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Married to the Baron Danglars, Hermine Danglars once had an affair with Villefort that resulted in the birth of a child, Benedetto (now called Andrea Cavalcanti). Hermine, later, has an affair with the younger society lad, Lucien Debray, and leaves the Danglars home to live a life of quiet solitude that is a mirror of Mercedes’ new, quiet life in Marseille.
Baroness Hermine Danglars Quotes in The Count of Monte Cristo
The The Count of Monte Cristo quotes below are all either spoken by Baroness Hermine Danglars or refer to Baroness Hermine Danglars. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 99 Quotes
But in the end, since I myself failed and was found wanting—more profoundly perhaps than other men; well, since that time I have shaken out their clothes to discover a blemish, and I have always found it; I will say more: I have found it with joy, this evidence of human weakness and perversity.
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In this scene, Villefort tries to explain how he deals with the guilt of the crimes he’s committed. Of course, the Baroness believes Villefort is talking about their child out of wedlock, whom Villefort sought to kill. But what the Baroness does not know is Villefort’s additional crime, of making sure that Dantes remained in prison, when Villefort had every means necessary to secure his release. This was, in a sense, Villefort’s original sin in the text, and his other behaviors – his pomposity, his impatience with others, and of course his hiding of the affair with the Baroness – Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit
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Baroness Hermine Danglars Character Timeline in The Count of Monte Cristo
The timeline below shows where the character Baroness Hermine Danglars appears in The Count of Monte Cristo. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 39 – The Guests
...accommodations in a bachelor’s apartment behind the main house. Albert receives an invitation from a Mme Danglars , to which he is slow to respond. After describing Albert’s rich habitation at length,...
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Chapter 46 – Unlimited Credit
...the Count to come into another room in the house to meet his wife, the Baroness Danglars.
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Chapter 47 – The Dapple-Greys
Danglars introduces the Count to his wife, Madame Danglars (also known as Hermine), and to Lucien Debray, whom the Count already met at Albert de Morcerf’s breakfast. Lucien...
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Hermine reports that, that morning, she learned from her footman that someone had purchased her two...
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...meet Danglars and his wife, and later that day he sends back the horses to Hermine, without charge, along with diamonds sewn into their harnesses—again embarrassing Danglars.
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...out from the back of a barouche, driven by the very same dapple-grey horses of Hermine’s. Ali, with his whip, manages to trip up the dapple greys without harming them, and...
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...admits that she has heard a great deal about the Count from her close friend Hermine, who was dazzled by him. The Count replies that Ali was only doing what he...
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Chapter 53 – Robert Le Diable
...dialogue. All the members of Parisian society so far described in the novel are present: Baroness Danglars, who is revealed to be having an affair with Lucien Debray; Hermine and the...
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Chapter 62 – Ghosts
...sees that Lucien Debray, Chateau-Renaud, the Baron Danglars (angry from his losses on the market), Hermine Danglars, Villefort and Heloise, and Major and Andrea Cavalcanti arrive.
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...these characters intertwine with the servant’s story of a Corsican vendetta. Bertuccio, shocked, sees that Hermine Danglars, the Baron’s wife, is in fact the woman with whom Villefort was having an...
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Chapter 63 – Dinner
...when he shows them a room in which, he avers, a crime has been committed, Madame Danglars swoons and Villefort rises to comfort her.
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Villefort and Debray (Madame Danglars’ lover) wonder if maybe the Baroness has had too much wine with dinner, or if the Count’s ominous tone for the...
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...a he can, the Count notices, and the narrator relates, that he whispers into the Baroness’s ear that he’d like to speak with her as soon as he can. The Baroness,...
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Chapter 65 – A Domestic Scene
The narrator turns to the Danglars’ home, where Lucien Debray visits the Baroness, asking what is on her mind after the events at Auteuil earlier that day. The...
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The Baron then has a private conversation with Hermine in her chambers. He reveals that he has long known about her affair with Lucien,...
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...his financial matters, and that if this should continue, he will ask Lucien and the Baroness to pay him back whatever amount of his own money is lost—that, in other words,...
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Chapter 67 – The Crown Prosecutor’s Office
Baroness Danglars visits Villefort at his offices, coming in incognito so as to avoid the attention...
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Villefort reveals that, when Bertuccio stabbed him, he crawled inside to the Baroness, able to survive the wound. After his convalescence in the south, Villefort tells the Baroness,...
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Chapter 76 – The Progress of the Younger Cavalcanti
...has kept losing money of late, and he seems embarrassed at his recent financial setbacks. Mme Danglars tells the Count that Franz has broken off his engagement with Valentine, though Danglars does...
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Chapter 93 – Valentine
...has decided that finally she and Noirtier will move out together into their own quarters. Mme Danglars and Eugenie visit Mme de Villefort to announce that Eugenie will be marrying Andrea Cavalcanti,...
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Chapter 99 – The Law
The Baroness Danglars, unsure what to do with herself and believing that Eugenie and Danglars are both...
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Nevertheless, the Baroness pleads her case on behalf of Benedetto, saying that, if he is a murderer, he...
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Chapter 106 – The Share-Out
...and Lucien Debray have used as a hideout, the two of them discuss the former Baroness’s current financial situation. Lucien reveals that what the Baron had long suspected is in fact...
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Chapter 110 – The Indictment
Villefort becomes extremely pale and a cry goes up from the audience, where the Baroness Danglars has been watching the events unfold. The judges pause and ask if Benedetto can...
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