CHELIUS, physician of Heidelberg with whom Halpersohn corresponded, during the reign of Louis Philippe. [The Seamy Side of History.]

CHERVIN, a police-corporal at Montegnac near Limoges in 1829. [The Country Parson.]

CHESNEL, or Choisnel, notary at Alencon, time of Louis XVIII.  Born in 1753.  Old attendant of the house of Gordes, also of the d’Esgrignon family whose property he had protected during the Revolution.  A widower, childless, and possessed of a considerable fortune, he had an aristocratic clientele, notably that of Mme. de la Chanterie.  On every hand he received that attention which his good points merited.  M. du Bousquier held him in profound hatred, blaming him with the refusal which Mlle. d’Esgrignon had made of Du Bousquier’s proffered hand in marriage, and another check of the same nature which he experienced at first from Mlle. Cormon.  By a dexterous move in 1824 Chesnel succeeded in rescuing Victurnien d’Esgrignon, though guilty, from the Court of Assizes.  The old notary succumbed soon after this event. [The Seamy Side of History.  Jealousies of a Country Town.]

CHESSEL (De), owner of the chateau and estate of Frapesle near Sache in Touraine.  Friend of the Vandenesses; he introduced their son Felix to his neighbors, the Mortsaufs.  The son of a manufacturer named Durand who became very rich during the Revolution, but whose plebeian name he had entirely dropped; instead he adopted that of his wife, the only heiress of the Chessels, an old parliamentary family.  M. de Chessel was director-general and twice deputy.  He received the title of count under Louis XVIII. [The Lily of the Valley.]

CHESSEL (Madame de), wife of the preceding.  She made up elaborate toilettes. [The Lily of the Valley.] In 1824 she frequented Mme. Rabourdin’s Paris home. [The Government Clerks.]

CHEVREL (Monsieur and Madame), founders of the house of the “Cat and Racket,” rue Saint-Denis, at the close of the eighteenth century.  Father and mother of Mme. Guillaume, whose husband succeeded to the management of the firm. [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket.]

CHEVREL, rich Parisian banker at the beginning of the nineteenth century.  Probably brother and brother-in-law of the foregoing.  He had a daughter who married Maitre Roguin. [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket.]

CHIAVARI (Prince de), brother of the Duke of Vissembourg; son of Marechal Vernon. [Beatrix.]

CHIFFREVILLE (Monsieur and Madame), ran a very prosperous drug-store and laboratory in Paris during the Restoration.  Their partners were MM.  Protez and Cochin.  This firm had frequent business dealings with Cesar Birotteau’s “Queen of Roses”; it also supplied Balthazar Claes. [Cesar Birotteau.  The Quest of the Absolute.]

CHIGI (Prince), great lord of Rome in 1758.  He boasted of having “made a soprano out of Zambinella” and disclosed the fact to Sarrasine that this creature was not a woman. [Sarrasine.]