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 REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE

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Abramko, Polish Jew of gigantic strength, thoroughly devoted to the broker, Elie Magus, whose porter he was, and whose daughter and treasures he guarded with the aid of three fierce dogs, in 1844, in an old house on the Minimes road hard by the Palais Royale, Paris. Abramko had allowed himself to be compromised in the Polish insurrection and Magus was interested in saving him.[Cousin Pons.]

Adèle, sturdy, good-hearted Briarde servant of Denis Rogron and his sister, Sylvie, from 1824 to 1827 at Provins. Contrary to her employers, she displayed much sympathy and pity for their youthful cousin, Pierrette Lorrain.[Pierrette.]

Adèle, chambermaid of Madame du Val-Noble at the time when the latter was maintained so magnificently by the stockbroker, Jacques Falleix, who failed in 1829.[Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.]

Adolphe, slight, blonde young man employed at the shop of the shawl merchant, Fritot, in the Bourse quarter, Paris, at the time of the reign of Louis Philippe.[Gaudissart II.]

Adolphus, head of the banking firm of Adolphus & Company of Manheim, and father of the Baroness Wilhelmine d'Aldrigger.[The Firm of Nucingen.]

Agathe (Sister), née Langeais, nun of the convent of Chelles, and, with her sister Martha and the Abbé de Marolles, a refugee under the Terror in a poor house of the Faubourg Saint-Martin, Paris.[An Episode Under the Terror.]

Aiglemont (Général, Marquis Victor d'), Leir of the Marquis d'Aiglemont and nephew of the dowager Comtesse de Listomére-Landon; born in 1783. After having been the

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