of this fact, for, in the capacity of juror in the Court of Assizes dealing with the fate of Tascheron, the real father of the child, he urged but in vain the acquittal of the prisoner.  Two years after the boy’s birth and the execution of the mother’s lover, in April, 1831, Pierre Graslin died of weakness and grief.  The July Revolution suddenly breaking forth had shaken his financial standing, which was regained only with an effort.  It was at the time when he had brought Montegnac from the Navarreins. [The Country Parson.]

GRASLIN (Madame Pierre), wife of preceding; born Veronique Sauviat, at Limoges in May, 1802; beautiful in spite of traces of small-pox; had had the spoiled though simple childhood of an only daughter.  When twenty she married Pierre Graslin.  Soon after marriage her ingenuous nature, romantic and refined, suffered in secret from the harsh tyranny of the man whose name she bore.  Veronique, however, held aloof from the gallants who frequented her salon, especially the Vicomte de Granville.  She had become the secret mistress of J.-F.  Tascheron, a porcelain worker.  She was on the point of eloping with him when a crime committed by him was discovered.  Mme. Graslin suffered the most poignant anguish, giving birth to the child of the condemned man at the very moment when the father was led to execution.  She inflicted upon herself the bitterest flagellations.  She could devote herself more freely to penance after her husband’s death, which occurred two years later.  She left Limoges for Montegnac, where she made herself truly famous by charitable works on a huge scale.  The sudden return of the sister of her lover dealt her the final blow.  Still she had energy enough to bring about the union of Denise Tascheron and Gregoire Gerard, gave her son into their keeping, left important bequests destined to keep alive her memory, and died during the summer of 1844 after confessing in public in the presence of Bianchon, Dutheil, Granville, Mme. Sauviat and Bonnet who were all seized with admiration and tenderness for her. [The Country Parson.]

GRASLIN (Francis), born at Limoges in August, 1829.  Only child of Veronique Graslin, legal son of Pierre Graslin, but natural son of J.-F.  Tascheron.  He lost his legal father two years after his birth, and his mother thirteen years later.  His tutor M. Ruffin, his maternal grandmother Mme. Sauviat, and above all the Gregoire Gerards watched over his boyhood at Montegnac. [The Country Parson.]

GRASSET, bailiff and successor of Louchard.  On the demand of Lisbeth Fischer and by Rivet’s advice, in 1838, he arrested W. Steinbock in Paris and took him to Clichy prison. [Cousin Betty.]

GRASSINS (Des), ex-quartermaster of the Guard, seriously wounded at Austerlitz, pensioned and decorated.  Time of Louis XVIII. he became the richest banker in Saumur, which he left for Paris where he located with the purpose of settling the unfortunate affairs of the suicide, Guillaume Grandet and where he was later made a deputy.  Although the father of a family he conceived a passion for Florine, a pretty actress of the Theatre du Madame,* to the havoc of his fortune. [Eugenie Grandet.]