Gourville

Also known as: M. Gourville / M. de Gourville / Monsieur Gourville · 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 Pelisson 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.”

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?”

with Abbe Fouquet (Gourville lent money to Abbe Fouquet.) “Gourville and the Abbe Fouquet talked over money matters--that is to say, the abbe borrowed a few pistoles from Gourville;”
with Abbe Fouquet (The abbe borrowed money from Gourville.) “Gourville and the Abbe Fouquet talked over money matters--that is to say, the abbe borrowed a few pistoles from Gourville”
with Pelisson (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.”

with La Fontaine (interaction) “La Fontaine set off at once, fortunately accompanied by Gourville, for, absorbed in his own calculations, the poet would have mistaken the route, and was hurrying as fast as he could towards the village of Saint-Mande.”

employer: Fouquet (Gourville is serving Fouquet as his master.) “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, who was standing at the entrance, where, in order the better to please his master, he had stationed himself to watch her arrival. She had not observed that Fouquet’s black horse arrived at the same time”
with Madame de Belliere (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”

Extracted from the original text of Louise de la Vallière. Made with Rho MD.