# Pascale — Short Fiction character guide

> Pascale in Short Fiction by Leonid Andreyev.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** XX Pascale

**First appearance:** 0001-short-fiction

## Who they are

A character with a foreign name, possibly French.

## In the story

### [Chant the First](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/chant-the-first)

A professor and comrade in prison; he points out the broken wall and later walks with Geronimo after the earthquake.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/iii)

A professor and comrade, shot by a firing squad.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/vi)

Referenced as the professor who warned that calling freedom is perilous.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/vii)

The professor who points out the broken wall and iron bars, signaling their freedom.

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/xiii)

Observed moving along the road, sternly reproves the narrator.

### [Chant the Second](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/chant-the-second)

The professor, called 'il professore,' who walks with Geronimo, confronts the madman and the monk, and is later executed by firing squad.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/iii)

The professor who respectfully questions the proud madman about his joy.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/vi)

Professor who loses his temper and threatens the monk with a knife.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/vii)

Executed by a firing squad under torchlight as night falls early.

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/viii)

Facing execution, he is questioned by the officer about his fearlessness and his act of taking a dead man's raiment.

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/xiii)

Pascale, the professor, has just fallen, presumably killed.

### [XX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/xx)

XX Pascale, the professor, is remembered for his wisdom, verse-writing, and noble discourse; he is now dead.

### [XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/xxvi)

Referenced as the professor whose words are echoed in the chapter's declaration of disbelief in human power.

## Links

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- All characters: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/characters