Perrin
Perrin is the local oven-master and owns the only clay oven in town. He is husband to Marion and father of Blanche, and he is known for having been somewhat miserly and calculating even as a child — he married Marion, three years his elder, and fathered a child at fifteen, and it remains a mystery how a beardless youth like Perrin could have charmed the then-famous-for-her-coldness Marion. Perrin has ambitions to marry Blanche to Gaston in order to consolidate even more of the village infrastructure into his household but the rest of the village opposes this for obvious reasons. Perrin’s miserliness does not extend to his daughter and she wears clothing dyed bright in Vauclerc.