# Schmucke — A Daughter of Eve character guide

> Schmucke in A Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** de boor Schmucke, de poor Schmucke

**First appearance:** 0001-a-daughter-of-eve

## Snapshot

A poor German music-master whose troubles become a pretext for secret charity, he embodies the humble innocence that the great world uses and forgets.

## Who they are

Schmucke lives in the little Rue de Nevers on the Quai Conti, a German musician in distress whose plight the Countess and her sister conspire to relieve under cover of strictest secrecy. His name serves as a screen for money that must pass unseen, and his helplessness exposes the machinery of charity and manipulation running beneath the opera's glitter. He matters as the human cost and convenient alibi in the social transactions that bind the novel's fashionable world.

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