# Sir Percy Hits Back — Character guide

> Key figures in Sir Percy Hits Back by Baroness Orczy.

- [Fleurette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/fleurette.md): Fleurette moves between the château where she served and the village where the rough-handed Amédé loves her in silence, carrying secrets too heavy for her years. Her faith is absolute and her courage uncalculated — she w
- [Citizen Chauvelin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/citizen_chauvelin.md): Chauvelin operates in shadows and back rooms, buying informers with coin and holding them with the cold logic of mutual need. He is the hunter who has helped unchain the Terror and now finds its mad dogs snarling at some
- [Bibi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/bibi.md): To Fleurette, Bibi is the warm hand that strokes her hair and the voice that tells her to hold her peace before judges. She writes him little notes hidden in her workbasket, trusting absolutely that he watches over her. 
- [Fleur Chauvelin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/fleur_chauvelin.md): Known in Dauphiné as M'sieu' Armand, he is in truth a man whose name has become a byword for revolutionary cruelty, and old Louise has begun to suspect the worst. He keeps his two lives rigidly apart, but the child who c
- [Old Louise](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/old_louise.md): Louise has old-fashioned notions about soldiers, respect, and the proper order of things, and she sails past slouching guards with her nose in the air. She has long known there was a mystery around Fleurette's father, bu
- [Sir Percy Blakeney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/sir_percy_blakeney.md): Blakeney leads a league of English gentlemen who trade clean linen for grime and risk their lives to pluck the innocent from the guillotine. He jokes about garlic and dirty faces even as he plans the next rescue, and his
- [Amédé Colombe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/amede_colombe.md): Amédé Colombe is a timid young Dauphinois whose world has narrowed to two fixed points: the miraculous Englishmen who saved him from the guillotine, and Fleurette, the girl he left behind at Lou Mas. He burns with a help
- [Adèle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/adele.md): Adèle exists in the story as a threat and a test — the woman Fleurette is warned against, whose malice must be met with silence and obedience rather than resistance. She embodies the petty cruelty of the prison world, th
- [Lieutenant Godet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/lieutenant_godet.md): Lieutenant Godet is a soldier of the Republic who was outwitted by men he took for his own officers, and who now sits before a revolutionary tribunal trying to explain how it happened. His testimony is a study in self-pr
- [Ma'ame Colombe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/maame_colombe.md): Ma'ame Colombe keeps the épicerie and the anxieties of a mother whose son has vanished into revolutionary custody. When Fleurette confesses to hiding valuables and giving them to Amédé, her perplexity and grief nearly br
- [Madame de Frontenac](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/madame_de_frontenac.md): Madame de Frontenac belongs to the hunted aristocracy whose rescue the league has already accomplished when the story opens. Her husband cites her safety as the reason Amédé should trust the Englishmen with everything he
- [Pochart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/pochart.md): A revolutionary citizen, possibly a spy or official.
- [Danou](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/danou.md): A revolutionary figure, likely a minor official or agent.
- [Lord Tony](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/lord_tony.md): Lord Anthony Dewhurst is one of Sir Percy Blakeney's league, a boyish adventurer who submits to being plastered with grime for the sake of disguise and laughs about it. His terror of garlic and his mock horror at his own
- [Armand](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/armand.md): A revolutionary citizen, possibly a soldier or agent.
- [Hector Colombe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/hector_colombe.md): A member of the Colombe family, likely a relative of Amédé.
- [Baptiste Portal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/baptiste_portal.md): An elderly man, possibly a servant or local character.
- [Citizen Rémi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/citizen_remi.md): A revolutionary citizen, likely a minor official or soldier.
- [Claire de Châtelard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/claire_de_chatelard.md): A noblewoman, likely in danger from the revolution.
- [Sir Andrew Ffoulkes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/sir_andrew_ffoulkes.md): Ffoulkes is one of the two most trusted officers of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, holed up in filthy disguises in a French attic while an army of soldiers scours the countryside. He trades grime and mock-wrestling
- [André](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/andre.md): An elderly man, possibly a servant or local character.
- [Ma'ame Tronchet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/maame_tronchet.md): A widow, possibly a neighbor or local figure.
- [Papa Mathieu](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/papa_mathieu.md): An elderly man, likely a father figure or local elder.
- [Public Prosecutor Isnard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/public_prosecutor_isnard.md): A revolutionary prosecutor, involved in legal proceedings.
- [The Scarlet Pimpernel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/the_scarlet_pimpernel.md): Blakeney sits in a greasy French garret, clothes caked in manure and grime, quietly working out how to save a father, mother, and crippled daughter marked for arrest. He is the one to command, with nineteen sworn to obey
- [Charles de Frontenac](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/charles_de_frontenac.md): A member of the Frontenac family, likely a nobleman in hiding.
- [Marguerite Blakeney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/marguerite_blakeney.md): Marguerite exists in the early chapters as the absent lodestar of Blakeney's double life, the ladyship whose imagined glance makes Tony's grime a divorceable offense. Her presence shadows the League's work: the men who r
- [Rose de Frontenac](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/rose_de_frontenac.md): A member of the Frontenac family, likely a young woman.
- [Lord Stowmaries](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/characters/lord_stowmaries.md): An English aristocrat, possibly a friend of Sir Percy.

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