# Babet — Les Misérables character guide

> Babet in Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Monsieur Babet

**First appearance:** 0044-ii-first-sketch-of-two-unprepossessing-figures

## Who they are

A member of the Patron-Minette criminal gang.

## In the story

### [Book VII: Patron Minette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/book-vii-patron-minette)

A cunning and experienced member of the gang.

### [Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/iii-babet-gueulemer-claquesous-and-montparnasse)

A thin, learned, and versatile criminal who sold plaster busts, extracted teeth, and abandoned his family to 'undertake Paris.'

### [Patron Minette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/book-vii-patron-minette)

Babet is a member of Patron Minette, known for his cunning and role in the gang's operations.

### [Composition of the Troupe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/iv-composition-of-the-troupe)

A key member of Patron-Minette, part of the four-headed criminal enterprise.

### [Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/iii-babet-gueulemer-claquesous-and-montparnasse)

A thin, learned criminal who was a jack of all trades, including dental artist and vendor of plaster busts, and who reads the papers.

### [Composition of the Troupe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/iv-composition-of-the-troupe)

One of the four principal members of Patron-Minette, charged with organizing ambushes in the Seine department.

### [Embryonic Formation of Crimes in the Incubation of Prisons](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/ii-embryonic-formation-of-crimes-in-the-incubation-of-prisons)

Babet, one of the heads of Patron Minette, receives Brujon's note in solitary confinement and later reports back that the plan is a 'biscuit' (nothing to be done).

### [Embryonic Formation of Crimes in the Incubation of Prisons](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/ii-embryonic-formation-of-crimes-in-the-incubation-of-prisons)

One of the heads of Patron Minette, receives Brujon's note in prison but ultimately learns from Éponine's report that the plan is unworkable.

### [The Vicissitudes of Flight](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/iii-the-vicissitudes-of-flight)

Speaks in classic Temple slang, advises abandoning Thénardier, and participates in the escape plot.

### [III: The Vicissitudes of Flight](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/iii-the-vicissitudes-of-flight)

Part of the escape gang, speaks in classical slang, debates abandoning Thénardier.

### [A Cab Runs in English and Barks in Slang](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/iv-a-cab-runs-in-english-and-barks-in-slang)

Babet is among the six criminals, noting a light in the house, but leaves after Brujon's decision.

### [A Cab Runs in English and Barks in Slang](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/iv-a-cab-runs-in-english-and-barks-in-slang)

Part of the gang; notes a light in the house and later agrees to leave.

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