THE IDENTITY OF "C. de B.".

The article explores the real identity of "C. de B." who wrote the book "Letters from Paris 1870-1875." C. de B. was described as a Political Informant to the head of the London House of Rothschild. Specific evidence provided by two letters of 3 November 1871 and 24 July 1873 reveals that he was a M. de Saint-Chéron living in the Rue du Bel Respiro in Paris. Search in the catalolues of the Bibliothé que Nationale revealed only two references to the name the dates of which would fit, namely one to an Alexandre de Saint-Chéron, who signs "pour copie conforme" a two-page Programme politique du Comte de Chambord of 1871 or 1872, and one to a Guyard de Saint-Chéron, "hom me de lettres," born at Loches, Indre et Loire, on 8 November 1807. So it is certain that "C. de B." may be one of the two persons.