Alexandre Manette

Alexandre Manette
First appearanceA Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Created byCharles Dickens
In-universe information
GenderMale
TitleDoctor
OccupationPhysician
FamilyLucie Manette (daughter)
Charles Darnay (son-in-law)
SpouseUnnamed wife (deceased)
NationalityFrench

Doctor Alexandre Manette is a character in Charles Dickens' 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities. He is Lucie's father, a brilliant physician, and spent eighteen years "in secret" as a prisoner in the Bastille prior to the French Revolution. He is imprisoned because in the course of his medical practice he learns of abusive actions by two members of the aristocratic Evrémonde family. While realizing the power at court of nobles such as the Evrémondes, Manette reports them to a minister of the royal government. He is seized from his young family and imprisoned under a lettre de cachet.

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