The old marechal, father of the present duke, returned with the king in 1814, and died in 1819, before he was able to marry his son.

He could only leave him the vast chateau of Herouville, the park, a few dependencies, and a farm which he had bought back with some difficulty; all of which returned a rental of about fifteen thousand francs a year.

Louis XVIII.

gave the post of grand equerry to the son, who, under Charles X., received the usual pension of twelve thousand francs which was granted to the pauper peers of France.
But what were these twenty-seven thousand francs a year and the salary of grand equerry to such a family?
In Paris, of course, the young duke used the king's coaches, and had a mansion provided for him in the rue Saint-Thomas-du-Louvre, near the royal stables; his salary paid for his winters in the city, and his twenty-seven thousand francs for the summers in Normandy.

If this noble personage was still a bachelor he was less to blame than his aunt, who was not versed in La Fontaine's fables.
Mademoiselle d'Herouville made enormous pretensions wholly out of keeping with the spirit of the times; for great names, without the money to keep them up, can seldom win rich heiresses among the higher French nobility, who are themselves embarrassed to provide for their sons under the new law of the equal division of property.