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Updated: May 11, 2025
The good sense of the notary who had charge of Madame Lechantre's affairs, and perhaps his distrust, were the actual cause of the disaster of this young girl. The Sieur Chesnel, notary at Alencon, put the estate of Saint-Savin, the sole property of the bride, under the dower system, reserving the right of habitation and a modest income to the mother.
We owe it to the honor of our ancestors, kept stainless until now, that we can look all men in the face, and need bend the knee to none save a mistress, the King, and God. This is the greatest of your privileges." Chesnel, good man, was breakfasting with the family.
The Hotel d'Esgrignon in the town had been demolished; a couple of factories now stood on the site of the aristocrat's house. So Maitre Chesnel spent the Marquis' last bag of louis on the purchase of the old-fashioned building in the square, with its gables, weather-vane, turret, and dovecote.
Grandt without compromising his position? Remember that Louis XIV. took the Widow Scarron for his wife." "He did not marry her for her money," interposed Mlle. Armande. "If the Comtesse d'Esgrignon were one du Croisier's niece, for instance, would you receive her?" asked Chesnel. "Perhaps," replied the Duchess; "but the King, beyond all doubt, would be very glad to see her.
Old Chesnel was walking up the Grand Rue, as if by accident, telling all who cared to hear him that du Croisier had set the most shameful of snares for the d'Esgrignons' honor, and that it was entirely owing to the forbearance and magnanimity of the family that he was not prosecuted for slander. On the evening of that famous day, after the Marquis d'Esgrignon had gone to bed, the Count, Mlle.
As the First Consul, beaten on the field of Marengo till five o'clock in the evening, by six o'clock saw the tide of battle turned by Desaix's desperate attack and Kellermann's terrific charge, so Chesnel in the midst of defeat saw the beginnings of victory.
"Your humble servant, sir," said Chesnel. "Have you made the charge?" "Yes, sir." "When was it made?" "Yesterday." "Have any steps been taken since the warrant of arrest was issued?" "I believe so." "I have come to treat with you." "Justice must take its course, nothing can stop it, the arrest has been made." "Never mind that, I am at your orders, at your feet."
Then, the young Count must have a man in the d'Esgrignon livery. He prided himself on setting the fashion among young men in the town and the department; he entered that world of luxuries and fancies which suit youth and good looks and wit so well. Chesnel paid for it all, not without using, like ancient parliaments, the right of protest, albeit he spoke with angelic kindness.
The parquet floor had been laid down by the present Marquis, and Chesnel had picked up the furniture at sales of the wreckage of old chateaux between 1793 and 1795; so that there were Louis Quatorze consoles, tables, clock-cases, andirons, candle-sconces and tapestry-covered chairs, which marvelously completed a stately room, large out of all proportion to the house.
And Brigitte went to waken the head-clerk and send him to look along the river bank; the river had a gloomy reputation just then, for there had lately been two cases of suicide one a young man full of promise, and the other a girl, a victim of seduction. Chesnel went straight to the Hotel du Croisier. There lay his only hope.
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