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.]