Short Fiction · Character

Henri Fontal

A man who recounts a bizarre and haunting tale of a haunted house.

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Also known as Henri

First appearance: short fiction

Henri Fontal shows up with force in A Country Excursion. The page is where that presence becomes real.

The young boatman who rows Henriette to the island and shares an intense, romantic interlude with her.

Henri Fontal first appears in 0003 short fiction.

In A Country Excursion: The young boatman who rows Henriette to the island and shares an intense, romantic interlude with her.

Later, in The Relic: The narrator and protagonist, a doctor who becomes engaged to Gilberte but loses her trust after a deception involving a relic.

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The emotional and psychological peak occurs when Leuillet receives news of Souris’s sudden death and experienc…

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A Country Excursion
The young boatman who rows Henriette to the island and shares an intense, romantic interlude with her.
The Relic
The narrator and protagonist, a doctor who becomes engaged to Gilberte but loses her trust after a deception involving a relic.
The First Fall of Snow
Henri de Parville, the husband who is content with his simple country life and dismisses his wife's pleas for warmth.
Unmasked
Henri Sidoine, an old friend of the narrator who married an Englishwoman and now regrets it.
Saved
The man who Berthe believes has saved her, but who treats their relationship as a casual affair.

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