# I Will Repay — Character guide

> Key figures in I Will Repay by Baroness Orczy.

- [Juliette de Marny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/i_will_repay_se/characters/juliette_de_marny.md): Juliette moves through Revolutionary Paris as a Citizeness with an aristocrat's grief and a Nemesis's purpose, believing Paul Déroulède murdered her brother and must pay. Yet the man she came to destroy treats her with s
- [Paul Déroulède](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/i_will_repay_se/characters/paul_deroulede.md): Déroulède is the rare man the Revolution still trusts: a Citizen-Deputy whose honor is so plain that even his enemies hesitate to strike him. He loves once and for always, a fact his friends know and his enemies exploit,
- [Anne Mie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/i_will_repay_se/characters/anne_mie.md): Anne Mie keeps Déroulède's house and guards his interests with a fierce, wounded loyalty, her deformed shoulder a private grief she believes disqualifies her from being loved. When Juliette arrives—young, beautiful, and 
- [Sir Percy Blakeney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/i_will_repay_se/characters/sir_percy_blakeney.md): Blakeney arrives in Paris drawling about snuff and ruffles while the Committee of Public Safety hunts him as the one man they cannot catch. He has deliberately baited Tinville with his scarlet signature to draw the wolve
- [Citizen Merlin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/i_will_repay_se/characters/citizen_merlin.md): Merlin represents the Revolution's ugliest face: a Terrorist who can smile while he hunts, treating a search for evidence as a pleasant game of cat and mouse. He respects Déroulède's popularity enough to be careful, but 
- [Pétronelle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/i_will_repay_se/characters/petronelle.md): Pétronelle has served the de Marny family long enough to weep like a mother when the heir is carried home dead, but not enough to steady herself and tell the crippled old Duc. Her collapse throws the unbearable duty onto
- [Duc de Marny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/i_will_repay_se/characters/duc_de_marny.md): Juliette's father, executed years before the main story begins.
- [Vicomte de Marny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/i_will_repay_se/characters/vicomte_de_marny.md): Juliette's young brother, killed in the Revolution.
- [Foucquier-Tinville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/i_will_repay_se/characters/foucquier_tinville.md): The ruthless public prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal.
- [Citizen Lenoir](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/i_will_repay_se/characters/citizen_lenoir.md): A Jacobin spy who watches Déroulède and Juliette.
- [Marie Antoinette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/i_will_repay_se/characters/marie_antoinette.md): The deposed queen, briefly mentioned as a prisoner.
- [Madame Déroulède](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/i_will_repay_se/characters/madame_deroulede.md): Paul Déroulède's elderly mother, a kind and pious woman.
- [Charlotte Corday](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/i_will_repay_se/characters/charlotte_corday.md): The assassin of Marat, mentioned as a historical figure.
- [Marat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/i_will_repay_se/characters/marat.md): The murdered revolutionary leader, referenced in passing.
- [Citizen Santerre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/i_will_repay_se/characters/citizen_santerre.md): A revolutionary general and commander of the National Guard.
- [Robespierre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/i_will_repay_se/characters/robespierre.md): The influential Jacobin leader, mentioned as a political figure.
- [Brogard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/i_will_repay_se/characters/brogard.md): The innkeeper at the Cheval Borgne, a shady establishment.
- [Sir Andrew Ffoulkes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/i_will_repay_se/characters/sir_andrew_ffoulkes.md): A friend of Sir Percy Blakeney and fellow member of the League.
- [Lord Anthony Dewhurst](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/i_will_repay_se/characters/lord_anthony_dewhurst.md): A young English aristocrat and friend of Blakeney.
- [Marquis de Villefranche](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/i_will_repay_se/characters/marquis_de_villefranche.md): An émigré aristocrat rescued by the Pimpernel.

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