# Monsieur de Clagny — Parisians in the Country character guide

> Monsieur de Clagny in Parisians in the Country by Honoré de Balzac.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Clagny, de Clagny, Monsieur le Baron de Clagny, Worthy Monsieur de Clagny

**First appearance:** 0002-story-ii-the-muse-of-the-department

## Snapshot

The worthy magistrate of Sancerre, devoted to Dinah with a lawyer's patience and a provincial's unspoken ache.

## Who they are

Monsieur de Clagny is the legal mind of the neighborhood, a man whose profession teaches him to weigh evidence and whose heart refuses to weigh Dinah fairly. He adores her with a discretion that costs him, and his presence in her circle gives the provincial salon its gravity. He matters as the counterweight to Lousteau: where the Parisian offers wit, Clagny offers loyalty, and neither is quite enough.

## In the story

### [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/parisians_in_the_country_se/chapters/endnotes)

Referenced in an endnote explaining a pun on his speech about 'the dead' and the letter R.

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