# The Archpriest — Travel Essays character guide

> The Archpriest in Travel Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the archpriest

**First appearance:** 0054-the-country-of-the-camisards

## Who they are

A Catholic official in the Cévennes, likely Du Chayla.

## In the story

### [A Mountain Town in France](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/a-mountain-town-in-france)

The town of Monastier is the seat of an archpriest and several vicars.

### [The Boarders](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/the-boarders)

The priest who snorts like a battle-horse and demands the narrator change his beliefs, launching into harrowing details of hell.

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