# Maître Solonet — A Marriage Settlement character guide

> Maître Solonet in A Marriage Settlement by Honoré de Balzac.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Solonet, that contentious little Solonet

**First appearance:** 0001-a-marriage-settlement

## Snapshot

A contentious little notary representing the Evangelista interests, quick to quarrel over every clause and quicker to claim the moral high ground for his client.

## Who they are

Solonet is the Evangelista family's man of business, a sharp-tongued provincial attorney who treats the marriage settlement as a battlefield and each article as a position to be defended. Where old Mathias counsels patience, Solonet presses, disputes, and maneuvers, turning what should be a formality into a contest of professional pride. His rivalry with Mathias gives the negotiation its comic and its dangerous edge, since the fortune being divided is Paul's future.

## In the story

### [A Marriage Settlement](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_marriage_settlement_se/chapters/a-marriage-settlement)

Solonet is Madame Evangelista's lawyer, a smooth and elegant speaker who supports her position and engages in the contentious negotiation over the marriage contract.

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