A Tale of Two Cities

King of England

Also known as George the Third

The unnamed king of England in 1775, described as having a large jaw; later identified as George the Third.

Queen of England

The unnamed queen of England in 1775, described as having a plain face.

King of France

Also known as Lewis, the French King

The unnamed king of France in 1775, described as having a large jaw; called Lewis in the treason indictment.

Queen of France

The unnamed queen of France in 1775, described as having a fair face.

Mrs. Southcott

A woman whose recent twenty-fifth birthday is presented as a spiritual curiosity of the period.

Prophetic private

An unnamed Life Guards private who foretold Mrs. Southcott’s appearance and London’s destruction.

Cock-lane ghost

A ghost said to have rapped out messages in London.

Youth condemned in France

An unnamed young man executed after failing to kneel before a procession of monks.

Woodman, Fate

Also known as Woodman Fate

An allegorical figure who marks trees destined to become guillotine materials.

Farmer, Death

Also known as Farmer Death

An allegorical figure who sets aside carts destined to become the Revolution’s tumbrils.

Lord Mayor of London

The unnamed Lord Mayor, robbed by a highwayman on Turnham Green.

Highwayman called “the Captain”

Also known as the Captain

An unnamed highway robber and City tradesman, recognized by a fellow tradesman.

Mail guard

Also known as Joe

The armed guard on the Dover mail coach, alert for highwaymen.

Mail coachman

Also known as Tom

The driver of the Dover mail coach.

Dover mail horses

The team pulling the mail coach; the near leader repeatedly shakes its head.

Mr. Jarvis Lorry

Also known as Mr. Lorry · the passenger booked by this history · the bank passenger · the gentleman from Tellson’s

A senior Tellson’s Bank employee and trusted Manette family friend. He travels to Paris to protect the bank’s records and helps Lucie and Dr. Manette during Charles’s imprisonment, then helps the family escape France.

Two other mail passengers

Two wary, unnamed travellers who share the Dover mail coach with Mr. Lorry before leaving at roadside destinations.

Jerry

Also known as messenger

A hoarse messenger who rides from Tellson’s Bank with a message for Mr. Lorry and carries back his reply.

Miss Manette

Also known as Lucie Manette

The orphaned daughter of Dr. Manette, raised believing her father dead. She is devoted to him, marries Charles Darnay, and is called Ladybird by Miss Pross.

Dr. Manette

Also known as Monsieur Manette · the Doctor of Beauvais · the shoemaker · the white-haired man · Doctor Manette · Alexandre Manette

Lucie’s father, a physician from Beauvais imprisoned for years in the Bastille, where he was reduced to making shoes. He recovers, marries Lucie to Charles, and uses his influence to secure Charles’s release before Charles is arrested again.

Dr. Manette’s wife

Also known as Miss Manette’s mother

An Englishwoman who married Dr. Manette, searched for him, and raised Lucie believing her father dead. She died before Lucie reunited with him.

Inn head drawer

The head drawer at the Royal George Hotel in Dover, who receives Mr. Lorry from the mail coach.

Royal George waiter

Also known as drawer

An unnamed hotel waiter who attends Mr. Lorry and announces Miss Manette’s arrival.

Strong woman at the inn

Also known as Miss Pross

A forceful, red-haired woman who has cared for Lucie since she was ten and is fiercely devoted to her. She keeps house for the Manettes, is Solomon Pross’s sister, and becomes deaf after a fatal struggle with Madame Defarge.

Wine-shop keeper

Also known as Monsieur Defarge · Defarge · Jacques · Ernest Defarge · Jacques Four

The Saint Antoine wine-shop owner and Madame Defarge’s husband. Formerly Dr. Manette’s servant, he helped secure the doctor’s release and organized resistance to the aristocracy; he identifies Charles as an emigrant and sends him to prison.

Gaspard

Also known as the tall joker

A tall, wolfishly practical joker in Saint Antoine who wrote “blood” on a wall with wine lees. His child is killed by the Marquis’s carriage, and Gaspard is later executed for murdering the Marquis.

Madame Defarge

Also known as Thérèse Defarge

The composed, watchful wife of Monsieur Defarge, who records enemies in her knitting and leads the women of Saint Antoine. Her denunciations help bring about Charles Darnay’s re-arrest; she is a surviving member of the peasant family victimized by the Evrémondes, and dies in a struggle with Miss Pross.

First Jacques

Also known as first customer at the counter · Jacques One

One of three men called Jacques who drink at the Defarges’ wine-shop and take part in the secret resistance.

Second Jacques

Also known as second customer at the counter · Jacques Two

One of three men called Jacques who discuss the poor people’s hardship and take part in the secret resistance.

Third Jacques

Also known as third customer at the counter · Jacques Three · Jacques Three of St. Antoine

A member of the Defarges’ resistance circle who joins the Bastille’s capture and sits on the Revolutionary Tribunal jury that condemns Darnay.

Jerry Cruncher

Also known as Mr. Cruncher · Tellson’s odd-job-man · Mr. Jeremiah Cruncher

Tellson’s odd-job-man, porter, and messenger in London, and husband of Mrs. Cruncher. He secretly robs graves, accompanies Mr. Lorry to Paris, exposes Roger Cly’s supposed burial as a sham, and helps Miss Pross leave the city.

Young Jerry Cruncher

Also known as Master Cruncher · young Jerry · Jerry’s son

Jerry Cruncher’s twelve-year-old son, who resembles his father and accompanies him to Tellson’s. He secretly follows his father on a grave-robbing expedition and hopes to become a resurrection man.

Mrs. Cruncher

Also known as Aggerawayter

Jerry Cruncher’s orderly, industrious wife and young Jerry’s mother. She prays for her family, which her husband wrongly believes harms his prospects, and he abuses her over her opposition to his grave-robbing.

Tellson’s oldest clerk

Also known as ancient clerk

An unnamed senior clerk at Tellson’s who gives Jerry Cruncher a note for Mr. Lorry at the Old Bailey.

Old Bailey door-keeper

Also known as door-keeper

An unnamed court attendant who admits Jerry Cruncher and passes Mr. Lorry the note.

Man in the Old Bailey crowd

An unnamed spectator who tells Jerry Cruncher that Charles Darnay faces a treason trial and explains the expected sentence.

Old Bailey judge

Also known as my Lord · the Judge

The unnamed judge who presides over Charles Darnay’s treason trial and questions witnesses.

Charles Darnay

Also known as Mr. Darnay · the prisoner · Monsieur Charles · the nephew of Monseigneur · Monsieur heretofore the Marquis St. Evrémonde · Evrémonde · Charles Evrémonde, called Darnay · little Charles

A French-born gentleman and nephew of Monseigneur who renounces his aristocratic inheritance and lives in England as a French tutor and translator. He marries Lucie Manette and returns to France to help Gabelle; after two imprisonments and a final death sentence, Sydney Carton takes his place and saves his life.

Prisoner’s counsel

Also known as Mr. Stryver · Stryver

Charles Darnay’s defense lawyer, an ambitious man whose close ally Sydney Carton helps prepare cases. He wins Darnay’s acquittal and later marries a wealthy widow.

Mr. Carton

Also known as Carton · Sydney Carton · Sydney · the jackal · Memory

A gifted but idle and self-destructive lawyer who resembles Charles Darnay. He loves Lucie and becomes a trusted friend to her family; he takes Darnay’s place at the guillotine, dies with a peaceful expression, and imagines Lucie’s future son bearing his name.

John Barsad

Also known as the patriot · the unimpeachable patriot · Solomon Pross · Solomon · John Solomon · Sheep of the prisons

An English spy and former Crown witness against Charles Darnay, now an informer and occasional turnkey for the French Republic. Miss Pross’s estranged brother and Roger Cly’s former partner, he gives Carton access to Darnay and helps with Carton’s plan.

Roger Cly

Also known as the virtuous servant

Charles Darnay’s former servant and a Crown witness who claimed he stole papers from Darnay’s desk. He faked his death with John Barsad’s help and became a spy in France.

Mr. Attorney-General

Also known as Attorney-General

The unnamed prosecutor who argues that Charles Darnay is guilty of treason and examines witnesses at his trial.

Mr. Solicitor-General

Also known as Solicitor-General

The unnamed Crown lawyer who examines John Barsad at Charles Darnay’s trial.

Prisoner’s servant

An unnamed servant of Charles Darnay, accused by the prosecution of searching his master’s drawers and concealing papers; Roger Cly is the servant who testifies.

Hotel witness

An unnamed witness who claims to have seen Charles Darnay at a garrison-and-dockyard town’s hotel. Mr. Carton’s resemblance to Darnay undermines the identification.

Mr. Lorry’s two packet companions

An unnamed gentleman and lady who accompany Mr. Lorry on his return voyage from France and are present when Charles Darnay boards the packet.

Two French gentlemen

Unnamed men who travel with Charles Darnay and confer with him over papers before leaving the packet at Calais.

George Washington

A historical figure mentioned by Charles Darnay in a joking remark to Lucie, suggesting he might become nearly as famous as George III.

Old Bailey prisoner in the quartering case

An unnamed defendant at the Old Bailey, accused of treason and facing drawing, hanging, disembowelling, beheading, and quartering.

Monseigneur

Also known as Monsieur the Marquis · the Marquis · Marquis St. Evrémonde · the elder brother

A powerful French aristocrat who treats the poor with contempt and kills Gaspard’s child with his carriage. He is Charles Darnay’s uncle and one of twin brothers responsible for the abuses described in Dr. Manette’s prison paper; Gaspard later murders him.

Farmer-General

A wealthy tax farmer allied with Monseigneur, who married Monseigneur’s sister and is scorned by the aristocratic family.

Monseigneur’s sister

The unnamed sister of Monseigneur, taken from a convent and married to the wealthy Farmer-General.

Monseigneur’s wife

Also known as wife of the Marquis St. Evrémonde · the compassionate wife of the Marquis

A young, compassionate woman married to the Marquis St. Evrémonde and mother of Charles Darnay. She privately seeks to help the peasant family her husband’s family wronged, and intends to leave her jewels to them; she does not appear alive in the present-day events.

Monseigneur’s four chocolate attendants

Four unnamed liveried servants who prepare and serve Monseigneur’s morning chocolate.

Chief chocolate attendant

The unnamed leader of Monseigneur’s four chocolate attendants, distinguished by carrying two gold watches.

Monseigneur’s remaining supper guest

An unnamed haughty man of about sixty who curses Monseigneur after the reception.

Valet of Monsieur the Marquis

Also known as the valet

The Marquis’s unnamed servant, who rides with him and picks up the gold coin tossed after Gaspard’s child is killed.

Courier of Monsieur the Marquis

Also known as the courier

An unnamed courier who rides ahead of the Marquis’s carriage and helps summon a road mender for questioning.

Postilions of Monsieur the Marquis

Also known as the postilions

Two unnamed drivers who conduct the Marquis’s travelling carriage.

Gaspard’s child

Also known as the child · the bundle

The young child of Gaspard, killed when the Marquis’s carriage runs over him in Paris.

Grizzled road mender

Also known as the mender of the roads · Jacques Five

An impoverished road worker who witnesses the stranger hanging from the Marquis’s carriage and later sees him arrested and executed. He recounts this to the Defarges and three Jacques.

Monsieur Gabelle

Also known as Gabelle · Theophile Gabelle · Citizen Gabelle

The village postmaster and a tax official who serves the Marquis. During the Revolution he is imprisoned for serving the emigrant Darnay, then freed after Darnay returns and testifies for him.

Forester’s wife

An unnamed young woman whose forester husband died of want; she petitions the Marquis for a marker at his grave.

Forester

Also known as the forester · Forester’s husband

The unnamed husband of the woman who petitions the Marquis; he died in poverty and lies in an unmarked grave.

Stranger on the carriage drag

Also known as the Accursed

An unidentified tall, dust-covered man seen hanging from the chain of the Marquis’s carriage before plunging down a hillside.

Monsieur Charles

The Marquis’s expected nephew travelling from England to the chateau; he is Charles Darnay.

Young bird at the chateau window

Also known as little bird

A small bird that sings on the sill of the Marquis’s bedroom window at dawn.

Bear of the bear-leader

A black, mangy bear accompanying a street performer in Roger Cly’s funeral procession.

Bear-leader

An unnamed street performer impressed into the procession at Roger Cly’s funeral, accompanied by his bear.

Chimney-sweep driver

An unnamed chimney-sweep made to drive Roger Cly’s hearse in the funeral procession.

Pieman driver

An unnamed pieman made to drive the mourning coach in Roger Cly’s funeral procession.

First resurrection man

An unnamed grave robber who joins Jerry Cruncher on a nighttime expedition to dig up a body.

Second resurrection man

An unnamed grave robber who joins Jerry Cruncher and another accomplice on a nighttime expedition.

Damiens

A historical prisoner cited as an example of brutal punishment: for attempting to kill King Louis Fifteen, he was tortured and publicly executed in Paris.

King Louis Fifteen

Also known as Louis Fifteen

The former king of France whose life Damiens attempted to take; mentioned in the account of Damiens’s execution.

Solomon

Also known as Miss Pross’s brother

Miss Pross’s brother, once the bridegroom she hoped her sister might marry; he is actually John Barsad.

Doctor consulted by Mr. Lorry

An unnamed physician whose opinion Mr. Lorry considers seeking about Dr. Manette’s recurring illness.

The Vengeance

Madame Defarge’s short, rather plump lieutenant among the Saint Antoine women, wife of a starving grocer and mother of two. She rallies women during the Revolution and helps lead the crowd’s violence.

The Bastille governor

Also known as the governor

The unnamed governor who defended the Bastille and ordered his soldiers to fire on the people; the crowd kills and mutilates him after the fortress falls.

Bastille turnkey

Also known as turnkey

An unnamed prison officer who guides Defarge and Jacques Three to cell 105 in the North Tower.

Alexandre Manette’s prison cell

Also known as cell 105, North Tower

The Bastille cell where Alexandre Manette was held and left his initials and the words “a poor physician.”

Foulon

Also known as old Foulon

An elderly official who told starving people to eat grass and faked his death to escape them; revolutionaries capture and kill him.

Foulon’s son-in-law

Also known as the son-in-law of Foulon

An unnamed man identified as Foulon’s son-in-law and an enemy of the people; a crowd captures and kills him.

The mender’s fellow villagers

Also known as two hundred and fifty particular friends

Unnamed villagers who gather as the Marquis’s chateau burns and leave it to the flames.

Shaggy-haired traveller

Also known as the man · wayfarer

An unnamed, exhausted revolutionary who arrives at the village where the road mender works and arranges to meet him that night.

Sacristan

The unnamed church official who keeps the church keys; Monsieur Gabelle warns him that the tocsin may need to be rung.

Chateau rider

Also known as rider from the chateau

An unnamed rider who seeks help from Monsieur Gabelle and the soldiers when the Marquis’s chateau is set on fire.

Bastille soldiers and officers

Unnamed soldiers and officers at the prison on the crag who refuse to help save the burning chateau.

Lucie Darnay

Also known as little Lucie · Lucie’s little daughter

The daughter of Charles and Lucie Darnay, who grows up in their happy home and is especially fond of Sydney Carton. Carton imagines her later as a wife and mother.

Darnays’ little boy

Also known as the little boy

The unnamed young son of Charles and Lucie Darnay, who dies as a child. Before his death, he asks his parents to kiss Carton for him.

Mrs. Stryver

Also known as the florid widow

An unnamed wealthy widow whom Stryver marries; she has three sons.

Mrs. Stryver’s three sons

Also known as the three young gentlemen · three pupils

Three unnamed boys from Stryver’s marriage, briefly offered as pupils to Charles Darnay.

Timid local functionary

An unnamed official in a French town who orders Charles Darnay escorted to Paris as an emigrant and charges him for the escort.

First mounted patriot

One of two armed patriots who escort Darnay toward Paris; he is drunk and handles his musket recklessly.

Second mounted patriot

One of two armed patriots who escort Darnay toward Paris.

Beauvais farrier

Also known as the farrier

A hostile blacksmith who accuses Darnay of being an emigrant and aristocrat and calls for his condemnation.

Beauvais postmaster

Also known as the postmaster

An unnamed postmaster who protects Darnay from the angry crowd in Beauvais and explains the decree against emigrants.

Beauvais crowd

An angry crowd in Beauvais that denounces Darnay as an emigrant and threatens him before the postmaster intervenes.

Smith in Beauvais crowd

Also known as the smith

An unnamed man in the Beauvais crowd who calls Darnay a traitor under the decree and says his life belongs to the people.

Man in authority at Paris barrier

Also known as Darnay’s conductor

An unnamed official who examines Gabelle’s letter, identifies Darnay as Evrémonde, and conducts him to the guard-room.

Paris barrier officer

An unnamed officer who records Darnay as an emigrant and orders him confined in La Force in secret.

La Force gaoler

Also known as chief gaoler · chief

The bloated-faced chief gaoler who receives Darnay at La Force and confines him alone.

La Force gaoler’s wife

The gaoler’s wife, who tells him to have patience as the prison population grows.

La Force three turnkeys

Also known as three turnkeys

Unnamed prison officers who enter when the gaoler’s wife rings a bell and echo her call for patience.

Gentleman welcoming Darnay at La Force

A courtly prisoner who welcomes Darnay on behalf of the La Force prisoners and explains his secret confinement.

La Force prisoners

Also known as assembled companions in misfortune · society

Imprisoned men and women who courteously welcome Darnay and offer sympathy; many are later killed in the massacres.

The two grindstone turners

Two unnamed men who frantically sharpen weapons during the September prison massacres.

Women at the grindstone

Unnamed women who give wine to the men sharpening weapons during the prison massacres.

Self-appointed Tribunal president

Also known as the man sitting as President

An unnamed presiding member of the revolutionary tribunal at La Force who orders Charles Darnay kept in custody but safe for Dr. Manette’s sake.

Wounded released prisoner

An unnamed prisoner released by the tribunal who is mistakenly stabbed with a pike; Dr. Manette treats his wound.

Company of Samaritans

A group of unnamed people who help Dr. Manette tend and carry the wounded released prisoner before returning to the massacre.

King of France during the Revolution

The unnamed king imprisoned, tried, condemned, and beheaded during the Revolution.

Queen of France during the Revolution

The unnamed queen imprisoned and widowed for eight months before her execution by guillotine.

The Samson of the firewood guillotine

Also known as the wood-sawyer · the little wood-sawyer · Samson

A small, gestural wood-sawyer in Paris who once worked as a road mender and jokes about his saw as a little guillotine. He joins the Carmagnole around Lucie while she waits by the prison and later testifies against her.

Four red-capped men

Armed revolutionary officers who enter the Manettes’ home and arrest Charles Darnay again; their leader says Saint Antoine denounced him.

First red-capped officer

Also known as leader of the four red-capped men

The leader of the four armed men who re-arrest Charles Darnay and explain that Saint Antoine denounced him.

Second red-capped officer

Also known as citizen from Saint Antoine

One of the four officers who re-arrest Darnay, identified as coming from Saint Antoine; he says the Defarges and another person denounced him.

Young woman as Goddess of Liberty

An unnamed young woman chosen from the crowd to be carried as the Goddess of Liberty during the Carmagnole.

Five judges of the Revolutionary Tribunal

The tribunal judges who try Charles Darnay and other accused people during the Terror.

Public Prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal

The unnamed prosecutor who accuses Charles Darnay of being an emigrant whose life is forfeit to the Republic.

Jury of the Revolutionary Tribunal

The unnamed jurors who hear Darnay’s case and vote unanimously to acquit him after Dr. Manette and Gabelle testify; later, the jury condemns him after the prison paper is read.

Darnay’s five fellow accused

Five unnamed defendants tried immediately after Charles Darnay; they are condemned to die within twenty-four hours.

The executioner Samson

Also known as Samson · the Barber

The chief functionary who operates the guillotine, nicknamed after the Biblical strong man; the wood-sawyer boasts that he shaved sixty-three people in less than two pipes.

Turnkey at the Conciergerie

Also known as Sheep of the prisons

A prison spy who sometimes works as a turnkey at the Conciergerie and arranges to give Sydney Carton access to Charles Darnay. He is John Barsad.

Miss Pross’s brother

Also known as Solomon Pross · Solomon · John Barsad

Miss Pross’s estranged brother, who spent her money and left her. He is John Barsad, an English spy and former Crown witness now serving the French Republic.

Pitt

An English political figure mentioned by Sydney Carton as a possible employer of Barsad, whose supposed service to the English government could expose him as a traitor to the Republic.

Mrs. Cruncher’s alleged medical-doctor rivals

Unnamed wives of medical doctors, whom Jerry Cruncher accuses of praying or otherwise interfering with his grave-robbing income.

Mr. Lorry’s mother

Also known as his pretty young mother

Mr. Lorry’s deceased mother, whom he remembers tenderly while reflecting on his childhood.

Chemist

Also known as chemist’s shop owner

An unnamed apothecary in a small Paris shop who prepares packets for Sydney Carton and warns him to keep them separate.

Little girl outside the theatre

Also known as little girl

An unnamed child whom Sydney Carton carries across a muddy street and asks for a kiss.

Mother of the little girl

Also known as the mother

An unnamed woman outside a Paris theatre, seeking a way across the muddy street with her daughter.

Elder Evrémonde brother

Also known as the elder brother

The Marquis St. Evrémonde, twin brother of the younger Evrémonde. He summons Dr. Manette to treat a young woman and her dying brother, then has Manette imprisoned after he reports the family’s crimes.

Younger Evrémonde brother

Also known as the younger brother

The unnamed twin of the Marquis and the more openly contemptuous of the two brothers. He rapes the peasant girl and mortally wounds her brother in a sword fight; his son is Charles Darnay.

Young peasant woman

Also known as the patient · the sister

An unnamed young woman from the family oppressed by the Evrémonde brothers. The younger brother abducts and rapes her; she is found delirious and bound, dies after giving birth, and is Madame Defarge’s sister.

Peasant boy

Also known as the handsome peasant boy · the dying boy · the brother

An unnamed seventeen-year-old, brother to Madame Defarge and the assaulted peasant woman. Mortally wounded by the younger Evrémonde brother, he tells Dr. Manette of the family’s oppression and curses the Evrémondes before dying.

Peasant girl’s husband

Also known as the tenant · the ailing husband

An unnamed young peasant, husband to the assaulted woman and tenant of the Evrémondes. The brothers harness and drive him until he dies after twelve strokes of the bell.

Peasant family’s father

Also known as the father

The unnamed father of Madame Defarge and her siblings. After learning that his daughter has been abducted, his heart breaks and he dies without speaking.

Madame Defarge’s younger sister

Also known as the young sister

The unnamed younger sister of Madame Defarge, taken to a place beyond the Evrémondes’ reach by her brother. Dr. Manette never learns her name or whereabouts.

Unborn child of the peasant woman

Also known as the unborn child

The unborn child of the assaulted peasant woman and her husband; the pregnancy is discovered by Dr. Manette, but the child’s fate is not stated.

Servant of Dr. Manette

Also known as Ernest Defarge

Dr. Manette’s young servant who guides a man in black into the house on the night of Manette’s arrest. He is the future wine-shop keeper Ernest Defarge.

Wife of the man downstairs

Also known as the timid woman in attendance

An unnamed, timid woman who attends the young peasant woman and is the wife of the man who opens the house door.

Man who opens the house door

Also known as the man downstairs

An unnamed servant at the isolated house where Dr. Manette is taken; one of the Evrémonde brothers strikes him.

Man in black dress

Also known as the man in a black dress

An unnamed man who arrives at Dr. Manette’s house on the night of his arrest, summons him to an alleged urgent case, and helps deliver him into the brothers’ custody.

Manette’s minister

Also known as the Minister

An unnamed government minister to whom Dr. Manette writes privately about the Evrémonde brothers’ crimes; the letter is intercepted and destroyed.

Courtroom audience

Also known as auditory

The crowd at Darnay’s Revolutionary Tribunal trial, whose bloodthirsty approval reinforces the verdict.

Farmer-General awaiting execution

Also known as the farmer-general of seventy

An unnamed seventy-year-old tax farmer among the fifty-two people condemned for execution on the day of Darnay’s final imprisonment.

Seamstress awaiting execution

Also known as the seamstress of twenty

An innocent young seamstress condemned with Darnay. She had been imprisoned in La Force, finds courage holding Carton’s hand, and dies just before him.

The seamstress’s cousin

Also known as the seamstress’s only relative

The seamstress’s orphaned cousin, five years younger than her, who lives with a farmer in the south country and does not know of her fate.

Two men assisting Barsad

Unnamed men who help Barsad carry the unconscious Darnay from the prison cell.

La Force execution gaoler

An unnamed gaoler who calls Carton by Darnay’s name and leads him with the condemned prisoners to be bound.

Barrier child

Also known as little child carried by its mother

An unnamed child at the Paris barrier, carried by its mother and reaching toward Lucie as the escaping coach is examined.

Barrier child’s mother

Also known as its mother

An unnamed woman at the Paris barrier who carries a child that reaches toward Lucie in the escaping coach.

Lucie and Charles’s future son

Also known as child who bears Carton’s name

The son Sydney Carton imagines Lucie and Charles will have after their escape. In his vision, he bears Carton’s name and grows into a just, honoured man.