Albert Savarus · Character
Baronne de Watteville
Besançon's most formidable dévote, whose sharp tongue and pious drawing-room rule the Hôtel de Rupt and every match her daughter might make.
supporting
Also known as Madame de Watteville, Madame la Baronne de Watteville, Madame d'Argaiolo
First appearance: Albert Savarus
As a supporting figure in Albert Savarus, Baronne de Watteville is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Severe and in the secret of Amédée's devices, she allows him to pour gossip into her ear, playing the part of a lover sacrificed to duty.
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 eclipsed, she channels her iron will into religion and social control, and her red-haired severity has become proverbial. Her ambitions for her daughter Rosalie—and her suspicion of any stranger who might disturb them—set the household's quiet machinery of surveillance and resistance in motion.
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Relationship types
- Social
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Character groups
- Central romantic and religious figures
- Protagonist
- Watteville household and servants
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Albert is a polite acquaintance of the Baronne, who is Rosalie's mother and a figure of… How this plays out →
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social · ambivalent
Albert is a polite acquaintance of the Baronne, who is Rosalie's mother and a figure of… How this plays out →
- Albert Savarus
social · ambivalent
Albert is a polite acquaintance of the Baronne, who is Rosalie's mother and a figure of… How this plays out →
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