# The Scarlet Pimpernel — Character guide

> Key figures in The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy.

- [Marguerite Blakeney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/marguerite_blakeney.md): A celebrated French actress turned London society queen, she wields wit like a blade — and may have handed her own husband to the guillotine.
- [Sir Percy Blakeney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/sir_percy_blakeney.md): London's most fashionable fop, all cream satin and drawled bons mots — and the one man revolutionary France would pay any price to kill.
- [Chauvelin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/chauvelin.md): A cool, patient agent of the French Republic who has crossed the Channel to trade pleasantries by day and close a trap by night.
- [Sir Andrew Ffoulkes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/sir_andrew_ffoulkes.md): A young baronet whose eyes light up at his leader's name, sworn to secrecy and ready to risk his life for strangers.
- [Armand St. Just](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/armand_st_just.md): Marguerite's beloved brother, a Frenchman whose safety is the lever that moves her — and the price of her silence.
- [Lord Tony Dewhurst](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/lord_tony_dewhurst.md): A jovial, loud-voiced Englishman who calls rescuing aristocrats from the guillotine the finest sport he has ever encountered.
- [Suzanne de Tournay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/suzanne_de_tournay.md): Suzanne moves through English drawing-rooms as a radiant refugee bride-to-be, her happiness shadowed only by her father's captivity in revolutionary France. Her innocent prattling about the Pimpernel's mission lands on M
- [Comtesse de Tournay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/comtesse_de_tournay.md): The Comtesse holds court in London drawing-rooms and theatre boxes, her thin-lipped dignity a shield against grief and displacement. Her open hostility toward Marguerite—rooted in old scandals and revolutionary politics—
- [Mr. Jellyband](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/mr_jellyband.md): The innkeeper of the Fisherman's Rest in Dover.
- [Brogard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/brogard.md): The surly innkeeper of the Chat Gris in Calais.
- [Desgas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/desgas.md): Chauvelin's assistant and fellow agent.
- [Sergeant Bibot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/sergeant_bibot.md): A French sergeant guarding the Paris barricades.
- [Vicomte de Tournay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/vicomte_de_tournay.md): The young son of the Comtesse de Tournay, also rescued.
- [Citoyen Grospierre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/citoyen_grospierre.md): A French official outwitted by the Scarlet Pimpernel.
- [Reuben Goldstein](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/reuben_goldstein.md): A Jewish peddler who aids the Pimpernel's escape.
- [Lord Grenville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/lord_grenville.md): A British nobleman who hosts a ball in the story.
- [Miss Sally](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/miss_sally.md): Mr. Jellyband's daughter and barmaid at the inn.
- [Marquis de St. Cyr](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/marquis_de_st_cyr.md): A French aristocrat whose death haunts Marguerite's past.
- [Lord Fancourt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/lord_fancourt.md): A minor nobleman mentioned in the story.
- [Lady Portarles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/lady_portarles.md): A friend of Marguerite's in London society.
- [Benjamin Rosenbaum](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/benjamin_rosenbaum.md): A Jewish man who assists the Pimpernel.
- [Briggs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/briggs.md): A servant at Sir Percy's estate.

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