Albert Savarus · Character
Rosalie de Watteville
The only child of Besançon's most formidable dévote, she watches a brilliant stranger through her garden hedge and decides his future is hers to arrange.
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Also known as Mademoiselle Rosalie de Watteville, Mademoiselle de Watteville, the famous Watteville, mademoiselle
First appearance: Albert Savarus
As a major figure in Albert Savarus, Rosalie de Watteville is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Her romantic daring and evil thoughts are fanned by the prospect of triumphing over a Duchesse d'Argaiolo; she makes plans to get Savarus into society.
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 society. Her cloistered piety and quick intelligence have no outlet but observation, and when a celebrated lawyer takes the house adjoining the Watteville garden, she begins to study him as she has studied everything else — quietly, exhaustively, and without asking permission. Her talent for secrecy is what sets the novel's machinery in motion.
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Character Web
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Relationship types
- Psychological
- Family
- Professional
- Friendship
- Social
Character groups
- Central romantic and religious figures
- Protagonist
- Watteville household and servants
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Open in readerRelationships
- Albert Savarus
psychological · negative
Rosalie is obsessively infatuated with Albert, manipulating events to thwart his romance… How this plays out →
- Baron de Watteville
family · ambivalent
- Mariette
professional · ambivalent
- Abbé de Grancey
friendship · positive
- Vicar-General
social · ambivalent
- Jérôme
social · ambivalent
- Albert Savarus
psychological · negative
Rosalie is obsessively infatuated with Albert, manipulating events to thwart his romance… How this plays out →
- Albert Savarus
psychological · negative
Rosalie is obsessively infatuated with Albert, manipulating events to thwart his romance… How this plays out →
- Baron de Watteville
family · ambivalent
- Mariette
professional · ambivalent
- Jérôme
social · ambivalent
- Mariette
professional · ambivalent
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