A character in A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A physician wrongfully imprisoned in the Bastille for eighteen years, 'recalled to life' by his daughter Lucie; he relapses into obsessive shoemaking under stress but regains his standing and fights to save Darnay in Paris.
Also known as: Alexandre Manette, the Doctor, the shoemaker, One Hundred and Five, North Tower
Inside the story
Doctor Manette is a physician who has been wrongfully imprisoned in the Bastille for eighteen years. At the story’s outset, his daughter Lucie has helped bring him back to life, but he remains fragile and absorbed in shoemaking, a habit formed during his confinement.
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