# Charles Rambert — Fantômas character guide

> Charles Rambert in Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Young Charles Rambert, Charles, M. Charles Rambert, young Rambert

**First appearance:** 0000-i-the-genius-of-crime

## Snapshot

A frightened young man who learns that being innocent is not the same as being safe when Juve's dynamometer becomes his only alibi.

## Who they are

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 through anthropometric records and a strength test that proves his weakness, a strange kind of exoneration that leaves him still half a prisoner. His panic and his disguises make him a moving target in a case where identity itself is the crime scene.

## In the story

### [The Genius of Crime](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/chapters/i-the-genius-of-crime)

Young guest fascinated by Fantômas; later has a sleepless night filled with fearful visions.

### [A Tragic Dawn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/chapters/ii-a-tragic-dawn)

Meets his father at the station and walks with him to the château; reveals his lonely childhood.

### [The Hunt for the Man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/chapters/iii-the-hunt-for-the-man)

A guest at the château, also too distressed to be examined right away; he had gone to meet his father at the station on the morning of the discovery.

### [No! I Am Not Mad!](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/chapters/iv-no-i-am-not-mad)

Vehemently denies his father's accusation of murder and the suggestion that he is mad.

### [VI: “Fantômas, It Is Death!”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/chapters/vi-fant-mas-it-is-death)

Accused of murder based on bloodstain evidence and his equivocal behavior; fled with his father during the night.

### [A Dreadful Confession](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/chapters/viii-a-dreadful-confession)

Mentioned as the possible identity of the drowned body.

### [All for Honour](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/chapters/ix-all-for-honour)

Deceased son of Etienne Rambert, central to the trial as the alleged murderer of Mme. de Langrune.

### [XI: Magistrate and Detective](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/chapters/xi-magistrate-and-detective)

Mentioned in the context of the Langrune case; Juve does not confirm his innocence.

### [XIV: Mademoiselle Jeanne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/chapters/xiv-mademoiselle-jeanne)

Revealed as Mademoiselle Jeanne; denies involvement in the robbery and the murder of the Marquise de Langrune.

### [At the Saint-Anthony's Pig](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/chapters/xvii-at-the-saint-anthony-s-pig)

Disguised as Mademoiselle Jeanne, a pale young man with a budding beard; identified and arrested by Juve.

### [XVIII: A Prisoner and a Witness](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/chapters/xviii-a-prisoner-and-a-witness)

Revealed to be the person disguised as Mademoiselle Jeanne; arrested by Juve and subjected to anthropometric measurements and a strength test.

### [XIX: Jérôme Fandor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/chapters/xix-j-r-me-fandor)

Learns of his innocence and adopts the alias Jérôme Fandor on Juve's advice.

### [The Scrap of Paper](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/chapters/xxii-the-scrap-of-paper)

Arrives unexpectedly at Gurn's flat, surprising Juve.

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