Repertory of the Comedie Humaine, part 2 | Page 8

Langeais had the pleasure of
captivating the Marquis de Montriveau, playing for him the role of

Celimene and making him suffer greatly. He had his revenge, however,
for, scorned in her turn, or believing herself scorned, she suddenly
disappeared from Paris, after having scandalized the whole
Saint-Germain community by remaining in her carriage for a long time
in front of the Montriveau mansion. Some bare-footed Spanish
Carmelites received her on their island in the Mediterranean, where she
became Sister Therese. After prolonged searching Montriveau found
her, and, in the presence of the mother-superior, had a conversation
with her as she stood behind the grating. Finally he managed to carry
her off--dead. In this bold venture the marquis was aided by eleven of
The Thirteen, among them being Ronquerolles and Marsay. The
duchess, having lost her husband, was free at the time of her death in
1824. [Father Goriot. The Thirteen.]
[*] At the Vaudeville and Gaite theatres in Paris, Ancelot and Alexis
Decomberousse at the former, and Messieurs Ferdinand Dugue and
Peaucellier at the latter, brought out plays founded on the life of
Antoinette de Langeais, in 1834 and 1868 respectively.
LANGEAIS (Mademoiselle de). (See Agathe, Sister.)
LANGLUME, miller, a jolly impulsive little man, in 1823
deputy-mayor of Blangy in Bourgogne, at the time of the political,
territorial and financial contests of which the country was the theatre,
with Rigou and Montcornet as actors. He was of great service to
Genevieve Niseron's paternal grandfather. [The Peasantry.]
LANGUET, vicar, built Saint-Sulpice, and was an acquaintance of
Toupillier, who asked alms in 1840 at the doors of this church in Paris,
which since 1860 has been one of the sixth ward parish churches. [The
Middle Classes.]
LANSAC (Duchesse de), of the younger branch of the Parisian house
of Navarreins, 1809, the proud woman who shone under Louis XV.
The Duchesse de Lansac, in November of the same year, consented,
one evening, to meet Isemberg, Montcornet, and Martial de la
Roche-Hugon in Malin de Gondreville's house, for the purpose of
conciliating her nephew and niece in their domestic quarrel. [Domestic
Peace.]
LANTIMECHE, born in 1770. In 1840, at Paris, a penniless
journeyman locksmith and inventor, he went to the money-lender,
Cerizet, on rue des Poules, to borrow a hundred francs. [The Middle

Classes.]
LANTY (Comte de), owner of an expensive mansion near the Elysee-
Bourbon, which he had bought from the Marechal de Carigliano. He
gave there under the Restoration some magnificent entertainments, at
which were present the upper classes of Parisian society, ignorant,
though they were, of the count's lineage. Lanty, who was a mysterious
man, passed for a clever chemist. He had married the rich niece of the
peculiar eunuch, Zambinella, by whom he had two children, Marianina
and Filippo. [Sarrasine. The Member for Arcis.]
LANTY (Comtesse de), wife of the preceding, born in 1795, niece and
likewise adopted daughter of the wealthy eunuch, Zambinella, was the
mistress of M. de Maucombe, by whom she had a daughter, Marianina
de Lanty. [Sarrasine. The Member for Arcis.]
LANTY (Marianina de), daughter of the preceding and according to
law of the Comte de Lanty, although she was in reality the daughter of
M. de Maucombe; born in 1809. She bore a striking resemblance to her
sister, Renee de l'Estorade, born Maucombe. In 1825 she concealed,
and lavished care on her great-uncle, Zambinella. During her parents'
sojourn in Rome she took lessons in sculpture of Charles Dorlange,
who afterwards, in 1839, became a member for Arcis, under the name
of Comte de Sallenauve. [Sarrasine. The Member for Arcis.]
LANTY (Filippo de), younger brother of the preceding, second child of
the Comte and the Comtesse de Lanty. Being young and handsome he
was an attendant at the fetes given by his parents during the Restoration.
By his marriage, which took place under Louis Philippe, he became
allied with the family of a German grand duke. [Sarrasine. The Member
for Arcis.]
LA PALFERINE
(Gabriel-Jean-Anne-Victor-Benjamin-Georges-Ferdinand-
Charles-Edouard-Rusticoli, Comte de), born in 1802; of an ancient
Italian family which had become impoverished; grandson on the
paternal side of one of the protectors of Josephine-Sophie Laguerre;
descended indirectly from the Comtesse Albany--whence his given
name of Charles- Edouard. He had in his veins the mixed blood of the
condottiere and the gentleman. Under Louis Philippe, idle and fast
going to ruin, with his Louis XIII. cast of countenance, his evil-minded
wit, his lofty independent manners, insolent yet winning, he was a type

of the brilliant Bohemian of the Boulevard de Gand; so much so, that
Madame de la Baudraye, basing her information on points furnished
her by Nathan, one day drew a picture of him, writing a description in
which artificiality and artlessness were combined. In this were many
interesting touches: La Palferine's contempt shown at all times for the
bourgeois class and