# Monsieur Julien Sariette — The Revolt of the Angels character guide

> Monsieur Julien Sariette in The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Monsieur Sariette, Poor old Sariette, old Sariette, Sariette, poor old Sariette

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Snapshot

The d'Esparvieu family's meticulous librarian, driven to sleepless obsession by books that mysteriously move and multiply overnight.

## Who they are

Monsieur Sariette has devoted his life to the d'Esparvieu library, cataloguing it with scientific precision and treating every volume as sacred. When books begin appearing on wrong shelves and in wrong rooms — a polyglot Bible blotted with ink, a Genesis dissertation dragged down from the attic — he is thrown into anguish, suspecting burglars, then monkeys, then his own sanity. His mounting panic over the rearranged library is the novel's first signal that something supernatural is at work among the shelves, and his distress makes the angelic intrusion feel domestic before it feels cosmic.

## In the story

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

The devoted and jealous librarian, who catalogued the collection with a complex system and guarded it fiercely against any borrower.

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

The meticulous librarian who discovers the mysterious disorder in the library and becomes obsessed with finding the cause.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_revolt_of_the_angels_se/chapters/iv)

The librarian, terrified and paranoid, blames Freemasons for the book thefts, attempts a night vigil, and is assaulted by a book, leading to his physical and mental decline.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_revolt_of_the_angels_se/chapters/v)

Distracted by thoughts of his devastated library, briefly cites authorities on Christian iconography.

### [Wherein Père Sariette discovers his missing treasures](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_revolt_of_the_angels_se/chapters/vi)

Discovers the theft of precious books and manuscripts, is bitterly reproached by René, and later finds the items in Maurice's garden-house.

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

The librarian who reports the ongoing book thefts and is suspected by Monsieur des Aubels.

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_revolt_of_the_angels_se/chapters/viii)

The librarian, now pale and terrified; chases a flying Flavius Josephus book, collapses with a head wound.

### [The Angel's Confession](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_revolt_of_the_angels_se/chapters/x)

Mentioned as the librarian who was driven mad by Arcade's invisible activities in the library.

### [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_revolt_of_the_angels_se/chapters/xvi)

The librarian, weakened and anxious, reluctantly lends the Lucretius to Maurice and later loses it to the binder.

### [XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_revolt_of_the_angels_se/chapters/xxiv)

Despatched the parcel of books to the binder Léger-Massieu.

### [The Wounded Angel and the Skeptical World](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_revolt_of_the_angels_se/chapters/xxx)

Visits Maurice, saddened by his delirium, and is told of Arcade's thefts.

### [XXXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_revolt_of_the_angels_se/chapters/xxxi)

Visits Guinardon to reclaim the stolen Lucretius, becomes violent, and strangles him.

### [XXXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_revolt_of_the_angels_se/chapters/xxxiv)

Loses his reason and violently throws books from the library, attacking the household.

## Links

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