# Valgrand — Fantômas character guide

> Valgrand in Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** M. Valgrand, the admirable Valgrand

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

## Snapshot

A celebrated actor who flirts with baronnes, collects perfumed letters, and treats exhaustion as a joke — until the dressing-room door locks.

## Who they are

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 waiting in his pile. He is charming, vain, and entirely at ease in the theatrical world where appearance is profession. That ease is exactly what makes him useful to a criminal who needs a face, a voice, and a reputation that no one would question.

## Relationships

### [Lady Beltham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/lady_beltham)

_social_

Lady Beltham and Valgrand are frequent social acquaintances, likely moving in the same high-society circles.

### [Charlot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/charlot)

_friendship_

Charlot and Valgrand are friends or companions, often seen together in social or criminal contexts.

### [M. Gurn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/m_gurn)

_rivalry_

M. Gurn and Valgrand are rivals, competing for influence or power in their social or criminal dealings.

### [M. Gurn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/m_gurn)

_rivalry_

M. Gurn and Valgrand are rivals, competing for influence or power in their social or criminal dealings.

### [Lady Beltham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/lady_beltham)

_social_

Lady Beltham and Valgrand are frequent social acquaintances, likely moving in the same high-society circles.

### [Charlot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/charlot)

_friendship_

Charlot and Valgrand are friends or companions, often seen together in social or criminal contexts.

### [Charlot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/charlot)

_friendship_

Charlot and Valgrand are friends or companions, often seen together in social or criminal contexts.

### [Lady Beltham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/characters/lady_beltham)

_social_

Lady Beltham and Valgrand are frequent social acquaintances, likely moving in the same high-society circles.

## In the story

### [The Court of Assize](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/chapters/xxviii-the-court-of-assize)

The actor present in the audience, enthusiastically commenting on Gurn as 'The Assassin' type.

### [XXX: An Assignation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/chapters/xxx-an-assignation)

The celebrated actor who created the role of Gurn in the new play; he leaves for a late-night assignation near the prison on the night of Gurn's execution.

### [Fell Treachery](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fant_mas_se/chapters/xxxi-fell-treachery)

The actor impersonates Gurn at Lady Beltham's request, but is overcome by drowsiness and is mistakenly arrested by warders who believe him to be Gurn.

## Links

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