he prepared a report tending to the liberation of Lucien de Rubempre, accused of assassinating Esther Gobseck.  But the suicide of the poet rendered the proposed measure useless, besides upsetting, momentarily, the ambitious projects of the magistrate. [Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life.] Camusot de Marville had been president of the Court of Nantes.  In 1844 he was president of the Royal Court of Paris and commander of the Legion of Honor.  At this time he lived in a house on rue de Hanovre, purchased by him in 1834, where he received the musician Pons, a cousin of his.  The President de Marville was elected deputy in 1846. [Cousin Pons.]

CAMUSOT DE MARVILLE (Madame), born Thirion, Marie-Cecile-Amelie, in 1798.  Daughter of an usher of the Cabinet of Louis XVIII.  Wife of the magistrate.  In 1814 she frequented the studio of the painter Servin, who had a class for young ladies.  This studio contained two factions; Mlle. Thirion headed the party of the nobility, though of ordinary birth, and persecuted Ginevra di Piombo, of the Bonapartist party. [The Vendetta.] In 1818 she was invited to accompany her father and mother to the famous ball of Cesar Birotteau.  It was about the time her marriage with Camusot de Marville was being considered. [Cesar Birotteau.] This wedding took place in 1819, and immediately the imperious young woman gained the upper hand with the judge, making him follow her own will absolutely and in the interests of her boundless ambition.  It was she who brought about the discharge of young d’Esgrignon in 1824, and the suicide of Lucien de Rubempre in 1830.  Through her, the Marquis d’Espard failed of interdiction.  However, Mme. de Marville had no influence over her father-in-law, the senior Camusot, whom she bored dreadfully and importuned excessively.  She caused, also, by her evil treatment, the death of Sylvain Pons “the poor relation,” inheriting with her husband his fine collection of curios. [Jealousies of a Country Town.  Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life.  Cousin Pons.]

CAMUSOT (Charles), son of the preceding couple.  He died young, at a time when his parents had neither land nor title of Marville, and when they were in almost straitened circumstances. [Cousin Pons.]

CAMUSOT DE MARVILLE (Cecile). (See Popinot, Vicomtesse.)

CANALIS (Constant-Cyr-Melchior, Baron de), poet—­chief of the “Angelic” school—­deputy minister, peer of France, member of the French Academy, commander of the Legion of Honor.  Born at Canalis, Correze, in 1800.  About 1821 he became the lover of Mme. de Chaulieu, who was constantly aiding him to high positions, but who, at the same time, was always very exacting.  Not long after, Canalis is seen at the opera in Mme. d’Espard’s box, being presented to Lucien de Rubempre.  From 1824 he was the fashionable poet. [Letters of Two Brides.  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.] In 1829 he lived at number 29 rue Paradis-Poissoniere (now simply rue