# Madame de Hautcastel — Short Fiction character guide

> Madame de Hautcastel in Short Fiction by Xavier de Maistre.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Madame Hautcastel

**First appearance:** 0000-a-journey-round-my-room

## Who they are

A noblewoman appearing in the story.

## Relationships

### [Aspasia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/characters/aspasia)

_social_

Aspasia and Madame de Hautcastel are social acquaintances within aristocratic or intellectual circles.

### [Doctor Cigna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/characters/doctor_cigna)

_professional_

Doctor Cigna is Madame de Hautcastel's physician, attending to her medical needs.

## In the story

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/vii)

The narrator's body arrives at her door instead of the palace, highlighting the soul's distraction.

### [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/x)

The narrator dusts her portrait, which triggers a vivid memory and emotional ecstasy.

### [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/xi)

Her portrait is held by one half of the narrator's ego, left near the wall.

### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/xii)

Remembered in the context of offering a rose, symbolizing past romantic gestures.

### [XXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/xxv)

Engages the narrator in a debate about the merits of music versus painting.

### [XXXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/xxxv)

The narrator recalls offering her a rose before a ball; she was preoccupied with her reflection and dress, ignoring him.

### [XXXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/xxxix)

Mentioned in the narrator's dreamlike vision where the soul imagines being at her house.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/iii)

Her portrait, which once hung in the narrator's old room, is mentioned as part of the destruction caused by war.

### [XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/xviii)

The narrator imagines Mme. Hautcastle demanding an account of the song mentioned in the previous chapter.

### [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/xxii)

Complained about the lack of lovemaking in the narrator's first voyage.

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