# Lord Tony’s Wife — Character guide

> Key figures in Lord Tony’s Wife by Baroness Orczy.

- [Yvonne de Kernogan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/yvonne_de_kernogan.md): Yvonne de Kernogan moves through Bath society as the beautiful daughter of an exiled Breton duke, courted openly by the English Lord Tony Dewhurst while her father quietly favors a compatriot suitor. Her devotion to her 
- [Sir Percy Blakeney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/sir_percy_blakeney.md): In Bath drawing rooms Sir Percy Blakeney plays the elegant, indolent man of fashion, but behind the closed library door he becomes the decisive leader his comrades depend on. When Lord Tony arrives drenched and shattered
- [Citizen Chauvelin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/citizen_chauvelin.md): Once a man of the old regime, Chauvelin now serves the Revolutionary government as its most dogged pursuer of the elusive Englishman. His obsession is intellectual as much as political: he studies his quarry's methods, w
- [Martin-Roget](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/martin_roget.md): Martin-Roget circulates among the exiled royalists as a respectable compatriot, favored by the duc de Kernogan as a match for Yvonne and trusted where Lord Tony is merely tolerated. His eagle-eyed watchfulness and smooth
- [Lord Tony Dewhurst](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/lord_tony_dewhurst.md): Lord Tony Dewhurst is a well-bred, tongue-tied Englishman who worships Yvonne with an openness that borders on helplessness, unable to refuse her anything, least of all a visit to her ailing father. His trusting nature a
- [Jean Baptiste Carrier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/jean_baptiste_carrier.md): Carrier rules Nantes as the Revolution's most feared representative, dispensing death by fusillade and by the packed barges he sends into the Loire. His power is absolute and his methods theatrical in their cruelty, maki
- [Marguerite Blakeney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/marguerite_blakeney.md): Sir Percy Blakeney's brilliant French wife, whose fierce love must repeatedly yield to the call of honour that drives her husband into danger.
- [Pierre Adet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/pierre_adet.md): A Nantes miller whose smouldering hatred of the aristocracy erupts into revolutionary violence, dragging his family into the Terror's path.
- [Louise Adet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/louise_adet.md): Pierre Adet's daughter, a gentle young woman whose loyalties are torn between her father's revolutionary fervour and the innocent lives it threatens.
- [Fleury](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/fleury.md): A revolutionary commandant in Nantes whose conscience wrestles with the brutal methods of Carrier's reign of terror.
- [Paul Friche](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/paul_friche.md): A brutish soldier and informer in Carrier's service, eager to profit from the misery of those caught in the Revolution's grip.
- [Jacques Lalouët](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/jacques_lalouet.md): A young Breton royalist whose friendship with the Kernogan family places him in the crosshairs of revolutionary vengeance.
- [Sir Andrew Ffoulkes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/sir_andrew_ffoulkes.md): Sir Andrew Ffoulkes moves through the League's perilous world as Sir Percy's trusted friend and a man whose private happiness is perpetually mortgaged to other people's emergencies. When Tony Dewhurst's young wife is end
- [Lady Ffoulkes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/lady_ffoulkes.md): Wife of Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, a supportive member of the English circle.
- [George Lemoine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/george_lemoine.md): A blundering revolutionary official in Nantes, often outwitted.
- [Maman Lemoine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/maman_lemoine.md): George Lemoine's mother, a shrewd and talkative old woman.
- [Jean Adet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/jean_adet.md): Pierre Adet's father, an elderly miller loyal to the royalist cause.
- [Jean-Marie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/jean_marie.md): A young Breton peasant boy, victim of revolutionary violence.
- [Antoine Melun](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/antoine_melun.md): A young royalist prisoner in Nantes, friend of the Kernogans.
- [Jacques Leroux](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/jacques_leroux.md): A revolutionary agent in Nantes.
- [Grace the Duke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/grace_the_duke.md): A servant in the Kernogan household.
- [Mr. Frederick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_tony_s_wife_se/characters/frederick.md): An English gentleman, friend of Lord Tony.

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