that he incited fear and confusion in his enemies was well-known it was reported by one furious cotton factor that juhen had , in a dispute , caused another man 's clothing to burst into flame the fire was hastily put out , and the man recovered from his rather serious burns , and no action was ever taken against juhen indeed , many who heard the story including the local police - did not believe it juhen laughed whenever he was asked about it but there is also a story , told by only one witness , that juhen could set anything on fire by his will , and that his mother teased him about it in another famous incident , juhen caused all the objects of a room to fly about when he went into a rage , and then could not bring a halt to the confusion he went out , shut the door on the little storm , and sank into helpless laughter there is also an isolated story , dependent upon one witness , that juhen murdered one of his boyhood tutors none of the mayfairs up to this period attended any regular school but all were well educated privately juhen was no exception , having several tutors during his youth one of these , a handsome yankee from boston , was found drowned in a bayou near riverbend , and it was said that juhen strangled him and threw him in the water again , this was never investigated , and the entire mayfair family was indignant at this gossip servants who spread the story at once retracted it this boston schoolteacher had been a great source of information about the family he gossiped continuously about marguerite 's strange habits , and about how the slaves feared her it is from him that we gained our descriptions of her bottles and jars full of strange body parts and objects he claimed to have fought off advances from marguerite indeed , so vicious and unwise was his gossip that more than one person warned the family about it whether juhen did kill the man can not be known , but if he did , he had given the attitudes of the day at least some reason juhen was said to give out foreign gold coins as if they were copper pennies waiters at the fashionable restaurants vied with one another to serve his table he was a fabled horseman and maintained several horses of his own , as well as two carriages and teams in his stables near to first street even into old age , he often rode his chestnut mare all the way up st charles avenue to carrolton and back in the morning he would toss coins to the black children whom he passed after his death , four different witnesses claimed to have seen his ghost riding through the mist on st charles avenue , and these stories were printed in the newspapers of the period juhen was also a great supporter of the mardi gras , which began as we know it today around 1872 he entertained lavishly at the first street house during the mardi gras season it was also said countless times that juhen had the gift of 'bilocation , ' that is , he could be in two places at the same time this story was widely circulated among the servants julien would appear to be in the library , for instance , but then would be sighted almost immediately in the back garden or a maidservant would see julien go out the front door , and then turn around to see him coming down the stairway more than one servant quit working in the first street house rather than cope with the 'strange monsieur julien ' it has been speculated that appearances of lasher might have been responsible for this confusion whatever the case , later descriptions of lasher 's clothes bear a remarkable resemblance to those worn by julien in two different portraits lasher as cited throughout the twentieth century is invariably dressed as julien might have been dressed in the 18703 and i88os julien stuffed handfuls of bills into the pockets of the priests who came to call or the visiting little sisters of the poor or other such persons he gave lavishly to the parish church , and to every charitable fund whose officials approached him he often said that money did n't matter to him yet he was a tireless accumulator of wealth we know that he loved his mother , marguerite , and though he did not spend much time in her company , he purchased books for her all the time in new orleans , and ordered them for her from new york and europe only once did a quarrel between them attract attention and that was over ^catherine 's marriage to darcy monahan , at which time marguerite struck julien several times in front of the servants by all accounts he was deeply emotionally hurt and simply withdrew , in tears , from his mother 's company after the death of juhen 's wife , suzette , julien spent less time than ever at riverbend his children were brought up entirely at first street julien , who had always been a debonair figure , took a more active role in society long before that , however , he appeared at the opera and the theater with his little niece ( or daughter ) mary beth he gave many charity balls and actively supported young amateur musicians , presenting them in small private concerts in the double parlor at first street julien not only made huge profits at riverbend , he also went into merchandising with two new york affiliates and made a considerable fortune in that endeavor he bought up property all over new orleans , which he left to his niece mary beth , even though she was the designee of the mayfair legacy and thereby stood to inherit a fortune larger than julien 's there seems little doubt that julien 's wife , suzette , was a disappointment to him servants and friends spoke of many unfortunate arguments it was said that suzette for all her beauty was deeply religious and julien 's high-spirited nature disturbed her she eschewed the jewels and fine clothes which he wanted her to wear she did not like to go out at night she disliked loud music a lovely creature , with pale skin and shining eyes , suzette was always sickly and died young after the birth in rapid succession of her four children , and there is no doubt that the one girl , jeannette , had some sort of 'second sight ' or psychic power more than once jeannette was heard by the servants to scream in uncontrollable panic at the sight of some ghost or apparition her sudden frights and mad dashes from the house into the street became well-known in the garden district , and were even written up in the papers in fact , it was jeannette who gave rise to the first 'ghost stories ' surrounding first street there are several stories of juhen 's being extremely impatient with jeannette and locking her up but by all accounts he loved his children all three of his sons went to harvard , returning to new orleans to practice civil law , and to amass great fortunes of their own their descendants are mayfairs to this day , regardless of sex or marital connection and it is the law firm founded by julien 's sons which has , for decades , administered the mayfair legacy we have at least seven different photographs of juhen with his children , including some with jeannette ( who died young ) in every one , the family seems extremely cheerful , and barclay and cortland strongly resemble their father though barclay and garland both died in their late sixties , cortland lived to be eighty years old , dying in late october in 1959 this member of the talamasca made direct contact with cortland the preceding year , but we shall come to that at the proper time ( elhe mayfair , adoptive mother of rowan mayfair , the present designee of the legacy , is a descendant of juhen mayfair , being a granddaughter of julien 's son cortland , the only child of cortland 's son sheffield mayfair and his wife , a french-speaking cousin named eugenie mayfair , who died when ellie was seven years old .