But being unable to discover his unknown friend and benefactor, the poor student was in abject distress in 1833.

He worked then, like so many other licentiates, in politics and literature, by which he kept himself for a time above want--for he had nothing to expect from his family.

His father, the youngest brother of the dead uncle, has eleven other children, who live on a small estate called Les Canquoelles.

He finally obtained a place on a ministerial newspaper, the manager of which was the famous Cerizet, so celebrated for the persecutions he met with, under the Restoration, on account of his attachment to the liberals,--a man whom the new Left will never forgive for having made his paper ministerial.

As the government of these days does very little to protect even its most devoted servants (witness the Gisquet affair), the republicans have ended by ruining Cerizet.