he was welcomed by the Rabourdins; he became the protector of Savinien de Portenduere; he became the lover of Mmes.  Maufrigneuse and Serizy, and the beloved of Lydie Peyrade.  His life of ambition and of pleasure ended in the Conciergerie, where he was imprisoned unjustly, charged with robbing and murdering Esther, or with being an accomplice.  He hanged himself while in prison, May 15, 1830. [Lost Illusions.  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.  The Government Clerks.  Ursule Mirouet.  Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life.] Lucien de Rubempre lived in turn in Paris at the Hotel du Gaillard-Bois, rue de l’Echelle, in a room in the Quartier Latin, in the Hotel de Cluny on the street of the same name, in a lodging-house on rue Charlot, in another on rue de la Lune in company with Coralie, in a little apartment on rue Cassette with Jacques Collin, who followed him at least to one of his two houses on the Quai Malaquais and on rue Taitbout, the former home of Beaudenord and of Caroline de Bellefeuille.  He is buried in Pere-Lachaise in a costly tomb which contains also the body of Esther Gobseck, and in which there is a place reserved for Jacques Collin.  A series of articles, sharp and pointed, on Rubempre is entitled “Les Passants de Paris.”

[*] The Lointier restaurant, on rue Richelieu, opposite rue de la
    Bourse, was very popular about 1846 with the “four hundred.”

RUFFARD, called Arrachelaine, a robber and at the same time employed by Bibi-Lupin, chief of secret police in 1830; connected, with Godet, in the assassination of the Crottats, husband and wife, committed by Dannepont, called La Pouraille. [Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life.]

RUFFIN, born in 1815, the instructor of Francis Graslin after 1840.  Ruffin was a professional teacher, and was possessed of a wonderful amount of information.  His extreme tenderness “did not exclude from his nature the severity necessary on the part of one who wishes to govern a child.”  He was of pleasing appearance, known for his patience and piety.  He was taken to Madame Graslin from his diocese by the Archbishop Dutheil, and had, for at least nine years, the direction of the young man who had been put in his charge. [The Country Parson.]

RUSTICOLI. (See La Palferine.)

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SABATIER, police-agent; Corentin regretted not having had his assistance in the search with Peyrade, at Gondreville, in 1803. [The Gondreville Mystery.]

SABATIER (Madame), born in 1809.  She formerly sold slippers in the trade gallery of the Palais de Justice, in Paris; widow of a man who killed himself by excessive drinking, became a trained nurse, and married a man whom she had nursed and had cured of an affection of the urinary ducts ("lurinary,” according to Madame Cibot), and by whom she had a fine child.  She lived in rue Barre-du-Bec.  Madame Bordevin, a relative, wife of a butcher of the rue Charlot, was god-mother of the child. [Cousin Pons.]