BROSSARD (Camille du), daughter of the preceding. born in 1794.  Fleshy and imposing.  Posed as a good pianist.  Not yet married at twenty-seven. [Lost Illusions.]

BROSSETTE (Abbe), born about 1790; cure of Blangy, Burgundy, in 1823, at the time when General de Montcornet was struggling with the peasantry.  The abbe himself was an object of their defiance and hatred.  He was the fourth son of a good bourgeoisie family of Autun, a faithful prelate, an obstinate Royalist and a man of intelligence. [The Peasantry.] In 1840 he became a cure at Paris, in the faubourg Saint-Germain, and at the request of Mme. de Grandlieu, he interested himself in removing Calyste du Guenic from the clutches of Mme. de Rochefide and restoring him to his wife. [Beatrix.]

BROUET (Joseph), a Chouan who died of wounds received in the fight of La Pelerine or at the siege of Fougeres, in 1799. [The Chouans.]

BROUSSON (Doctor), attended the banker Jean-Frederic Taillefer, a short time before the financier’s death. [The Red Inn.]

BRUCE (Gabriel), alias Gros-Jean, one of the fiercest Chouans of the Fontaine division.  Implicated in the affair of the “Chauffeurs of Mortagne” in 1809.  Condemned to death for contumacy. [The Seamy Side of History.]

BRUEL (Du), chief of division to the Ministers of the Interior, under the Empire.  A friend of Bridau senior, retired on the advent of Restoration.  He was on very friendly terms with the widow Bridau, coming each evening for a game of cards at her house, on rue Mazarine, with his old-time colleagues, Claparon and Desroches.  These three old employes were called the “Three Sages of Greece” by Mmes.  Bridau and Descoings.  M. du Bruel was descended of a contractor ennobled at the end of the reign of Louis XIV.  He died about 1821. [A Bachelor’s Establishment.]

BRUEL (Madame du), wife of the preceding.  She survived him.  She was the mother of the dramatic author Jean-Francois du Bruel, christened Cursy on the Parisian bill-boards.  Although a bourgeoisie of strict ideas, Mme. du Bruel welcomed the dancer Tullia, who became her daughter-in-law. [A Prince of Bohemia.]

BRUEL (Jean-Francois du), son of the preceding; born about 1797.  In 1816 he obtained a place under the Minister of Finance, thanks to the favor of the Duc de Navarreins. [A Bachelor’s Establishment.] He was sub-chief of Rabourdin’s office when the latter, in 1824, contested with M. Baudoyer for a place of division chief. [The Government Clerks.] In November, 1825, Jean-Francois du Bruel assisted at a breakfast given at the “Rocher de Cancale” to the clerks of Desroches’ office by Frederic Marest who was treating to celebrate his incoming.  He was present also at the orgy which followed at Florentine’s home. [A Start in Life.] M. du Bruel successively rose to be chief of bureau, director, councillor of state, deputy, peer of France and commander of the Legion of Honor; he received the title of count and