# De Fresnoy — The Monster character guide

> De Fresnoy in The Monster by Edgar Saltus.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** de Fresnoy

**First appearance:** 0001-ii

## Snapshot

A nobleman whose recent duel with Barouffski still furnishes the clubrooms with gossip, he moves through the Opéra and the Ritz with the ease of a man who has nothing left to prove.

## Who they are

De Fresnoy belongs to the same gilded Parisian set as the Silverstairs, the Helley-Quetgens, and the Barouffskis, and his name surfaces at the Opéra as a marker of how quickly scandal is absorbed and replaced. His duel with Barouffski — dismissed by onlookers as ridiculous — hints at a temper or a grievance that polite society has already agreed to forget, and Silverstairs predicts he will soon fight d'Arcy next. He matters less as an actor than as a barometer: the ease with which his violence is forgiven measures the moral slack of the world Leilah must navigate.

## In the story

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_monster_se/chapters/ix)

Acts as director of the duel, argues with Barouffski's seconds, and declares the duel at an end after the interruption.

## Links

- HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_monster_se/characters/de_fresnoy
- Book: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_monster_se
- All characters: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_monster_se/characters