at the home of Felicite des Touches in Chaussee-d'Antin
on rue du Mont-Blanc, and had the opportunity of listening to the
delightful chats between Henri de Marsay and Emile Blondet. Comte
Adam Laginski, during the autumn of 1835, married the object of his
affections, Mademoiselle Clementine du Rouvre, niece of the
Ronquerolles. The friendship of his steward, Paz, saved him from the
ruin into which his creole-like carelessness, his frivolity and his
recklessness were dragging him. He lived in perfect contentment with
his wife, ignorant of the domestic troubles which were kept from his
notice. Thanks to the devotion of Paz and of Madame Laginska, he was
cured of a malady which had been pronounced fatal by Doctor Horace
Bianchon. Comte Adam Laginski lived on rue de la Pepiniere, now
absorbed in part by rue de la Boetie. He occupied one of the most
palatial and artistic houses of the period, so called, of Louis Philippe.
He attended the celebration given in 1838 at the first opening of
Josepha Mirah's residence on rue de la Ville-l'Eveque. In this same year
he attended the wedding of Wenceslas Steinbock. [Another Study of
Woman. The Imaginary Mistress. Cousin Betty.]
LAGINSKA (Comtesse Adam), born Clementine du Rouvre in 1816,

wife of the preceding, niece, on her mother's side, of the Marquis de
Ronquerolles and of Madame de Serizy. She was one of the charming
group of young women, which included Mesdames de l'Estorade, de
Portenduere, Marie de Vandenesse, du Guenic and de Maufrigneuse.
Captain Paz was secretly in love with the countess, who, becoming
aware of her steward's affection, ended by having very nearly the same
kind of feeling for him. The unselfish virtue of Paz was all that saved
her; not only at this juncture, but in another more dangerous one, when
he rescued her from M. de la Palferine, who was escorting her to the
Opera ball and who was on the point of taking her to a private room in
a restaurant--January, 1842. [The Imaginary Mistress.]
LAGOUNIA (Perez de), woolen-draper at Tarragone in Catalonia, in
the time of Napoleon, under obligations to La Marana. He reared as his
own daughter, in a very pious manner, Juana, a child of the celebrated
Italian courtesan, until her mother visited her, during the time of the
French occupation in 1808. [The Maranas.]
LAGOUNIA (Donna de), wife of the preceding, divided with him the
care of Juana Marana until the girl's mother came to Tarragone at the
time it was sacked by the French. [The Maranas.]
LA GRAVE (Mesdemoiselles), kept a boarding-house in 1824 on rue
Notre- Dame-des Champs in Paris. In this house M. and Madame
Phellion gave lessons. [The Government Clerks.]
LAGUERRE (Mademoiselle), given name, probably, Sophie, born in
1740, died in 1815, one of the most celebrated courtesans of the
eighteenth century; opera singer, and fervent follower of Piccini. In
1790, frightened by the march of public affairs, she established herself
at the Aigues, in Bourgogne, property procured for her by Bouret, from
its former owner. Before Buoret, the grandfather of La Palferine,
entertained her, and she brought about his ruin. The recklessness of this
woman, surrounded as she was by such notorious knaves as Gaubertin,
Fourchon, Tonsard, and Madame Soudry, prepared no little trouble for
Montcornet, the succeeding proprietor. Sophie Laguerre's fortune was
divided among eleven families of poor farmers, all living in the
neighborhood of Amiens, who were ignorant of their relationship with
her. [The Peasantry. A Prince of Bohemia.] M. H. Gourdon de