# The Elusive Pimpernel — Character guide

> Key figures in The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy.

- [Marguerite Blakeney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/marguerite_blakeney.md): Marguerite Blakeney moves through London society as its most dazzling hostess, admired for her cleverness and her French actress past. But her marriage to Sir Percy has cooled into something baffling and distant, and her
- [Sir Percy Blakeney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/sir_percy_blakeney.md): Sir Percy Blakeney is the wealthiest bore in England, a drawling dandy whose chief occupations are his tailor and his sleep. Yet his marriage to Marguerite has gone strange and tender in ways neither will name, and Chauv
- [Citizen Chauvelin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/citizen_chauvelin.md): Chauvelin returns to England as the Committee of Public Safety's most patient hunter, having already failed once to snare the Scarlet Pimpernel. He knows the enemy's weakness is not vanity but love, and he builds his pla
- [Juliette Marny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/juliette_marny.md): Juliette Marny has fled revolutionary France with little but her father's name and a quiet grief, and Lady Blakeney has taken her in. Her innocent confidence that the Abbé Foucquet will keep her mother's jewels safe in a
- [Désirée Candeille](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/desiree_candeille.md): Désirée Candeille has worn out her welcome in both Paris and London, and Chauvelin's offer arrives just as the authorities order her out of England. She takes his money and his diamonds and slips into Richmond society as
- [Collot d'Herbois](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/collot_d_herbois.md): Collot d'Herbois arrives in Boulogne as the Committee's enforcer, a man who rose from the gutter to invent the mass drownings at Lyons and measures everyone by his own low standard. He has neither Chauvelin's patriotic f
- [Robespierre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/robespierre.md): Robespierre presides over the Committee of Public Safety with frigid impatience, reading Chauvelin's letter aloud to Danton, Collot d'Herbois, and the other decemvirs who orchestrate the Terror. He trusts the ex-ambassad
- [Abbé Foucquet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/abbe_foucquet.md): Abbé Foucquet once kept the Marny jewels safe in his church crypt until the Convention forced every priest to choose apostasy or death; now he sits in a narrow cell, helpless while the treasures he swore to guard are sto
- [Sir Andrew Ffoulkes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/sir_andrew_ffoulkes.md): Sir Andrew Ffoulkes was the last guest to leave Blakeney Manor, walking home to the wife whose tears and wiles keep him from following the Scarlet Pimpernel on mad adventures. Society smiles at his effeminate devotion, b
- [Lord Anthony Dewhurst](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/lord_anthony_dewhurst.md): Lord Anthony Dewhurst moves through the Pimpernel's circle with the easy confidence of a man who relishes a bold coup, his mind already spinning counterplans while Chauvelin stages his elaborate challenge. He belongs to 
- [Mistress Polly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/mistress_polly.md): A servant or companion in the Blakeney household.
- [Old Clutterbuck](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/old_clutterbuck.md): An elderly gentleman who appears in social scenes.
- [Paul Déroulède](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/paul_deroulede.md): A French patriot involved in the revolutionary events.
- [André Lemoine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/andre_lemoine.md): An elderly Frenchman caught in the Revolution.
- [Merlin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/merlin.md): A French revolutionary figure.
- [Citizen Tinville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/citizen_tinville.md): The public prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal.
- [Danton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/danton.md): A prominent French revolutionary leader.
- [François-Auguste](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/francois_auguste.md): A minor French character.
- [Lord Hastings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/lord_hastings.md): An English aristocrat in the social circle.
- [Désiré Melun](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/desire_melun.md): A minor character in the French setting.
- [Sergeant Hébert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/sergeant_hebert.md): A French sergeant in the revolutionary forces.
- [Prince of Wales](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_elusive_pimpernel_se/characters/prince_of_wales.md): The future King George IV, appears in social scenes.

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