# Mr. Commissary — Travel Essays character guide

> Mr. Commissary in Travel Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** The Commissary, the Commissary, Poor bubuckled Commissary

**First appearance:** 0007-on-the-sambre-canalised-to-quartes

## Who they are

A French official encountered during the canal journey.

## Relationships

### [The Arethusa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/characters/the_arethusa)

_professional_

Mr. Commissary interacts frequently with The Arethusa, likely in an official or administrative capacity.

### [The Cigarette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/characters/the_cigarette)

_professional_

Mr. Commissary and The Cigarette have a formal, possibly supervisory relationship.

## In the story

### [Epilogue to An Inland Voyage](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/epilogue-to-an-inland-voyage)

The sleepy, perspiring magistrate at Châtillon-sur-Loire who arrests the Arethusa and is bribed with a volume of Michelet to release him.

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