Pelisson

Also known as: M. Pelisson / Monsieur Pelisson · Family: parliament · Role: associate of Fouquet · First appears: Chapter 42

Life events

• Fouquet’s friends contribute money toward his debts, raising forty thousand livres.(Chapter45 · 📍 Saint-Mande)
  • With: Jean de La Fontaine Loret Gourville Abbe Fouquet Fouquet
  • “As he said this, he placed his offering in the hands of their treasurer; it was then Loret’s turn, who gave a hundred and fifty livres; the others stripped themselves in the same way; and the total sum in the purse amounted to forty thousand livres.”
• Fouquet orders Pelisson to pack his silver, gold plate, jewels, and carriage for departure.(Chapter46 · 📍 Saint-Mande)
  • With: Fouquet
  • “Do not lose a single word of what I am going to say: let all the silver and gold plate, together with my jewels of every description, be packed up in the carriage.”
• Fouquet obtains Madame de Belliere’s plate and jewels after she sold them.(Chapter47 · 📍 Saint-Mande)
  • With: Fouquet Madame de Belliere
  • “She had not observed that Fouquet’s black horse arrived at the same time, all steaming and foam-flaked, having returned to Saint-Mande with Pelisson and the very jeweler to whom Madame de Belliere had sold her plate and her jewels.”

Chapter 42

• friends with Fouquet “Well, Monsieur Vanel, you will go at once, and find out either M. Gourville or M. Pelisson. Do you know any other friend of M. Fouquet?”

Chapter 45

• with Fouquet (Pelisson wrote Fouquet's parliamentary speech.) “Pelisson, seated with his legs crossed, was engaged in finishing the peroration of a speech with which Fouquet was to open the parliament; and this speech was a masterpiece, because Pelisson wrote it for his friend--”
• friends with Fouquet “Pelisson, seated with his legs crossed, was engaged in finishing the peroration of a speech with which Fouquet was to open the parliament; and this speech was a masterpiece, because Pelisson wrote it for his friend”
• with Gourville (Gourville brought Pelisson aside for a private conversation.) “As soon as all the guests were assembled, Gourville went straight up to Pelisson, awoke him out of his reverie, and led him into the middle of a room, and closed the doors.”

Chapter 47

• with Fouquet (Pelisson brings the goldsmith into Fouquet’s cabinet.) “Pelisson introduced the goldsmith into the cabinet, which Fouquet had not yet left.”

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