# Chatillon — Penguin Island character guide

> Chatillon in Penguin Island by Anatole France.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** the famous Chatillon, Emiral, The Emiral, Emiral Chatillon, the Emiral, fool Chatillon, the brave Emiral

**First appearance:** 0040-book-v-chatillon

## Snapshot

A handsome, adored Emiral whose vanity and passion for a viscountess make him a pawn in a royalist plot he barely understands.

## Who they are

Chatillon is the people's idol, mobbed in tobacco shops and toasted on liqueur bottles, yet he drifts through politics with a soldier's simplicity and a vague dream of saving Penguinia. His consuming love for Viscountess Olive—who trades kisses for military orders—blinds him to the fact that he is dismantling his own defenses. His fatal blend of vanity, romance, and naïveté makes him the pivot on which the royalist conspiracy turns.

## Relationships

### [Vulcanmould](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/penguin_island_se/characters/vulcanmould)

_rivalry_

Chatillon and Vulcanmould are bitter rivals in the world of Penguin politics, constantly undermining each other.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/penguin_island_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_social_

Chatillon is a recurring figure in the narrator's satire of Penguin society, representing corrupt officialdom.

### [Vulcanmould](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/penguin_island_se/characters/vulcanmould)

_rivalry_

Chatillon and Vulcanmould are bitter rivals in the world of Penguin politics, constantly undermining each other.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/penguin_island_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_social_

Chatillon is a recurring figure in the narrator's satire of Penguin society, representing corrupt officialdom.

## In the story

### [Book V: Chatillon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/penguin_island_se/chapters/book-v-chatillon)

The central figure of the chapter, whose rise to power and subsequent corruption are chronicled.

### [IV: Viscountess Olive](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/penguin_island_se/chapters/iv-viscountess-olive)

The Emiral of the Penguin navy, a popular man of the people, who is courted by monarchist conspirators.

### [V: The Prince des Boscénos](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/penguin_island_se/chapters/v-the-prince-des-bosc-nos)

The Emiral being celebrated; his portrait is sold, and he is involved with Viscountess Olive.

### [VI: The Emiral's Fall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/penguin_island_se/chapters/vi-the-emiral-s-fall)

The Emiral whose partisans attempt to overthrow the Republic; he flees Alca but is captured by a despatch-boat under the Queen of the Black Islands.

### [Conclusion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/penguin_island_se/chapters/vii-conclusion)

Mentioned as a fool who drowned in his own ineptitude; his case is carried on by the magistrates.

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