THUILLIER was first door-keeper of the minister of finance in the second half of the eighteenth century; by furnishing meals to the clerks he realized from his position a regular annual income of almost four thousand francs; being married and the father of two children, Marie-Jeanne-Brigitte and Louis-Jerome, he retired from active duties about 1806, and, losing his wife in 1810, he himself died in 1814.  He was commonly called “Stout Father Thuillier.” [The Government Clerks.  The Middle Classes.]

THUILLIER (Marie-Jeanne-Brigitte), daughter of the preceding, born in 1787, of independent disposition and of obstinate will, chose the single state to become, as it were, the ambitious mother of Louis-Jerome, a brother younger than herself by four years.  She began life by making coin-bags at the Bank of France, then engaged in money-lending; took every advantage of her debtors, among others Fleury, her father’s colleague at the Treasury.  Being now rich, she met the Lempruns and the Galards; took upon herself the management of the small fortune of their heir, Celeste Lemprum, whom she had selected specially to be the wife of her brother; after their marriage she lived with her brother’s family; was also one of Mademoiselle Colleville’s god-mothers.  On the rue Saint-Dominique-d’Enfer, and on the Place de la Madeleine, she showed herself many times to be the friend of Theodose de la Peyrade, who vainly sought the hand of the future Madame Phellion. [The Government Clerks.  The Middle Classes.]

THUILLIER (Louis-Jerome), younger brother of the preceding, born in 1791.  Thanks to his father’s position, he entered the Department of Finance as clerk at an early age.  Louis-Jerome Thuillier, being exempted from military service on account of weak eyes, married Celeste Lemprun, Galard’s wealthy granddaughter, about 1814.  Ten years later he had reached the advancement of reporting clerk, in Xavier Rabourdin’s office, Flamet de la Billardiere’s division.  His pleasing exterior gave him a series of successes in love affairs, that was continued after his marriage, but cut short by the Restoration, bringing back, as it did, with peace, the gallants escaped from the battlefield.  Among his amorous conquests may be counted Madame Flavie Colleville, wife of his intimate friend and colleague at the Treasury; of their relations was born Celeste Colleville—­Madame Felix Phellion.  Having been deputy-chief for two years (since January 5, 1828), he left the Treasury at the outbreak of the Revolution of 1830.  In him the office lost an expert in equivocal jests.  Having left the department, Thuillier turned his energies in another direction.  Marie-Jeanne-Brigette, his elder sister, turning him to the intricacies of real estate, made him leave their lodging-place on the rue d’Argenteuil, to purchase a house on the rue Saint-Dominique-d’Enfer, which had formerly belonged to President Lecamus and to Petitot, the artist.  Thuillier’s conceit and vanity,