# Gabriel Salero — Gil Blas character guide

> Gabriel Salero in Gil Blas by Alain-René Lesage.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Señor Gabriel Salero, Señor Gabriel, Salero, honest Gabriel

**First appearance:** 0039-viii

## Who they are

A poor but honest countinghouse clerk who helps Gil Blas.

## In the story

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

The wealthy goldsmith who agrees to the match after being impressed by Gil Blas's court connections.

### [Preparations for the marriage of Gil Blas—A spoke in the wheel of hymen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gil_blas_se/chapters/iii)

The goldsmith father of Gabriela, who orders a rich wardrobe and promises the portion in ready money on the wedding morning.

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

The goldsmith in whose custody Scipio deposited the two bags of pistoles, expected to return them upon Gil Blas's release.

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gil_blas_se/chapters/viii)

Mentioned as holding bags of doubloons that Gil Blas bequeaths.

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

Mentioned as holding Gil Blas's deposit of a thousand doubloons in Madrid.

### [Their doings at Madrid—The rencounter of Gil Blas in the street, and its consequences.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gil_blas_se/chapters/x)

The banker who returns Gil Blas's two thousand pistoles and mentions his daughter's marriage to a trader.

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

Mentioned as the predecessor who was turned away for colluding with Gaspard.

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