# Gevrol — The Lerouge Case character guide

> Gevrol in The Lerouge Case by Émile Gaboriau.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the celebrated Gevrol, M. Gevrol, Poor Gevrol

**First appearance:** 0000-the-lerouge-case

## Snapshot

A celebrated police detective whose confident instincts and taste for the obvious make him a foil to sharper amateur eyes.

## Who they are

Gevrol commands the early investigation with the swagger of a man who trusts his own reputation, delivering witnesses and theories with theatrical satisfaction. He is cunning in the conventional sense, but his certainty blinds him to the stranger possibilities that others begin to see. His rivalry with amateur reasoning shapes how the case is first framed, and how badly it can be misread.

## Relationships

### [Madame Tabaret](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lerouge_case_se/characters/madame_tabaret)

_social_

Gevrol, a police officer, interacts with Madame Tabaret as a witness and source of local information.

### [Madame Tabaret](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lerouge_case_se/characters/madame_tabaret)

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Gevrol, a police officer, interacts with Madame Tabaret as a witness and source of local information.

## In the story

### [The Lerouge Case](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lerouge_case_se/chapters/the-lerouge-case)

Present at the crime scene, likely assisting or observing the investigation.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lerouge_case_se/chapters/i)

The chief of the detective police, who arrives with M. Daburon. He is mentioned as the focus of public opinion, which sides with him in suspecting the tall sunburnt man.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lerouge_case_se/chapters/ii)

The chief of detective police who initially suspects a man with rings in his ears, but is later skeptical of Tabaret's theories.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lerouge_case_se/chapters/iii)

Mentioned by Tabaret as having believed the robbery theory, which Tabaret dismisses.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lerouge_case_se/chapters/vii)

Mentioned as a police agent who has often failed to solve crimes, in contrast to Tabaret's success.

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