GASTON (Madame Louis), an Englishwoman of cold, distant manners; wife of Louis Gaston; probably married him in India where he died as a result of unfortunate business deals.  As a widow she came to France with two children, where without resource she became a charge to her brother-in-law who visited and aided her secretly.  She lived in Paris on rue de la Ville-Eveque.  The visits made by Marie Gaston were spoken of to his wife who became jealous, not knowing their object.  Mme. Louis Gaston was thus innocently the cause of Mme. Marie Gaston’s death. [Letters of Two Brides.]

GASTON (Madame Marie), born Armande-Louise-Marie de Chaulieu, in 1805.  At first destined to take the veil; educated at the Carmelite convent of Blois with Renee de Maucombe who became Mme. de l’Estorade.  She remained constant in her relations with this faithful friend—­at least by letter—­who was a prudent and wise adviser.  In 1825 Louise married her professor in Spanish, the Baron de Macumer, whom she lost in 1829.  In 1833 she married the poet Marie Gaston.  Both marriages were sterile.  In the first she was adored and believed that she loved; in the second she was loved as much as she loved, but her insane jealousy, and her horseback rides from Ville-d’Avray to Verdier’s were her undoing, and she died in 1835 of consumption, contracted purposely through despair at the thought that she had been deceived.  After leaving the convent she had lived successively at the following places:  on Faubourg Saint-Germain, Paris, where she saw M. de Bonald; at Chantepleur, an estate in Burgundy, at La Crampade, in Provence, with Mme. de l’Estorade; in Italy; at Ville-d’Avray, where she sleeps her last sleep in a park of her own planning. [Letters of Two Brides.]

GATIENNE, servant of Mme. and Mlle. Bontems, at Bayeux, in 1805. [A Second Home.]

GAUBERT, one of the most illustrious generals of the Republic; first husband of a Mlle. de Ronquerolles whom he left a widow at the age of twenty, making her his heir.  She married again in 1806, choosing the Comte de Serizy. [A Start in Life.]

GAUBERTIN (Francois), born about 1770; son of the ex-sheriff of Soulanges, Burgundy, before the Revolution.  About 1791, after five years’ clerkship to the steward of Mlle. Laguerre at Aigues, he succeeded to the stewardship.  His father having become public prosecutor in the department, time of the Republic, he was made mayor of Blangy.  In 1796 he married the “citizeness” Isaure Mouchon, by whom he had three children:  a son, Claude, and two daughters, Jenny—­Mme. Leclercq—­and Eliza.  He had also a natural son, Bournier, whom he placed in charge of a local newspaper.  At the death of Mlle. Laguerre, Gaubertin, after twenty-five years of stewardship, possessed 600,000 francs.  He ended by dreaming of acquiring the estate at Aigues; but the Comte de Montcornet purchased it, retained him in charge, caught him one day in