# Count de Maubec — Penguin Island character guide

> Count de Maubec in Penguin Island by Anatole France.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** III Count de Maubec de la Dentdulynx, the Count Maubec de la Dentdulynx, Maubec

**First appearance:** 0051-iii-count-de-maubec-de-la-dentdulynx

## Who they are

A count involved in the Affair of the Eighty Thousand Trusses of Hay.

## In the story

### [Count de Maubec de la Dentdulynx](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/penguin_island_se/chapters/iii-count-de-maubec-de-la-dentdulynx)

The nobleman who fraudulently sold non-existent hay to the state; he challenges the Pyrotists to combat.

### [IV: Colomban](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/penguin_island_se/chapters/iv-colomban)

Accused by Colomban as guilty of the hay theft; the placards read 'Pyrot is innocent, Maubec is guilty.'

### [VIII: The Colomban Trial](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/penguin_island_se/chapters/viii-the-colomban-trial)

Witness who insults Colomban as 'excrement' and is celebrated by the crowd.

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