# M. des Grassins — Eugénie Grandet character guide

> M. des Grassins in Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** des Grassins, Adolphe, M. Adolphe des Grassins, Adolphe des Grassins, Grassins

**First appearance:** 0001-eug-nie-grandet

## Snapshot

A banker whose polished manners and ready loans make him the Cruchots' chief rival in the quiet campaign to marry Adolphe into the Grandet fortune.

## Who they are

Des Grassins belongs to the small circle that orbits the Grandet parlor, where two families maneuver for Eugénie's hand with the patience of chess players. As a banker he offers the modern lure of liquidity and Parisian connections against the Cruchots' clerical respectability, and his son Adolphe is groomed as bait. His rivalry sets the comic, mercenary temperature of the courtship plot before the story's larger shadows fall.

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