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 Restoration.  Born in 1777.  In September, 1819, he went hunting in the edge of the forest of l’Isle-Adam with his friend Philippe de Sucy, who suddenly fell senseless at the sight of a poor madwoman whom he recognized as a former mistress, Stephanie de Vandieres.  The Marquis d’Albon, assisted by two passers by, M. and Mme. de Granville, resuscitated M. de Sucy.  Then the marquis returned, at his friend’s entreaty, to the home of Stephanie, where he learned from the uncle of this unfortunate one the sad story of the love of his friend and Madame de Vandieres. [Farewell.]