her cousin, Mme. de Macumer—­Louise de Chaulieu—­and the Marquise d’Espard. [Madame Firmiani.] She welcomed and protected Mme. Xavier Rabourdin. [The Government Clerks.] At the close of 1824 she gave a ball where Charles de Vandenesse made the acquaintance of Mme. d’Aiglemont whose lover he became. [A Woman of Thirty.] In 1834 Mme. Octave de Camps tried to check the slanders going the rounds at the expense of Mme. Felix de Vandenesse, who had compromised herself somewhat on account of the poet Nathan; and Mme. de Camps gave the young woman some good advice. [A Daughter of Eve.] On another occasion she gave exceedingly good counsel to Mme. de l’Estorade, who was afraid of being smitten with Sallenauve. [The Member for Arcis.] Mme. Firmiani, “that was,” shared her time between Paris and the furnaces of M. de Camps; but she gave the latter much the preference—­at least so said one of her intimate friends, Mme. de l’Estorade. [The Member for Arcis.]

CAMUSET, one of Bourignard’s assumed names.

CAMUSOT, silk-merchant, rue des Bourdonnais, Paris, under the Restoration.  Born in 1765.  Son-in-law and successor of Cardot, whose eldest daughter he had married.  At that time he was a widower, his first wife being a Demoiselle Pons, sole heiress of the celebrated Pons family, embroiderers to the Court during the Empire.  About 1834 Camusot retired from business, and became a member of the Manufacturers’ Council, deputy, peer of France and baron.  He had four children.  In 1821-1822 he maintained Coralie, who became so violently enamored of Lucien de Rubempre.  Although she abandoned him for Lucien, he promised the poet, after the actress’ death, that he would purchase for her a permanent plot in the cemetery of Pere-Lachaise. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.  A Bachelor’s Establishment.  Cousin Pons.] Later he was intimate with Fanny Beaupre for some time. [The Muse of the Department.] He and his wife were present at Cesar Birotteau’s big ball in December, 1818; he was also chosen commissary-judge of the perfumer’s bankruptcy, instead of Gobenheim-Keller, who was first designated. [Cesar Birotteau.] He had dealings with the Guillaumes, clothing merchants, rue Saint-Denis. [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket.]

CAMUSOT DE MARVILLE, son of Camusot the silk-merchant by his first marriage.  Born about 1794.  During Louis Philippe’s reign he took the name of a Norman estate and green, Marville, in order to distinguish between himself and a half-brother.  In 1824, then a judge at Alencon, he helped render an alibi decision in favor of Victurnien d’Esgrignon, who really was guilty. [Cousin Pons.  Jealousies of a Country Town.] He was judge at Paris in 1828, and was appointed to replace Popinot in the court which was to render a decision concerning the appeal for interdiction presented by Mme. d’Espard against her husband. [The Commission in Lunacy.] In May, 1830, in the capacity of judge of instruction,