had one daughter, whom he loved devotedly, so much, indeed, that he lost all authority over her.  M. de Watteville died in 1836, as a result of his fall into the lake on his estate of Rouxey, near Besancon.  He was buried on an islet in this same lake, and his wife, making great show of her sorrow, had erected thereon a Gothic monument of marble like the one to Heloise and Abelard in the Pere-Lachaise. [Albert Savarus.]

WATTEVILLE (Baronne de), wife of the preceding, and after his death of Amedee de Soulas. (See Soulas, Madame A. de.)

WATTEVILLE (Rosalie de), only daughter of the preceding couple; born in 1816; a blonde with colorless cheeks and pale-blue eyes; slender and frail of body; resembled one of Albert Durer’s saints.  Reared under her mother’s stern oversight, accustomed to the most rigid religious observances, kept in ignorance of all worldly matters, she entirely concealed uner her modesty of manner and retiring disposition her iron character, and her romantic audacity, so like that of her great-uncle, the Abbe de Watteville; and which was increased by the resoluteness and pride of the Rupt blood; although destined to marry Amedee de Soulas, “la fleur de pois"[*] of Besancon, she became enamoured of the attorney, Albert Savaron de Savarus.  By successfully carrying out her schemes she separated him from the Duchesse d’Argaiolo, although these two were mutually in love—­a separation which caused Savarus great despair.  He never knew of Rosalie’s affection for him, and withdrew to the Grande Chartreuse.  Mademoiselle de Watteville then lived for some time in Paris with her mother, who was then the wife of Amedee de Soulas.  She tried to see the Duchesse d’Argaiolo, who, believing Savarus faithless, had given her hand to the Duc de Rhetore.  In February, 1838, on meeting her at a charity ball given for the benefit of the former civil pensioners, Rosalie made an appointment with her for the Opera ball, when she told her former rival the secret of her manoeuvres against Madame de Rhetore, and of her conduct as regards the attorney.  Mademoiselle de Watteville retired finally to Rouxey—­a place which she left, only to take a trip in 1841 on an unknown mission, from which she came back seriously crippled, having lost an arm and a leg in a boiler explosion on a steamboat.  Henceforth she devoted her life to the exercises of religion, and left her retreat no more. [Albert Savarus.]

[*] Title of one of the first editions of “A Marriage Settlement.”

WERBRUST, associated with Palma, Parisian discounter on rue Saint-Denis and rue Saint-Martin, during the Restoration; knew the story of the glory and decay of Cesar Birotteau, the perfumer, who was mayor of the second district; was the friend of the banker, Jean-Baptiste d’Aldrigger, at whose burial he was present; carried on business with the Baron de Nucingen, making a shrewd speculation when the latter settled for the third time with his creditors in 1836. [Cesar Birotteau.  The Firm of Nucingen.]