A polished young aristocrat of ancient blood who owes his life to Maximilian Morrel in Africa.
Château-Renaud is a handsome young aristocrat of about thirty, 'gentleman all over,' his nobility reaching back to the twelve peers and the Round Table. He arrives at Albert de Morcerf's breakfast bringing his 'preserver,' Captain Maximilian Morrel, and recounts how, retreating on foot near Constantine after his horse died of cold, six Arabs rode him down to cut off his head—two already seized him when Morrel charged in, shot one and clove the other's skull, then gave him his cloak and shared his dead horse for food. Worldly and aristocratic, he reads the count at a glance as 'a most singular being' and 'one of the most extraordinary men I ever saw.' It was he whose duel once forced seconds to break the arm of Franz d'Épinay.
A handsome young man of about thirty with the figure of a courtier and short-cropped hair (worn short since an Arab seized it in battle), the polished bearing of ancient nobility.
A high-born Parisian gentleman and Morrel's grateful friend, one of Albert's circle.