The adventure of the journey to Presles was a lesson to Oscar Husson in discretion; his disaster at Florentine’s card-party strengthened him in honesty and uprightness; the hardships of his military career taught him to understand the social hierarchy and to yield obedience to his lot.  Becoming wise and capable, he was happy.  The Comte de Serizy, before his death, obtained for him the collectorship at Pontoise.  The influence of Monsieur Moreau de l’Oise and that of the Comtesse de Serizy and the Baron de Canalis secured, in after years, a receiver-generalship for Monsieur Husson, in whom the Camusot family now recognize a relation.

Oscar is a commonplace man, gentle, without assumption, modest, and always keeping, like his government, to a middle course.  He excites neither envy nor contempt.  In short, he is the modern bourgeois.

ADDENDUM

The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.

Beaupre, Fanny
  Modest Mignon
  The Muse of the Department
  Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life

Bridau, Joseph
  The Purse
  A Bachelor’s Establishment
  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  Modeste Mignon
  Another Study of Woman
  Pierre Grassou
  Letters of Two Brides
  Cousin Betty
  The Member for Arcis

Bruel, Jean Francois du
  A Bachelor’s Establishment
  The Government Clerks
  A Prince of Bohemia
  The Middle Classes
  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  A Daughter of Eve

Cabirolle, Madame
  A Bachelor’s Establishment

Cabirolle, Agathe-Florentine
  Lost Illusions
  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  A Bachelor’s Establishment

Canalis, Constant-Cyr-Melchior, Baron de
  Letters of Two Brides
  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  Modeste Mignon
  The Magic Skin
  Another Study of Woman
  Beatrix
  The Unconscious Humorists
  The Member for Arcis

Cardot, Jean-Jerome-Severin
  Lost Illusions
  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  A Bachelor’s Establishment
  At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
  Cesar Birotteau

Coralie, Mademoiselle
  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  A Bachelor’s Establishment

Crottat, Alexandre
  Cesar Birotteau
  Colonel Chabert
  A Woman of Thirty
  Cousin Pons

Derville
  Gobseck
  The Gondreville Mystery
  Father Goriot
  Colonel Chabert
  Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life

Desroches (son)
  A Bachelor’s Establishment
  Colonel Chabert
  A Woman of Thirty
  The Commission in Lunacy
  The Government Clerks
  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life
  The Firm of Nucingen
  A Man of Business
  The Middle Classes

Finot, Andoche
  Cesar Birotteau
  A Bachelor’s Establishment
  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life
  The Government Clerks
  Gaudissart the Great
  The Firm of Nucingen