# Comte de Restaud — Father Goriot character guide

> Comte de Restaud in Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** M. de Restaud, Restaud, the Comte de Restaud

**First appearance:** 0001-father-goriot

## Snapshot

A proud aristocrat whose name opens doors his marriage has quietly mortgaged, and whose jealousy guards a household already slipping from his grip.

## Who they are

Restaud belongs to the old nobility that measures worth in lineage, yet his marriage to Anastasie de Restaud has bound his fortune to the very Goriot money he would rather forget. He watches his wife's salon and her expenditures with mounting suspicion, and his refusal to tolerate her father's visits becomes one of the quiet cruelties that drive the novel's family tragedy. His pride and his precarious finances make him a cautionary figure for any young man studying how Parisian society treats its debts.

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