# Nanon — Eugénie Grandet character guide

> Nanon in Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Big Nanon, Poor Nanon, Nanon

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

## Snapshot

A giant of a servant with a face like a war wound, she has been fed and kept by Grandet for decades and repays him in unshakable loyalty.

## Who they are

Taken in half-starved and worked like an ox, Nanon has become the one person in the house Grandet trusts, because she asks for nothing and gives everything. Her plain strength and simple faith make her both comic relief and the household's conscience, quietly devoted to Eugénie and Mme. Grandet. She is the measure of what Grandet values: not beauty or wit, but a body that costs almost nothing to keep.

## In the story

### [Eugénie Grandet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/eugenie_grandet_se/chapters/eug-nie-grandet)

Assists in the household; Grandet tells her to lock things up to prevent theft.

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