# Old M. Blondet — The Jealousies of a Country Town character guide

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

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** old M. Blondet, M. Blondet, Blondet, Blondet junior, Dear M. Blondet, old Blondet, Vice-President Blondet, Goodman Blondet

**First appearance:** 0000-story-i-the-old-maid

## Snapshot

A provincial judge and father of the Parisian journalist Émile, embodying the cautious respectability of the local magistracy.

## Who they are

Vice-President Blondet belongs to the solid, unglamorous stratum of provincial society—the legal men whose judgments shape daily life in a country town. As Émile's father, he represents the respectable bourgeois world his son has left behind for Parisian letters, and his position on the bench places him near the center of local quarrels and alliances. Through him, Balzac sketches the generational divide between provincial duty and Parisian ambition.

## In the story

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

Made a councillor to the Royal-Court; later retires to his house in Alençon.

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