Gourville

Also known as: M. Gourville · Family: Fouquet’s household · Role: servant and friend · First appears: Chapter 11

Life events

• Fouquet is hurried into a carriage and departs for Nantes under royal pressure.(Chapter35 · 📍 Nantes)
  • With: Fouquet Pelisson Madame Fouquet Madame Belliere
  • “The surintendant, dragged along by some, carried by others, was shut up in his carriage. Gourville took the reins, and mounted the box.”
• Gourville recognizes Colbert pursuing Fouquet in a twelve-oared lighter.(Chapter37 · 📍 Loire)
  • With: Fouquet Colbert
  • “‘Colbert!’ said he, in a voice broken by emotion.”
• Gourville arranges horses and a boat to facilitate Fouquet’s escape.(Chapter37 · 📍 Nantes)
  • With: Fouquet
  • “Gourville went out to order horses on the route to Poitiers and Vannes, and a boat at Paimboef.”
• Louis XIV arrives at Nantes unexpectedly, ending Fouquet’s opportunity to escape.(Chapter38 · 📍 Nantes)
  • With: Louis XIV Fouquet
  • “It means the king is come, monseigneur.”
• Gourville warns Fouquet that a plot and an armed ambush threaten him.(Chapter39 · 📍 castle of Nantes)
  • With: Fouquet
  • “Something is being contrived against you. Perhaps they will not dare to carry it out at the castle; it will be on your return home. The house is already surrounded by musketeers. Do not enter. A white horse is in waiting for you behind the esplanade!”
• Gourville warns Fouquet of danger through a torn note.(Chapter40)
  • With: Fouquet
  • “it was Gourville who warned M. Fouquet just now by the note which was torn into a thousand pieces”
• Louis XIV. permits Fouquet’s friends to provide Madame Fouquet two thousand pistoles for necessities.(Chapter54 · 📍 Paris)
  • With: Louis XIV Pelisson M. Jean de la Fontaine Madame Fouquet
  • “We come humbly to ask your majesty,” replied Pelisson, upon whom emotion was fast gaining, “to permit us, without incurring the displeasure of your majesty, to lend to Madame Fouquet two thousand pistoles collected among the old friends of her husband, in order that the widow may not stand in need of the necessaries of life.”

Chapter 11

• with Fouquet (Gourville showed Fouquet the fireworks preparations.) “In one direction Gourville showed him the preparations which had been made for the fireworks”

Chapter 35

• friends with Fouquet “Take breath, my poor friend, take breath; you are suffocating.”

Chapter 40

• with Fouquet (interaction) “it was Gourville who warned M. Fouquet just now by the note which was torn into a thousand pieces upon the terrace”
• with D’Artagnan (D’Artagnan believes Gourville has deceived him.) “I! I! duped by a Gourville!”

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Extracted from the original text of The Man in the Iron Mask. Made with Rho MD.