# Annette Forsyte — The Forsyte Saga character guide > Annette Forsyte in The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy. **Role:** supporting **Also known as:** Annette, French, Annette French, Annette Soames **First appearance:** 0077-part-iii-i-soames-in-paris ## Snapshot The beautiful Frenchwoman Soames Forsyte installs as his second wife, a foreign grace brought into the family's guarded English drawing-rooms and made to bear its name. ## Who they are Annette enters the Forsyte world as Soames's answer to the ruin of his first marriage, a Parisian beauty whose foreignness both adorns and unsettles the family's rigid respectability. She gives Soames the daughter he never expected, and in doing so quietly reopens questions about what he actually wanted from a wife. Her presence in the saga measures how much of Soames's life is possession and how little of it is love, and her daughter will carry that inheritance forward. ## Relationships ### [Soames Forsyte](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/characters/soames_forsyte) _family_ A transactional marriage of convenience where Soames marries the younger Annette primarily to produce an heir. ### [Soames Forsyte](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/characters/soames_forsyte) _family_ A transactional marriage of convenience where Soames marries the younger Annette primarily to produce an heir. ### [Soames Forsyte](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/characters/soames_forsyte) _family_ A transactional marriage of convenience where Soames marries the younger Annette primarily to produce an heir. ## In the story ### [Soho](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-i-iv-soho) The pretty daughter of Madame Lamotte, working at the Restaurant Bretagne. Soames is attracted to her and invites her to Mapledurham. ### [X: Soames Entertains the Future](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-i-x-soames-entertains-the-future) Annette is the object of Soames's courtship; she is demure and charming, and her responses to Soames are ambiguous. ### [XIV: Soames Discovers What He Wants](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-i-xiv-soames-discovers-what-he-wants) Annette is the young woman Soames dines near; he finds her pretty and fresh but ultimately decides she lacks the lure of his old passion for Irene. ### [I: Soames in Paris](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-iii-i-soames-in-paris) Referenced as the object of Soames's desire; a young doctor is said to be hanging around her, causing Soames jealousy. ### [In the Web](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-iii-ii-in-the-web) Mentioned as the object of Soames's marital ambitions; currently courted by a young doctor but not engaged. ### [Passing of an Age](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-iii-x-passing-of-an-age) Soames's new wife; beautiful and pragmatic; mentions knowing Soho, causing Soames concern; laughs at Soames's French. ### [Birth of a Forsyte](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-iii-xii-birth-of-a-forsyte) In labor, unconscious and unable to decide for herself; she survives the birth of a daughter. ### [His](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-iii-xiv-his) Has given birth to a daughter; is pale and recovering; tells Soames she can have no more children. ### [Encounter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-i-i-encounter) Soames's second wife, mentioned as attractive but cooler toward him since he prevented her from nursing in France during the War. ### [Fine Fleur Forsyte](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-i-ii-fine-fleur-forsyte) Annette is portrayed as cynical and detached, with a frankness about her marriage to Soames that contrasts with his English reserve. ### [Goya](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-i-ix-goya) Hosts tea in the inglenook; described as having a fair Spanish beauty. ### [Soames' Private Life](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-ii-vi-soames-private-life) Confronted by Soames about the anonymous letter; she denies nothing but refuses to be controlled. ### [IX: The Fat in the Fire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-ii-ix-the-fat-in-the-fire) Shows emotional distress over a letter, likely related to Prosper Profond; confronts Fleur with a bitter remark. ### [Timothy Prophesies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-ii-xi-timothy-prophesies) Accompanies Soames and Fleur; her face is 'rather more touched up than usual' and she shows curious quietude about Profond's defection. ### [The Dark Tune](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-iii-viii-the-dark-tune) Fleur's mother; Soames recalls seeing a similar expression of scorn and anger on Annette's face. ### [Fleur's Wedding](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-iii-x-fleur-s-wedding) Soames's wife; supports Fleur's marriage to Michael Mont and is present at the reception. ## Links - HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/characters/annette_forsyte - Book: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se - All characters: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/characters