# Sentimental Education — Character guide

> Key figures in Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert.

- [Frederick Moreau](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/frederick_moreau.md): Frederick drifts through the capital's salons, studios, and cafés, forever on the verge of the brilliant life he believes he deserves. His inheritance evaporates, his ambitions stay vague, and his passion for Madame Arno
- [Madame Arnoux](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/madame_arnoux.md): Madame Arnoux presides over her husband's household with a composure that makes her the object of Frederick's most extravagant devotion. She is neither coquette nor prude; her loyalty to a faithless husband and her tende
- [Deslauriers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/deslauriers.md): Deslauriers is the provincial intellectual who knows exactly what he wants and resents every obstacle, especially the ones Frederick invents for himself. He pushes Frederick toward ambition, borrows his money, and nurses
- [Hussonnet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/hussonnet.md): Hussonnet works the press, the stage, and every dinner table where a free meal might be found, treating art and politics as material for the next witticism. He is the novel's comic operator—shallow, useful, and never qui
- [Rosanette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/rosanette.md): Rosanette moves through Parisian society with a frankness that scandalizes and fascinates, and she becomes Frederick's mistress at precisely the moment his ideal love seems most impossible. She is neither sentimental nor
- [Sénécal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/senecal.md): Sénécal tutors the Arnoux children and lectures anyone within earshot on the coming revolution, refusing the small hypocrisies that keep his friends comfortable. He is austere, humorless, and utterly convinced of his own
- [Pellerin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/pellerin.md): Pellerin moves through the studios and cafés of Frederick's Paris as a working artist who takes commissions, changes styles, and argues about what painting is for. When the austere republican Sénécal demands that art ser
- [Madame Dambreuse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/madame_dambreuse.md): Madame Dambreuse presides over one of the capital's most polished drawing-rooms, a world of bankers, deputies, and correct opinions that Frederick longs to enter. Married to a financier whose fortune and politics she wea
- [Regimbart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/regimbart.md): Regimbart holds court at the Café de la Régence, where he pronounces on politics, denounces the government, and orders another round with the gravity of a man who has seen it all. His republicanism is mostly talk, his pi
- [Martinon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/martinon.md): Martinon is the schoolfellow Frederick rediscovers cramming for the bench in a shabby boarding-house, a well-fed young man with regular features and a talent for being elsewhere when trouble starts. When a lecture erupts
- [Mademoiselle Vatnaz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/mademoiselle_vatnaz.md): Mademoiselle Vatnaz belongs to the loose, talkative world of actresses, kept women, and artists that Rosanette inhabits, and she is never without a scheme or a grievance. She urges Rosanette to break with her wealthy pro
- [Dussardier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/dussardier.md): Dussardier is the sturdy, honest shop-assistant who knocks down a policeman for beating a boy, then stands bewildered as the crowd turns on him and the law drags him off. Bastard-born, without family or polish, he clings
- [Madame Moreau](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/madame_moreau.md): Frederick's mother, who lives in Nogent and worries about his future.
- [M. de Cisy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/m_de_cisy.md): A young aristocrat and rival of Frederick for Rosanette's affections.
- [M. Dambreuse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/m_dambreuse.md): M. Dambreuse belongs to the moneyed, conservative elite that Frederick Moreau spends his youth trying to penetrate, and his household becomes a stage on which the young man's social ambitions are tested. He is a man of i
- [The Maréchale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/the_marechale.md): Known also as Rosanette, she moves between the demimonde and the fringes of respectable society, and her household is a whirl of servants, visitors, and sudden emotional storms. Her teasing affection for Frederick pulls 
- [Jacques Arnoux](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/jacques_arnoux.md): Arnoux presides over a household of artists, children, and shifting finances, and his easy sociability draws the young Frederick into a world of paintings, dinners, and casual betrayals. He is generous and unreliable at 
- [Louise Roque](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/louise_roque.md): Louise grows up in the house next to the Moreaus, and her childhood attachment to Frederick deepens into a serious, almost painful devotion. Where Madame Arnoux represents an unattainable ideal, Louise offers a real and 
- [Isidore](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/isidore.md): A servant in the Moreau household.

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