Principal Characters
- Three Evangelists series
- Marc Vandoosler, known as Saint-Mark: Historian specialising in medieval life
- Lucien Devernois, known as Saint-Luke: Historian specialising in World War I (inspired by Vargas's brother Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau)
- Matthias Delamarre, known as Saint Matthew: Historian specialising in prehistory
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- These three characters, christened the Evangelists, live in the same house, The Disgrace with Old Man Vandoosler
- Armand Vandoosler: former police Commissaire, Marc's godfather, epicurean and oddball
- Ludwig Kehlweiler: former policeman with a national network of informants and a toad Buffo
- Adamsberg series
- Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg: peripatetic police chief, with Zen research methods
- Adrien Danglard: methodical police inspector, Adamsberg's deputy. Divorced, father of five children and conspicuous white wine consumer
- Camille Forestier: a musician/plumber who has a turbulent relationship with Adamsberg.
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