The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel · Character
Citizen Lebel
A minor revolutionary functionary whose small certainties about passports and prisoners feed the machinery that nearly swallows the Pimpernel whole.
supporting
Also known as Lebel
First appearance: I
As a supporting figure in The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Citizen Lebel is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Assists Chauvelin in coercing Lucile, but is later revealed to be implicated in treasonous dealings with the Montorgueils.
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 collides with the doubts creeping through the Abbaye's guardroom, where even Hébert admits his mind is in a whirl. He matters because the plot turns on such men: not villains of genius, but officials whose routine vigilance is the League's most dangerous obstacle.
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Relationship types
- Professional
- Other
Character groups
- Minor characters and aristocrats
- Protagonist
- Diverse minor characters and families
- Aristocrats and revolutionary deputies
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- Citizen Chauvelin
professional · ambivalent
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- Citizen Chauvelin
professional · ambivalent
Lebel is a trusted subordinate of Chauvelin, assisting in administrative and field duties… How this plays out →
- Citizen Chauvelin
professional · ambivalent
Lebel is a trusted subordinate of Chauvelin, assisting in administrative and field duties… How this plays out →
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