Monsieur Beaucaire (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- First Published: 1900
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Farce
- Time of Work: Early eighteenth century
- Setting: Bath, England
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Satire, Farce
- Subjects: Love or romance, Gambling, England or English people, Barbershops or barbers, Eighteenth century, Duels or dueling
- Locales: England, Bath, England
Characters Discussed
Louis-Phillipe de Valois (lwee fee- LEEP deh vahl-WAH), the twenty-three-year-old duke of Orleans and cousin of King Louis XV of France, who masquerades as Victor the Barber, Monsieur Beaucaire (boh-KEHR), and the duke of Chateaurien (shah- TOH-ryah[n]). In the guise of Monsieur Beaucaire, he catches the duke of Winterset cheating at cards and blackmails Winterset into introducing him into Bath society, promising not to reveal the duke’s cheating in exchange. The duke says that everyone knows that Beaucaire arrived in England as Victor, the barber of the...
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