FARRABESCHE (Madame), born Catherine Curieux, about 1798; daughter of the tenants of Mme. Brezac, at Vizay, an important mart of La Correze; mistress of Farrabesche in the last years of the Empire.  She bore him a son, at the age of seventeen, and was soon separated from her lover on his imprisonment in the galleys.  She returned to Paris and hired out.  In her last place she worked for an old lady whom she tended devotedly, but who died leaving her nothing.  In 1833 she came back to the country; she was just out of a hospital, cured of a disease caused by fatigue, but still very feeble.  Shortly after she married her former lover.  Catherine Curieux was rather large, well-made, pale, gentle and refined by her visit to Paris, though she could neither read nor write.  She had three married sisters, one at Aubusson, one at Limoges, and one at Saint-Leonard. [The Country Parson.]

FARRABESCHE (Benjamin), son of Farrabesche and Catherine Curieux; born in 1815; brought up by the relatives of his mother until 1827, then taken back by his father whom he dearly loved and whose energetic and rough nature he inherited. [The Country Parson.]

FAUCOMBE (Madame de), sister of Mme. de Touches and aunt of Felicite des Touches—­Camille Maupin;—­an inmate of the convent of Chelles, to whom Felicite was confided by her dying mother, in 1793.  The nun took her niece to Faucombe, a considerable estate near Nantes belonging to the deceased mother, where she (the nun) died of fear in 1794. [Beatrix.]

FAUCOMBE (De), grand-uncle on the maternal side of Felicite des Touches.  Born about 1734, died in 1814.  He lived at Nantes, and in his old age had married a frivolous young woman, to whom he turned over the conduct of affairs.  A passionate archaeologist he gave little attention to the education of his grand-niece who was left with him in 1794, after the death of Mme. de Faucombe, the aged nun of Chelles.  Thus it happened that Felicite grew up by the side of the old man and young woman, without guidance, and left entirely to her own devices. [Beatrix.]

FAUSTINE, a young woman of Argentan who was executed in 1813 at Mortagne for having killed her child. [Jealousies of a Country Town.]

FELICIE, chambermaid of Mme. Diard at Bordeaux in 1823. [The Maranas.]

FELICITE, a stout, ruddy, cross-eyed girl, the servant of Mme. Vauthier who ran a lodging-house on the corner of Notre-Dame-des-Champs and Boulevard du Montparnasse, time of Louis Philippe. [The Seamy Side of History.]

FELIX, office-boy for Attorney-General Granville, in 1830. [Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life.]

FENDANT, former head-clerk of the house of Vidal & Porchon; a partner with Cavalier.  Both were book-sellers, publishers, and book-dealers, doing business on rue Serpente, Paris, about 1821.  At this time they had dealings with Lucien Chardon de Rubempre.  The house for social reasons was known as Fendant & Cavalier.  Half-rascals, they passed for clever fellows.  While Cavalier traveled, Fendant, the more wily of the two, managed the business. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.]