# Fantômas — Character guide

> Key figures in Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre.

- [Inspector Juve](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/detective_juve.md): The Criminal Investigation Department's most relentless inspector, who has sworn to take Fantômas body and soul — though his quarry is everywhere and nowhere at once.
- [Fantômas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/fantomas.md): A living person who is impossible to catch or identify, he wears the faces of the famous and the obscure alike, and his shadow falls across the most inexplicable crimes.
- [Jérôme Fandor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/jerome_fandor.md): A young man so consumed by the Fantômas affair that he shadowed Inspector Juve for days, convinced the detective himself might be the master criminal.
- [Lady Beltham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/lady_beltham.md): A beautiful, charitable English widow whose composure in the witness-box cannot quite hide the whispers that she knows more about her husband's murder than she will say.
- [Princess Sonia Danidoff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/princesse_sonia_danidoff.md): A Russian princess alone in a grand hotel, whose quiet evening with an old folk-tale is shattered by a well-dressed stranger reading over her shoulder.
- [Etienne Rambert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/etienne_rambert.md): A first-class passenger listed aboard a doomed liner, whose name on the manifest becomes a knot of grief, doubt, and unanswered questions for those left ashore.
- [Charles Rambert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/charles_rambert.md): Charles Rambert arrives in Paris already tangled in suspicion — the Langrune affair, the Danidoff robbery, and a brawl at a hotel where he fought a man over Mademoiselle Jeanne. Juve clears him not through testimony but 
- [Thérèse Auvernois](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/therese_auvernois.md): Thérèse Auvernois sits in the Cahors courtroom in a long mourning veil, the ward of Mme. de Vibray and the temporary charge of President Bonnet, watching the man accused in the Langrune affair take his seat. She is the e
- [M. Gurn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/m_gurn.md): Gurn sits in his cell weighing whether to confide in the old warder Siegenthal, then finds himself summoned to the barristers' room and handed over to Roger de Seras, a dandyish young licentiate who cannot decide whether
- [Valgrand](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/valgrand.md): Valgrand holds court in his dressing-room after a performance, promising locks of his beard to the Baronne de Vibray and Simone Holbord, sighing about Love, and teasing his dresser Charlot about the violet-inked letters 
- [Lord Beltham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/lord_beltham.md): Lord Beltham, formerly of the English Embassy in Paris and a veteran of the Transvaal with his courageous wife, has vanished from the social world that knew him at Neuilly-sur-Seine. Juve tells La Capitale that a crime l
- [Bouzille](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/bouzille.md): Bouzille moves through the market with the anonymity of a working man, exactly the kind of figure a detective needs when the criminal is a master of disguise. He is not a theorist of crime or a man of society; he is a pa
- [M. Henri Verbier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/m_henri_verbier.md): An enterprising man whose advances scandalize Thérèse.
- [Nibet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/nibet.md): A prison warder involved in the case.
- [Charlot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/charlot.md): A bewildered character caught up in events.
- [Mme. Rambert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/mme_rambert.md): Wife of Etienne Rambert, mother of Charles.
- [Hogshead Geoffroy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/hogshead_geoffroy.md): A sturdy, rough character in the criminal milieu.
- [Mademoiselle Jeanne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/mademoiselle_jeanne.md): A young woman who appears in a chapter titled after her.
- [M. Dollon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/dollon.md): A magistrate or official involved in the investigation.
- [Detective M. Fuselier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/detective_m_fuselier.md): A detective colleague of Juve.
- [Baronne de Vibray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/baronne_de_vibray.md): A noblewoman involved in the social circle.
- [Muller](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/muller.md): A character associated with the criminal underworld.
- [Marquise de Langrune](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/marquise_de_langrune.md): A noblewoman, possibly related to Mme. de Langrune.
- [M. de Presles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/m_de_presles.md): A man of some standing involved in the plot.
- [Mme. Doulenques](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/mme_doulenques.md): A woman in the story, possibly a housekeeper.
- [Mother Chiquard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/mother_chiquard.md): An old woman who peels potatoes and serves soup.
- [President Bonnet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/president_bonnet.md): A president of the court or tribunal.
- [Mealy Benoît](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/mealy_benoit.md): A character with a nickname, likely a criminal.
- [Julot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/julot.md): A minor character in the criminal world.
- [Roger de Seras](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/roger_de_seras.md): A young lawyer or nobleman.
- [M. Louis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/m_louis.md): A minor character, possibly a servant.
- [Old Siegenthal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/old_siegenthal.md): An older character, possibly a servant or local.
- [Lisbeth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/lisbeth.md): A young woman, possibly a maid.
- [Susannah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/susannah.md): A minor female character.
- [Maître Barberoux](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/maitre_barberoux.md): A lawyer or notary.

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