Leon de Lora, Victor de Vernisset, La Palferine, Gobeneim, Vermanton the cynical philosphoer, etc.  She even hoped to marry one of these.  In 1836 she lived on rue Flechier, and was the mistress of Lousteau, to whom she wished to marry Felicie Cardot, the notary’s daughter.  Later she belonged to Stidmann.  In 1838 she was present at Josepha’s house-warming on rue de la Ville-l’Eveque.  In 1840, at the first performance at the Ambigu, she met Madame de la Baudraye, then Lousteau’s mistress.  Josephine Schiltz finally became the wife of President du Ronceret. [Beatrix.  The Muse of the Department.  Cousin Betty.  The Unconscious Humorists.]

RONQUEROLLES (Marquis de), brother of Madame de Serizy; uncle of the Comtesse Laginska; one of “The Thirteen,” and one of the most efficient governmental diplomats under Louis Philippe; next to the Prince de Talleyrand the shrewdest ambassador; was of great service to Marsay during his service as a minister; was sent to Russia in 1838 on a secret mission.  Having lost his two children during the cholera scourge of 1832, he was left without a direct heir.  He had been a deputy on the Right Centre under the Restoration, representing a department in Bourgogne, where he was proprietor of a forest and of a castle next to the Aigues in the commune of Blangy.  When Gaubertin, the steward, was discharged by the Comte de Montcornet, Soudry spoke as follows:  “Patience!  We have Messieurs de Soulanges and de Ronquerolles.” [The Imaginary Mistress.  The Peasantry.  Ursule Mirouet.] M. de Ronquerolles was an intimate friend of the Marquis d’Aiglemont; they even addressed each other familiarly as thou instead of you. [A Woman of Thirty.] He alone knew of Marsay’s first love and the name of “Charlotte’s” husband. [Another Study of Woman.] In 1820 the Marquis de Ronquerolles, while at a ball at the Elysee-Bourbon, in the Duchesse de Berri’s house, provoked Auguste de Maulincour, of whom Ferragus Bourignard had complained, to a duel.  Also, as a result of his membership in the Thirteen, Ronquerolles, along with Marsay, helped General de Montriveau abduct the Duchesse de Langeais from the convent of bare-footed Carmelites, where she had taken refuge. [The Thirteen.] In 1839 he was M. de Rhetore’s second in a duel fought with Dorlange-Sallenauve, the sculptor, in connection with Marie Gaston. [The Member for Arcis.]

ROSALIE, rosy-cheeked and buxom, waiting-maid to Madame de Merret at Vendome; then, after the death of her mistress, servant employed by Madame Lepas, tavern-keeper in that town.  She finally told Horace Bianchon the drama of La Grande Breteche and the misfortunes of the Merrets. [La Grande Breteche.]

ROSALIE, chambermaid to Madame Moreau at Presles in 1822. [A Start in Life.]

ROSE, maid in the service of Armande-Louise-Marie de Chaulieu in 1823, at the time when this young lady, having left the Carmelites of Blois, came to live with her father on the Boulevard des Invalides in Paris. [Letters of Two Brides.]