# Albert Savarus — Character guide

> Key figures in Albert Savarus by Honoré de Balzac.

- [Rosalie de Watteville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/albert_savarus_se/characters/rosalie_de_watteville.md): Raised in the Rue de la Préfecture between a mother whose sharpness is proverbial and a father who turns shells on a lathe, Rosalie is the sole heiress of two proud houses and the most watched young woman in Besançon soc
- [Albert Savarus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/albert_savarus_se/characters/albert_savarus.md): Savaron appears in the salons of Besançon as a stranger with no past, having crushed a Parisian advocate in the chapter's suit and earned the gratitude of the Legitimist set. He keeps his rooms in the Rue du Perron, work
- [Rodolphe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/albert_savarus_se/characters/rodolphe.md): Rodolphe is the name under which Albert Savarus lived his real life: a young man of great promise who loved Francesca Colonna in Florence and lost her to the calculations of her family and his own poverty. His story reac
- [Francesca Colonna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/albert_savarus_se/characters/francesca_colonna.md): Francesca Colonna, later Francesca Soderini, is the woman at the center of the story Savarus cannot stop writing: a Florentine of high birth whose love for Rodolphe collided with her family's ambitions and her own duty. 
- [Amédée de Soulas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/albert_savarus_se/characters/amedee_de_soulas.md): Amédée de Soulas is the handsome, well-dressed young man of the Watteville circle, fluent in the fashions and gossip of the town and quietly confident of his prospects with Rosalie. He is the acceptable suitor — noble, p
- [Baron de Watteville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/albert_savarus_se/characters/baron_de_watteville.md): Monsieur de Watteville is a dry, lean man who married the heiress of the Rupts and discovered early that he would never be master in his own house. He spends his days in a workshop turning wood and cataloguing geological
- [Baronne de Watteville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/albert_savarus_se/characters/baronne_de_watteville.md): Madame de Watteville presides over the saintly upper circle of Besançon, where the Archbishop himself is a familiar guest and prudish manners pass for virtue. Married to a mild, lathe-turning baron she has long since ecl
- [Léopold Hannequin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/albert_savarus_se/characters/leopold_hannequin.md): Léopold Hannequin belongs to the small circle around Albert Savaron, the mysterious advocate whose sudden triumph for the Chapter of Besançon has the whole town asking who he is. Where Savaron is reserved and ambitious, 
- [Abbé de Grancey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/albert_savarus_se/characters/abbe_de_grancey.md): The Abbé de Grancey moves easily between the Archbishop's palace and Madame de Watteville's drawing-room, welcomed everywhere for his wit and trusted for his judgment. It is he who discovers the obscure advocate Savaron 
- [Vicar-General](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/albert_savarus_se/characters/vicar_general.md): A high-ranking church official involved in local society.
- [Mariette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/albert_savarus_se/characters/mariette.md): A servant in the Watteville household.
- [Jérôme](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/albert_savarus_se/characters/jerome.md): A servant or minor character in the narrative.
- [Gina](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/albert_savarus_se/characters/gina.md): A young girl, possibly a relative or servant.
- [Girardet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/albert_savarus_se/characters/girardet.md): A local businessman or tradesman.
- [Princess Gandolphini](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/albert_savarus_se/characters/princess_gandolphini.md): An Italian noblewoman, part of the Roman social circle.

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