# Émile Blondet — The Jealousies of a Country Town character guide

> Émile Blondet in The Jealousies of a Country Town by Honoré de Balzac.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Émile Blondet, Blondet, Émile, old Blondet, Joseph Blondet, Joseph

**First appearance:** 0002-story-ii-the-collection-of-antiquities

## Snapshot

A Parisian journalist returning to his provincial birthplace, armed with wit, cynicism, and an eye for the comedy of local manners.

## Who they are

Son of the local judge, Blondet has escaped Alençon for the glitter of Parisian letters, where he moves among the circles of the day as a sharp-penned observer. His return home places him between two worlds: the fashionable ambitions of the capital and the stubborn, gossip-ridden hierarchies of the town. Clear-eyed and amused, he becomes a lens through which the provincial drama of pride, jealousy, and thwarted ambition is refracted for the reader.

## In the story

### [The Collection of Antiquities](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jealousies_of_a_country_town_se/chapters/the-collection-of-antiquities)

The narrator who recalls his childhood admiration for Mlle. Armande and later sees her as a tragic figure; he marries and becomes a prefect.

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