# Toilers of the Sea — Character guide

> Key figures in Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo.

- [Gilliatt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/toilers_of_the_sea_se/characters/gilliatt.md): Gilliatt lives apart from St. Sampson's gossip, and the gossip repays him with suspicion: stones he arranged, a house he passed, a name linked to the King of the Auxcriniers. Yet his hands know the sea and his mind knows
- [Mess Lethierry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/toilers_of_the_sea_se/characters/mess_lethierry.md): Lethierry is a weather-beaten, broad-shouldered man who bends before neither wave nor neighbor, a peasant who has read Diderot and trusts the sea more than any parson. His pride is the Durande, the steamer he willed into
- [Déruchette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/toilers_of_the_sea_se/characters/deruchette.md): Déruchette flits through her uncle's house like a goldfinch, chirping and singing, adored by Lethierry and watched from afar by Gilliatt. She is kind, uncalculating, and largely unaware of the depths of feeling she stirs
- [Captain Clubin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/toilers_of_the_sea_se/characters/captain_clubin.md): Clubin keeps the Jean Auberge, commands Lethierry's steamer, and is trusted by everyone who knows him, which is precisely the advantage he has spent years cultivating. He speaks gently, moves carefully, and holds a revol
- [Rantaine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/toilers_of_the_sea_se/characters/rantaine.md): Rantaine once shared Lethierry's ventures before vanishing with a stolen sum that ruined his partner's trust in men. Now he skulks along the Breton coast in false whiskers and gaiters, paying a smuggler captain for passa
- [Rev. Mr. Caudray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/toilers_of_the_sea_se/characters/rev_mr_caudray.md): Caudray is a fresh-faced minister whose mild manners and sincere vocation set him apart from the island's rougher sailors and gossips. He is drawn into the Lethierry household, where Déruchette's brightness and his own y
- [Tangrouille](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/toilers_of_the_sea_se/characters/tangrouille.md): Tangrouille keeps his rum and gin in a hiding-place in the hold, convinced no one knows of it, and steals down nearly every night for furtive draughts under Captain Clubin's strict, sober eye. On the eve of departure he 
- [Sieur Landoys](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/toilers_of_the_sea_se/characters/sieur_landoys.md): A local notable and occasional character in the Guernsey community.
- [M. Gertrais-Gaboureau](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/toilers_of_the_sea_se/characters/m_gertrais_gaboureau.md): A local captain and acquaintance of Lethierry.
- [Grace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/toilers_of_the_sea_se/characters/grace.md): A minor female character mentioned in the narrative.
- [The Stranger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/toilers_of_the_sea_se/characters/the_stranger.md): A mysterious figure observed by Clubin at the inn.
- [Reverend Jaquemin Hérode](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/toilers_of_the_sea_se/characters/reverend_jaquemin_herode.md): A local clergyman and minor character in the community.
- [Captain Zuela](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/toilers_of_the_sea_se/characters/captain_zuela.md): A captain mentioned in passing during maritime discussions.
- [Douce](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/toilers_of_the_sea_se/characters/douce.md): A servant or minor female character in the household.
- [Blasquito](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/toilers_of_the_sea_se/characters/blasquito.md): A Spanish or foreign sailor mentioned in the narrative.
- [Imbrancam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/toilers_of_the_sea_se/characters/imbrancam.md): A minor character or name mentioned in the story.
- [Cashmere](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/toilers_of_the_sea_se/characters/cashmere.md): A sloop that plays a role in the story's maritime events.
- [The Man Rock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/toilers_of_the_sea_se/characters/the_man_rock.md): A rock formation personified in the narrative.

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