# El Dorado — Character guide

> Key figures in El Dorado by Baroness Orczy.

- [Marguerite Blakeney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/el_dorado_se/characters/marguerite_blakeney.md): Marguerite St. Just moves through Revolutionary Paris as Lady Blakeney, a woman whose wit and fame open doors but cannot quiet her private grief. Her love for her brother Armand wars with her devotion to a husband whose 
- [Sir Percy Blakeney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/el_dorado_se/characters/sir_percy_blakeney.md): Sir Percy Blakeney drifts through drawing rooms as a harmless, fashionable idler, yet his name is the one the Republic fears most. Captured and held in the Conciergerie, he answers Chauvelin's offers of mercy with laught
- [Chauvelin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/el_dorado_se/characters/chauvelin.md): Citizen Chauvelin stalks Paris with the quiet certainty of a man who has studied his quarry's heart. Baffled at Calais and Boulogne, he has learned that the Pimpernel cannot be caught by force but only through those he l
- [Armand St. Just](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/el_dorado_se/characters/armand_st_just.md): Armand St. Just rides through the frozen streets of Paris with remorse gnawing at him, a man who has betrayed his chief and cannot bear to meet his sister's eyes. His devotion to Jeanne Lange overrides prudence and loyal
- [Sir Andrew Ffoulkes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/el_dorado_se/characters/sir_andrew_ffoulkes.md): Sir Andrew Ffoulkes stands at Marguerite's side as hope drains away, offering the calm courage she cannot summon for herself. When Percy's letter arrives, he insists they follow it word for word, neither more nor less, t
- [Jeanne Lange](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/el_dorado_se/characters/jeanne_lange.md): Jeanne Lange sits by her fire with an open book she is not reading, her childlike face shadowed by a trouble she will not name. She loves Armand St. Just and speaks of him with shy blushes, yet she senses that his talk o
- [De Batz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/el_dorado_se/characters/de_batz.md): De Batz moves through the shadows of the rescue plot as the League's man on the ground, the one whose attack on Chauvelin's party is both hoped for and dreaded. His presence turns every signal in the night wood into a qu
- [The Dauphin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/el_dorado_se/characters/the_dauphin.md): Known to his captors only as little Capet, the boy is less a presence than an obligation: the living pledge that binds the League's honour and Percy's own. His friends at Mantes resist letting him leave France, and every
- [Héron](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/el_dorado_se/characters/heron.md): Héron commands the escort through the dark wood, all growls and volleys of cursing, impatient with suspense and ready to leave corpses for the wolves if the prisoner plays him false. He defers to Chauvelin's planning but
- [Lord Tony](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/el_dorado_se/characters/tony.md): A jovial member of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, aiding rescues.
- [Simon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/el_dorado_se/characters/simon.md): A jailer and caretaker of the Dauphin in the Temple prison.
- [Madame Belhomme](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/el_dorado_se/characters/madame_belhomme.md): A kind-hearted woman who shelters Jeanne Lange during the chaos.
- [Cochefer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/el_dorado_se/characters/cochefer.md): A minor revolutionary official involved in the Temple prison affairs.
- [Danton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/el_dorado_se/characters/danton.md): Prominent revolutionary leader, briefly referenced in political discussions.
- [Robespierre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/el_dorado_se/characters/robespierre.md): Influential revolutionary figure, mentioned in the context of power struggles.
- [Dupont](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/el_dorado_se/characters/dupont.md): A minor citizen or official encountered during the narrative.
- [Lord Hastings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/el_dorado_se/characters/lord_hastings.md): An English nobleman briefly appearing in the League's social circle.

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