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List of names used
For my reference: a list of all the non-canonical character names (and some other things) appearing in my historical fiction, in the hopes of avoiding future repetition. Currently complete up to the end of 2023, excluding the vast cast in the still-infuriatingly-unnamed Swedish story.
"The Choices of Raoul":
von Enck - passenger on board ship
Mathilde - old servant at Chagny
Célestine Bribot - milliner and cousin to Raoul's valet, servant on board ship
Mme de Vireville - society hostess
La Vespina - international soprano
Laurent de Beaupré - aristocrat, former owner of estate at Chamillon
Mrs Vanderbilt - passenger on board ship
Mrs Mannheimer
Mrs Elwood T. Burton (Mamie Burton)
Clementine Van Heusen - American matrons and bosom friends, passengers on board ship
Mrs Cunningham
Selina Cunningham - English mother and daughter, passengers on board ship
Hendrick - Dutch agent in Surinam, city of Paramaribo
"Arauca" - banana boat
"Valdez" - steel-hulled barque
"Prins Willem" - Dutch East Indies mail steamer
Gravesandestraat
Heerenstraat - streets in Paramaribo
"Waiting in the Wings":
Pieczinski - Polish stage manager at Phantasma
Spezzioni - gambler at Monte Carlo
"To Ease Your Troubled Mind":
Maître Tollot - family lawyer
Bertrand - former music student, Gustave's friend in WW1
Laure - Bertrand's sister, Gustave's fiancée
Jeanne Brassard - Raoul's housekeeper and former landlady
"Teach Me to Live":
'Nounou' - the children's nurse in Paris
Minette - the nursery cat
Zazie - rocking-horse zebra
Anne-Élisabeth de Chagny, 'Sainte-Anne' - Raoul and Christine's daughter
Groscek - Eastern European Jew, fellow passenger on board ship
Tante Emilie - Raoul's aunt in Lannion
rue de Chaverie - address of dockside hotel
Baptiste - manservant in Raoul's Paris house
"Count Philippe Takes a Hand":
rue de Valmy - address in Paris on the Rive Droite
de Castigné - casually malicious man-about-town
Mme Druet - plump Society gossip
Vardeaux - indiscreet but well-meaning man-about-town
Mme de Maleron - godmother of Vardeaux
Eustacie de Chagny - Philippe's wife, cousin on their mother's side
Pierre de Chagny - Eustacie and Philippe's young son
Georges Daaé
Sébastien Daaé (Bastien)
Lucie Daaé - Raoul and Christine's illegitimate children
"Raoul and the Soubrette":
Countess Sabine de Chagny - Philippe's neglected wife
Athénaïs Christine de Chagny - Philippe and Sabine's daughter
Raoul de Chagny - Raoul and Sabine's son, Philippe's heir
Lucien de Chagny (Luc) - Philippe and Sabine's belated son
"All the Rules Rearranged":
Boncarré - bankrupt friend of Raoul who ruined him
Senator Jackson - one of Meg's lovers in New York
Mrs Lila Morrison (Ma Morrison) - New York landlady
Father O'Meary - Catholic priest in New York
"The Sons of Éléonore":
Comtesse Éléonore de Moerogis de La Martynière - Raoul and Philippe's mother
Suzanne de Chagny
Héloïse de Chagny - Raoul and Philippe's sisters
Raoul-Hilaire-Marie de Chagny - Vicomte de Chagny
Gaulthier - family lawyer
Marguerite de Marsèmy (Tante Marguerite) - Raoul and Philippe's aunt in Brest
Roger de Marsèmy - her deceased husband, retired naval officer
Mr Jackson - Oxford graduate, Raoul's tutor
Perrette - wife of a tenant on the Chagny estate, responsible for Philippe's sexual initiation
"A Child of the Law":
rue de Carcerie - address of Javert's lodging in Montreuil-sur-mer
Mère Brassard - old woman living opposite
Mère Badeau - mother of an idiot son
Clothilde - laundress who insulted the deputy's wife
Mme Ducrocq - mother of a string of lumpen children
Marcine
Pierre (Pierrot) - two of her offspring
Nicolette - prettiest girl in school
Lise - the draper's daughter
M. Vaneris - the deputy representing Montreuil-sur-mer
"Newly Wed":
Drinon - mediæval chateau of the Chagny family
"A Family Man":
Sylvaine de Chagny - eldest daughter of Raoul and Christine
Patrice de Chagny - elder son of Raoul and Christine
Félix de Chagny - younger son of Raoul and Christine
Victoire de Chagny - youngest daughter of Raoul and Christine
Baudry - woodsman driving a team of Percherons
Tante Raymonde - Raoul's eldest sister
Bichette - her lapdog
Phyllide - daughter who died of scarlet fever in childhood
Tante Aline - Raoul's other elder sister
Hippolyte - stable-hand at Chagny
"There is no Phantom of the Opera":
Raoul-Achille-Honoré de Chagny - Vicomte de Chagny
Catherine Lanarchier - one of a pair of beautiful fortune-hunting sisters
"If I Were Vicomte":
Yann Le Coennec - a red-headed Breton fisher-boy of Perros-Guirec
"This Mask of Death"
Antoine - a shepherd of Perros-Guirec
Madeline Tricard - landlady of the Setting Sun
"Christmas as it ought not to be":
Clémence de Chagny
Albertine de Chagny - Raoul's sisters
"La Tauride" - frigate on colonial service
Martin Reviers - junior officer from Alsace
Jussy - officer promoted from the ranks
Thierry Côtard - captain of the frigate
"Colombe" - d'Artois' expedition vessel
Mme de Lael - solicitous dowager, mother-in-law of the Marquis d'Audray
Maurice d'Audray - cousin of the Marquis d'Audray and second husband to Clémence
Barthès
de Tailles
Ardmann - senders of various bills and items of correspondence to Philippe
de Menerie - woman who sent an unwanted invitation to Philippe
"Astrid" - pond yacht in Sweden
Alain de Chagny - Raoul and Christine's son
Old Sigge - a fowler with a punt
Young Sigge - his son whom Raoul helps to make the "Astrid"
"The Man Who Knew Too Much":
Lisette Buquet - Joseph Buquet's youngest daughter, dead of a fever
"The Daaé Case"
Jehoshaphat Perlman (Jos) - private investigator in the employ of Hammerstein
John McWhirter - his superior in the Hammerstein organization
René Pontpers - a Canadian employee
Lindy Weiss - reporter for the "Sun-Star"
Sally Speke - sister of an East Side gangster, Jos's one-time lover
Freddie Ashleigh - rich English-born New Yorker, husband to Sally
The Three Lavericks - knockabout vaudeville act
Signor Alessandro Bonci - Italian tenor
"In Regret, Always"
Rodolphe de Sessaies - Raoul's cousin
Simonov - New York heavy
"Mary Ann" - New York harbour tug
Valentin - old family retainer
Georges - manservant to Raoul and Gustave
Hänsl - young Bavarian, Gustave's former attendant
"Andromache", trans-Atlantic liner
Levancourt - acquisitive financier
Winston Hathersby - young Englishman who loses a fortune to Raoul
boulevard Mont-St-Fleury - Paris street
Mme Gualtier - matron in field-hospital
"Afterwards"
Jenny - nursery-maid to young Lucille and Thomas
Haversett - a stately home in the North
Coningsby - the nearest market town
"Familiar"
Count Kalloukratis - Prince Hans' purchased title (comes with the lordship of a small Mediterranean island)
Haydee - his wife
Sigurd II of Arendelle - Elsa's eldest son
"Coming back"
Elsa Peterssen - best friend of Mme Valerius as a girl
Torkelby - small town where Mme Valerius lived before she was married
Oskar Valerius - 'the Professor', Mme Valerius's dead husband
"The Writing on the Wall"
Cécile de Chagny - one of Raoul's sisters
Mme Suget - Raoul's governess
"With the Best Intentions"
Big Ed - senior newspaperman in Dayton, Ohio
"Chick nor Child"
Mr Jackson - Oxford graduate, Raoul's tutor
Perrette - wife (later widow) of Gaspard Edouart, responsible for Philippe's sexual initiation
Gaspard Edouart - tenant farmer at La Jouye on the Chagny estate
Agathe - Perrette's daughter by Philippe, the third of her children
Bertrand - Agathe's suitor (later her husband)
Charlot - Perrette and Gaspard's eldest son
Nanon - Perrette's second child, Agathe's elder sister
Suzanne de Chagny - Raoul's sister
Dieuville - nearby town
Guyon and Lavalle - two local yokels on board the coach
Count Gilles
Count Adhemar
Count Robert the Slow
Count Robert the Wild - some of Raoul's ancestors
Goody Frémas -- elderly village goodwife
Gabrielle - Charlot's daughter and one of Perrette's grand-daughters
Francine Renard - neighbour from the farm at Les Trois Pins
Louise - Agathe's eldest child and hence Philippe's illegitimate grand-daughter, who bears a telltale resemblance to his sister Suzanne
"What's in a Name?"
Chrysostome/Chryssot/Sot - the birth name of 'Erik' and its nicknames
the widow Gaudet - his father's mistress
Mother Guillemette - old village midwife
Père Lejeune - young village priest and schoolmaster
Vincent - boy with a harelip
Jean-Jacques - epileptic boy
the Armless Lady
the Amazing Mazzini
Simmy, the Living Skeleton - performers in the travelling circus
Guntram - midget and leader of the circus
Linnea - old woman, member of the circus
Jacques - Chrysostome's first attempt at a pseudonym
Kolzhak the Deathless - his first stage name
Henrik - the pseudonym he adopts after first leaving the circus
Mauritz - a drunken card sharp from Belgium who initially serves as his sideshow barker
Said Ali - his pseudonym while travelling among Pathans
Yuri Chernoruky (Yuri Black-Hand) - gang leader in Nizhny-Novgorod
Erik - young man killed by the protagonist, whom he impersonates
Darya - Erik's lover who has arranged his escape from the city
"White Knight"
Café Rambertin - grand restaurant in Paris
Julie Barthiaume - actress and guest of Liane
Julius Hirsch - partner in the firm of Hirsch & Ekelmann, guest of Liane
Martine Alvèry
Baron de Guilmes - guests of Liane
"My dear Vicky..."
Boris Simeonovych Lermontov - full patronymic of the character Lermontov
Mrs Hodges - theatrical landlady in London
Tildy - Lady Neston's cook
"The Choices of Raoul":
von Enck - passenger on board ship
Mathilde - old servant at Chagny
Célestine Bribot - milliner and cousin to Raoul's valet, servant on board ship
Mme de Vireville - society hostess
La Vespina - international soprano
Laurent de Beaupré - aristocrat, former owner of estate at Chamillon
Mrs Vanderbilt - passenger on board ship
Mrs Mannheimer
Mrs Elwood T. Burton (Mamie Burton)
Clementine Van Heusen - American matrons and bosom friends, passengers on board ship
Mrs Cunningham
Selina Cunningham - English mother and daughter, passengers on board ship
Hendrick - Dutch agent in Surinam, city of Paramaribo
"Arauca" - banana boat
"Valdez" - steel-hulled barque
"Prins Willem" - Dutch East Indies mail steamer
Gravesandestraat
Heerenstraat - streets in Paramaribo
"Waiting in the Wings":
Pieczinski - Polish stage manager at Phantasma
Spezzioni - gambler at Monte Carlo
"To Ease Your Troubled Mind":
Maître Tollot - family lawyer
Bertrand - former music student, Gustave's friend in WW1
Laure - Bertrand's sister, Gustave's fiancée
Jeanne Brassard - Raoul's housekeeper and former landlady
"Teach Me to Live":
'Nounou' - the children's nurse in Paris
Minette - the nursery cat
Zazie - rocking-horse zebra
Anne-Élisabeth de Chagny, 'Sainte-Anne' - Raoul and Christine's daughter
Groscek - Eastern European Jew, fellow passenger on board ship
Tante Emilie - Raoul's aunt in Lannion
rue de Chaverie - address of dockside hotel
Baptiste - manservant in Raoul's Paris house
"Count Philippe Takes a Hand":
rue de Valmy - address in Paris on the Rive Droite
de Castigné - casually malicious man-about-town
Mme Druet - plump Society gossip
Vardeaux - indiscreet but well-meaning man-about-town
Mme de Maleron - godmother of Vardeaux
Eustacie de Chagny - Philippe's wife, cousin on their mother's side
Pierre de Chagny - Eustacie and Philippe's young son
Georges Daaé
Sébastien Daaé (Bastien)
Lucie Daaé - Raoul and Christine's illegitimate children
"Raoul and the Soubrette":
Countess Sabine de Chagny - Philippe's neglected wife
Athénaïs Christine de Chagny - Philippe and Sabine's daughter
Raoul de Chagny - Raoul and Sabine's son, Philippe's heir
Lucien de Chagny (Luc) - Philippe and Sabine's belated son
"All the Rules Rearranged":
Boncarré - bankrupt friend of Raoul who ruined him
Senator Jackson - one of Meg's lovers in New York
Mrs Lila Morrison (Ma Morrison) - New York landlady
Father O'Meary - Catholic priest in New York
"The Sons of Éléonore":
Comtesse Éléonore de Moerogis de La Martynière - Raoul and Philippe's mother
Suzanne de Chagny
Héloïse de Chagny - Raoul and Philippe's sisters
Raoul-Hilaire-Marie de Chagny - Vicomte de Chagny
Gaulthier - family lawyer
Marguerite de Marsèmy (Tante Marguerite) - Raoul and Philippe's aunt in Brest
Roger de Marsèmy - her deceased husband, retired naval officer
Mr Jackson - Oxford graduate, Raoul's tutor
Perrette - wife of a tenant on the Chagny estate, responsible for Philippe's sexual initiation
"A Child of the Law":
rue de Carcerie - address of Javert's lodging in Montreuil-sur-mer
Mère Brassard - old woman living opposite
Mère Badeau - mother of an idiot son
Clothilde - laundress who insulted the deputy's wife
Mme Ducrocq - mother of a string of lumpen children
Marcine
Pierre (Pierrot) - two of her offspring
Nicolette - prettiest girl in school
Lise - the draper's daughter
M. Vaneris - the deputy representing Montreuil-sur-mer
"Newly Wed":
Drinon - mediæval chateau of the Chagny family
"A Family Man":
Sylvaine de Chagny - eldest daughter of Raoul and Christine
Patrice de Chagny - elder son of Raoul and Christine
Félix de Chagny - younger son of Raoul and Christine
Victoire de Chagny - youngest daughter of Raoul and Christine
Baudry - woodsman driving a team of Percherons
Tante Raymonde - Raoul's eldest sister
Bichette - her lapdog
Phyllide - daughter who died of scarlet fever in childhood
Tante Aline - Raoul's other elder sister
Hippolyte - stable-hand at Chagny
"There is no Phantom of the Opera":
Raoul-Achille-Honoré de Chagny - Vicomte de Chagny
Catherine Lanarchier - one of a pair of beautiful fortune-hunting sisters
"If I Were Vicomte":
Yann Le Coennec - a red-headed Breton fisher-boy of Perros-Guirec
"This Mask of Death"
Antoine - a shepherd of Perros-Guirec
Madeline Tricard - landlady of the Setting Sun
"Christmas as it ought not to be":
Clémence de Chagny
Albertine de Chagny - Raoul's sisters
"La Tauride" - frigate on colonial service
Martin Reviers - junior officer from Alsace
Jussy - officer promoted from the ranks
Thierry Côtard - captain of the frigate
"Colombe" - d'Artois' expedition vessel
Mme de Lael - solicitous dowager, mother-in-law of the Marquis d'Audray
Maurice d'Audray - cousin of the Marquis d'Audray and second husband to Clémence
Barthès
de Tailles
Ardmann - senders of various bills and items of correspondence to Philippe
de Menerie - woman who sent an unwanted invitation to Philippe
"Astrid" - pond yacht in Sweden
Alain de Chagny - Raoul and Christine's son
Old Sigge - a fowler with a punt
Young Sigge - his son whom Raoul helps to make the "Astrid"
"The Man Who Knew Too Much":
Lisette Buquet - Joseph Buquet's youngest daughter, dead of a fever
"The Daaé Case"
Jehoshaphat Perlman (Jos) - private investigator in the employ of Hammerstein
John McWhirter - his superior in the Hammerstein organization
René Pontpers - a Canadian employee
Lindy Weiss - reporter for the "Sun-Star"
Sally Speke - sister of an East Side gangster, Jos's one-time lover
Freddie Ashleigh - rich English-born New Yorker, husband to Sally
The Three Lavericks - knockabout vaudeville act
Signor Alessandro Bonci - Italian tenor
"In Regret, Always"
Rodolphe de Sessaies - Raoul's cousin
Simonov - New York heavy
"Mary Ann" - New York harbour tug
Valentin - old family retainer
Georges - manservant to Raoul and Gustave
Hänsl - young Bavarian, Gustave's former attendant
"Andromache", trans-Atlantic liner
Levancourt - acquisitive financier
Winston Hathersby - young Englishman who loses a fortune to Raoul
boulevard Mont-St-Fleury - Paris street
Mme Gualtier - matron in field-hospital
"Afterwards"
Jenny - nursery-maid to young Lucille and Thomas
Haversett - a stately home in the North
Coningsby - the nearest market town
"Familiar"
Count Kalloukratis - Prince Hans' purchased title (comes with the lordship of a small Mediterranean island)
Haydee - his wife
Sigurd II of Arendelle - Elsa's eldest son
"Coming back"
Elsa Peterssen - best friend of Mme Valerius as a girl
Torkelby - small town where Mme Valerius lived before she was married
Oskar Valerius - 'the Professor', Mme Valerius's dead husband
"The Writing on the Wall"
Cécile de Chagny - one of Raoul's sisters
Mme Suget - Raoul's governess
"With the Best Intentions"
Big Ed - senior newspaperman in Dayton, Ohio
"Chick nor Child"
Mr Jackson - Oxford graduate, Raoul's tutor
Perrette - wife (later widow) of Gaspard Edouart, responsible for Philippe's sexual initiation
Gaspard Edouart - tenant farmer at La Jouye on the Chagny estate
Agathe - Perrette's daughter by Philippe, the third of her children
Bertrand - Agathe's suitor (later her husband)
Charlot - Perrette and Gaspard's eldest son
Nanon - Perrette's second child, Agathe's elder sister
Suzanne de Chagny - Raoul's sister
Dieuville - nearby town
Guyon and Lavalle - two local yokels on board the coach
Count Gilles
Count Adhemar
Count Robert the Slow
Count Robert the Wild - some of Raoul's ancestors
Goody Frémas -- elderly village goodwife
Gabrielle - Charlot's daughter and one of Perrette's grand-daughters
Francine Renard - neighbour from the farm at Les Trois Pins
Louise - Agathe's eldest child and hence Philippe's illegitimate grand-daughter, who bears a telltale resemblance to his sister Suzanne
"What's in a Name?"
Chrysostome/Chryssot/Sot - the birth name of 'Erik' and its nicknames
the widow Gaudet - his father's mistress
Mother Guillemette - old village midwife
Père Lejeune - young village priest and schoolmaster
Vincent - boy with a harelip
Jean-Jacques - epileptic boy
the Armless Lady
the Amazing Mazzini
Simmy, the Living Skeleton - performers in the travelling circus
Guntram - midget and leader of the circus
Linnea - old woman, member of the circus
Jacques - Chrysostome's first attempt at a pseudonym
Kolzhak the Deathless - his first stage name
Henrik - the pseudonym he adopts after first leaving the circus
Mauritz - a drunken card sharp from Belgium who initially serves as his sideshow barker
Said Ali - his pseudonym while travelling among Pathans
Yuri Chernoruky (Yuri Black-Hand) - gang leader in Nizhny-Novgorod
Erik - young man killed by the protagonist, whom he impersonates
Darya - Erik's lover who has arranged his escape from the city
"White Knight"
Café Rambertin - grand restaurant in Paris
Julie Barthiaume - actress and guest of Liane
Julius Hirsch - partner in the firm of Hirsch & Ekelmann, guest of Liane
Martine Alvèry
Baron de Guilmes - guests of Liane
"My dear Vicky..."
Boris Simeonovych Lermontov - full patronymic of the character Lermontov
Mrs Hodges - theatrical landlady in London
Tildy - Lady Neston's cook
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Luckily they're in different canons, so it's not too bad.