# Calvary — Character guide

> Key figures in Calvary by Octave Mirbeau.

- [Juliette Roux](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/juliette_roux.md): Juliette drifts through the narrator's home as its mistress, spending hours on bedsheets listening to Celestine's scandalous stories while the kitchen burns and the bills multiply. She is tender and childlike in private,
- [Lirat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/lirat.md): Lirat receives the narrator with open arms and cabbage soup, then launches into tirades against Rembrandt, Velázquez, and the whole fraudulent business of art. He is the one who first plants the suspicion that Juliette's
- [Unknown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/narrator.md): He arrives at Juliette's door dreaming of moral rescue and leaves nursing a grudge over a dog and an unmentioned book. His love swings between adoration and disgust, between tenderness at her sickbed and fantasies of esc
- [My Mother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/my_mother.md): She belongs to the world of Saint-Michel-les-Hêtres, the notary's household, the ordered life the narrator fled and cannot forget. Her appearances are brief and oblique, filtered through the narrator's retrospective sham
- [My Father](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/my_father.md): Respected for his income and his honors, the elder Mintié kept a rifle by the door and abandoned clients mid-meal to stalk a titmouse. His mania for killing cats and birds is the narrator's earliest education in the stra
- [Jean-François-Marie-Mintié](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/jean_francois_marie_mintie.md): The Mintié lineage is a provincial dynasty of gilt scutcheons and inherited respectability, and the narrator bears its weight as both inheritance and indictment. The name appears in the household scenes as a reminder of 
- [Mother Le Gannec](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/mother_le_gannec.md): Older female character, likely a housekeeper or neighbor.
- [Spy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/spy.md): Eccentric or mysterious character, possibly a nickname.
- [Jesselin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/jesselin.md): Minor male character, possibly a local figure.
- [Gabrielle Bernier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/gabrielle_bernier.md): Young woman, possibly a friend or relative of Juliette.
- [Charles Malterre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/charles_malterre.md): Male character, possibly a rival or antagonist.
- [Celestine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/celestine.md): Servant or young female character in the household.
- [Felix](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/felix.md): Named male character, possibly a servant or local.
- [Demoiselle Landudec](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/demoiselle_landudec.md): Young unmarried woman from the Landudec family.

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