Bernouin

Also known as: Maître Bernouin / Monsieur Bernouin · Family: French court · Role: valet-de-chambre · First appears: Chapter 1

Life events

Mazarin orders Bernouin to summon the special guard protecting Duc de Beaufort.(Chapter16 · 📍 Vincennes)
- With: Mazarin Duc de Beaufort
- “he summoned Bernouin and desired him to fetch thither in the morning the special guard he had placed over Monsieur de Beaufort”
Bernouin assigns them guard duty and locks them inside the waiting room.(Chapter84)
- With: D’Artagnan Porthos
- “Bernouin shut the door and went away. When Porthos heard the key turn in the lock he began to be alarmed, lest they should only have exchanged one prison for another.”

employer: Mazarin “‘Bernouin,’ said the cardinal, not turning round, for having whistled, he knew that it was his valet-de-chambre who was behind him; ‘what musketeers are now within the palace?’”

with Mazarin (Bernouin serves as Mazarin’s access guard or attendant.) “Whether he only held his usual post or whether it was by accident, Monsieur Bernouin was found standing behind the door and must have heard all that had passed.”

employer: Mazarin “‘It gave me pain and it was an ungracious part to play, but I have said nothing either to the one or to the other. Bernouin!’ Bernouin entered.”

with D’Artagnan (Bernouin had repeatedly introduced D’Artagnan to the cardinal.) “D’Artagnan was known to this valet-de-chambre, who was no other than Bernouin, and he had during the last six or eight months introduced the Gascon a dozen times to the cardinal.”
servant: Mazarin (Bernouin is identified as the cardinal’s valet-de-chambre.) “D’Artagnan was known to this valet-de-chambre, who was no other than Bernouin, and he had during the last six or eight months introduced the Gascon a dozen times to the cardinal.”

employer: Mazarin “Bernouin alone knew a little more than the others. Bernouin, seeing that his master did not return”

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