# Don Lewis Pacheco — Gil Blas character guide

> Don Lewis Pacheco in Gil Blas by Alain-René Lesage.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Pacheco, Lewis, Don Lewis d'Alcacer

**First appearance:** 0006-iii

## Snapshot

A young nobleman whose charm and loose living make him the object of Aurora's desire and Gil Blas's most delicate investigation.

## Who they are

Don Lewis exists at first as a rumor—a name whispered in drawing rooms, a reputation for wit and womanizing that precedes him. Aurora's commission to Gil Blas turns him into a case to be solved, a character to be assessed before he can be loved or dismissed. His offstage presence drives the early romantic plot, forcing Gil Blas to balance truth-telling against profit and making the reader wonder whether the man himself can ever match the stories told about him.

## Relationships

### [Don Felix de Mendoza](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gil_blas_se/characters/don_felix_de_mendoza)

_friendship_

Don Felix de Mendoza and Don Lewis Pacheco are close friends and allies, often supporting each other in romantic and social endeavors.

### [Don Felix de Mendoza](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gil_blas_se/characters/don_felix_de_mendoza)

_friendship_

Don Felix de Mendoza and Don Lewis Pacheco are close friends and allies, often supporting each other in romantic and social endeavors.

### [Don Felix de Mendoza](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gil_blas_se/characters/don_felix_de_mendoza)

_friendship_

Don Felix de Mendoza and Don Lewis Pacheco are close friends and allies, often supporting each other in romantic and social endeavors.

## In the story

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

Subject of Aurora's affection; reported to be honorable but dissolute.

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

Aurora's beloved, who has fallen into licentious behavior; he is the target of her disguised pursuit.

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

Arrives from Madrid; is manipulated by Aurora and Gil Blas into writing a cruel letter to Isabella.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gil_blas_se/chapters/vi)

Becomes infatuated with Aurora after hearing of her virtues and seeing her disguised cousin.

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

Mentioned as Don Lewis d'Alcacer, a young nobleman who becomes Laura's paramour after Don Ambrosio.

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gil_blas_se/chapters/xiii)

Referenced as Don Lewis de Góngora, the poet Fabricio admires and models himself after.

### [A difficult, but successful weaning from the world](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gil_blas_se/chapters/x)

Mentioned as Don Lewis de Haro, advancing in favor and likely to become prime minister.

## Links

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