Members of the Court | Saint-Cyr staff | Louise and her entourage | Charlotte and her entourage | Hortense and her entourage | Isabeau and her entourage | Éléonore and her entourage | Henriette and her entourage | Gertrude and her entourage | Olympe and her entourage | Adélaïde and her entourage | Jeanne and her entourage | Victoire and her entourage | Gabrielle and her entourage | Diane and her entourage
The characters who appear in Book 7, Un Corsaire nommé Henriettenote .
Henriette de Pusay
A lover of the open air and sea who feels out of place amongst the ladies of Saint-Cyr.
- Daddy's Girl: She was always close to her father and dreamed of living his adventures.
- Fiery Redhead: She is depicted with red-blond hair on the cover of her book.
- Little Miss Badass: As a child, she spent her time fighting and running around with René and Luc-Henri.
- Named After Someone Famous: Like all the first born children in her family (usually boys), she was named after her grandfather Henri de Pusay, who had a brilliant military career under King Henri IV.
- Now, Let Me Carry You: After her father is maimed while at sea to provide for his family, she takes over and uses the money she makes as a privateer to give him proper medical care and a dowry for her sister.
- Petite Pride: While her mother filled her with A-Cup Angst all her life, she finds when she pretends to be a man that a flat chest is a perk.
- Significant Green-Eyed Redhead
- Statuesque Stunner: One of the tallest Saint-Cyr students.
- Sweet Polly Oliver: She disguises herself as a man to go to sea, and goes by the name "Henri de Pusay".
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to Bertille’s Girly Girl.
- Young and in Charge: After the battle against the Dutch, René names her first mate of the Francis-Samuel. After the storm, the crew mutinies and names her captain. She is once again made first mate and subsequently captain of the Portefaix under Jean Bart’s command, all under the age of twenty.
Luc-Henri de Pusay
Henriette's cousin and childhood friend.
- Big Brother Bully: Initially had this dynamic with his cousin Henriette, but soon came to respect her and they become close friends.
- The Casanova: He was expelled from the seminary for “loving women more than God”, according to the Pusay servants. He doesn’t try to hide that he had a number of affairs, some with married women, and a tendency to drink, gamble and lift a few skirts.
- Changed My Mind, Kid: After being put to shame by Henriette’s "The Reason You Suck" Speech and, most importantly, her courage during the defense of Saint-Malo, he decides to return to his forgotten love of the sea and enrolls in the navy.
- Defeat Equals Friendship: Starts treating Henriette in a more friendly manner after she shows no fear of his boastful rearing horse and brings him down from the saddle.
- Gold Digger: After leaving the seminary and being disowned by his father, he makes a living from a liaison with a wealthy widow.
- Jerkass Has a Point: The life of a sugar baby is more comfortable than a life of fighting at sea… Which was made abundantly clear to him after his uncle was maimed in battle.
- Missing Mom: Came with his father to live with his uncle’s family after his mother died of a fever.
- Named After Someone Famous: Like all the first born children in his family, he was named after her grandfather Henri de Pusay, who had a brilliant military career under King Henri IV.
- Parental Neglect: After his mother passed away, his father fell into a “lethargic illness” that sounds a lot like depression, his uncle left for court and his aunt pretty much ignored him.
Bertille de Pusay
Henriette's ladylike younger sister.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Subverted. Due to their mother's interfering, she is initially an Aloof Younger Sister to Henriette, but they eventually warm up to each other.
- Innocently Insensitive: By virtue of being a ten-year-old who parrots everything her mother tells her. At one point, she tells Henriette that she’s not as ugly as their mother claimed and could even catch the eye of a widower.
- Proper Lady: Groomed to be one from birth by
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl to Henriette’s Tomboy.
Jean-Henri de Pusay
Henriette and Bertille's father.
- An Arm and a Leg: Lost both of his legs when he was hit by a cannonball during a sea battle.
- Dad the Veteran: Served on some of the ships he owned.
- Doting Parent: He adores Henriette, and loves Bertille too even if they don't connect as well.
- Fantasy-Forbidding Parent: In a way that hurts even more than from her mother, because he loves her and knows how much it matters to her, he demands Henriette forgets her love for the wilderness, the sea, combat and adventure to be a Proper Lady.
- Henpecked Husband: Henriette suspects that he is this when he sends her to Saint-Cyr.
- Retired Badass: Used to be a brilliant captain in the navy until he lost his legs in battle.
- Wanted a Son Instead: Was disappointed by the births of both his daughters and laments at being the only branch of his family without a son. That said, he dotes on them both, especially Henriette whom he often wishes was his son.
Madame de Pusay
Henriette and Bertille's mother.
- Abusive Parents: She constantly demeans her eldest daughter Henriette. After her return, she makes it clear that she only tolerates her under her roof because she is acting as a live-in caretaker for her disabled father, and forbids her to leave the house.
- Beauty Is Bad: Fair, blonde, elegant and beautiful, and one hell of an asshole.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While it seems foolish to spend so much on gowns and tea parties when the family is so short on money, those are an investment: since they cannot put together a proper dowry for Bertille, they need to show her off in the best possible light for her to catch the eye of a wealthy gentleman who will marry her regardless.
- Last-Name Basis: Her given name is not revealed.
- Small Town Boredom: She hates living in Saint-Malo and would rather be at court.
- Wanted a Gender-Conforming Child: The reason she prefers her second daughter over the first.
Mariette
Henriette's former nanny.
- Old Retainer: She was Henriette’s wet nurse and stuck around after the Pusays definitely fell into ruin.
- Parental Substitute: She dotes on Henriette who views her as her true mother.
René Trouin
Henriette and Luc-Henri's childhood friend; a renowned privateer.
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Downplayed, but he has a reputation as a prodigy in maritime warfare and is proud of it. The crew of Le Profond suspect that it is out of spite that he decides to bring to port in Brest instead of his hometown of Saint-Malo after a failed three-month-long campaign.
- Big Brother Instinct: Towards Henriette - he becomes particularly protective of her when he realizes who she is.
- Childhood Friends: With Henriette and Luc-Henri.
- Defeat Equals Friendship: In their childhood, he starts respecting Henriette when she manages to comandeer a rowboat by throwing him and Luc-Henri overboard.
- Early-Bird Cameo: He is mentioned in passing in Book 2 for having seized a British cargo that contained a tiger, which is now in the menagerie of Versailles.
- Historical Domain Character
- Meaningful Rename: When he began to make a name for himself, he started going by René Trouin du Gué, after the place where he grew up, and then René Duguay-Trouin.
- The Mentor: To Henriette, after figuring out that she’s on board.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Although he is very protective of Henriette, he recognizes her worth and promotes her when she earns it, even if it means that he will not be able to look after her.
- Shipper on Deck: For Henriette and Luc-Henri, because they were always Birds of a Feather.
- Young and in Charge: At eighteen, he is one of the youngest captains of the French navy.
Basile de Bournonville
Henriette's bunkmate and friend on Le Profond.
- Killed Off for Real: He is killed during the battle against the Dutch.
- Master Swordsman: He was hired on Le Profond to be a master-at-arms for the officers and soldiers on board; he helps Henriette re-learn hand to hand combat and get good at it.
- Momma's Boy: Undertakes the long journey from Brest to Paris between two voyages to see his mother and sister.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: Openly against “Italian mores” (homosexuality), and takes a dislike to Fantin after seeing him flirting with “Henri”.
The Duke of Chaulnes
The Governor of Brittany.
- 0% Approval Rating: As governor of Brittany, he is despised by the common folk and nobility alike, for his violence and cruelty during the repression of the 1675 revolts.
- Fat Bastard: See Red Baron below.
- Historical Domain Character
- Red Baron: Due to his poor management of his jurisdiction, he is called hoch lart ("Fat Hog" in old Breton) by the locals. Truth in Television.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: A chauvinist ass who, despite the credibility of Henriette’s warning about the English attack, chooses to ignore her and leave Saint-Malo defenseless because she’s a woman.
Fantin Rozon
A sailor from Saint-Malo who takes part in its defense.
- All Love Is Unrequited: He falls in love at first sight with Henriette, but she does not reciprocate and only sees her as a friend. His Anguished Declaration of Love immediately follows her reunion with Luc-Henri.
- Big Damn Heroes: Saves Henriette from drowning when she falls overboard during the second battle against the Dutch.
- Mistaken for Gay: Basile, who does not know Henriette’s secret, sees him flirting with her and chews him out about it.
- Sure, Let's Go with That: He’s very adaptable and easily imagines lies to help Henriette… That said he struggles to be as natural around Henri.
- Sweet on Polly Oliver: Subverted in that he met Henriette as a woman, and therefore knew she was one even when she made herself a man again. Although at one moment, seeing her fight, he does wonder whether he did not fall for a man who was dressed as a woman the first time.
Boyne
An officer on La Diligente made captain of the Francis-Samuel.
- 0% Approval Rating: His bad character, poor management and cowardice make him despised by crew and officers alike, climaxing in a mutiny.
- The Alcoholic: Spends every moment he’s not giving orders drinking “beyond reason” in his cabin.
- Hypocrite: Attempts to throw Henriette in the brig for taking a nap after two days with no sleep to get the ship through the storm, while he had locked himself up in his cabin.
- Last-Name Basis
Jean Bart
A renowned sea captain who organizes the escort of purchased Russia wheat to France.
- The Ace: A renowned privateer captain, more established than rising star René Trouin.
- Historical Domain Character
