# Belcour — Charlotte Temple character guide > Belcour in Charlotte Temple by Susanna Haswell Rowson. **Role:** supporting **Also known as:** Mr. Belcour **First appearance:** 0005-volume-i-iii-unexpected-misfortunes ## Snapshot Montraville's cynical comrade-in-arms, who treats seduction as sport and engineers a cruel deception to destroy Charlotte's reputation with her lover. ## Who they are Belcour is the novel's coldest voice, mocking Montraville's conscience and dismissing Charlotte's virtue as a triviality. He pursues his own designs on her while pretending friendship, and his willingness to stage a compromising scene reveals how little he regards the ruin of a young woman. His treachery in the middle chapters turns Montraville's wavering affection into abandonment, sealing Charlotte's downward course. ## Relationships ### [Charlotte Temple](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/characters/charlotte_temple) _psychological_ Belcour manipulates and deceives Charlotte, acting as a predatory figure who exploits her vulnerability. ### [Montraville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/characters/montraville) _friendship_ A toxic friendship built on shared debauchery, with Belcour encouraging Montraville's worst impulses toward Charlotte. ### [Mademoiselle La Rue](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/characters/mademoiselle_la_rue) _psychological_ Co-conspirators in manipulation, with La Rue and Belcour working together to exploit Charlotte for their own gain. ### [Julia Franklin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/characters/julia_franklin) _social_ Belcour attempts to ingratiate himself with Julia, but she sees through his false charm and rejects his advances. ### [Montraville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/characters/montraville) _friendship_ A toxic friendship built on shared debauchery, with Belcour encouraging Montraville's worst impulses toward Charlotte. ### [Montraville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/characters/montraville) _friendship_ A toxic friendship built on shared debauchery, with Belcour encouraging Montraville's worst impulses toward Charlotte. ### [Charlotte Temple](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/characters/charlotte_temple) _psychological_ Belcour manipulates and deceives Charlotte, acting as a predatory figure who exploits her vulnerability. ### [Charlotte Temple](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/characters/charlotte_temple) _psychological_ Belcour manipulates and deceives Charlotte, acting as a predatory figure who exploits her vulnerability. ### [Julia Franklin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/characters/julia_franklin) _social_ Belcour attempts to ingratiate himself with Julia, but she sees through his false charm and rejects his advances. ### [Julia Franklin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/characters/julia_franklin) _social_ Belcour attempts to ingratiate himself with Julia, but she sees through his false charm and rejects his advances. ## In the story ### [I: A Boarding School](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/chapters/volume-i-i-a-boarding-school) Montraville's brother officer, who accompanies him and dismisses Montraville's romantic interest. ### [IX: We Know Not What a Day May Bring Forth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/chapters/volume-i-ix-we-know-not-what-a-day-may-bring-forth) Introduced as a dissipated, selfish man who encourages Montraville's pursuit and plans to use La Rue to persuade Charlotte. ### [X: When We Have Excited Curiosity, It Is but an Act of Good Nature to Gratify It](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/chapters/volume-i-x-when-we-have-excited-curiosity-it-is-but-an-act-of-good-nature-to-gratify-it) Accompanies Montraville and is directed to ask Mademoiselle La Rue about Charlotte's prospects. ### [XI: Conflict of Love and Duty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/chapters/volume-i-xi-conflict-of-love-and-duty) Joins Montraville and La Rue in persuading Charlotte to elope. ### [XII: “How Thou Art Fall’n!”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/chapters/volume-i-xii-how-thou-art-fall-n) Accompanies Montraville to the assignation, assisting in the elopement scheme. ### [XVI: Necessary Digression](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/chapters/volume-i-xvi-necessary-digression) Grows cloyed with La Rue and becomes attracted to Charlotte's simplicity, forming a dishonorable design to seduce her once Montraville leaves her. ### [A Wedding](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/chapters/volume-i-xvii-a-wedding) Belcour is relieved to be rid of La Rue and cynically wishes her well, indifferent to the consequences for others. ### [XX: Virtue—When Most Amiable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/chapters/volume-ii-xx-virtue-when-most-amiable) Visits Charlotte and deliberately plants jealousy in her heart, hoping to drive a wedge between her and Montraville. ### [XXIII: A Man May Smile, and Smile, and Be a Villain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/chapters/volume-ii-xxiii-a-man-may-smile-and-smile-and-be-a-villain) Schemes to ruin Charlotte's reputation by lying to Montraville and staging a compromising scene in her bedroom. ### [Mystery Developed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/chapters/volume-ii-xxiv-mystery-developed) Deliberately lies beside Charlotte to deceive Montraville, bribes the servant to intercept letters, and later mocks Montraville's remorse. ### [XXVI: What Might Be Expected](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/chapters/volume-ii-xxvi-what-might-be-expected) Deceptively promises to deliver Montraville's letter and money to Charlotte, but secretly plots to ruin her and bring her under his power. ### [XXVII: “Like a Fair Lily”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/chapters/volume-ii-xxvii-like-a-fair-lily) Belcour visits Charlotte under the guise of friendship but schemes to seduce her. He cruelly reveals Montraville's marriage, then abandons her when she falls ill, pursuing a farmer's daughter instead. ### [Retribution](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/chapters/volume-ii-xxxiv-retribution) Found immersed in dissipation; evasive about Charlotte's fate; killed by Montraville in a duel. ## Links - HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/characters/belcour - Book: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se - All characters: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/charlotte_temple_se/characters