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Father Douillard

A supple priest who receives a bride's dilemma and turns it, with practiced warmth, into an opportunity to sanctify her freethinking husband.

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Also known as Father, Douillard, the Reverend Father Douillard, The Reverend Father Douillard

First appearance: IX: Father Douillard

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Preaches a fiery sermon calling for the overthrow of the government and the establishment of a religious state.

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Father Douillard is the Reverend Father whom Eveline Clarence seeks when her civil-marriage crisis with Hippolyte Cérès threatens to collapse the engagement. Where she expects resistance, she finds accommodation: he calls her husband "an intelligent man, a man of order and reason" and promises he will come over to the Church. His easy, tactical flexibility — bending doctrine to catch a rising politician — reveals the clerical machinery that quietly shapes Penguinia's public life.

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IX: Father Douillard
Preaches a fiery sermon calling for the overthrow of the government and the establishment of a religious state.
Madame Clarence’s Drawing Room
Mentioned as the priest whose retreat Eveline plans to attend.
II: The Charity of St. Orberosia
Preaches at the retreat, promotes the cult of St. Orberosia, and collects funds for a monumental church.
A Politician’s Marriage
Accommodating priest who arranges a discreet religious marriage in his private chapel, obtaining dispensations and waiving banns.
V: The Visire Cabinet
Spiritual director of Admiral Vivier des Murènes and confidant of Eveline Cérès.
VI: The Sofa of the Favourite
The Reverend Father Douillard is cited for his moral theology on the gravity of sin committed for pleasure versus necessity.

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