# Arsenia — Gil Blas character guide

> Arsenia in Gil Blas by Alain-René Lesage.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0038-vii

## Who they are

An actress and friend of Laura, known for her sharp tongue.

## In the story

### [Gil Blas becomes the darling of the fair sex, and makes an interesting acquaintance.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gil_blas_se/chapters/v)

An actress at whose house Don Matthias and Don Alexo Segiar sup; her waiting-woman is Laura's companion.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gil_blas_se/chapters/ix)

Arsenia is the actress who hires Gil Blas as her steward after Laura's recommendation.

### [Much such another as the foregoing](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gil_blas_se/chapters/x)

Gil Blas's mistress, an actress who entertains noblemen at supper and corrects Gil Blas's use of 'troop' to 'company'.

### [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gil_blas_se/chapters/xi)

The mistress of the household; treats the author Pedro de Moya with cold indifference and later defends the players' treatment of authors.

### [Gil Blas acquires a relish for the theatre, and takes a full swing of its pleasures, but soon becomes disgusted.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gil_blas_se/chapters/xii)

An actress whose house is a center of debauchery; she maintains a close friendship with Florimonde.

### [Chapter I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gil_blas_se/chapters/i)

An actress in whose house Gil Blas had been staying; he leaves due to her immoral ways.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gil_blas_se/chapters/vii)

Referenced as a host of past suppers with Phenicia.

### [A Thunderbolt to Gil Blas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gil_blas_se/chapters/xi)

Mentioned as the former mistress of Laura and Gil Blas, whose servant past is exposed.

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