# Scaramouche — Character guide

> Key figures in Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.

- [André-Louis Moreau](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/andre_louis_moreau.md): André-Louis Moreau drifts from provincial law courts to a ragged travelling theatre, where his improvisations as Scaramouche make the troupe's fortune and his own name. Beneath the icy cynicism he shows Leandre lies a sm
- [M. Binet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/m_binet.md): Binet has spent a lifetime on the road, playing Pantaloon and counting every sou, and he sees in André-Louis a chance to escape hedges and empty bellies forever. His oily gratitude curdles as the company begins to credit
- [Aline de Kercadiou](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/aline_de_kercadiou.md): Aline de Kercadiou moves between the drawing rooms of the old nobility and the dangerous pull of her cousin's world, bound by family loyalty yet unwilling to see André-Louis as merely a scoundrel. She alone names his bli
- [Marquis de La Tour d'Azyr](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/marquis_de_la_tour_d_azy.md): M. de La Tour d'Azyr moves through the salons with the assurance of a man who has never been answered, disposing of hotheads like Lagron with his skill and calling it order. His composure cracks when André-Louis names hi
- [M. de Kercadiou](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/m_de_kercadiou.md): Quintin de Kercadiou presides over Gavrillac with the ease of a nobleman who believes his class owes everything and should be owed everything in return, and he writes his godson a letter of wounded indignation. Yet the f
- [Philippe de Vilmorin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/philippe_de_vilmorin.md): Philippe de Vilmorin belongs to the earnest, idealistic youth of the old order, a friend whose warmth and conviction André-Louis remembers as the last thing before his world turns cold. His fate at the hands of the Marqu
- [Le Chapelier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/le_chapelier.md): A revolutionary orator whose gift for turning Beaumarchais into insurrection makes him the voice of the coming storm — and André-Louis's trusted ally.
- [Climène](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/climene.md): Binet's hazel-eyed leading lady, queen of the provincial stage, who dreams of Paris and shares the curtain calls with Scaramouche himself.
- [Leandre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/leandre.md): The troupe's beautiful but languid juvenile lead, forever sighing after Climène and forever falling short of the passion he plays.
- [Mme. la Comtesse de Plougastel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/madame_de_plougastel.md): A noblewoman whose kindness to André-Louis carries an unexplained weight of obligation, and whose past holds secrets she guards closely.
- [M. de Chabrillane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/m_de_chabrillane.md): A dangerous swordsman of the old aristocracy, numbered among the spadassinicides whose reputations André-Louis has already begun to bury.
- [Danton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/danton.md): A thunderous voice of the Revolution, coarse, charismatic, and unafraid — the kind of man who sets a crowd by the ears and knows it.
- [Pantaloon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/pantaloon.md): An elderly actor in Binet's troupe, often playing the foolish father.
- [Polichinelle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/polichinelle.md): A hunchbacked puppet and comic character in Binet's theatre.
- [Rougane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/rougane.md): A young Breton nobleman and friend of André-Louis.
- [Kersain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/kersain.md): A Breton nobleman and acquaintance of André-Louis.
- [M. de Lesdiguières](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/m_de_lesdiguieres.md): An elderly nobleman and fencing master who trains André-Louis.
- [Bertrand des Amis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/bertrand_des_amis.md): A fencing master and friend who aids André-Louis in Paris.
- [Lagron](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/lagron.md): A deputy in the National Assembly, a colleague of Le Chapelier.
- [M. Necker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/m_necker.md): The French finance minister, a historical figure mentioned in the narrative.
- [Harlequin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/harlequin.md): A comic servant character in the commedia dell'arte troupe.
- [Columbine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/columbine.md): A clever maidservant character in the commedia dell'arte troupe.
- [Mabey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/mabey.md): A servant or minor functionary in the story.
- [Madame la Comtesse de Sautron](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/madame_de_sautron.md): Wife of M. de Sautron, a noblewoman in aristocratic circles.
- [Bénoît](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/benoit.md): A servant at the Kercadiou estate, loyal to André-Louis.
- [Robespierre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scaramouche_se/characters/robespierre.md): A revolutionary leader, mentioned in political contexts.

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