GODESCHAL (Marie), born about 1804.  She maintained, almost all her life, the nearest and most tender relations with her brother Godeschal the notary.  Without relatives or means, she kept house with him in 1820, on the eighth floor of a house on rue Vielle-du-Temple, Paris.  Ambition and love for her brother caused her to become a dancer.  She had studied her profession from her tenth year.  The famous Vestris instructed her and predicted great things for her.  Under the name of Mariette, she was engaged at the Porte-Saint-Martin and the Royal Academy of Music.  Her success displeased the famous Begrand.  In January, 1821, her angelic beauty, maintained despite her profession, opened to her the doors of the Opera.  Then she had lovers.  The aristocratic and elegant Maufrigneuse protected her for several years.  Mariette also favored Philippe Bridau and was the innocent cause of a theft committed by him in order to enable him to contend with Maufrigneuse.  Four months later she went to London, where she won the rich members of the House of Lords, and returned as premiere to the Academy of Music.  She was intimate with Florentine Cabirolle, who often received in the Marais.  There it was that Mariette kept Oscar Husson out of serious trouble.  Mariette attended many festivities.  And at the close of the reign of Louis Philippe, she was still a leading figure in the Opera. [A Bachelor’s Establishment.  A Start in Life.  Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life.  Cousin Pons.]

GODIN, under Louis Philippe, a Parisian bourgeois engaged in a lively dispute with a friend of La Palferine’s. [A Prince of Bohemia.]

GODIN (La), peasant woman of Conches, Burgundy, about 1823, whose cow Vermichel threatened to seize for the Comte de Montcornet. [The Peasantry.]

GODIVET, recorder of registry of Arcis-sur-Aube in 1839.  Through the scheming of Pigoult he was chosen as one of two agents for an electoral meeting called by Simon Giguet, one of the candidates, and presided over by Phileas Beauvisage. [The Member for Arcis.]

GODOLLO (Comtesse Torna de), probably a Hungarian; police spy reporting to Corentin.  Was ordered to prevent the marriage of Theodose de la Peyrade and Celeste Colleville.  To accomplish this she went to live in the Thuilliers’ house, Paris, in 1840, cultivated them and finally ruled them.  She sometimes assumed the name of Mme. Komorn.  Her wit and beauty exercised a passing effect upon Peyrade. [The Middle Classes.]

GOGUELAT, infantryman of the first Empire, entered the Guard in 1812; was decorated by Napoleon on the battlefield of Valontina; returned during the Restoration to the village of Isere, of which Benassis was mayor, and became postman. [The Country Doctor.]

GOHIER, goldsmith to the King of France in 1824; supplied Elisabeth Baudoyer with the monstrance with which she decorated the church of Saint Paul, in order to bring about Isidore Baudoyer’s promotion in office. [The Government Clerks.]