A colleague of Mr. Carré-Lamadon in the General Council, Count Hubert represented the Orléans party in the Department. The story of his marriage with the daughter of a little captain of a privateer had always remained a mystery. But as the Countess had a grand air, received better than anyone, and passed for having been loved by the son of Louis Philippe, all the nobility did her honor, and her salon remained the first in the country, the only one which preserved the old gallantry, and to which the entrée was difficult. The fortune of the Brevilles amounted, it was said, to five hundred thousand francs in income, all in good securities.

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