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The Celibates · Character

Vinet

A wily provincial lawyer whose piety is a mask and whose pen and politics make him the most dangerous mind in Provins.

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Also known as Vinet, Madame Vinet, the wily Vinet, the abominable Vinet, Madame

First appearance: story i pierrette

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Vinet is an ambitious attorney who wields religion and royalist politics as instruments of influence, attaching himself to the Rogron party while quietly calculating every advantage. His cold intelligence and…

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MAMadame AuffrayMGMadame GuenéeSRSylvie RogronPLPierrette Lorr…MRMadame RogronVIVinet

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Character groups

  • Issoudun power schemers
  • Provins and Paris social network

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