Gigonnet

SAILLARD (Madame), wife of the preceding, born Bidault, in 1767; niece of the bill-discounter called Gigonnet; was the leading spirit of the household on Place Royale, and, above all, the counselor of her husband; she reared her daughter Elisabeth, who became Madame

Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

BIDAULT (Monsieur and Madame), brother and sister-in-law of Bidault, alias Gigonnet; father and mother of M. and Mme. Saillard, furniture-dealers under the Central Market pillars during the latter part of the eighteenth and perhaps the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.

Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

BIDAULT, known as Gigonnet, born in 1755; originally an Auvergnat; uncle of Mme. Saillard on the paternal side.

Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

Her mother, an Auvergnat, had an uncle, Bidault, alias Gigonnet, a short-time money lender in the Halles quarter.

Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

At eight o'clock in the morning the two brave friends, -- one an old soldier, the other a young recruit, who had never known, except by hearsay, the terrible anguish of those who commonly went up the staircase of Bidault called Gigonnet, -- wended their way, without a word to each other, towards the Rue Grenetat.

Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Monsieur Bidault, called Gigonnet, -- the principal creditor, -- was the one to take no active part; and Molineux, the mischievous old man who lost nothing by the failure, was to manage everything.

Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau Honor�� de Balzac 1824

His business was that of discounting commercial paper in the quartier Saint-Martin, where he was known by the nickname of "Gigonnet," from the nervous convulsive movement with which he lifted his legs in walking, like a cat.

Bureaucracy Honor�� de Balzac 1824

The two Vandenesses have told everywhere how Gigonnet gave you for six thousand francs an ivory frigate, and made your valet buy it back for three hundred in order to sell it to you again.

A Marriage Contract 2007

“You are upsetting your breakfast,” said Gigonnet, arresting the table-clock, which was dragged by the skirt of du

A Daughter of Eve 2007

Raoul a letter to Gigonnet, who counted out the money on a note of

A Daughter of Eve 2007