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In a Paris of old names and new money, a hidden past can put a family's honor at stake.
Émile Gaboriau's Baron Trigault's Vengeance draws you into a world of family honor, hidden pasts and scores waiting to be settled. Paris grows rich and loud, but secrets remain beneath its busy surface. In this French novel of intrigue, money and reputation give ordinary human motives the power to threaten a family's standing.
Revenge gives the story its force, while suspense grows from the slow work of settling a score. Gaboriau brings the instincts of a newspaper storyteller to this world of conspiracy and wounded honor. The appeal lies in watching private motives take shape within nineteenth-century Paris society, where an old name and new wealth carry different kinds of weight.
What you’ll discover
- A city of secrets Enter a rich, noisy Paris where hidden pasts lie beneath the surface of society.
- Honor under pressure Explore a world where family honor is a force that can save or ruin.
- Old names, new money Discover how reputation and wealth give this tale of intrigue its social texture.
- The pull of revenge Feel the tension of a score unsettled and the slow work of vengeance.
- Suspense from human motives Follow a storyteller who builds intrigue from secrets, money and the demands of honor.
Who will love it
Readers who like twisting plots, clever schemers, loyal friends and a good fight for justice, along with a vivid picture of money, fashion and gambling in nineteenth century Paris.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A ruined man and a mother's spur
- A rich man's house at war
- The marquis comes to borrow
- Wilkie, the heir who does not know
- The woman called Lia d'Argeles
- Marguerite among enemies
- Fortunat, Chupin and a hidden son of Paris
- Maumejan, the crooked agent
- Money, mirrors and masks
Who’s who
- Pascal FerailleurA young lawyer branded a cheat at cards, he hides under the name Maumejan and plots to expose the men who ruined him.
- MargueriteA brave, clear-sighted young woman raised in hardship, she lives among her enemies to protect the man she loves.
- Baron TrigaultA wealthy, gambling financier who hides a broken heart behind jokes and who becomes Pascal's loyal backer.
- Marquis de ValorsayA ruined nobleman who keeps up a show of wealth and schemes to marry a fortune.
- Viscount de CoralthValorsay's smooth, dangerous tool, a false viscount with a hidden past who lives by his looks and wits.
- Victor ChupinA former street rogue turned clerk who refuses payment and uses his sharp eyes to find the missing lawyer.
- Madame d'ArgelesA card-house hostess who carries a family secret and wants to keep her son from learning it.
- M. WilkieA vain young idler who longs for fashionable fame and a fortune that he believes is his due.
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Baron Trigault's Vengeance
by Émile Gaboriau · 1870
A lawyer disgraced at cards poses as a moneylender's agent to trap the marquis who ruined him.
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Baron Trigault's Vengeance is a Paris crime novel by Émile Gaboriau, a French writer of mystery and detective fiction who died in 1873. It follows an honest young lawyer who is branded a card cheat and sets out to clear his name.
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A ruined man and a mother's spur
The story opens with Pascal Ferailleur hiding in a small house under the name Maumejan. A slander has crushed him, and a cruel letter has told him that the girl he loves, Marguerite, is lost to him. He is close to despair, and the only thing that holds him up is the thought of his mother.
Madame Ferailleur is a stern, plain woman with a great sense of duty. She has already talked him out of suicide, and now she hires a new servant, Madame Vantrasson, the sly landlady of a shabby lodging house. The woman haggles over wages and then lets slip that she once cooked for the Count de Chalusse, who has just died.
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What is Baron Trigault's Vengeance about?
It tells of Pascal Ferailleur, a lawyer falsely branded a card cheat, who disguises himself and joins forces with a rich baron and the girl he loves to expose the marquis and viscount who ruined him.
Who is Baron Trigault?
He is a millionaire financier and gambler in Paris. He hides a deep sorrow over his wife's betrayal, and he decides to help Pascal after he overhears his own family secrets.
Who is Victor Chupin?
Chupin is the clerk of the agent Isidore Fortunat. He was once a street rogue and now serves Marguerite and Pascal faithfully, using his knowledge of Paris to find people and follow trails.
The author
Émile Gaboriau
1832–1873 · French detective novelist
Émile Gaboriau (1832–1873) was a French writer born in Saujon, France. He later lived in Paris, where he died. He wrote novels and stories, including detective fiction featuring Monsieur Lecoq. The Lerouge Case appeared in 1866, followed by The Mystery of Orcival in 1867 and Monsieur Lecoq in 1868.
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