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Laurent d'Anjou

 sex male, ht 5'7, hair brown, eyes brown, Age 23

Son of Stephane D'Anjou, one of Paris's leading merchants. Stephane Anjou founded Anjou et Valour MerchantCompany with Henri Valour. It is one of the leading investment/trading houses in France. Stephane has since retired to the country and left his role to his eldest son, Dominique. Dominique has done well in continuing the family's business. Stephane has also left enough funds for his younger son, Laurent to establish a business.

Laurent is young, eager and a bit rash. He has a friendly rivalry with his brother Dominique and would like to outdo him in business. The younger D'Anjou can seem a bit driven at times by his desire to secure his fortune. He has created La Maison D'Anjou. Laurent frequently goes about town sporting some of the most trendy clothes, although often unarmed. He recently became a member of the Red Phillips Club. He has dueled occasionally, but more often participates in practice matches at some of the local fencing schools.

La Maison D'Anjou-Laurent's business which specializes in catering to the fashionable. Whether it is clothes, swords or horses, La Maison strives to establish a niche as one of the chic establishments in Paris. Laurent has boasted that he can get almost anything one could want. La Maison is also known to loan money to promising gentlemen at generous rates.


Jean le Grandcrayon

Jean is a tall, sunken-chested young man with a winning smile. Despite his generally poor health, his long frame and quickness make him a formidable swordsman. Like every man in the le Grandcrayon family, is afflicted with what they call the 'family curse'. Said curse has proved quite difficult to conceal and, although it seems to bring the ladyfolk much pleasure, makes it quite difficult to find a properly fitting pair of pants (no matter what tailor he hires).

Seeing as he was becoming rather bored with the women of Lyon, and his poor health has prevented him from doing any real work, he has come to Paris to win his fortune in a manner that befits a gentleman (ie by not lifting a finger).


Arnaud Duchene

Sex: Male
Height: 5'9"
Age: 19

This brown eyed, black haired newcomer to Paris is the son of Gaston Duchene, a small leather goods merchant from the Ardeche. As a youth Arnaud never showed any aptitude for merchant skills, unlike his elder brother Louis, who would inherit all of the family trade when their father retired. Instead, he preferred to talk and train with the men-at-arms his father employed to guard caravans laden with merchandise.

Gaston understood the desire in his son to become a soldier and bid him to travel and seek out his fortune. With the blessing of his father, Arnaud traveled to Paris. Upon arrival, he heard word that some of the regiments will be deployed in a campaign over the summer. With this news, Arnaud sought a position in one of the regiments, and landed a position as Private with the 27th Musketeers.

Arnaud would like to know more of what transpires in the world and recently became a member of the Red Phillips Club. He has occasionally been involved in duels and skirmishes when he traveled with the caravans.


Jean Luc

Jean Luc is around 25 years old although no-one seems too sure, some say that he not that sure himself as he is well known for being absent minded. He always manages to avoid giving away any details about his past but will talk at length about the church. He is known to be loyal to his friends and despite his absent mindedness he never seems to forget an enemy.

Since becoming a priest he has begun a slow but steady climb up the social ladder. Some say he has a great deal more money than his status would suggest, others that he up to his neck in debt. Whatever the truth Jean Luc is unlikely to say.

At the end of 1620 Jean Luc set off for the coast of North Africa to establish a mission, with no intention of returning to France.


Michel Grognard

Michel Alaric Grognard was born on the evening of July 23 1602 in the Valois town of Villers-Cotterets. His mother, Justine Grognard, was the maid servant and later cook and housekeeper to Armand Tuilleries, the lawyer and gentleman of note, who eventually legitimized Michel as his son.

Michel grew up with the daughters of Tuilleries in the family house, where he was somewhat spoiled by his big sisters. He also grew very close to the family gardener, an outdoorman by the name of Mocquet, who taught Michel the art of fighting.

At the age of 16, he entered his father’s legal practice, but soon became bored by the endless scribbling and meaningless paper shuffling. On his 19th birthday, he informed his father of his intention to move to Paris in the New Year. While his family regretted his departure, all of them knew that Villers-Cotterets was far too small for a man of Grognard’s size and ambitions.


Roger de Villain

The storm howled around an unmarked coach pulled by four black stallions as it struggled along the road between Dijon and Paris. At the height of the gale the coach made a brief and unscheduled stop by the side of the road. The body would not be found for several days and by then the new owner of the coach was long gone. Two days later, as the horses clattered over a bridge across the Seine on the outskirts of Paris, a black iron mask wrapped in a bloodstained rag was thrown out of the window. Roger de Villain leaned out of the coach to watch the bundle as it tumbled into the river and smiled in grim satisfaction. Drawing a scroll from his doublet, he gazed at the five names on his list and scrawled a thick black line through the topmost. Settling back into the carriage, he smiled and murmured to himself: "I think I'm going to enjoy Paris!".


Edward Tocqueville

 Baron Tocqueville was a strong, but distant father. Edward remembers a vaguely happy childhood, spent with intensive tutelage in fencing and letters (this was insisted upon by Edward's mama.) However, Mother died as Edward grew out of his precocious stage. The Baron soon remarried, an event which Edward never forgave his father for. Edward went on to become a fine young man - Polite, educated, and with an innate sense of doing his duty. He does not hate his father - Or rather, he does, but he knows he cannot, so he does not.

Priscilla (his stepmother) had the excellent idea that Edward should learn the norms of Paris, and mingle with his social equals. This was very well and true, as Edward did lack social skills, but Priscilla was rather hoping for her own children to supplant Edward's place in the old Baron's will.

So Edward says goodbye to his mentor (and for most purposes, the "real" father) and heads out to the city. What he would find, none would know, but rest assured he would do so with honor, and as he best can.


Stephan g'Argoyle

Stephan was born in the province of Bourgogne as the second son of Franz g'Argoyle, a reputable arms-merchant. He was put to school at an early age in the local monastery and developed an absolute devotion to God, and to the King which he believed to be only an extension on the arms of God. He dreamt of service to the crown so that he might be recognized as a hero in the eyes of his King, and convinced his father to let him learn the way of the blade from some of his fathers customers. At he age of 22 he felt that he was done with his hometown and borrowed som money from his father and set of towards Paris, where he arrived just in time to seek recruitment at one of the finer regiments of France before the summer campaign. Here he aspires to climb the greasy pole as quickly as possible, in order to recieve the fame necessary to help him in his quest. He is honest and reliable, always ready to help a friend and forgiving to enemies who show willingness to forgive, but he who hurts his pride or badmouths the King will see that his blade is sharp indeed.


Jacques Armand Dijon

 Jacques' was born into an impoverished farming family. Unfortunately, Jacques was a sickly child and not given to be much use to a farm household. Jacques was sent to a Cathedral School to become a student of letters with the hope that he would enter the church. Money was scarce and the time came when a decision had to be made about Jacques. The family could not afford his schooling so he was brought back to the farm.

Jacques did what he could to aid his family, writing letters and keeping accounts, but his parents could do this much and his physical contribution to the farm did not equal his meager portion of the familiy's resources. Jacques was sent away when he and his father fell out over what Jacques regarded as useless mustard crops.

Jacques made his way to Paris with very little money. He was not going into the Church as his parents had wished, his love for the arts was too great to follow that humble destiny. He was also not going to be a soldier, failure of body prevented that and it too was not his wish. Jacques' determination is to make it in the world as a master of the stage. Although he has been known to dabble in theology and philosophy, his real love is the theatre. Unfortunately, Jacques is not a man of wealth.

Thanks to generous patrons, Jacques has produced a number of plays, many successful including the trilogy of the Summer of 1620 and his triumphant first play, "The Grand Destiny." He continues to write and produce plays in his search for fame and fortune.

5'5", very thin. Hair: Brown, shoulder length, straight. Eyes: Two, Brown.


Jean Pierre Brisbois

Jean-Pierre's father, Claude inherited his title from his father Pierre. The title of Baron originated with Pierre's great grandfather, Phillippe. Phillippe earned the title in the service of King Louis XVI. Phillippe's son Armand founded the Brisbois vinyards and wines outside of Bordeaux on the family land surrounding the estate north of Bordeaux on the Gironde River. Both Pierre and Claude were recognized for valour in the service of the King(Pierre-King Charles IX; Claude-King Henry IV). Claude was killed defending King Henry's nephew, and the title was bestowed on Jean-Pierre at the age of 26. He is the sixth Brisbois to inherit the title of Baron.

Jean-Pierre decided to follow in his father's and grandfather's footsteps by serving in the King's Musketeers and has left his brother Patrice to run the estate and family business in his absence. Jean-Pierre is also cultivating business outside of Bordeaux-specifically in Paris. Chateaux Brisbois are known as exceptional wines, especially the red wines. The wine is sold throughout France, England, Italy, Spain, and Portugal.

Jean-Pierre is a very motivated individual, who can be very single-minded in his determination. He is very well read and was educated from an early age at the finest schools. He attended school in Paris, and was introduced to royal court life at an early age. He excelled at school and his favorite subjects were history and science. Jean-Pierre also travelled with his father on family business to England, Italy, and Spain and can speak French, Italian, English, and Spanish fluently. Jean-Pierre is an accomplished horse rider and an expert on wines.

With his stunning looks and charming demeanor, he has always been a ladies' man and from his adolescence was renown as one of the most eligible bachelors in the Bordeaux region. He is very gregarious and likes to party, and is easy going at times, but can be very intense when engaged in important matters. Jean-Pierre makes friends easily and even though he is of the nobility, he is not too snobish. He does however, believe in tradition. That of the nobility and of his family. For someone of his status, he lives in modesty in Paris, as he prefers to leave his fortune invested in the family business. He is very close to, and very loyal to a fault, to his family and close friends. His closest friend in Paris is Chicot D'Armagnac.

Born: Bordeaux, France, July 14 1592
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 150 lbs
Build: Thin, wiry, but muscular
Appearance: Exceptional good looks with long, wavy blondish-brown hair and emerald green eyes

Family:

Mother: Marie
Brothers: Patrice (runs family estate and wine business), Robert (works for family wine business)
Sisters: Marie (married to the Earl of Catenac, has two sons and two daughters), Claire (single lady in the court of the Countess de Fronsac)


Frere Jacques

Frere Jacques was the second son born to the famous Givenchy bell maker Chevalier U. Dunno Jacques. The constant ringing of the bells soon deafened the young Frere, so that everyone had to say things twice, and he would sleep through both the rooster's crows and his mother's attempts to wake him up. Here is what she would typically say:
Frere Jacques! Frere Jacques!
Dormez vous? Dormez vous? (Are you still asleep?)
Sonez la matinee! Sonez la matinee! (The bells are ringing!)
DING DANG DONG! DING DANG DONG!
The deafening CLANG of the village cathedral would finally rouse young Frere. His mother always said this is what led him to the life of a priest. Some say Frere Jacques is destined to be the next Cardinal, while others claim his calling is to be a hunch backed bell ringer (without the hunch). Only the future will tell.


Guillot de Rechy

 Having come of age, he wishes to make an impact & has walked to Paris from his Father's house in Navarre. Being fairly well-built & extremely capable with his grandfather's cutlass, no footpads or robbers were able to stop him on his way to the Capital(well, some tried, but bitterly regretted it).

Being the 2nd son of a small merchant from Navarre, he realised his elder brother was going to take over the family business, so he decided to try his luck in Paris to see how he could be of service to the Crown. Having armed himself with his grandfather's cutlass(who served with distinction with the Royal Marines) & having practised fencing with it regularly, he is very skilled with it & keeps it VERY sharp & in excellent condition.

Although of a slim build, his dark & swarthy looks makes him look dashing & it is rumoured that he was the talk of all the ladies of Navarre. His honour & reputation are beyond reproach however, & his wit & repartee has won him many admirers & friends.

Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Age :21
Looks: Slim but well-built


Anton St. Vierre

A young man once severely affected by things of wit and wisdom, Anton has had his go around with the scholars of Paris. This, however, can be a dangerous pastime. Anton has learned that besting petty parish priests in knowledge and cunning can be dangerous to ones social reputation!

As a soldier, Anton is currently a Captain of the Heavy Brigade, serving with Archduke Leopold's finest Cuirassiers. He is an uncompromising unit commander, and allows none of his men to perform a task he would not .Incidentally, he is also an uncompromising combatant in a duel, fighting any man, any time, any where. While not the safest attitude, Anton knows that in victory or defeat, he is a man of honor. Anton has decided that a military career would not be undesirable, and is considering becoming a lifetime officer. At the present his investments and holdings allow him to do whatever he wishes, and only time will tell what the future may bring.


Jean Claude du Lac

A young man who through various antics and adventures has made himself unpopular with the fathers of the young ladies in his home town. Paid by his father to stay away he is now seeking his fame and fortune in Paris. He seeks to win again the approval of his father. perhaps by joining his father's old regiment, The Picardy Musketeers.

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