AUBRION (Marquis d’), a gentleman-in-waiting of the Bedchamber, under Charles X. He was of the house of Aubrion de Buch, whose last head died before 1789.  He was silly enough to wed a woman of fashion, though he was already an old man of but twenty thousand francs income, a sum hardly sufficient in Paris.  He tried to marry his daughter without a dowry to some man who was intoxicated with nobility.  In 1827, to quote Mme. d’Aubrion, this ancient wreck was madly devoted to the Duchesse de Chaulieu [Eugenie Grandet.]

AUBRION (Marquise d’), wife of the preceding.  Born in 1789.  At thirty-eight she was still pretty, and, having always been somewhat aspiring, she endeavored (in 1827), by hook or by crook, to entangle Charles Grandet, lately returned from the Indies.  She wished to make a son-in-law out of him, and she succeeded. [Eugenie Grandet.]

AUBRION (Mathilde d’) daughter of the Marquis and Marquise d’Aubrion; born in 1808; married to Charles Grandet. (See that name.) [Eugenie Grandet.]

AUBRION (Comte d’), the title acquired by Charles Grandet after his marriage to the daughter of the Marquis d’Aubrion. [The Firm of Nucingen.]

AUFFRAY, grocer at Provins, in the period of Louis XV., Louis XVI. and the Revolution.  M. Auffray married the first time when eighteen, the second time at sixty-nine.  By his first wife he had a rather ugly daughter who married, at sixteen, a landlord of Provins, Rogron by name.  Auffray had another daughter, by his second marriage, a charming girl, this time, who married a Breton captain in the Imperial Guard.  Pierrette Lorrain was the daughter of this officer.  The old grocer Auffray died at the time of the Empire without having had time enough to make his will.  The inheritance was so skillfully manipulated by Rogron, the first son-in-law of the deceased, that almost nothing was left for the goodman’s widow, then only about thirty-eight years old. [Pierrette.]

AUFFRAY (Madame), wife of the preceding. (See Neraud, Mme.) [Pierrette.]

AUFFRAY, a notary of Provins in 1827.  Husband of Mme. Guenee’s third daughter.  Great-grand-nephew of the old grocer, Auffray.  Appointed a guardian of Pierrette Lorrain.  On account of the ill-treatment to which this young girl was subjected at the home of her guardian, Denis Rogron, she was removed, an invalid, to the home of the notary Auffray, a designated guardian, where she died, although tenderly cared for. [Pierrette.]

AUFFRAY (Madame), born Guenee.  Wife of the preceding.  The third daughter of Mme. Guenee, born Tiphaine.  She exhibited the greatest kindness for Pierrette Lorrain, and nursed her tenderly in her last illness. [Pierrette.]

AUGUSTE, name borne by Boislaurier, as chief of “brigands,” in the uprisings of the West under the Republic and under the Empire. [The Seamy Side of History.]

AUGUSTE, valet de chambre of the General Marquis Armand de Montriveau, under the Restoration, at the time when the latter dwelt in the rue de Seine hard by the Chamber of Peers, and was intimate with the Duchesse Antoinette de Langeais. [The Thirteen.]