novel's end, she marries an Englishman. Baptiste Martinon, law student, a rich farmer's son, a reasonably hard-working careerist ends up a senator by the end of the novel. Marquis de Cisy, nobleman and law student, a dapper youth, father of eight by the end of the novel. Sénécal, math teacher and uncompromising, puritanical, dogmatic Republican; supposedly dead by the end of the novel. Dussardier, A simple and honest shop worker. A committed Republican, he is an active participant in the protests and revolts throughout the book. He dies in the last of these protests we see, run through by Sénécal with his sword. Hussonnet, journalist, drama critic, clown, ends up controlling all the theatres and the whole press. Regimbart, "The Citizen", a boozy revolutionary chauvinist; becomes a ghost of a man. Pellerin, painter with more theories than talent; becomes a photographer. Mlle Vatnaz, actress, courtesan, frustrated feminist with literary pretensions; vanishes by the end of the novel. Dittmer, frequent guest of Arnoux Delmas or Delmar, actor, singer, showman (may also be the singer introduced in Chapter 1) M. and Mme Oudry, guests of the Arnoux Catherine, housekeeper for M. Roque Eléonore, mother of Louise Roque Uncle Barthélemy, wealthy uncle of Frédéric Eugène Arnoux, son of the Arnoux Rosanette (Rose-Annette) Bron, "The Marshal", courtesan with many lovers, e.g. M. Oudry; for a time Jacques Arnoux; later she has a lengthy affair with Frédéric. Their little son falls ill and dies in the third part of the novel. Clémence, Deslauriers' mistress Marquis Aulnays, Cisy's godfather; M. de Forchambeaux, his friend, Baron de Comaing, another friend; M. Vezou, his tutor Cécile, M. Dambreuse's: Officially the "niece" of the Dambreuses, in reality M. Dambreuse's illegitimate daughter. Towards the end of the novel she is married to Martinon. Hated by Madame Dambreuse, but favored by her father, she inherits his fortune after his death (much to Mme. rage). Another "character": Mme Arnoux's Renaissance silver casket, first noted at her house, then at Rosanette's, finally bought at auction by Mme Dambreuse Allusions Early in the novel, Frédéric compares himself to several popular romantic protagonists of late 18th-century and early 19th-century literature: Young Werther (1774) by Goethe, René (1802) by Chateaubriand, Lara (1824) by Byron, Lélia (1833/1839) by George Sand and Frank of "La Coupe et les Lèvres" (1832) by Alfred de Musset. His friend Deslauriers also asks Frédéric to "remember" Rastignac from Balzac's Comédie humaine and