The Mysteries of Udolpho

The Mysteries of Udolpho

by

Ann Radcliffe

Madame St. Aubert Character Analysis

Emily’s mother and St. Aubert’s wife is kind and generous. She married St. Aubert for love rather than money. Madame St. Aubert dies of a mysterious illness, but she dies peacefully and attempts to impart any wisdom that she can to her daughter before she passes. Days before she dies, she loses a bracelet featuring a miniature portrait of Emily. The miniature’s fate becomes one of the first mysteries of the novel.

Madame St. Aubert Quotes in The Mysteries of Udolpho

The The Mysteries of Udolpho quotes below are all either spoken by Madame St. Aubert or refer to Madame St. Aubert. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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).
Volume 1, Chapter 1 Quotes

On the pleasant banks of the Garonne, in the province of Gascony, stood, in the year 1584, the chateau of Monsieur St. Aubert. From its windows were seen the pastoral landscapes of Guienne and Gascony stretching along the river, gay with luxuriant woods and vine, and plantations of olives. To the south, the view was bounded by the majestic Pyrenees, whose summits, veiled in clouds, or exhibiting awful forms, seen, and lost again, as the partial vapours rolled along, were sometimes barren, and gleamed through the blue tinge of air, and sometimes frowned with forests of gloomy pine, that swept downward to their base.

Related Characters: Emily St. Aubert, St. Aubert, Madame St. Aubert
Page Number: 1
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Volume 1, Chapter 2 Quotes

St. Aubert gazed earnestly and tenderly upon his portrait, put it to his lips, and then to his heart, and sighed with a convulsive force. Emily could scarcely believe what she saw to be real. She never knew till now that he had a picture of any other lady than her mother, much less that he had one which he evidently valued so highly; but having looked repeatedly, to be certain that it was not the resemblance of Madame St. Aubert, she became entirely convinced that it was designed for that of some other person.

At length St. Aubert returned the picture to its case; and Emily, recollecting that she was intruding upon his private sorrows, softly withdrew from the chamber.

Related Characters: Emily St. Aubert, St. Aubert, Madame St. Aubert, Marchioness De Villeroi
Related Symbols: Miniature
Page Number: 26
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Volume 1, Chapter 3 Quotes

“Do not give me the pain of knowing, sir,” said he, “that an invalid, like you, lies on hard skins, while I sleep in a bed. Besides, sir, your refusal wounds my pride; I must believe you think my offer unworthy your acceptance. Let me show you the way. I have no doubt my landlady can accommodate this young lady also.”

Related Characters: Valancourt (speaker), Emily St. Aubert, St. Aubert, Madame St. Aubert
Page Number: 33
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Madame St. Aubert Quotes in The Mysteries of Udolpho

The The Mysteries of Udolpho quotes below are all either spoken by Madame St. Aubert or refer to Madame St. Aubert. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Marriage, Love, and Inheritance Theme Icon
).
Volume 1, Chapter 1 Quotes

On the pleasant banks of the Garonne, in the province of Gascony, stood, in the year 1584, the chateau of Monsieur St. Aubert. From its windows were seen the pastoral landscapes of Guienne and Gascony stretching along the river, gay with luxuriant woods and vine, and plantations of olives. To the south, the view was bounded by the majestic Pyrenees, whose summits, veiled in clouds, or exhibiting awful forms, seen, and lost again, as the partial vapours rolled along, were sometimes barren, and gleamed through the blue tinge of air, and sometimes frowned with forests of gloomy pine, that swept downward to their base.

Related Characters: Emily St. Aubert, St. Aubert, Madame St. Aubert
Page Number: 1
Explanation and Analysis:
Volume 1, Chapter 2 Quotes

St. Aubert gazed earnestly and tenderly upon his portrait, put it to his lips, and then to his heart, and sighed with a convulsive force. Emily could scarcely believe what she saw to be real. She never knew till now that he had a picture of any other lady than her mother, much less that he had one which he evidently valued so highly; but having looked repeatedly, to be certain that it was not the resemblance of Madame St. Aubert, she became entirely convinced that it was designed for that of some other person.

At length St. Aubert returned the picture to its case; and Emily, recollecting that she was intruding upon his private sorrows, softly withdrew from the chamber.

Related Characters: Emily St. Aubert, St. Aubert, Madame St. Aubert, Marchioness De Villeroi
Related Symbols: Miniature
Page Number: 26
Explanation and Analysis:
Volume 1, Chapter 3 Quotes

“Do not give me the pain of knowing, sir,” said he, “that an invalid, like you, lies on hard skins, while I sleep in a bed. Besides, sir, your refusal wounds my pride; I must believe you think my offer unworthy your acceptance. Let me show you the way. I have no doubt my landlady can accommodate this young lady also.”

Related Characters: Valancourt (speaker), Emily St. Aubert, St. Aubert, Madame St. Aubert
Page Number: 33
Explanation and Analysis: