It consisted in making bags to hold coin for the Bank, the Treasury, and the great financial houses.

At the end of three years she employed two workwomen.

By investing her savings on the Grand-Livre, she found herself, in 1814, the mistress of three thousand six hundred francs a year, earned in fifteen years.

As she spent little, and dined with her father as long as he lived, and, as government securities were very low during the last convulsions of the Empire, this result, which seems at first sight exaggerated, explains itself.
On the death of their father, Brigitte and Jerome, the former being twenty-seven, the latter twenty-three, united their existence.

Brother and sister were bound together by an extreme affection.