Marquis de la Mole Peer of France, powerful, ultra aristocrat, who employs Julien as secretary later treats him as a portégé and confers nobility on Julien, after the latter has compromised his daughter Mathilde. Prototype of the unscrupulous, bourgeois parvenu. de Rênal and instrumental in Julien's death.
Valenod Rênal's assistant and successor as mayor scheming pawn of the Congregation rival of Julien for Mme. Fouqué offers Julien a partnership in his sawmill, visits him during imprisonment, and manages his friend's burial. Old Sorel The crafty, greedy, peasant father of Julien responsible for his son's unhappy childhood, and at the news of Julien's imminent death, more interested in a possible inheritance than moved by his death.Ībbé Pirard Jansenist director of the seminary that Julien attends old friend of Chélan Julien's mentor at the seminary, then in Paris: Pirard is instrumental in placing Julien in the Mole household as the marquis' secretary.įouqué Childhood friend of Julien, whose mountain retreat is a refuge for the hero. She helplessly watches her cousin fall in love with Julien, innocently and unknowingly.Ībbé Chélan Jansenist priest of Verrières, destituted by the intrigues of the Congregation first mentor of Julien.Ībbé Maslon Jesuit priest, tool of the Congregation, who replaces Chélan as priest in Verrières after the latter's disgrace. de Rênal one of the happy threesome with Julien and her cousin in Vergy. Blinded by his exaggerated self-esteem, he is the easy dupe of everyone - thus a ridiculous character. de Rênal Prototype of the provincial petty aristocracy, the wealthy mayor of Verrières. Ultimately, the lovers are reconciled, although she does not long survive Julien's death. de Rênal Thirty-year-old wife of the mayor of Verrières, and the first and only real love of Julien she becomes his mistress, and through jealousy he shoots her in church.
His failure and subsequent death are caused by society's punishment of the parvenu and by the consequences of his own impetuosity. Julien Sorel The hero of the novel peasant son of a provincial sawyer, who, by means of hypocrisy and of the women who love him, driven by insatiable ambition, briefly succeeds in penetrating into the aristocracy.
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