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Terre.
HOURDEQUIN (MADEMOISELLE), the second child of Alexandre Hourdequin. She
was a delicate and charming girl, tenderly loved by her father. She died
young, a short time after her mother. La Terre.
HOUTELARD, a fisherman of Bonneville, whose house was washed away after
the destruction by the sea of the barricade erected by Lazare Chanteau.
La Joie de Vivre.
HUBERT, a chasuble-maker who lived in a house immediately adjoining
the cathedral of Beaumont. "For four hundred years the line of Huberts,
embroiderers from father to son, had lived in this house." At twenty
years of age he fell in love with a young girl of sixteen, Hubertine,
and as her mother refused to give her consent to their union they ran
away and were married. On the morning after Christmas, 1860, he found
the child Angelique lying in a fainting condition in the snow outside
the cathedral door. Having taken her into his house, he and his wife
soon became attached to her, and as they had no children, ultimately
adopted her as their daughter. Le Reve.
HUBERTINE, wife of the preceding. At the age of sixteen she fell in
love with Hubert, the chasuble-maker, and as her mother, widow of a
magistrate, would not give her consent, they ran away and were married.
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