The three marriages followed this happy day, and gave occasion to many fetes, and balls, and dinners, which involved Balthazar for some months in the vortex of social life.

His eldest son and his wife removed to an estate near Cambrai belonging to Monsieur Conyncks, who was unwilling to separate from his daughter.
Madame Pierquin also left her father's house to do the honors of a fine mansion which Pierquin had built, and where he desired to live in all the dignity of rank; for his practise was sold, and his uncle des Racquets had died and left him a large property scraped together by slow economy.

Jean went to Paris to finish his education, and Monsieur and Madame de Solis alone remained with their father in the House de Claes.
Balthazar made over to them the family home in the rear house, and took up his own abode on the second floor of the front building..