# Marquis de Bellecourt — The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen character guide

> Marquis de Bellecourt in The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolph Erich Raspe.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the unfortunate Marquis de Bellecourt, The Marquis de Bellecourt, The venerable Marquis de Bellecourt

**First appearance:** 0006-volume-i-ii

## Who they are

A courtier whose earnest plea for recognition collapses into exile, leaving him to seek truth at the bottom of a well.

## Relationships

### [Baron Munchausen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_surprising_adventures_of_baron_munchausen_se/characters/baron_munchausen)

_social_

Baron Munchausen and the Marquis de Bellecourt are social acquaintances, meeting in aristocratic or diplomatic settings.

## In the story

### [XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_surprising_adventures_of_baron_munchausen_se/chapters/volume-ii-xxi)

Recalled in an anecdote about his disgrace at court; he laments that truth is found only at the bottom of a well.

### [The Baron makes a speech to the National Assembly, and drives out all the members—Routs the fishwomen and the National Guards—Pursues the whole rout into a Church, where he defeats the National Assembly, etc., with Rousseau, Voltaire, and Beelzebub at their head, and liberates Marie Antoinette and the Royal Family.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_surprising_adventures_of_baron_munchausen_se/chapters/volume-ii-xxxiv)

Not directly mentioned in this chapter; included as a placeholder for canonical completeness.

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