HERBELOT (Malvina), born in 1809; sister of the preceding, whose curiosity she shared, when the Arcis elections were in progress.  She also called on the Beauvisages and the Mollots, and, despite her thirty years, sought the society of the young women of these houses. [The Member for Arcis.]

HERBOMEZ, of Mayenne, nick-named General Hardi; chauffeur implicated in the Royalist uprising in which Henriette Bryond took part, during the first Empire.  Like Mme. de la Chanterie’s daughter, Herbomez paid with his head his share in the rebellion.  His execution took place in 1809. [The Seamy Side of History.]

HERBOMEZ (D’), brother of the foregoing, but more fortunate, he ended by becoming a count and receiver-general. [The Seamy Side of History.]

HEREDIA (Marie). (See Soria, Duchesse de.)

HERMANN, a Nuremberg merchant who commanded a free company enlisted against the French, in October, 1799.  Was arrested and thrown into a prison of Andernach, where he had for fellow-prisoner, Prosper Magnan, a young assistant surgeon, native of Beauvais, Oise.  Hermann thus learned the terrible secret of an unjust detention followed by an execution equally unjust.  Many years after, in Paris, he told the story of the martyrdom of Magnan in the presence of F. Taillefer, the unpunished author of the dual crime which had caused the imprisonment and death of an innocent man. [The Red Inn.]

HERON, notary of Issoudun in the early part of the nineteenth century, who was attorney for the Rougets, father and son. [A Bachelor’s Establishment.]

HEROUVILLE (Marechal d’), whose ancestors’ names were inscribed in the pages of French history, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, replete with glory and dramatic mystery; was Duc de Nivron.  He was the last governor of Normandy, returned from exile with Louis XVIII. in 1814, and died at an advanced age in 1819. [The Hated Son.  Modeste Mignon.]

HEROUVILLE (Duc d’), son of the preceding; born in 1796, at Vienna, Austria, during the emigration, “fruit of the matrimonial autumn of the last governor of Normandy”; descendant of a Comte d’Herouville, a Norman free-lance who lived under Henri IV. and Louis XIII.  He was Marquis de Saint-Sever, Duc de Nivron, Comte de Bayeux, Vicomte d’Essigny, grand equerry and peer of France, chevalier of the Order of the Spur and of the Golden Fleece, and grandee of Spain.  A more modest origin, however, was ascribed to him by some.  The founder of his house was supposed to have been an usher at the court of Robert of Normandy.  But the coat-of-arms bore the device “Herus Villa”—­House of the Chief.  At any rate, the physical unattractiveness and comparative lack of means of D’Herouville, who was a kind of dwarf, contrasted with his aristocratic lineage.  However, his income allowed him to keep a house on rue Saint-Thomas du Louvre, Paris, and to keep on good terms with the Chaulieus.  He maintained Fanny Beaupre, who apparently cost him