GOUJET (Abbe), cure of Cinq-Cygne, Aube, about 1792, discovered for the son of Beauvisage the farmer, who were still good Catholics, the Greek name of Phileas, one of the few saints not abolished by the new regime. [The Member for Arcis.] Former abbe of the Minimes, and a friend of Hauteserre.  Was the tutor of Adrien and Robert Hauteserre; enjoyed a game of boston with their parents—­1803.  His political prudence sometimes led him to censure the audacity of their kinswoman, Mlle. de Cinq-Cygne.  Nevertheless, he held his own with the persecutor of the house, Corentin the police-agent; and attended Michu when that victim of a remarkable trial, known as “the abduction of Gondreville,” went to the scaffold.  During the Restoration he became Bishop of Troyes. [The Gondreville Mystery.]

GOUJET (Mademoiselle), sister of the foregoing; good-natured old maid, ugly and parsimonious, who lived with her brother.  Almost every evening she played boston at the Hauteserres and was terrified by Corentin’s visits. [The Gondreville Mystery.]

GOULARD, mayor of Cinq-Cygne, Aube, in 1803.  Tall, stout and miserly; married a wealthy tradeswoman of Troyes, whose property, augmented by all the lands of the rich abbey of Valdes-Preux, adjoined Cinq-Cygne.  Goulard lived in the old abbey, which was very near the chateau of Cinq-Cygne.  Despite his revolutionary proclivities, he closed his eyes to the actions of the Hauteserres and Simeuses who were Royalist plotters. [The Gondreville Mystery.]

GOULARD (Antonin), native of Arcis, like Simon Giguet.  Born about 1807; son of the former huntsman of the Simeuse family, enriched by the purchase of public lands. (See preceding biography.) Early left motherless, he came to Arcis to live with his father, who abandoned the abbey of Valpreux.  Went to the Imperial lyceum, where he had Simon Giguet for school-mate, whom he afterwards met again on the benches of the Law school at Paris.  Obtained, through Gondreville, the Cross of the Legion of Honor.  The royal government of 1830 opened up for him a career in the public service.  In 1839 he became sub-prefect for Arcis-sur-Aube, during the electoral period.  The delegate, Trailles, satisfied Antonin’s rancor against Giguet:  his official recommendations caused the latter’s defeat.  Both the would-be prefect and the sub-prefect vainly sought the hand of Cecile Beauvisage.  Goulard cultivated the society of officialdom:  Marest, Vinet, Martener, Michu. [The Member for Arcis.]

GOUNOD, nephew of Vatel, keeper of the Montcornet estate at Aigues, Burgundy.  About 1823 he probably became assistant to the head-keeper, Michaud. [The Peasantry.]