# M. Dambreuse — Sentimental Education character guide

> M. Dambreuse in Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0011-chapter-iii

## Snapshot

A wealthy banker whose fortune and political connections make him a gatekeeper of Parisian society, and whose drawing-room Frederick longs to enter.

## Who they are

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 influence rather than warmth, and his marriage to a much younger wife creates a quiet tension beneath the polished surface of his salon. His presence in the novel's middle stretch measures the distance between Frederick's dreams of grandeur and the cold machinery of wealth and position that actually governs Paris.

## In the story

### [Chapter: Then she seized him by the ears and kissed him.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/chapters/then-she-seized-him-by-the-ears-and-kissed-him)

Promises to recommend Frederick for a position in the Council of State and invites him to a party.

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