capacity he was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for swindling.  After business partnership with Georges d’Estourny, and later with Claparon, he was stranded and reduced to transcribing for a justice of the peace in the quartier Saint-Jacques.  At the same time he began lending money on short time, and by speculating with the poorer class he acquired a certain competence.  Although thoroughly debauched, Cerizet married Olympe Cardinal about 1840.  At this time he was implicated in the intrigues of Theodose de la Peyrade and in the interests of Jerome Thuillier.  Becoming possessed of a note of Maxime de Trailles in 1833, he succeeded by Scapinal tactics in obtaining face value of the paper. [A Man of Business.  Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life.  The Middle Classes.]

CERIZET (Olympe Cardinal, Madame), wife of foregoing; born about 1824; daughter of Mme. Cardinal the fish-dealer.  Actress at the Bobino, Luxembourg, then at the Folies-Dramatiques, where she made her debut in “The Telegraph of Love.”  At first she was intimate with the first comedian.  Afterwards she had Julien Minard for lover.  From the father of the latter she received thirty thousand francs to renounce her son.  This money she used as a dowry and it aided in consummating her marriage with Cerizet. [The Middle Classes.]

CESARINE, laundry girl at Alencon.  Mistress of the Chevalier de Valois, and mother of a child that was attributed to the old aristocrat.  It was also said in the town, in 1816, that he had married Cesarine clandestinely.  These rumors greatly annoyed the chevalier, since he had hoped at this time to wed Mlle. Cormon.  Cesarine, the sole legatee of her lover, received an income of only six hundred livres. [Jealousies of a Country Town.]

CESARINE, dancer at the Opera de Paris in 1822; an acquaintance of Philippe Bridau, who at one time thought of breaking off with her on account of his uncle Rouget at Issoudun. [A Bachelor’s Establishment.]

CHABERT (Hyacinthe), Count, grand officer of the Legion of Honor, colonel of a cavalry regiment.  Left for dead on the battlefield of Eylau (February 7-8, 1807).  He was healed at Heilsberg, then locked up in an insane asylum at Stuttgart.  Returning to France after the downfall of the Empire, he lived, in 1818, in straitened circumstances, with the herdsman Vergniaud, an old lieutenant of his regiment, on rue du Petit-Banquier, Paris.  After having sought without arousing scandal to make good his rights with Rose Chapotel, his wife, now married to Count Ferraud, he sank again into poverty and was convicted of vagrancy.  He ended his days at the Hospital de Bicetre; they had begun at the Foundling Hospital. [Colonel Chabert.]

CHABERT (Madame), nee Rose Chapotel. (See Ferraud, Comtesse.)

CHABOISSEAU, an old bookseller, book-lender, something of a usurer, a millionaire living in 1821-1822 on quai Saint-Michel, where he discussed a business deal with Lucien de Rubembre, who had been piloted there by Lousteau. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.] He was a friend of Gobseck and of Gigonnet and with them he frequented, in 1824, the Cafe Themis. [The Government Clerks.] During the reign of Louis Philippe he had dealings with the Cerizet-Claparon Company. [A Man of Business.]