Englishman. [Melmoth Reconciled.] He was interested in the third liquidation of Nucingen in 1826, a settlement which made the fortune of the Alsatian banker whose “man of straw” he was for some time. [The Firm of Nucingen.] He was associated with Cerizet who deceived him in a deal about a house sold to Thuillier.  Becoming bankrupt he embarked for America about 1840.  He was probably condemned for contumacy on account of swindling. [A Man of Business.  The Middle Classes.]

CLAPART, employe to the prefecture of the Seine during the Restoration, at a salary of twelve hundred francs.  Born about 1776.  About 1803 he married a widow Husson, aged twenty-two.  At that time he was employed in the Bureau of Finance, at a salary of eighteen hundred francs and a promise of more.  But his known incapacity held him down to a secondary place.  At the fall of the Empire he lost his position, obtaining his new one on the recommendation of the Comte de Serizy.  Mme. Husson had by her first husband a child that was Clapart’s evil genius.  In 1822 his family occupied an apartment renting for two hundred and fifty francs at number seven rue de la Cerisaie.  There he saw much of the old pensioner Poiret.  Clapart was killed by the Fieschi attack of July 28, 1835. [A Start in Life.]

CLAPART (Madame), wife of the preceding; born in 1780; one of the “Aspasias” of the Directory, and famous for her acquaintance with one of the “Pentarques.”  He married her to Husson the contractor, who made millions but who became bankrupt suddenly through the First Consul, and suicided in 1802.  At that time she was mistress of Moreau, steward of M. de Serizy.  Moreau was in love with her and would have made her his wife, but just then was under sentence of death and a fugitive.  Thus it was that in her distress she married Clapart, a clerk in the Bureau of Finance.  By her first husband Mme. Clapart had a son, Oscar Husson, whom she was bound up in, but whose boyish pranks caused her much trouble.  During the first Empire Mme. Clapart was a lady-in-waiting to Mme. Mere—­Letitia Bonaparte. [A Start in Life.]

CLARIMBAULT (Marechal de), maternal grandfather of Mme. de Beauseant.  He had married the daughter of Chevalier de Rastignac, great-uncle of Eugene de Rastignac. [Father Goriot.]

CLAUDE, an idiot who died in the village of Dauphine in 1829, nursed and metamorphosed by Dr. Benassis. [The Country Doctor.]

CLERETTI, an architect of Paris who was quite the fashion in 1843.  Grindot, though decadent at this time, tried to compete with him. [Cousin Betty.]

CLERGET (Basine), laundress at Angouleme during the Restoration, who succeeded Mme. Prieur with whom Eve Chardon had worked.  Basine Clerget concealed David Sechard and Kolb when Sechard was pursued by the Cointet brothers. [Lost Illusions.]

CLOUSIER, retired attorney of Limoges; justice of the peace at Montegnac after 1809.  He was in touch with Mme. Graslin when she moved there about 1830.  An upright, phlegmatic man who finally led the contemplative life of one of the ancient hermits. [The Country Parson.]