HOURDEQUIN (ISIDORE), born 1767, was the descendant of an old peasant
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.
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