He was a Gascon
from Montauban. A stroke of paralysis in the legs caused his retirement
from the army, and he settled at Clermont with his wife and daughter.
One day, when they were at church, he died of a second attack of
paralysis. L'Oeuvre.
HALLEGRAIN (MADAME), wife of the preceding. She survived him for five
years, remaining at Clermont, managing as well as she could on her
scanty pension, which she eked out by painting fans, in order to bring
up her daughter as a lady. During these five years Madame Hallegrain
became each day paler and thinner, until she was only a shadow; one
morning she could not rise, and she died, looking sadly at Christine,
with her eyes full of great tears. L'Oeuvre.
HALLEGRAIN (CHRISTINE), daughter of the preceding, was born at
Strasburg. Her father died when she was twelve years old, and her
mother, who had a severe struggle to make a living for herself and her
child, only survived him five years. Christine was left penniless
and unprotected, without a friend, save La Mere des Saints-Anges, the
Superior of the Sisters of the Visitation, who kept her in the convent
until she got a situation as reader and companion to Madame Vanzade, an
old lady who lived in Paris.
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