MONTRIVEAU (General Marquis Armand de), nephew of the preceding and only son of General de Montriveau.  As a penniless orphan he was entered by Bonaparte in the school of Chalons.  He went into the artillery service, and took part in the last campaigns of the Empire, among others that in Russia.  At the battle of Waterloo he received many serious wounds, being then a colonel in the Guard.  Montriveau passed the first three years of the Restoration far away from Europe.  He wished to explore the upper sections of Egypt and Central Africa.  After being made a slave by savages he escaped from their hands by a bold ruse and returned to Paris, where he lived on rue de Seine near the Chamber of Peers.  Despite his poverty and lack of ambition and influential friends, he was soon promoted to a general’s position.  His association with The Thirteen, a powerful and secret band of men, who counted among their members Ronquerolles, Marsay and Bourignard, probably brought him this unsolicited favor.  This same freemasonry aided Montriveau in his desire to have revenge on Antoinette de Langeais for her delicate flirtation; also later, when still feeling for her the same passion, he seized her body from the Spanish Carmelites.  About the same time the general met, at Madame de Beauseant’s, Rastignac, just come to Paris, and told him about Anastasie de Restaud.  Towards the end of 1821, the general met Mesdames d’Espard and de Bargeton, who were spending the evening at the Opera.  Montriveau was the living picture of Kleber, and in a kind of tragic way became a widower by Antoinette de Langeais.  Having become celebrated for a long journey fraught with adventures, he was the social lion at the time he ran across a companion of his Egyptian travels, Sixte du Chatelet.  Before a select audience of artists and noblemen, gathered during the first years of the reign of Louis Philippe at the home of Mademoiselle des Touches, he told how he had unwittingly been responsible for the vengeance taken by the husband of a certain Rosina, during the time of the Imperial wars.  Montriveau, now admitted to the peerage, was in command of a department.  At this time, having become unfaithful to the memory of Antoinette de Langeais, he became enamored of Madame Rogron, born Bathilde de Chargeboeuf, who hoped soon to bring about their marriage.  In 1839, in company with M. de Ronquerolles, he beame second to the Duc de Rhetore, elder brother of Louise de Chaulieu, in his duel with Dorlange-Sallenauve, brought about because of Marie Gaston. [The Thirteen.  Father Goriot.  Lost Illusions.  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.  Another Study of Woman.  Pierrette.  The Member for Arcis.]

MORAND, formerly a clerk in Barbet’s publishing-house, in 1838 became a partner; along with Metivier tried to take advantage of Baron de Bourlac, author of “The Spirit of Modern Law.” [The Seamy Side of History.]