He left everything
to the care of his wife, and after her death the establishment ceased
to be prosperous. In the end he was turned out by his father-in-law, and
the business was given to his daughter Elodie, who showed all the family
capacity for management. La Terre.
VAUCOGNE (MADAME HECTOR), wife of the preceding. See Estelle Badeuil. La
Terre.
VAUCOGNE (ELODIE), daughter of the preceding, and granddaughter of M.
and Madame Charles Badeuil. She was seven years old when her parents
took over the _maison publique_ of her grandfather, and she was then
sent to a convent at Chateaudun to be educated by the Sisters of the
Visitation. Her holidays were spent with her grandparents, and she was
supposed to be under the impression that her parents were carrying on
a large confectionery business, but Victorine, a servant who had been
dismissed for misconduct, had made her aware of the facts, and when, at
eighteen years of age, she was asked in marriage by her cousin Ernest
Delhomme, she astonished her grandparents by joining with him in a
desire to succeed to the family establishment. La Terre.
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