# The Room in the Dragon Volant — Character guide

> Key figures in The Room in the Dragon Volant by J. Sheridan Le Fanu.

- [The Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_room_in_the_dragon_volant_se/characters/narrator.md): He arrives at the Dragon Volant flushed with the thrill of a rescue at the Belle Étoile, already half in love with a woman he barely knows. His servant St. Clair feeds him tales of guests who vanished bodily from the inn
- [Count de St. Alyre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_room_in_the_dragon_volant_se/characters/count_de_st_alyre.md): The Count de St. Alyre moves through the Versailles crowd in mask and domino, polite to the narrator yet strangely guarded about where he lives and whom he keeps near him. His marriage is a battlefield: the conjuror's pa
- [Countess de St. Alyre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_room_in_the_dragon_volant_se/characters/countess_de_st_alyre.md): The Countess de St. Alyre is young, lovely, and trapped in a marriage to an old, jealous, tyrannical husband who keeps her nearly friendless. Through her confidante she arranges a secret audience with the narrator at two
- [Colonel Gaillarde](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_room_in_the_dragon_volant_se/characters/colonel_gaillarde.md): Colonel Gaillarde is the sort of soldier who cannot tell a story without making himself its hero, and his talk runs to duels, campaigns, and imagined slights. He attaches himself to the narrator as a companion and self-a
- [Monsieur Carmaignac](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_room_in_the_dragon_volant_se/characters/monsieur_carmaignac.md): Monsieur Carmaignac is incorrigibly witty, sceptical of every fine sentiment, and apparently well placed to know what goes on behind the polite façades of Versailles. He treats the narrator's enthusiasms with amused indu
- [Planard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_room_in_the_dragon_volant_se/characters/planard.md): Doctor Planard moves in the Count's orbit with the quiet competence of a man who is used to being needed and never questioned. His name carries a whiff of the scoundrel, and the company he keeps — the jealous Count, the 
- [Richard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_room_in_the_dragon_volant_se/characters/richard.md): A friend to whom the narrator writes letters recounting his adventures.
- [Tom Whistlewick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_room_in_the_dragon_volant_se/characters/tom_whistlewick.md): A cheerful English acquaintance of the narrator traveling in France.
- [Gabriel Gaillarde](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_room_in_the_dragon_volant_se/characters/gabriel_gaillarde.md): The son of Colonel Gaillarde, a young man with a mysterious past.
- [St. Clair](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_room_in_the_dragon_volant_se/characters/st_clair.md): A character referenced in stories about the Dragon Volant's history.
- [Count Château Blassemare](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_room_in_the_dragon_volant_se/characters/count_chateau_blassemare.md): A nobleman mentioned in connection with the Dragon Volant's past.
- [Monsieur Droqville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_room_in_the_dragon_volant_se/characters/monsieur_droqville.md): A mysterious figure who visits the Belle Étoile and interacts with the Count.
- [Mademoiselle de la Vallière](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_room_in_the_dragon_volant_se/characters/mademoiselle_de_la_valliere.md): A historical figure referenced in a chapter title and discussion.
- [Marquis d'Harmonville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_room_in_the_dragon_volant_se/characters/marquis_d_harmonville.md): A nobleman who appears late in the story with crucial information.
- [Pierre de St. Amand](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_room_in_the_dragon_volant_se/characters/pierre_de_st_amand.md): A character from a story-within-the-story about the Dragon Volant.
- [Doctor Hesselius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_room_in_the_dragon_volant_se/characters/doctor_hesselius.md): A metaphysical doctor who frames the story as a case study.

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