# Regimbart — Sentimental Education character guide

> Regimbart in Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** M. Regimbart, Citizen Regimbart

**First appearance:** 0009-chapter-ii

## Snapshot

A café fixture and veteran of every opposition, Citizen Regimbart nurses his grudges and his glass with equal devotion.

## Who they are

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 pipe is constant, and his authority among the younger men rests on a past he never quite specifies. He matters because he embodies the era's endless, intoxicating, and largely impotent opposition, the atmosphere of grievance and gossip in which Frederick's generation learns to confuse opinion with action.

## Relationships

### [Frederick Moreau](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/frederick_moreau)

_friendship_

Regimbart is a political bohemian and friend who frequents the same cafes as Frederick, representing idle revolutionary talk.

### [Madame Arnoux](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/madame_arnoux)

_social_

Regimbart is a frequent visitor to the Arnoux household, known for his political opinions and idle presence.

### [Frederick Moreau](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/frederick_moreau)

_friendship_

Regimbart is a political bohemian and friend who frequents the same cafes as Frederick, representing idle revolutionary talk.

### [Frederick Moreau](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/frederick_moreau)

_friendship_

Regimbart is a political bohemian and friend who frequents the same cafes as Frederick, representing idle revolutionary talk.

### [Madame Arnoux](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/characters/madame_arnoux)

_social_

Regimbart is a frequent visitor to the Arnoux household, known for his political opinions and idle presence.

## In the story

### [The Inexpressible She!](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/chapters/the-inexpressible-she)

Regimbart is a regular at Arnoux's shop, known for his political talk and morose demeanor. He is respected by Arnoux but is essentially idle.

### [A Change of Fortune](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/chapters/a-change-of-fortune)

Frederick searches for him across multiple cafés; finally found at a refreshment-room, where he provides Arnoux's address.

### [The Friend of the Family](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/chapters/the-friend-of-the-family)

Frequents a café with Arnoux and Frederick; is gloomy and hypochondriac, complaining about the Crown and the foreigner.

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