For one thousand francs per month, Lousteau rid Philippe Bridau of his wife, Flore, placing her in a house of ill-fame.  He was at the Opera, the evening of the masque ball of the year 1824, where Blondet, Bixiou, Rastignac, Jacques Collin, Chatelet and Madame d’Espard discovered Lucien de Rubempre with Esther Gobseck.  Lousteau wrote criticisms, did work for various reviews, and for Raoul Nathan’s gazette.  He lived on rue des Martyrs, and was Madame Schontz’s lover.  He obtained by some intrigue a deputyship at Sancerre; carried on a long liaison with Dinah de la Baudraye; just escaped a marriage with Madame Berthier, then Felicie Cardot; was father of Madame de la Baudraye’s children, and spoke as follows concerning the birth of the eldest:  “Madame la Baronne de la Baudraye is happily delivered of a child; M. Etienne Lousteau has the honor of announcing it.”  During this liaison, Lousteau, for the sum of five hundred francs, gave to Fabien du Ronceret a discourse to be read at a horticultural exhibition, for which the latter was decorated.  He attended a house-warming at Mademoiselle Brisetout’s, rue Chauchat; asked Dinah and Nathan for the purpose or moral of the “Prince of Bohemia.”  Lousteau’s manner of living underwent little change when Madame de la Baudraye left him.  He heard Maitre Desroches recount one of Cerizet’s adventures, saw Madame Marneffe marry Crevel, took charge of the “Echo de la Bievre,” and undertook the management of a theatre with Ridal, the author of vaudevilles. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.  A Bachelor’s Establishment.  Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life.  A Daughter of Eve.  Beatrix.  The Muse of the Department.  Cousin Betty.  A Prince of Bohemia.  A Man of Business.  The Middle Classes.  The Unconscious Humorists.]

LUIGIA, young and beautiful Roman girl of the suburbs, wife of Benedetto, who claimed the right of selling her.  She tried to kill herself at the same time she killed him, but did not succeed.  Charles de Sallenauve—­Dorlange—­protected her, taking care of her when she became a widow, and made her his housekeeper in 1839.  Luigia soon left her benefactor, the voice of slander having accused them in their mutually innocent relations. [The Member for Arcis.]

LUPEAULX (Clement Chardin des), officer and politician, born about 1785; left in good circumstances by his father; who was ennobled by Louis XV., his coat-of-arms showing “a ferocious wolf of sable bearing a lamb in its jaws,” with this motto:  “En lupus in historia.”  A shrewd and ambitious man, ready for all enterprises, even the most compromising, Clement des Lupeaulx knew how to make himself of service to Louis XVIII. in several delicate undertakings.  Many influential members of the aristocracy placed in his hands their difficult business and their lawsuits.  He served thus as mediator between the Duc de Navarreins and Polydore Milaud de la Baudraye, and attained a kind of mightiness that Annette seemed to fear would be disastrous to Charles Grandet.  He accumulated