NOUGAREDE, an old senator who was on the point of asking the hand of
Clorinde Balbi after having seen her at a ball in the character of Diana
the huntress. Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.
O
OCTAVE, the favourite lover of Blanche de Sivry. Nana.
ORVIEDO (PRINCE D'), came to Paris from Spain with an immense fortune
made on the Stock Exchange. There were strange stories told regarding
the sources of his wealth; stories not more creditable than those told
of the armed bandits of former days, for his robberies, though less
open, were more dangerous. For twenty years he took his share of booty
in all the great financial swindles. He ultimately died of apoplexy.
L'Argent.
ORVIEDO (PRINCESS D'), was for a time one of the most curious
notabilities of the Second Empire. At the command of her mother, the
Duchesse de Combeville, she married the Prince in ignorance of the
source of his regal fortune, estimated at three hundred millions of
francs (twelve millions sterling). It was said that for twenty years
the Prince had appropriated the lion's share of every great piece of
financial rascality on the Bourses of France and Spain.
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