Mademoiselle de Maupin (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Théophile Gautier
- First Published: 1835
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Sentimental
- Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
- Setting: France
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: France or French people, Love or romance, Gender roles, Nineteenth century, Mistaken or secret identity, Beauty, Obsession, Drama or dramatists, Aesthetics
- Locales: France
Characters Discussed
M. d’Albert (dahl-BEHR), a young aesthete, handsome, well-educated, and worldly, who has dreamed of and who seeks an ideal woman. Though Rosette provides for a while an education in love’s delights, she cannot cure his moods of dreamy longing. Théodore both fascinates and troubles d’Albert, who (to Silvio) admits loving a man but a man who is almost certainly a woman in disguise. He is joyously surprised by Madelaine-Rosalind’s offer of a night of love, is transported by the wonderful love itself, and is left astonished at Théodore’s...
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