Note 19 — Chapter 25 Dissonance—A New Circle—Desperate Hegelianism—V. Byelinsky, M. Bakunin, and others—A Quarrel with Byelinsky and Reconciliation—Argument with a Lady at Novgorod—Stankevitch’s Circle.
Constance Garnett translation
His real name was Gaunot, and he was an adventurer well known in Paris between 1830 and 1850. He went in for being a god and called his religion evadisme (from Eve and Adam), and himself Mapah from mater and pater. He suggested to Dumas that the latter should become his chief disciple.