Silvère Mouret

Youngest son of Ursule Macquart. He was a sickly child of six when his mother died. He was brought up by Adélaide who was by this time 75 years old. Silvère called her Aunt Didé. He was apprenticed to Vian as a wheelwright. He met and fell in love with Miette who lived over the wall from the shack his grandmother lived in. Encouraged by his uncle, Antoine Macquart, he took up the revolutionary cause. When he was 16 Antoine had him admitted to the secret society of the Montagnards.
During the insurrection he took his grandfather's gun and marched with the insurgents (and Miette) to Orchères. Here he wounded the gendarme Rengade and this was eventually to cost him his life. Rengade had his revenge when the insurrection was put down and shot Silvère after he had been taken prisoner. He died still thinking of the recently killed Miette.