# Maxime de Trailles — Béatrix character guide

> Maxime de Trailles in Béatrix by Honoré de Balzac.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Maxime, de Trailles, Monsieur de Trailles

**First appearance:** 0003-part-ii-the-drama

## Snapshot

A charming Parisian dandy whose elegance conceals a gambler's ruthlessness, he treats love and money as games to be won at any cost.

## Who they are

Maxime de Trailles moves through aristocratic salons as a man of fashion whose wit and polish mask a predatory instinct for pleasure and profit. He embodies the cynical Parisian type Balzac returns to across the Comédie Humaine — a man whose charm is a weapon and whose debts are always someone else's problem. His presence in the orbit of the Rochefide household signals the moral dangers that provincial innocence like Calyste's cannot yet recognize.

## Relationships

### [Madame Schontz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/b_atrix_se/characters/madame_schontz)

_social_

Madame Schontz and Maxime de Trailles are acquaintances within the same Parisian social underworld of gamblers and courtesans.

### [Béatrix de Rochefide](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/b_atrix_se/characters/beatrix_de_rochefide)

_social_

Béatrix and Maxime de Trailles move in the same fashionable, decadent social circles.

### [Arthur de Rochefide](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/b_atrix_se/characters/arthur_de_rochefide)

_social_

Arthur de Rochefide and Maxime de Trailles are fellow members of the Parisian high society and gambling circles.

### [La Palférine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/b_atrix_se/characters/la_palferine)

_friendship_

La Palférine and Maxime de Trailles are friends and fellow dandies, sharing a camaraderie in their social exploits.

### [Arthur de Rochefide](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/b_atrix_se/characters/arthur_de_rochefide)

_social_

Arthur de Rochefide and Maxime de Trailles are fellow members of the Parisian high society and gambling circles.

### [Béatrix de Rochefide](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/b_atrix_se/characters/beatrix_de_rochefide)

_social_

Béatrix and Maxime de Trailles move in the same fashionable, decadent social circles.

### [Madame Schontz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/b_atrix_se/characters/madame_schontz)

_social_

Madame Schontz and Maxime de Trailles are acquaintances within the same Parisian social underworld of gamblers and courtesans.

### [Madame Schontz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/b_atrix_se/characters/madame_schontz)

_social_

Madame Schontz and Maxime de Trailles are acquaintances within the same Parisian social underworld of gamblers and courtesans.

### [La Palférine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/b_atrix_se/characters/la_palferine)

_friendship_

La Palférine and Maxime de Trailles are friends and fellow dandies, sharing a camaraderie in their social exploits.

### [Béatrix de Rochefide](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/b_atrix_se/characters/beatrix_de_rochefide)

_social_

Béatrix and Maxime de Trailles move in the same fashionable, decadent social circles.

## Links

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