# The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel — Character guide

> Key figures in The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy.

- [Theresia Cabarrus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/theresia_cabarrus.md): Theresia moves between Paris and England under names like Citoyenne Cabarrus and Madame de Fontenay, her beauty and cunning making her a force in revolutionary politics. She is torn between her passion for the elusive Sc
- [Citizen Chauvelin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/citizen_chauvelin.md): Chauvelin is Robespierre's most trusted operative, a man of meagre frame but formidable cunning, driven by the need to capture the Pimpernel and restore his own standing. His bitter rivalry with the English hero is perso
- [Bertrand Moncrif](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/bertrand_moncrif.md): Moncrif is a man of divided loyalties, caught between revolutionary fervor and personal weakness, whose actions put the League in grave danger. His betrayal is not born of malice but of fear and circumstance, making him 
- [Marguerite Blakeney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/marguerite_blakeney.md): Marguerite is the brilliant French-born wife of the foppish Sir Percy, and the only person outside the League who knows the Scarlet Pimpernel's true identity. She endures the agony of secrecy, maintaining a lively, flirt
- [Robespierre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/robespierre.md): Robespierre rules revolutionary France with a mixture of cold ideology and growing paranoia, his power absolute but his position precarious. He is the object of Theresia Cabarrus's ambition and the master whom Chauvelin 
- [Tallien](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/tallien.md): Tallien is a man of ambition without boldness, torn between his passion for Theresia and his instinct for self-preservation under Robespierre's terror. He temporizes and hesitates, frustrating Theresia's drive to seize p
- [Sir Percy Blakeney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/sir_percy_blakeney.md): To London drawing rooms he is merely an exquisite, lazy wit whom his own wife teases for sport; to a hunted few he is salvation itself. That gulf between the languid mask and the reckless rescuer costs him and Marguerite
- [Citizen Rateau](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/citizen_rateau.md): Rateau moves through revolutionary Paris as a humble, wheezing nobody, exactly the sort of figure no one bothers to watch. Yet his branded arm becomes a strange kind of passport: when a frantic prisoner accuses him of be
- [Régine de Serval](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/regine_de_serval.md): Régine belongs to the endangered world of the old nobility, the very people the League exists to snatch from the guillotine. Her youth and vulnerability sharpen the stakes of every rescue, giving a human face to the abst
- [Pepita](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/pepita.md): An elderly servant loyal to the de Serval family.
- [Mother Théot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/mother_theot.md): Catherine Théot presides over a shadowy circle of devotees who hang on her visions, lending her an eerie authority that sits oddly beside the era's militant atheism. Revolutionaries who would sneer at priests still find 
- [Citizen Barras](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/citizen_barras.md): Barras navigates the treacherous politics of the Committee and the Convention with the instincts of a man who intends to outlast everyone. Where zealots burn hot and the timid temporise, he watches, waits, and calculates
- [Mistress Sally Waite](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/mistress_sally_waite.md): A cheerful English innkeeper's daughter.
- [Citizen Langlois](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/citizen_langlois.md): A minor revolutionary official.
- [Master Jellyband](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/master_jellyband.md): An English innkeeper at the Fisherman's Rest.
- [Sir Andrew Ffoulkes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/sir_andrew_ffoulkes.md): Sir Andrew belongs to the splendid little band of heroes who gather round Marguerite Blakeney in England, sharing her secret grief and her pride. Cheerful, gallant, and utterly dependable, he embodies the League's blend 
- [Sergeant Chazot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/sergeant_chazot.md): A revolutionary sergeant involved in arrests.
- [Jacques de Serval](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/jacques_de_serval.md): A young aristocrat and brother of Régine.
- [Armand St. Just](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/armand_st_just.md): In London drawing rooms Armand St. Just cuts a charming figure, yet he is a Frenchman of republican sympathies moving among the very aristocrats who toast the Scarlet Pimpernel. His sister Marguerite must smile and flirt
- [Henriot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/henriot.md): A revolutionary general commanding the National Guard.
- [Couthon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/couthon.md): A crippled but ruthless member of the Committee of Public Safety.
- [Joséphine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/josephine.md): A beautiful socialite and future empress, briefly appearing.
- [Madame de Serval](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/madame_de_serval.md): The mother of Régine and Jacques, an aristocrat in hiding.
- [Mr. Hempseed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/mr_hempseed.md): A minor English character.
- [Danton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/danton.md): A powerful revolutionary leader, mentioned as a rival to Robespierre.
- [Lord Tony](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/lord_tony.md): A young English aristocrat and friend of Sir Percy.
- [Captain Boyer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/captain_boyer.md): A revolutionary captain guarding prisoners.
- [Master Harry Waite](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/master_harry_waite.md): An English innkeeper and father of Sally.
- [Sical](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/sical.md): A revolutionary butcher.
- [Lord Anthony Dewhurst](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/lord_anthony_dewhurst.md): A minor English aristocrat.
- [Hébert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/hebert.md): A radical revolutionary journalist.
- [Lavoisier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_triumph_of_the_scarlet_pimpernel_se/characters/lavoisier.md): The famous scientist, briefly mentioned as a victim of the Terror.

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