The Confessions of Arsène Lupin · Character
Angélique de Sarzeau-Vendôme
A dreamy aristocrat raised on chivalric romances, she treats Lupin's outrageous hoax as a joke — and perhaps wishes it were not.
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Also known as Mademoiselle Angélique de Sarzeau-Vendôme, Angélique, de Sarzeau-Vendôme
First appearance: iii the sign of the shadow
As a supporting figure in The Confessions of Arsène Lupin, Angélique de Sarzeau-Vendôme is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
The duke's dreamy daughter, who refuses her cousins' proposals and is targeted by Lupin's marriage plot.
Angélique grew up reading old romances in the ancestral presses, imagining life as a fairytale where the right bridegroom eventually arrives. When Lupin's invitations and newspaper stunts scandalize her father, she smiles and calls it a hoax, even as the duke rages that her name has been bandied about Paris. Her detachment is both armor and appetite: she refuses her cousins because they want her millions, and she may be the only person in the house who finds the gentleman burglar more interesting than appalling.
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- Romantic
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Character groups
- Sarzeau-Vendôme lineage and shadow sign
- Protagonist
- Lupin's entangled victims
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