ESTORADE (Jeanne-Athenais de l’), daughter and third child of M. and Mme. de l’Estorade.  Called “Nais” for short.  Married in 1847 to Charles de Sallenauve. (See Sallenauve, Mme. Charles de.)

ESTOURNY (Charles d’), a young dandy of Paris who went to Havre during the Restoration to view the sea, obtained entrance into the Mignon household and eloped with Bettina-Caroline, the elder daughter.  He afterwards deserted her and she died of shame.  In 1827 Charles d’Estourny was sentenced by the police court for habitual fraud in gambling. [Modeste Mignon.] A Georges-Marie Destourny, who styled himself Georges d’Estourny, was the son of a bailiff, at Boulogne, near Paris, and was undoubtedly identical with Charles d’Estourny.  For a time he was the protector of Esther van Gobseck, known as La Torpille.  He was born about 1801, and, after having obtained a splendid education, had been left without resources by his father, who was forced to sell out under adverse circumstances.  Georges d’Estourny speculated on the Bourse with money obtained from “kept” women who trusted in him.  After his sentence he left Paris without squaring his accounts.  He had aided Cerizet, who afterwards became his partner.  He was a handsome fellow, open-hearted and generous as the chief of robbers.  On account of the knaveries which brough him into court, Bixiou nicknamed him “Tricks at Cards.” [Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life.  A Man of Business.]

ETIENNE & CO., traders at Paris under the Empire.  In touch with Guillaume, clothier of rue Saint-Denis, who foresaw their failure and awaited “with anxiety as at a game of cards.” [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket.]

EUGENE, Corsican colonel of the Sixth regiment of the line, which was made up almost entirely of Italians—­the first to enter Tarragone in 1808.  Colonel Eugene, a second Murat, was extraordinarily brave.  He knew how to make use of the species of bandits who composed his regiment. [The Maranas.]

EUGENIE, assumed name of Prudence Servien, which name see.

EUPHRASIE, Parisian courtesan, time of the Restoration and Louis Philippe.  A pretty, winsome blonde with blue eyes and a melodious voice; she had an air of the utmost frankness, yet was profoundly depraved and expert in refined vice.  In 1821 she transmitted a terrible and fatal disease to Crottat, the notary.  At that time she lived on rue Feydeau.  Euphrasie pretended that in her early youth she had passed entire days and nights trying to support a lover who had forsaken her for a heritage.  With the brunette, Aquilina, Euphrasie took part in a famous orgy, at the home of Frederic Taillefer, on rue Joubert, where were also Emile Blondet, Rastignac, Bixiou and Raphael de Valentin.  Later she is seen at the Theatre-Italien, in company with the aged antiquarian, who had sold Raphael the celebrated “magic skin”; she was running through with the old merchant’s treasures. [Melmoth Reconciled.  The Magic Skin.]