Madame de Belliere

Also known as: the marquise · Family: French court · Role: widow · First appears: Chapter 37

Life events

• Fouquet obtains Madame de Belliere’s plate and jewels after she sold them.(Chapter47 · 📍 Saint-Mande)
  • With: Fouquet Pelisson
  • “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.”
• Fouquet reveals publicly that Madame de Belliere’s displayed jewels are false stones.(Chapter47)
  • With: Fouquet
  • “And yet, all the jewels which madame is wearing this evening are nothing but false stones.”
• Fouquet publicly attributes the displayed valuables to Madame de Belliere’s generous sacrifice.(Chapter47)
  • With: Fouquet
  • “Gentlemen,” he said, “all this plate which you behold once belonged to Madame de Belliere, who, having observed one of her friends in great distress, sent all this gold and silver, together with the heap of jewels now before her, to her goldsmith.”
• Madame de Belliere receives overwhelming public applause after her generosity is revealed.(Chapter47)
  • “A tremendous burst of applause followed his words, and made poor Madame de Belliere sink back dumb and breathless in her seat.”

Chapter 37

• siblings with Mary Grafton (Mary identifies Madame de Belliere as her older sister.) “I have a sister there, my senior by seven or eight years, who was married in France, and was early left a widow; her name is Madame de Belliere.”

Chapter 47

• courtship with Fouquet (They are described as lovers.) “and her trembling fingers touched those of Fouquet, her look, full of love, found its mirror in that of her ardent and generous-hearted lover.”
• with Gourville (They greet one another at the entrance.) “With her heart filled with happiness Madame de Belliere ran to her carriage in the Avenue de Vincennes, and in a few minutes she was holding out her hand to Gourville”

Chapter 48

• with Fouquet (Fouquet receives and repays Madame de Belliere’s financial generosity.) “And in a few words, he gave Aramis an account of Madame de Belliere’s generosity, and the manner in which he had thought it but right to discharge that act of generosity.”

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