Cimourdain

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Cimourdain is a stern, fanatically principled former priest who serves as a revolutionary commissar and embodies the tragic rigidity of ideological justice in Victor Hugo’s novel "Quatrevingt-treize."

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instanceOf fictional character
literary character
appearsIn Quatrevingt-treize NERFINISHED
appearsInLanguage French
associatedWith French Revolution NERFINISHED
Reign of Terror NERFINISHED
authorNationality French
characterTrait austere
fanatically principled
rigid
stern
unyielding sense of justice
creator Victor Hugo NERFINISHED
fictionalUniverse French Revolution in Victor Hugo’s works
genreOfWork historical novel
hasTheme justice versus mercy
moral absolutism
revolutionary fanaticism
tragedy of ideological purity
ideology radical republicanism
revolutionary Jacobinism
literaryPeriod 19th-century French literature
medium novel
moralAlignment devoted to abstract justice over individual mercy
narrativeFunction embodiment of inflexible revolutionary law
tragic figure of ideological absolutism
nationality French
occupation priest
revolutionary commissar
religiousBackground former Catholic priest
represents conflict between duty and compassion
ideological rigidity
revolutionary justice
roleInWork revolutionary commissar overseeing Gauvain
workPublicationYear 1874

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Quatrevingt-treize mainCharacter Cimourdain