BOUTIN, at one time sergeant in the cavalry regiment of which Chabert was colonel.  He lived at Stuttgart in 1814, exhibiting white bears very well trained by him.  In this city he encountered his former ranking officer, shorn of all his possessions, and just emerging from an insane asylum.  Boutin aided him as best he could and took it upon himself to go to Paris and inform Mme. Chabert of her husband’s whereabouts.  But Boutin fell on the field of Waterloo, and could hardly have accomplished his mission. [Colonel Chabert.]

BOUVARD (Doctor), physician of Paris, born about 1758.  A friend of Dr. Minoret, with whom he had some lively tilts about Mesmer.  He had adopted that system, while Minoret gainsaid the truth thereof.  These discussions ended in an estrangement, for some time, between the two cronies.  Finally, in 1829, Bouvard wrote Minoret asking him to come to Paris to assist in some conclusive tests of magnetism.  As a result of these tests, Dr. Minoret, materialist and atheist that he was, became a devout Spiritualist and Catholic.  In 1829 Dr. Bouvard lived on rue Ferou. [Ursule Mirouet.] He had been as a father to Dr. Lebrun, physician of the Conciergerie in 1830, who, according to his own avowal, owed to him his position, since he often drew from his master his own ideas regarding nervous energy. [Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life.]

BOUYONNET, a lawyer at Mantes, under Louis Philippe, who, urged by his confreres and stimulated by the public prosecutor, “showed up” Fraisier, another lawyer in the town, who had been retained in a suit for both parties at once.  The result of this denunciation was to make Fraisier sell his office and leave Mantes. [Cousin Pons.]

BRAMBOURG (Comte de), title of Philippe Bridau to which his brother Joseph succeeded. [A Bachelor’s Establishment.  The Unconscious Humorists.]

BRANDON (Lady Marie-Augusta), mother of Louis and Marie Gaston, children born out of wedlock.  Together with the Vicomtesse de Beauseant she assisted, in company with Colonel Franchessini, probably her lover, at the famous ball on the morning following which the duped mistress of D’Ajuda-Pinto secretly left Paris. [The Member for Arcis.] In 1820, while living with her two children in seclusion at La Grenadiere, in the neighborhood of Tours, she saw Felix de Vandenesse, at the time when Mme. de Mortsauf died, and charged him with a pressing message to Lady Arabelle Dudley. [The Lily of the Valley.] She died, aged thirty-six, during the Restoration, in the house at La Grenadiere, and was buried in the Saint-Cyr Cemetery.  Her husband, Lord Brandon, who had abandoned her, lived in London, Brandon Square, Hyde Park, at this time.  In Touraine Lady Brandon was known only by the assumed name of Mme. Willemsens. [La Grenadiere.]

BRASCHON, upholsterer and cabinet-maker in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, famous under the Restoration.  He did a considerable amount of work for Cesar Birotteau and figured among the creditors in his bankruptcy. [Cesar Birotteau.  Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life.]