# Jacques Aubrieux — The Eight Strokes of the Clock character guide

> Jacques Aubrieux in The Eight Strokes of the Clock by Maurice Leblanc.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Jacques, Jacques d’Ormeval

**First appearance:** 0004-iii-the-case-of-jean-louis

## Snapshot

An insurance-broker with money troubles, condemned for a cousin's murder, Jacques Aubrieux exists in the story as an absence everyone insists is innocent.

## Who they are

Jacques Aubrieux never appears in the room, only in the testimony of those who love him: his wife, her mother, and his oldest friend. He was an insurance-broker whose luck turned, whose cousin Guillaume was killed for sixty thousand francs, and whose guilt the court accepted while his household refused it. That gap between verdict and conviction is the mystery Rénine must close, and Jacques's fate gives the early case its unbearable clock.

## Relationships

### [Hortense Daniel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eight_strokes_of_the_clock_se/characters/hortense_daniel)

_romantic_

Hortense and Jacques Aubrieux share a romantic connection, though it may be complicated by other relationships.

### [Hortense Daniel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eight_strokes_of_the_clock_se/characters/hortense_daniel)

_romantic_

Hortense and Jacques Aubrieux share a romantic connection, though it may be complicated by other relationships.

## In the story

### [The Water-Bottle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eight_strokes_of_the_clock_se/chapters/ii-the-water-bottle)

Condemned for murder; his wife and friend believe he is innocent.

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