# Basil de Buenotrigo — Gil Blas character guide

> Basil de Buenotrigo in Gil Blas by Alain-René Lesage.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** clodpole Basil, Basil

**First appearance:** 0094-book-ix

## Who they are

A simple-minded countryman who becomes a servant to Gil Blas.

## In the story

### [The loves of Gil Blas and the fair Antonia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gil_blas_se/chapters/viii)

Antonia's father and Gil Blas's farming man; he consents to the marriage and plans to increase the estate's rental.

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