# The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel — Character guide

> Key figures in The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy.

- [Citizen Chauvelin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/citizen_chauvelin.md): Chauvelin moves through Revolutionary Paris with the authority of Robespierre's committee behind him and a private hatred burning beneath his calm. He has tasted humiliation at the Pimpernel's hands more than once, and t
- [Sir Percy Blakeney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/sir_percy_blakeney.md): Sir Percy moves through danger with an impudence that unnerves even Chauvelin, turning capture into a carriage ride and a threat into a courtesy. His weapon is not the sword alone but the assumption that no one will beli
- [Citizen Tournefort](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/tournefort.md): Tournefort belongs to the unglamorous machinery of the Revolution — the men who shelter under porticos in storms and follow a scent through pitch-dark streets. He is useful to Chauvelin precisely because he is not a fana
- [Lucile Clamette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/lucile_clamette.md): Lucile is caught between the Committee's interrogators and the hidden Royalist fugitives she is bound to protect, and every question put to her is a trap. She gathers the little ones around her skirts like a mother hen e
- [Citizen Rateau](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/citizen_rateau.md): Rateau is the kind of revolutionary the Terror produced in quantity — loud, self-important, and quick to remind his comrades that they owe their chances to his cleverness. He coughs and splutters in the cold air, clings 
- [Jack Kennard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/jack_kennard.md): Kennard gave up his prospects in England to stay near Esther Vincent, taking a dull accountant's post in a Montmartre wine shop while every knock at the door might mean arrest as an alien enemy. He and Esther steal what 
- [Paul Molé](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/paul_mole.md): Molé exists chiefly as a name on a warrant — the innocent citizen whose identity the Pimpernel has borrowed to slip past the Committee of Public Safety. When Chauvelin 'detects' the spy beneath the disguise, the real Mol
- [Petite Maman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/petite_maman.md): In a derelict Rue Berthier house, Petite Maman anchors a family of beggars — a blind father, two boys, and a daughter worn thin by hunger. Her devotion is precisely what the handsome, false 'Milor' exploits, kneeling in 
- [Citizen Lebel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/citizen_lebel.md): Lebel belongs to the gray bureaucracy of the Terror — the clerks and commissaries whose signatures and suspicions decide who leaves Paris and who does not. His confidence in his own identification of the prisoner collide
- [Jean Paul Marat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/jean_paul_marat.md): The radical revolutionary leader, referenced as a historical figure.
- [Esther Vincent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/esther_vincent.md): Esther moves through the novel's dangerous November of 1793, when the League's expedition to save Marie Antoinette's condemned servants is shadowed by Kulmsted's suspected disloyalty. She is caught between the world of h
- [Bibot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/bibot.md): Bibot guards the city's edges, where papers are scrutinized and travelers vanish or die. His pride in his own vigilance is exactly the vanity the League exploits, turning the machinery of the Terror against itself. He re
- [Citizen Merri](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/merri.md): A minor revolutionary functionary.
- [Etienne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/etienne.md): A young boy involved in the narrative.
- [Madame la Marquise](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/madame_la_marquise.md): An aristocratic woman from the old regime.
- [Deputy Hériot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/heriot.md): A deputy in the revolutionary government.
- [Sir Andrew Ffoulkes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/sir_andrew_ffoulkes.md): Ffoulkes is the reliable counterweight to the Pimpernel's maddening insouciance — the friend who watches, worries, and prepares while his chief shrugs off warnings of Kulmsted's disloyalty. He belongs to the tight brothe
- [Citizen Laporte](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/laporte.md): Laporte moves through the corridors of Revolutionary justice as a man hungry for the crowning triumph of his career: the indictment and execution of the notorious English spy. He clashes with Chauvelin over how best to d
- [Henri de Montorgueil](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/henri_de_montorgueil.md): A member of the Montorgueil family, an aristocrat.
- [Agnès de Lucines](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/agnes_de_lucines.md): A young aristocratic woman in peril.
- [The Leridans](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/the_leridans.md): A family or group caught in the revolution.
- [Citizen Gourdon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/citizen_gourdon.md): A minor revolutionary character.
- [Père Lenègre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/pere_lenegre.md): An older man, possibly a father figure.
- [Jean Victor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/jean_victor.md): A minor character, possibly an old servant or peasant.
- [Citizen Fouquier-Tinville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/fouquier_tinville.md): The infamous public prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal.
- [Citizen Roger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/citizen_roger.md): A minor revolutionary figure.
- [Citizen Rondeau](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/citizen_rondeau.md): A minor official or citizen.
- [The Scarlet Pimpernel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/the_scarlet_pimpernel.md): Known to his enemies only by a small star-shaped flower, the Scarlet Pimpernel commands a League of loyal Englishmen who risk fortune and life to snatch victims from Revolutionary justice. His maddening insouciance and i
- [Lucienne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/lucienne.md): An old woman, possibly a servant or peasant.
- [Hébert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/hebert.md): A revolutionary journalist or official.
- [Comtesse de Sucy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/comtesse_de_sucy.md): An aristocratic countess from the old regime.
- [Robespierre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/robespierre.md): The powerful revolutionary leader, mentioned as a figure.
- [Hercule](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/hercule.md): A minor character, possibly a servant or strongman.
- [Madeleine Lannoy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/madeleine_lannoy.md): A woman with a small role in the story.
- [Arnould Fabrice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/arnould_fabrice.md): A deputy in the revolutionary government.
- [Jean Pierre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/jean_pierre.md): An old man, possibly a peasant or servant.
- [Yvonne Lebeau](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/yvonne_lebeau.md): A woman with a minor role in the narrative.
- [Simonne Evrard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/simonne_evrard.md): A woman associated with Marat.
- [Jeannette Maréchal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/jeannette_marechal.md): A woman with a small part in the story.
- [Rosette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/rosette.md): A minor female character.
- [M. le Vicomte de Mortaine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/vicomte_de_mortaine.md): A young aristocratic viscount.
- [Citizen Lépine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/lepine.md): A minor revolutionary figure.
- [The Montorgueils](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/the_montorgueils.md): The aristocratic Montorgueil family.
- [Commissary Cuisinier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/commissary_cuisinier.md): A revolutionary commissary.
- [Lord Kulmsted](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/lord_kulmsted.md): An English lord, possibly a friend of Sir Percy.
- [M. Bertin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/m_bertin.md): A minor character.
- [Tony](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/tony.md): A minor character, possibly a servant.
- [Citizen Dompierre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/citizen_dompierre.md): A brutal revolutionary figure.
- [The Clamettes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_league_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/the_clamettes.md): A family, possibly related to Lucile Clamette.

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