Characters
- Eugénie, a fifteen year old girl, who at the beginning of the dialogue is a virgin, naive of all things sexual, who has been brought up by her mother to be well-mannered, modest and obedient.
- Madame de Saint-Ange, a 26-year-old libertine woman who is the owner of the house and bedroom in which the dialogue is set. She invites Eugénie for a two-day course on being libertine.
- Le Chevalier de Mirval, Madame de Saint-Ange's 20-year-old brother. He aids his sister and Dolmancé on the ordeal of "educating" Eugénie.
- Dolmancé, a 36-year-old atheist and homosexual, and friend of Le Chevalier's. He is Eugénie's foremost teacher and "educator".
- Madame de Mistival, Eugénie's provincial, self-righteous mother.
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