BAUVAN (Comte de), one of the instigators of the Chouan insurrection in the department d’Ille-et-Vilaine, in 1799.  Through a secret revelation made to his friend the Marquis de Montauran on the part of Mlle. de Verneuil, the Comte de Bauvan caused, indirectly, the Massacre des Bleus at Vivetiere.  Later, surprised in an ambuscade by soldiers of the Republic, he was made a prisoner by Mlle. de Verneuil and owed his life to her; for this reason he became entirely devoted to her, assisting as a witness at her marriage with Montauran. [The Chouans.]

BAUVAN (Comtesse de), in all likelihood the wife of the foregoing, whom she survived.  In 1822 she was manager of a Parisian lottery bureau which employed Madame Agatha Bridau, about the same time. [A Bachelor’s Establishment.]

BAUVAN (Comte and Comtesse de), father and mother of Octave de Bauvan.  Relics of the old Court, living in a tumble-down house on the rue Payenne at Paris, where they died, about 1815, within a few months of each other, and before the conjugal infelicity of their son. (See Octave de Bauvan.) Probably related to the two preceding. [Honorine.]

BAUVAN (Comte Octave de), statesman and French magistrate.  Born in 1787.  When twenty-six he married Honorine, a beautiful young heiress who had been reared carefully at the home of his parents, M. and Mme. de Bauvan, whose ward she was.  Two or three years afterwards she left the conjugal roof, to the infinite despair of the comte, who gave himself over entirely to winning her back again.  At the end of several years he succeeded in getting her to return to him through pity, but she died soon after this reconciliation, leaving one son born of their reunion.  The Comte de Bauvan, completely broken, set out for Italy about 1836.  He had two residences at Paris, one on rue Payenne, an heirloom, the other on Faubourg Saint-Honore, which was the scene of the domestic reunion. [Honorine.] In 1830, the Comte de Bauvan, then president of the Court of Cassation, with MM. de Granville and de Serizy, tried to save Lucien de Rubempre from a criminal judgment, and, after the suicide of that unhappy man, he followed his remains to the grave. [Scenes from a Courtesan’s life.]

BAUVAN (Comtesse Honorine de), wife of the preceding.  Born in 1794.  Married at nineteen to the Comte Octave de Bauvan.  After having abandoned her husband, she was in turn, while expecting a child, abandoned by her lover, some eighteen months later.  She then lived a very retired life in the rue Saint-Maur, yet all the time being under the secret surveillance of the Comte de Bauvan who paid exorbitant prices for the artificial flowers which she made.  She thus derived from him a rather large part of the sustenance which she believed she owed only to her own efforts.  She died, reunited to her husband, shortly after the Revolution of July, 1830.  Honorine de Bauvan lost her child born out of wedlock, and she always mourned it.  During her years of toilsome exile in the Parisian faubourg, she came in contact successively with Marie Gobain, Jean-Jules Popinot, Felix Gaudissart, Maurice de l’Hostal and Abbe Loraux.[Honorine.]