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The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel · Character

Lucile Clamette

A terrified young woman dragged before revolutionary interrogators, clutching her younger siblings and desperate to keep her family's secrets from men who trade in fear.

supporting

Also known as Lucile, Clamette, poor Lucile

First appearance: I

As a supporting figure in The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Lucile Clamette is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.

Forced to write a letter betraying the Marquis de Montorgueil to save her family from arrest and the guillotine.
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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 even as she feels like a bird in a fowler's net, and her brother Etienne's contempt for what he calls her treachery cuts deeper than the threats. Her ordeal in the interrogation room sets the moral stakes of the book: what loyalty costs when the guillotine is the alternative.

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Character Web

26 connections

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ETEtienneCCCitizen Chauve…HDHenri de Monto…CLCitizen LebelMLM. le Marquis …LCLucile Clamette

Relationship types

  • Romantic
  • Psychological
  • Other

Character groups

  • Minor characters and aristocrats
  • Protagonist
  • Diverse minor characters and families

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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

SetupAftermathClimax
  • Setup
  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

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