A character in A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles
A French émigré and former nephew of the Marquis St. Evrémonde who renounces his aristocratic name to live honestly in England as a tutor; tried for treason at the Old Bailey and later imperiled in Revolutionary Paris.
Also known as: Darnay, Charles, Charles Evrémonde, Evrémonde
Inside the story
Charles Darnay is a French émigré and the nephew of the Marquis St. Evrémonde, a family connection he rejects along with his aristocratic name. Living honestly in England as a tutor, he is drawn into a treason trial at the Old Bailey.
A well-grown, well-looking young gentleman of about five-and-twenty, with a sunburnt cheek and a dark eye; upright and composed, dressed plainly but with the refinement of a French gentleman of the 1780s.
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