FANNY, aged servant in the employ of Lady Brandon, at La Grenadiere under the Restoration.  She closed the eyes of her mistress, whom she adored, then conducted the two children from that house to one of a cousin of hers, an old retired dressmaker of Tours, rue de la Guerche (now rue Marceau), where she intended to live with them; but the elder of the sons of Lady Brandon enlisted in the navy and placed his brother in college, under the guidance of Fanny. [La Grenadiere.]

FANNY, young girl of romantic temperament, fair and blonde, the only daughter of a banker of Paris.  One evening at her father’s house she asked the Bavarian Hermann for a “dreadful German story,” and thus innocently led to the death of Frederic Taillefer who had in his youth committed a secret murder, now related in his hearing. [The Red Inn.]

FARIO, old Spanish prisoner of war at Issoudun during the Empire.  After peace was declared he remained there making a small business venture in grains.  He was of Grenada and had been a peasant.  He was the butt of many scurvy tricks on the part of the “Knights of Idlesse,” and he avenged himself by stabbing their leader, Maxence Gilet.  This attempted assassination was momentarily charged to Joseph Bridau.  Fario finally obtained full satisfaction for his vindictive spirit by witnessing a duel where Gilet fell mortally wounded by the hand of Philippe Bridau.  Gilet had previously become disconcerted by the presence of the grain-dealer on the field of battle. [A Bachelor’s Establishment.]

FARRABESCHE, ex-convict, now an estate-guard for Mme. Graslin, at Montegnac, time of Louis Philippe; of an old family of La Correze; born about 1791.  He had had an elder brother killed at Montebello, in 1800 a captain at twenty-two, who by his surpassing heroism had saved the army and the Consul Bonaparte.  There was, too, a second brother who fell at Austerlitz in 1805, a sergeant in the First regiment of the Guard.  Farrabesche himself had got it into his head that he would never serve, and when summoned in 1811 he fled to the woods.  There he affiliated more or less with the Chauffeurs and, accused of several assassinations, was sentenced to death for contumacy.  At the instance of Abbe Bonnet he gave himself up, at the beginnng of the Restoration, and was sent to the bagne for ten years, returning in 1827.  After 1830, re-established as a citizen, he married Catherine Curieux, by whom he had a child.  Abbe Bonnet for one, and Mme. Graslin for another, proved themselves counselors and benefactors of Farrabesche. [The Country Parson.]