# Leo Camus — Clerambault character guide

> Leo Camus in Clerambault by Romain Rolland.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Camus, the exasperated Camus

**First appearance:** 0002-clerambault

## Snapshot

A fiery journalist and nationalist whose exasperated certainties make him the loudest voice demanding Clerambault's conformity or destruction.

## Who they are

Camus is the journalist whose patriotic fury and rhetorical force represent the war's pressure on public speech. He is not merely a villain but a man genuinely exasperated by anyone who refuses the collective passion, and his certainty gives him power over readers. As Clerambault's pacifism becomes public, Camus becomes the instrument through which the herd turns on the one who will not join it.

## Relationships

### [Clerambault](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clerambault_se/characters/clerambault)

_friendship_

Clerambault and Leo Camus are close friends and allies, sharing a bond of mutual support and ideological alignment.

### [Clerambault](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clerambault_se/characters/clerambault)

_friendship_

Clerambault and Leo Camus are close friends and allies, sharing a bond of mutual support and ideological alignment.

## In the story

### [Clerambault](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clerambault_se/chapters/clerambault)

Clerambault's brother-in-law, who bursts in with a newspaper denouncing Clerambault and urges him to respond to the public attack.

## Links

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