MANETTE, under the Restoration at Clochegourde in Touraine, the Comtesse de Mortsauf’s housekeeper, taking her mother’s place in the care of her young master and mistress, Jacques and Madeleine de Mortsauf. [The Lily of the Valley.]

MANON. (See Godard, Manon.)

MANON-LA-BLONDE, during the last years of the Restoration a Paris prostitute, who fell violently in love with Theodore Calvi, became a receiver of stolen goods, brought to her by the companion of Jacques Collin, who committed murder also, at the time of the robbery; she thus became the indirect or involuntary cause of the Corsican’s arrest. [Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life.]

MANSEAU (Pere), tavern-keeper at Echelles, a town in Savoie, gave aid to La Fosseuse, in her poverty, and sheltered this unfortunate woman in a barn.  La Fosseuse became the protegee of Doctor Benassis. [The Country Doctor.]

MARANA (La), the last of a long series of prostitutes bearing the same name; natural descendant of the Herouvilles.  She was known to have had more than one distinguished lover:  Mancini, the Duc de Lina, and a king of Naples.  She was notorious in Venice, Milan and Naples.  She had by Mancini one child, whom he acknowledged, Juana-Pepita-Maria, and had her reared in good morals by the Lagounias, who were under obligations to her.  Upon going to seek her daughter in Tarragone, Spain, she surprised the girl in company with Montefiore, but scorned to take vengeance upon him.  She accepted as husband of the young girl M. Diard, who had asked for her hand.  In 1823, when she was dying in the hospital at Bordeaux, Marana once more saw her daughter, still virtuous, although unhappy. [The Hated Son.  The Maranas.]

MARCAS (Zephirin), born about 1803 in a Bretagne family at Vitre.  In after life he supported his parents who were in poor circumstances.  He received a free education in a seminary, but had no inclination for the priesthood.  Carrying hardly any money he went to Paris, in 1823 or 1824, and after studying with a lawyer became his chief clerk.  Later he studied men and objects in five capitals:  London, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg and Constantinople.  For five years he was a journalist, and reported the proceedings of the “Chambres.”  He often visited R. de la Palferine.  With women he proved to be of the passionate-timid kind.  With the head of a lion, and a strong voice, he was equal as an orator to Berryer, and the superior of M. Thiers.  For a long time he supplied the political ability needed by a deputy who had become a minister, but, convinced of his disloyalty, he overthrew him, only to restore him for a short time.  He once more entered into polemical controversy; saw the newspapers which had sparkled with his forceful, high-minded criticism die; and lived miserably upon a daily allowance of thirty sous, earned by copying for the Palais.  Marcas lived at that time, 1836, in the garret of a furnished house on rue Corneille.  His thankless