Olivain

Also known as: Monsieur Olivain · Family: French · Role: lackey · First appears: Chapter 22

Life events

Viscount de Bragelonne leaves his guardian and travels toward Flanders with Olivain.(Chapter29 · 📍 Flanders)
- With: Raoul Athos
- “In losing sight of his guardian, whom he had quitted, gazing after him in front of the royal basilican, Raoul spurred on his horse”

employer: Athos (Olivain is Athos’s lackey.) “called Olivain, the lackey who had followed him from Blois”
with Raoul (Olivain is assigned to escort Raoul.) “You will accompany monsieur le vicomte till Grimaud rejoins you.”

employer: Raoul “He’s not a guest like the other one here just now,” observed mine host to Olivain, who had rejoined his master to see if he wanted anything, “and your young master has no appetite.”

with Raoul (Raoul states that Olivain is to leave his service or company.) “What? You start for Paris? You are mistaken; it is Olivain who leaves me; you are to remain.”
employer: Raoul (Olivain is assigned to remain with Raoul while Grimaud leaves.) “What? You start for Paris? You are mistaken; it is Olivain who leaves me; you are to remain.”
employer: Athos “Yes, but I know also that Monsieur le Comte de la Fère arranged that you were to remain with me and that Olivain should return to Paris. I shall follow the count’s directions.”

employer: Raoul “Pray learn, Monsieur Olivain, that people like us are not to be served by cowards.”

with Raoul (Raoul and Olivain travel together in response to the prince’s message.) “He had received a message from the prince, to whom he had hastened with Olivain the instant he had received it.”

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