# Angélique Bontems — Shorts from Scenes from Private Life character guide

> Angélique Bontems in Shorts from Scenes from Private Life by Honoré de Balzac.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mademoiselle Angélique Bontems, Angélique, old Bontems, Mademoiselle Bontems

**First appearance:** 0003-the-ball-at-sceaux

## Who they are

A young woman who marries a man she does not love.

## In the story

### [A Second Home](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/shorts_from_scenes_from_private_life_se/chapters/a-second-home)

The sanctimonious woman who criticizes the Count's conduct, only to be reminded by the Count that her own father was a Jacobin.

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