130 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 
me to say to you that, having a right at least to the interest 
accrued, she begs you to have that money paid to her with the 
least possible delay. 
The following letter concerning D’Orbigny’s affairs 
was also written by Gabriel du Puigaudeau to J. Cornet 
of Esnaudes, on June 26, 1819: 
Gabriel du Puigaudeau to J. Cornet 
Your honored [letter] of the sixteenth was duly received. 
It is impossible to be more grateful to you than I am for the 
information that you have been kind enough to give me about 
Mlle. Bouffard* as well as about M. Delouche. I will use it to 
my profit. As to the question that you put to me concerning 
M. d’Orbigny, I have the honor to tell you that he has lived 
in the commune of Vue in this department, and was highly 
esteemed and regretted when he left to come here. He lived 
here fifteen years without any one having cause to reproach 
him in any way. He has always been very well regarded and 
received by the best society here, and he carried from Vue the 
regrets of all. He left us to take part in a manufactory of 
soda, established at Noismoutiers, in the department of La 
Vendée. 
} have had no news of him since. As to his pecuniary re- 
sources, I know him to have but one. His wife had a house, 
at Paimbeeuf in this department, which was sold three years 
ago to satisfy the holders of mortgages. This is all that I can 
tell you about them; he owes my mother-in-law about fifteen 
hundred francs (money received at different times from my 
late father-in-law), for which we have his notes, but God only 
knows when we shall be paid. 
As early as the autumn of 1805, if not before, plans 
were laid for getting young Audubon again safely out 
of France, for fear, no doubt, that the remorseless con- 
*A daughter of Catharine Bouffard, regarding whom see Vol. I, p. 56. 
