# Claquesous — Les Misérables character guide

> Claquesous in Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Monsieur Claquesous

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

## Who they are

A masked member of the Patron-Minette gang who also works as a spy.

## In the story

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

A mysterious and shadowy 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 mysterious, masked figure of the night, a ventriloquist who speaks with his stomach and is never seen without his mask.

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

A member of Patron-Minette, part of the four-man association.

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

A mysterious, nocturnal criminal who wears a mask, is a ventriloquist, and disappears as if into thin air.

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

A member of Patron-Minette, one of the four ruffians who form the core of the gang.

### [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)

Vanished en route to La Force, possibly with police connivance, leaving Javert frustrated.

### [VIII: Many Interrogation Points with Regard to a Certain le Cabuc](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/viii-many-interrogation-points-with-regard-to-a-certain-le-cabuc)

Implied to be Le Cabuc; disappears after Le Cabuc's death.

### [VIII: Many Interrogation Points with Regard to a Certain le Cabuc](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/viii-many-interrogation-points-with-regard-to-a-certain-le-cabuc)

Suspected to be Le Cabuc's true identity; disappears after Le Cabuc's death.

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