An elderly boarder at the inn owned by La Mere Bauche, who connived with her to marry her ward Marie Calvert, although they both knew that she was in love with the innkeeper’s son. Immediately after the ceremony Marie jumped from a high cliff and was killed.

"He was a tall, well-looking man; always dressed in black garments ... perhaps fifty years of age, and conspicuous for the rigid uprightness of his back-and for a black wooden leg" - La Mere Bauche.