Louvières

Also known as: Monsieur Louvières · Family: Broussel household · Role: son of Broussel · First appears: Chapter 44

Life events

Raoul fights to protect Comminges and Broussel during the crowd’s attack.(Chapter44)
- With: Raoul Comminges
- “The first who advances is a dead man!” cried Raoul”
D’Artagnan spares Louvières after learning he is Broussel’s son and orders him to flee.(Chapter44 · 📍 Rue Guénégaud)
- With: D’Artagnan
- “If I take you, you will be hung!” The young man did not wait to be told twice, but passing under the horse’s head disappeared at the corner of the Rue Guénégaud.”
The marshal’s sortie is repulsed, leaving guards dead and forcing his retreat.(Chapter47 · 📍 Pont Neuf)
- With: Maréchal de la Meilleraie Rochefort Planchet
- “He beat a retreat toward the market, but there he met Planchet with his halberdiers; their halberds were leveled at him threateningly.”
Broussel reentered Paris and received an enthusiastic popular ovation.(Chapter49 · 📍 Paris)
- With: Broussel
- “The next morning, therefore, when Broussel made his entrance into Paris in a large carriage, having his son Louvières at his side and Friquet behind the vehicle, the people threw themselves in his way and cries of ‘Long live Broussel!’ ‘Long live our father!’ resounded from all parts”

with Monsieur de Retz (Louvières proposes a political alliance with the coadjutor.) “my lord, in three days, if you wish it, my father will be out of prison and in six months you may be cardinal.”
with Monsieur de Retz (Louvières proposes a joint revolutionary enterprise.) “Give us the clergy and the people, of whom you can dispose, and I will bring you the citizens and the parliament; with these four elements Paris is ours in a week”

friends with Gondy “‘Then it is because you do not know your friends, my dear Monsieur Louvières,’ said the coadjutor, raising his hat.”
enemies with Maréchal de la Meilleraie “But at Pont Neuf he found Louvières and his bourgeois. This time the marshal charged, but he was welcomed by musket shots, while stones fell like hail from all the windows.”
with Friquet (Louvières gave Friquet a sword.) “Master Friquet, the owner of a pistol and of a sword which Louvières had given him, had organized a company of rogues like himself and was making a tremendous racket.”
with Gondy (They are presented as friends or allies.) “‘Then it is because you do not know your friends, my dear Monsieur Louvières,’ said the coadjutor, raising his hat.”

Extracted from the original text of Twenty Years After. Made with Rho MD.