LOUDON (Prince Gaspard de), born in 1791, third and only surviving son of the Duc de Verneuil’s four children; fat and commonplace, having, very inappropriately, the same name as the celebrated Vendean cavalry general; became probably Desplein’s son-in-law.  He took part in 1829 in a great hunt given in Normandie, in company with the Herouvilles, the Cadignans and the Mignons. [Modeste Mignon.]

LOUIS XVIII. (Louis-Stanislas-Xavier), born at Versailles, November 16, 1754, died September 16, 1824, King of France.  He was in political relations with Alphonse de Montauran, Malin de Gondreville, and some time before this, under the name of the Comte de Lille, with the Baronne de la Chanterie.  He considered Peyrade an able officer and was his patron.  King Louis XVIII., friend of the Comte de Fontaine, engaged Felix de Vandenesse as secretary.  His last mistress was the Comtesse Ferraud. [The Chouans.  The Seamy Side of History.  The Gondreville Mystery.  Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life.  The Ball at Sceaux.  The Lily of the Valley.  Colonel Chabert.  The Government Clerks.]

LOUISE, during the close of Louis Philippe’s reign, was Madame W. Steinbock’s waiting-maid at Paris, rue Louis-le-Grand, and was courted by Hulot d’Ervy’s cook, at the time when Agathe Piquetard, who was destined to become the second Baronne Hulot, was another servant.  (Cousin Betty.]

LOURDOIS, during the Empire wealthy master-painter of interiors; contractor with thirty thousand francs income, of Liberal views.  Charged an enormous sum for the famous decorations in Cesar Birotteau’s apartments, where he was a guest with his wife and daughter at the grand ball of December 17, 1818.  After the failure of the perfumer, a little later, he treated him somewhat slightingly. [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket.  Cesar Birotteau.]

LOUSTEAU, sub-delegate at Issoudun and afterwards the intimate friend of Doctor Rouget, at that time his enemy, because the doctor was possibly the father of Mademoiselle Agathe Rouget, then become Madame Bridau.  Lousteau died in 1800. [A Bachelor’s Establishment.]

LOUSTEAU (Etienne), son of the preceding, born at Sancerre in 1799, nephew of Maximilienne Hochon, born Lousteau, school-mate of Doctor Bianchon.  Urged on by his desire for a literary vocation, he entered Paris without money, in 1819, made a beginning with poetry, was the literary partner of Victor Ducange in a melodrama played at the Gaite in 1821, undertook the editing of a small paper devoted to the stage, of which Andoche Finot was proprietor.  He had at that time two homes, one in the Quartier Latin, rue de la Harpe, above the Servel cafe, another on rue de Bondy, with Florine his mistress.  Not having a better place, he became at times Flicoteaux’s guest, in company with Daniel d’Arthez and especially Lucien de Rubempre, whom he trained, piloted, and introduced to Dauriat, in fact, whose first steps he aided, not without feeling regret later in life.