HAUCHECORNE (MADAME), wife of the preceding.  See Desiree Finet.

HAUCHECORNE (ELIZABETH), daughter of the preceding.  See Madame Baudu.

HAUTECOEUR (MONSEIGNEUR JEAN D’) was a member of one of the oldest and proudest families in France.  He was for some time in the army, and until he was forty years of age he led an adventurous life, travelling everywhere and having many strange experiences.  At last he chanced to meet Mademoiselle Pauline, daughter of the Comte de Valencay, very wealthy, marvellously beautiful, and scarcely nineteen years of age.  They were married, but at the end of a year Pauline had a son and died.  A fortnight later M. d’Hautecoeur entered into Holy Orders, and soon became a priest; twenty years afterwards he was made a bishop.  During all that time he refused to see Felicien, his son, who had been brought up by an old abbot, a relation of his wife.  He intended to have his son brought up as a priest, but the lad having no vocation, he gave up the idea and brought him to live at Beaumont.  There Felicien met and fell in love with Angelique, but the Bishop sternly forbade any thought of marriage between them, and even went the length of arranging a marriage between his son and Claire de Voincourt.  A touching personal appeal by Angelique had no effect in gaining the Bishop’s consent, but he was secretly much moved, and when she fell into ill-health he himself came to administer the last rites of the Church.  Her semi-miraculous recovery led to the Bishop consenting to his son’s marriage, which was celebrated a few months later in the cathedral of Beaumont.  Le Reve.

HAUTECOEUR (MARQUISE JEAN XII DE).  See Paule de Valencay.

HAUTECOEUR (ANGELIQUE DE).  See Angelique Marie.

HAUTECOEUR (FELICIEN D’), only child of Jean d’Hautecoeur, who was afterwards Bishop of Beaumont.  Felicien’s mother having died at his birth, his father took Holy Orders, and refused to see him for over twenty years.  Having ultimately come to live with his father at Beaumont, Felicien met and fell in love with Angelique, the adopted daughter of Hubert, the chasuble-maker.  The Bishop having absolutely refused to consent to the marriage, the Huberts endeavoured to separate the lovers by persuading Angelique that Felicien no longer cared for her.  They were aided in this by a rumour that Felicien was to marry Claire de Voincourt.  A meeting between Angelique and Felicien cleared away the mists, but by this time the girl had fallen into ill-health and appeared to be dying.  The Bishop, who had formerly been secretly moved by an appeal made to him by Angelique, came to administer to her the last rites of the Church.  A semi-miraculous recovery followed, and, the Bishop having consented, Felicien was married to Angelique in the cathedral of Beaumont.  The recovery had, however, been a mere spark of an expiring fire, for as Felicien led his new-made wife to the cathedral porch, she slipped from his arm, and in a few moments was dead.  Le Reve.