CAMBREMER (Pierre), fisherman of Croisic on the Lower-Loire, time of Louis Philippe, who, for the honor of a jeopardized name, had cast his only son into the sea and afterwards remained desolate and a widower on a cliff near by, in expiation of his crime induced by paternal justice. [A Seaside Tragedy.  Beatrix.]

CAMBREMER (Joseph), younger brother of Pierre Cambremer, father of Pierrette, called Perotte. [A Seaside Tragedy.]

CAMBREMER (Jacques), only son of Pierre Cambremer and Jacquette Brouin.  Spoiled by his parents, his mother especially, he became a rascal of the worst type.  Jacques Cambremer evaded justice only by reason of the fact that his father gagged him and cast him into the sea. [A Seaside Tragedy.]

CAMBREMER (Madame), born Jacquette Brouin, wife of Pierre Cambremer and mother of Jacques.  She was of Guerande; was educated; could write “like a clerk”; taught her son to read and this brought about his ruin.  She was usually spoken of as the beautiful Brouin.  She died a few days after Jacques. [A Seaside Tragedy.]

CAMBREMER (Pierrette), known as Perotte; daughter of Joseph Cambremer; niece of Pierre and his goddaughter.  Every morning the sweet and charming creature came to bring her uncle the bread and water upon which he subsisted. [A Seaside Tragedy.]

CAMERISTUS, celebrated physician of Paris under Louis Philippe; the Ballanche of medicine and one of the defenders of the abstract doctrines of Van Helmont; chief of the “Vitalists” opposed to Brisset who headed the “Organists.”  He as well as Brisset was called in consultation regarding a very serious malady afflicting Raphael de Valentin. [The Magic Skin.]

CAMPS (Octave de), lover then husband of Mme. Firmiani.  She made him restore the entire fortune of a family named Bourgneuf, ruined in a lawsuit by Octave’s father, thus reducing him to the necessity of making a living by teaching mathematics.  He was only twenty-two years old when he met Mme. Firmiani.  He married her first at Gretna Green.  The marriage at Paris took place in 1824 or 1825.  Before marriage, Octave de Camps lived on rue de l’Observance.  He was a descendant of the famous Abbe de Camps, so well known among bookmen and savants. [Madame Firmiani.] Octave de Camps reappears as an ironmaster, during the reign of Louis Philippe.  At this time he rarely resided at Paris. [The Member for Arcis.]

CAMPS (Madame Octave de), nee Cadignan; niece of the old Prince de Cadignan; cousin of the Duc de Maufrigneuse.  In 1813, at the age of sixteen, she married M. Firmiani, receiver-general in the department of Montenotte.  M. Firmiani died in Greece about 1822, and she became Mme. de Camps in 1824 or 1825.  At this time she dwelt on rue du Bac and had entree into the home of Princesse de Blamont-Chauvry, the oracle of Faubourg Saint-Germain.  An accomplished and excellent lady, loved even by her rivals, the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse,