# Maria Chapdelaine — Character guide

> Key figures in Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hémon.

- [Maria Chapdelaine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/maria_chapdelaine_se/characters/maria_chapdelaine.md): Maria stands at the center of a household carved out of the Peribonka wilderness, where her days turn on baking bread, haying, and the rare visits of suitors. When François Paradis re-enters her life with his bold eyes a
- [François Paradis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/maria_chapdelaine_se/characters/francois_paradis.md): François sold his father's farm to live in the bush, trading with the Indians of Lake Mistassini and the Labrador, and he carries the forest's wildness in his frank, disconcerting gaze. His sudden reappearance at St. Mic
- [Lorenzo Surprenant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/maria_chapdelaine_se/characters/lorenzo_surprenant.md): Lorenzo returns to the settlements with stories of factories, wages, and cities where the cold does not rule every hour, and his talk of a life elsewhere lands like a spark in the long Quebec winter. He represents everyt
- [Eutrope Gagnon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/maria_chapdelaine_se/characters/eutrope_gagnon.md): Eutrope comes to the Chapdelaine door on New Year's Day, too timid even to claim the customary kiss, his eyes on the floor while his heart is plainly elsewhere. He is the suitor who stays, works the land, and measures lo
- [Madame Chapdelaine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/maria_chapdelaine_se/characters/madame_chapdelaine.md): She half-rises in fear at bad news, her first thought for her absent sons, and her life is a litany of prayer, work, and quiet submission to a land that gives little. Around her the household's grief and joy both find th
- [Samuel Chapdelaine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/maria_chapdelaine_se/characters/samuel_chapdelaine.md): Samuel Chapdelaine greets neighbors with easy talk of the river and the ice, but beneath it lies an unyielding determination to carve a farm out of the backwoods no matter how many times the soil or the weather betrays h
- [Telesphore](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/maria_chapdelaine_se/characters/telesphore.md): Maria's younger brother, a lively boy who helps with farm chores.
- [Ephrem Surprenant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/maria_chapdelaine_se/characters/ephrem_surprenant.md): Lorenzo's father, a farmer from Honfleur who visits the Chapdelaines.
- [Charles Eugene](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/maria_chapdelaine_se/characters/charles_eugene.md): A young man from the community, mentioned among local youths.
- [Tit'Bé](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/maria_chapdelaine_se/characters/tit_be.md): A local character, possibly a neighbor or laborer in the settlement.
- [Nazaire Larouche](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/maria_chapdelaine_se/characters/nazaire_larouche.md): An older settler and neighbor of the Chapdelaines.
- [Little Alma Rose](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/maria_chapdelaine_se/characters/little_alma_rose.md): A young girl in the community, possibly a friend or relative.
- [Esdras](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/maria_chapdelaine_se/characters/esdras.md): A local man, possibly a neighbor or relative of the Chapdelaines.
- [Edwige Légaré](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/maria_chapdelaine_se/characters/edwige_legare.md): A neighbor or acquaintance of the Chapdelaine family.
- [Da'Bé](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/maria_chapdelaine_se/characters/da_be.md): A minor character, possibly a neighbor or laborer.
- [Zotique](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/maria_chapdelaine_se/characters/zotique.md): A minor character, possibly a neighbor.

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