# Dangerous Liaisons — Character guide

> Key figures in Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

- [Viscount de Valmont](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_liaisons_se/characters/viscount_de_valmont.md): Valmont arrives at his aunt's country estate already notorious, a man whose conquests are counted in ruined reputations and who has never met a woman he could not dangle after. His one exception is Merteuil, whose resist
- [Marchioness de Merteuil](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_liaisons_se/characters/marchioness_de_merteuil.md): Merteuil moves through Parisian society as a model of propriety, yet her letters reveal a strategist who has studied her own sex and her enemies with cold precision. She alone has defeated Valmont, and the alliance betwe
- [Cecilia Volanges](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_liaisons_se/characters/cecilia_volanges.md): Cecilia has just left the convent and been handed a future she did not choose: marriage to the wealthy, morose Count de Gercourt, a man old enough to be her father. Into that arrangement steps the young Chevalier Danceny
- [Madame de Tourvel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_liaisons_se/characters/presidente_de_tourvel.md): Madame de Tourvel arrives at Madame de Rosemonde's estate known for her devotion, her reserve, and a marriage that keeps her husband absent. She writes to warn others against Valmont and reports, with relief, that he see
- [Chevalier Danceny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_liaisons_se/characters/chevalier_danceny.md): Danceny is the novel's honest lover, a man whose feelings for Cecilia are uncalculated and whose letters ache with the awkwardness of first attachment. He has no idea that his courtship is being watched, encouraged, and 
- [Madame de Volanges](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_liaisons_se/characters/madame_de_volanges.md): Madame de Volanges is a woman of the world who believes she understands it, and who writes to her friend Madame de Rosemonde with warnings about Valmont's reputation and advice about Cecilia's future. She has chosen Gerc
- [Madame de Rosemonde](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_liaisons_se/characters/madame_de_rosemonde.md): Widowed, devout, and fond of her rakish nephew, she offers hospitality without suspicion, making her salon and letters the trusted channel through which the novel's worst schemes travel. Her affection for Valmont blinds 
- [Sophia Carnay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_liaisons_se/characters/sophia_carnay.md): Cecilia's friend at the convent, recipient of her letters.
- [Count Gercourt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_liaisons_se/characters/count_gercourt.md): Cecilia's intended husband, a military man and former lover of Merteuil.
- [Prevan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_liaisons_se/characters/prevan.md): A rival libertine who attempts to seduce Merteuil.
- [Father Anselmus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_liaisons_se/characters/father_anselmus.md): A priest who corresponds with Valmont about spiritual matters.
- [M. Bertrand](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_liaisons_se/characters/m_bertrand.md): Valmont's loyal steward who manages his affairs.
- [Emily](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_liaisons_se/characters/emily.md): A courtesan involved with Valmont.
- [Chevalier de Belleroche](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_liaisons_se/characters/chevalier_de_belleroche.md): A young lover of Merteuil mentioned in her correspondence.
- [Julie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_liaisons_se/characters/julie.md): A maid or servant in the Volanges household.
- [Josephine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_liaisons_se/characters/josephine.md): A servant mentioned in passing.
- [M. de Tourvel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_liaisons_se/characters/m_de_tourvel.md): The absent husband of Madame de Tourvel, a magistrate.
- [Countess de B⸺](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_liaisons_se/characters/countess_de_b.md): A society woman mentioned in letters.
- [Marechale de ⸻](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_liaisons_se/characters/marechale_de.md): An elderly aristocratic woman in Parisian society.
- [Vressac](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_liaisons_se/characters/vressac.md): A minor acquaintance of Valmont.

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