GRANDET, (Charles), only lawful child of the foregoing; nephew of Felix Grandet; born in 1797.  He led at first the gay life of a young gallant, and maintained relations with a certain Annette, a married woman of good society.  The tragic death of his father in November, 1819, astounded him and led him to Saumur.  He thought himself in love with his cousin Eugenie to whom he swore fidelity.  Shortly thereafter he left for India, where he took the name of Carl Sepherd to escape the consequences of treasonable actions.  He returned to France in 1827 enormously wealthy, debarked at Bordeaux in June of that year, accompanying the Aubrions whose daughter Mathilde he married, and allowed Eugenie Grandet to complete the settlement with the creditors of his father. [Eugenie Grandet.] By his marriage he became Comte d’Aubrion. [The Firm of Nucingen.]

GRANDET (Eugenie).* (See Bonfons, Eugenie Cruchot de.)

* The incidents of her life have been dramatized by Bayard for the
    Gymnase-Dramatique, under the title of “The Miser’s Daughter.”

GRANDLIEU (Comtesse de), related to the Herouvilles; lived in the first part of the seventeenth century; probably ancestress of the Grandlieus, well known in France two centuries later. [The Hated Son.]

GRANDLIEU (Mademoiselle), under the first Empire married an imperial chamberlain, perhaps also the prefect of Orne, and was received, alone, in Alencon among the exclusive and aristocratic set lorded over by the Esgrignons. [Jealousies of a Country Town.]

GRANDLIEU (Duc Ferdinand de), born about 1773; may have descended from the Comtesse de Grandlieu who lived early in the seventeenth century, and consequently connected with the old and worthy nobility of the Duchy of Brittany whose device was “Caveo non timeo.”  At the end of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries, Ferdinand de Grandlieu was the head of the elder branch, wealthy and ducal, of the house of Grandlieu.  Under the Consulate and the Empire his high and assured rank enabled him to intercede with Talleyrand in behalf of M. d’Hauteserre and M. de Simeuse, compromised in the fictitious abduction of Malin de Gondreville.  Grandlieu by his marriage with an Ajuda of the elder branch, connected with the Barganzas and of Portuguese descent, had several daughters, the eldest of whom assumed the veil in 1822.  His other daughters were Clotilde-Frederique, born in 1802; Josephine the third; Sabine born in 1809; Marie-Athenais, born about 1820.  An uncle by marriage of Mme. de Langeais, he had at Paris, in Faubourg Saint-Germain, a hotel where, during the reign of Louis XVIII., the Princesse de Blamont-Chauvry, the Vidame de Pamiers and the Duc de Navarreins assembled to consider a startling escapade of Antoinette de Langeais.  At least ten years later Grandlieu availed himself of his intimate friend Henri de Chaulieu and also of Corentin—­Saint-Denis—­in order to stay the suit against Lucien de Rubempre which was about to compromise his daughter Clotilde-Frederique. [The Gondreville Mystery.  The Thirteen.  A Bachelor’s Establishment.  Modeste Mignon.  Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life.]