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The Goddess of Reason: A Drama in Five Acts

Chapter 2: DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
By Mary Johnston
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A five-act historical drama set in Brittany and Nantes during the French Revolution (1791–1794) dramatizes clashes among noble households, revolutionary deputies, clergy, soldiers, and civilians caught in political turmoil. Action moves from a threatened château and a convent garden to public squares, a church used as a prison, a judgment hall, and the Loire, depicting communal violence, public spectacles such as a secular fête, arrests, trials, and executions. The play examines shifting loyalties, moral dilemmas, and the human cost of ideological fervor amid social upheaval.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

  • René-Amaury de Vardes, Baron of Morbec
  • Rémond Lalain, Deputy from Vannes
  • The Abbé Jean de Barbasan
  • Count Louis de Château-Gui
  • Captain Fauquemont de Buc
  • Melipars de L’Orient
  • Enguerrand La Fôret
  • The Vidame de Saint-Amour
  • The Englishman
  • Grégoire
  • Raôul the Huntsman
  • A Sergeant of Hussars
  • Yvette
  • The Marquise de Blanchefôret
  • Mlle. de Château-Gui
  • Mme. de Vaucourt
  • Mme. de Malestroit
  • Mme. de Pont à L’Arche
  • Sister Fidelis
  • Sister Simplicia
  • Sister Benedicta
  • Nanon
  • Céleste
  • Angélique
  • Séraphine
  • An Actress

Guests of De Vardes; Peasants; Lackeys; Soldiers; Nuns; Young Girls; The Mob at Nantes; Participants in the Fête of the Goddess of Reason; Republican Commissioners; National Soldiers; Women of the Revolution; Royalist Prisoners; Gaolers; Judges; Executioners; etc., etc.