CAPRAJA, a noble Venetian, a recognized dilettante, living only by and through music.  Nicknamed “Il Fanatico.”  Known by the Duke and Duchess Cataneo and their friends. [Massimilla Doni.]

CARABINE, assumed name of Seraphine Sinet, which name see.

CARBONNEAU, physician whom the Comte de Mortsauf spoke of consulting about his wife, in 1820, instead of Dr. Origet, whom he fancied to be unsatisfactory. [The Lily of the Valley.]

CARCADO (Madame de), founder of a Parisian benevolent society, for which Mme. de la Baudraye was appointed collector, in March, 1843, on the request of some priests, friends of Mme. Piedefer.  This choice resulted, noteworthily, in the re-entrance into society of the “muse,” who had been beguiled and compromised by her relations with Lousteau. [The Muse of the Department.]

CARDANET (Madame de), grandmother of Mme. de Senonches. [Lost Illusions.]

CARDINAL (Madame), Parisian fish-vender, daughter of one Toupillier, a carrier.  Widow of a well-known marketman.  Niece of Toupillier the pauper of Saint-Sulpice, from whom in 1840, with Cerizet’s assistance, she tried to capture the hidden treasure.  This woman had three sisters, four brothers, and three uncles, who would have shared with her the pauper’s bequest.  The scheming of Mme. Cardinal and Cerizet was frustrated by M. du Portail—­Corentin. [The Middle Classes.]

CARDINAL (Olympe). (See Cerizet, Madame.)

CARDOT (Jean-Jerome-Severin), born in 1755.  Head-clerk in an old silk-house, the “Golden Cocoon,” rue des Bourdonnais.  He bought the establishment in 1793, at the “maximum” moment, and in ten years had made a large fortune, thanks to the dowry of one hundred thousand francs brought him by his wife; she was a Demoiselle Husson, and gave him four children.  Of these, the elder daughter married Camusot, who succeeded his father-in-law; the second, Marianne, married Protez, of the firm of Protez & Chiffreville; the elder son became a notary; the younger son, Joseph, took an interest in Matifat’s drug business.  Cardot was the “protector” of the actress, Florentine, whom he discovered and started.  In 1822 he lived at Belleville in one of the first houses above Courtille; he had then been a widower for six years.  He was an uncle of Oscar Husson, and had taken some interest in and helped the dolt, until an incident occurred that changed everything:  the old man discovered the young fellow asleep one morning, on one of Florentine’s divans, after an orgy wherein he had squandered the money entrusted to him by his employer, Desroches the attorney. [A Start in Life.  Lost Illusions.  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.  A Bachelor’s Establishment.] Cardot had dealings with the Guillaumes, clothiers, rue Saint-Denis. [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket.] He and his entire family were invited to the great ball given by Cesar Birotteau, December 17, 1818. [Cesar Birotteau.]