twice his personal assets.  Living from this time at the rue de Fouarre, Popinot was able to give free rein to the exercise of charity, a virtue that had become a passion with him.  At the urgent instance of Octave de Bauvan, Jean-Jules Popinot, in order to aid Honorine, the Count’s wife, sent her a pretended commission-merchant, probably Felix Gaudissart, offering a more than generous price for the flowers she made. [Honorine.] Jean-Jules Popinot eventually established a sort of benevolent agency.  Lavienne, his servant, and Horace Bianchon, his wife’s nephew aided him.  He relieved Madame Toupinet, a poor woman on the rue du Petit-Banquier, from want (1828).  Madame d’Espard’s request for a guardian for her husband served to divert Popinot from his role of Saint Vincent de Paul; a man of rare delicacy hidden beneath a rough and uncultured exterior, he immediately discovered the injustice of the wrongs alleged by the marchioness, and recognized the real victim in M. d’Espard, when he cross-questioned him at No. 22 rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Genevieve, in an apartment, the good management of which he seemed to envy, though the rooms were simply furnished, and in striking contrast with the splendor of which he had been a witness, at the home of the marchioness in the Faubourg Saint-Honore.  A delay caused by a cold in the head, and especially the influence of Madame d’Espard’s intrigues, removed Popinot from the cause, in which Camusot was substituted. [The Commission in Lunacy.] We have varying accounts of Jean-Jules Popinot’s last years.  Madame de la Chanterie’s circle mourned the death of the judge in 1833 [The Seamy Side of History.] and Phellion in 1840.  J.-J.  Popinot probably died at No. 22 rue de la Montagne-Saint-Genevieve, in the apartment that he had already coveted, being a counselor to the court, municipal counselor of Paris, and a member of the General Council of the Seine. [The Middle Classes.]

POPINOT (Anselme), a poor orphan, and nephew of the preceding and of Madame Ragon (born Popinot), who took charge of him in his infancy.  Small of stature, red-haired, and lame, he gladly became clerk to Cesar Birotteau, the Paris perfumer of the Reine des Roses, the successor of Ragon, with whom he did a great deal of work, in order to be able to show appreciation for the favor shown a part of his family, that was well-nigh ruined as a result of some bad investments (the Wortschin mines, 1818-19).  Anselme Popinot, being secretly in love with Cesarine Birotteau, his employer’s daughter—­the feeling being reciprocated, moreover—­brought about, so far as his means allowed, the rehabilitation of Cesar, thanks to the profits of his drug business, established on the rue des Cinq-Diamants, between 1819 and 1820.  The beginning of his great fortune and of his domestic happiness dated from this time. [Cesar Birotteau.] After Birotteau’s death, about 1822, Popinot married Mademoiselle Birotteau, by whom he had three children, two sons and a daughter.  The consequences