# Colonel Gouraud — The Celibates character guide

> Colonel Gouraud in The Celibates by Honoré de Balzac.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Colonel Gouraud, Gouraud, The Colonel, the Colonel, Colonel

**First appearance:** 0000-story-i-pierrette

## Snapshot

A coarse, hard-drinking old soldier who circles Sylvie Rogron's fortune with the patience of a man who has campaigned for harder prizes.

## Who they are

Gouraud is a retired military man whose rough manners and appetite for pleasure make him a fixture in the Rogron household, where his attentions to Sylvie carry an unmistakable financial scent. His blunt, campaigning practicality clashes with the pious pretensions around him, and his interest in the aging spinster is never quite separable from her money. He matters because his courtship becomes one of the levers by which the Rogrons' circle tightens its grip on the family fortune, turning affection into a transaction.

## Relationships

### [Sylvie Rogron](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_celibates_se/characters/sylvie_rogron)

_romantic_

Colonel Gouraud is a suitor to Sylvie Rogron, but his interest is purely mercenary, seeking her fortune rather than genuine affection.

### [Sylvie Rogron](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_celibates_se/characters/sylvie_rogron)

_romantic_

Colonel Gouraud is a suitor to Sylvie Rogron, but his interest is purely mercenary, seeking her fortune rather than genuine affection.

### [Sylvie Rogron](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_celibates_se/characters/sylvie_rogron)

_romantic_

Colonel Gouraud is a suitor to Sylvie Rogron, but his interest is purely mercenary, seeking her fortune rather than genuine affection.

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