Friquet

Also known as: Master Friquet · Family: Fronde · Role: chorister and tavern waiter · First appears: Chapter 7

At Noisy, Friquet told D’Artagnan that Bazin had gone there: “He is gone to Noisy.” D’Artagnan wrote down his name, and Friquet asked whether he might earn more half-pistoles. By chapter 27, Bazin patronized him, while D’Artagnan valued the information he provided. In chapter 44, Friquet feigned a swollen face with cherry kernels so he could dress in his Sunday clothes and obtain a holiday from Bazin; Dame Nanette was told to give her son apricots and fresh bread.

At the Rue Saint Honoré, Friquet owned a pistol and sword given to him by Louvières, and had organized a company of rogues. During the fighting, he and his band preceded the retreating Maréchal de la Meilleraie and his surviving troops after the barricade opened. At the tower Saint Jacques la Boucherie, Monsieur Maillard made Friquet his heir, giving him a leather bag full of gold: “The mendicant had kept his word and made Friquet his heir.” Mother Nanette picked up both the louis and Friquet, while Friquet spoke to Bazin about Monsieur Maillard.

Relationship record

Life events

• Friquet reveals to D’Artagnan that Bazin has gone to Noisy.(Chapter7 · 📍 Noisy)
  • With: D’Artagnan Bazin
  • “He is gone to Noisy.”
• The barricade opens, allowing the battered marshal and surviving troops to withdraw.(Chapter47 · 📍 Rue Saint Honoré)
  • With: Maréchal de la Meilleraie
  • “The crowd gave place, the barricade was opened, and the marshal, with the remnant of his company, retreated, preceded by Friquet and his bandits”
• Friquet becomes Monsieur Maillard’s heir and receives a leather bag full of gold.(Chapter89 · 📍 tower Saint Jacques la Boucherie)
  • “The mendicant had kept his word and made Friquet his heir.”

Chapter 7

• with D’Artagnan (D’Artagnan pays Friquet for information.) “‘What is thy name?’ ‘Friquet.’ D’Artagnan wrote the child’s name in his tablets. ‘Please, sir,’ said the boy, ‘do you think I can gain any more half-pistoles in any way?’ ‘Perhaps,’ replied D’Artagnan. And having got out all he wanted, he paid for the hypocras, which he did not drink, and went quickly back to the Rue Tiquetonne.”

Chapter 27

• patron: Bazin “Yes, that is the very boy; he’s patronized by Bazin.”
• with D’Artagnan (Friquet is a source of information for D’Artagnan.) “Gad!” replied D’Artagnan; “he has already given me good information and he may do the same again.”

Chapter 44

• employer: Bazin “Friquet had put on his Sunday clothes, under the pretext of having a swollen face which he had managed to simulate by introducing a handful of cherry kernels into one side of his mouth, and had procured a whole holiday from Bazin.”
• parent: Nanette “Dame Nanette, look for those apricots which Madame de Longueville sent to us yesterday from Noisy and give half a dozen of them to your son, with a crust of new bread.”

Chapter 47

• enemies with Maréchal de la Meilleraie “The marshal thought this barrier not so well fortified as the others and determined to break through it.”
• with Louvières (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.”

Chapter 89

• with Monsieur Maillard (Maillard makes Friquet his heir.) “The mendicant had kept his word and made Friquet his heir.”
• with Mother Nanette (Mother Nanette tends to Friquet after his exhaustion.) “Mother Nanette began by picking up the louis; then she picked up Friquet.”
• with Bazin (Friquet sought Bazin’s help in finding the coadjutor.) “‘Monsieur Bazin,’ said Friquet, ‘Monsieur Maillard—you know who he is, he gives holy water at Saint Eustache——’”
• with Mother Nanette (interaction) “‘Ah! Mother Nanette!’ cried Friquet, suffocating; ‘ah! Mother Nanette!’”

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