we know that many of these books were very old and some were written in latin julien also moved many old paintings to the house , including 'portraits from the i6oos ' julien loved books and filled the library as well with the classics and with popular novels he adored nathaniel hawthorne and edgar allan poe , and also charles dickens there is some evidence that quarrels with katherine drove julien into town , away from riverbend , though he never neglected his duties there but if katherine drove him away , certainly his little niece ( or daughter ) mary beth brought him back , for he was always swooping down upon her with cartloads of gifts and stealing her away for weeks on end in new orleans this devotion did not prevent him from getting married , in 1875 , to a mayfair cousin , a descendant of maurice and a celebrated beauty her name was suzette mayfair , and julien so loved her that he commissioned no less than ten portraits of her during the first years of their marriage they lived together in the first street house apparently in complete harmony with remy and his family , perhaps because in every respect remy deferred to juhen suzette seems to have loved little mary beth , though she had four children of her own in the next five years , including three boys and a girl , named jeannette katherine never voluntarily returned to the first street house it reminded her too much of darcy when in old age she was forced to return , it unsettled her mind , and at the turn of the century she became a tragic figure , eternally dressed in black , and roaming the gardens in search of darcy of all the mayfair witches studied to date , katherine was perhaps the weakest and the least significant her children clay and vincent were both entirely respectable and unremarkable clay and vincent married early and had large families , and their descendants now live in new orleans what we know seems to indicate that katherine was 'broken ' by darcy 's death and is thereafter never described as anything but 'sweet ' and 'gentle ' and 'patient ' she never took part in the management of riverbend , but left it all to julien , who eventually put it in the hands of clay and vincent mayfair and of paid overseers katherine spent more and more of her time with her mother , marguerite , who had become with each decade ever more peculiar a visitor in the i88os describes marguerite as 'quite impossible , ' a crone who went about night and day in stained white lace , and spent hours reading aloud in a horrid unmodulated voice in her library she is said to have insulted people carelessly and at random she was fond of her niece angehne ( remy 's daughter ) and of katherine she constantly mistook kathenne 's children clay and vincent for their uncles , julien or remy katherine was described as gray-haired and worn , and always at work on her embroidery katherine seems to have been a strict catholic in later life she went to daily mass at the parish church and lavish christening parties were held for all of clay 's children and vincent 's children marguerite did not die until she was ninety-two , at which time katherine was sixty-one years old but other than the tales of incest , which characterize the mayfair history since the time of jeanne louise and pierre , there are no occult stories about katherine the black servants , slave or free , were never afraid of katherine there are no sightings of any mysterious dark-haired lover and there is no evidence to indicate that darcy monahan died of anything but plain old yellow fever it has even been speculated by the members of the talamasca that julien was actually 'the witch ' of this entire period that perhaps no other natural medium was presented in this generation of the family , and as marguerite grew old , julien began to exhibit the power it has also been speculated that katherine was a natural medium but that she rejected her role when she fell in love with darcy , and that is why julien was so against her marriage , for julien knew the secrets of the family indeed , we have an abundance of information to suggest that julien was a witch , if not the witch of the mayfair family it is therefore imperative that we study julien in some detail as late as the 19505 , fascinating information about julien was recounted to us at some point , the history of julien must be enlarged through further investigations and further collation and examination of the existing documents our reports on the mayfairs throughout these decades are voluminous and repetitive and there are numerous public and recorded mentions of julien , and there are three oil portraits of him in american museums , and one in london .