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family of Cloyes, which had educated and elevated itself into a
middle-class position in the sixteenth century. They had all been
employed in the administration of the salt monopoly, and Isidore,
who had been left an orphan, was worth sixty thousand francs, when at
twenty-six, the Revolution cost him his post. As a speculation he bought
the farm of La Borderie for a fifth of its value, but the depreciation
of real estate continued, and he was unable to resell it at the profit
of which he had dreamed. He therefore determined to farm it himself, and
about this time he married the daughter of a neighbour, who brought
him an additional hundred and twenty acres of land. He had one son,
Alexandre, and died in 1831. La Terre.

HOURDEQUIN (LEON), son of Alexandre Hourdequin. He had an intense
hatred of the soil and became a soldier, being promoted Captain after
Solferino. He did not visit his home more than once a year, and was
much annoyed to discover the liaison between his father and Jacqueline
Cognet. He endeavoured to get the latter into disgrace, but the only
effect was to make a complete breach between his father and himself. La
Terre.

HOURDEQUIN (MADEMOISELLE), the second child of Alexandre Hourdequin. She
was a delicate and charming girl, tenderly loved by her father. She died
young, a short time after her mother. La Terre.

HOUTELARD, a fisherman of Bonneville, whose house was washed away after
the destruction by the sea of the barricade erected by Lazare Chanteau.
La Joie de Vivre.

HUBERT, a chasuble-maker who lived in a house immediately adjoining
the cathedral of Beaumont. "For four hundred years the line of Huberts,
embroiderers from father to son, had lived in this house." At twenty
years of age he fell in love with a young girl of sixteen, Hubertine,
and as her mother refused to give her consent to their union they ran
away and were married. On the morning after Christmas, 1860, he found
the child Angelique lying in a fainting condition in the snow outside
the cathedral door. Having taken her into his house, he and his wife
soon became attached to her, and as they had no children, ultimately
adopted her as their daughter. Le Reve.

HUBERTINE, wife of the preceding. At the age of sixteen she fell in
love with Hubert, the chasuble-maker, and as her mother, widow of a
magistrate, would not give her consent, they ran away and were married.
A year later she went to the deathbed of her mother, who, however,