# Joseph Couturier — Monsieur Lecoq character guide

> Joseph Couturier in Monsieur Lecoq by Émile Gaboriau.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Couturier

**First appearance:** 0000-monsieur-lecoq

## Who they are

A peasant involved in the conspiracy.

## In the story

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/monsieur_lecoq_se/chapters/ii)

The arrested suspect, a young man who utters the phrase 'It is the Prussians who are coming,' which Lecoq interprets as an allusion to the Battle of Waterloo.

### [XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/monsieur_lecoq_se/chapters/xviii)

Referenced indirectly as the prisoner May, who is the subject of Lecoq's surveillance and the sender of the coded note.

### [XX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/monsieur_lecoq_se/chapters/xx)

Referred to as 'May,' the escaped prisoner being shadowed; he attempts to sell his clothes but fails.

### [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/monsieur_lecoq_se/chapters/xxii)

Revealed as an escaped convict; explains how May tricked him into the burglary plot; cooperative with Lecoq.

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