Louis Remillard
Names: Louis RemillardOne' Louie
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 4 (3)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
B4
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 4Foreman at the Berlin paper mill who raised the orphaned twins alongside his six children in a Second Street apartment.
- Ch 6One' Louie is the hard-drinking foster father of the twins, who berates them for nearly flunking fifth grade and shames them with their dead parents.
- Ch 8Don sometimes nudges One' Louie by coercion to give him money when he is half drunk.
Connections
- family ofRogi Remillarduncle who adopted him
- family ofTante Lorrainemarried
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 4Birth of the twins
Rogatien and Donatien were born in Berlin, NH on 12 August 1945; their mother Adèle died in childbirth, and they were taken in by Uncle Louis.
- Book 1 · Ch 6Failing grades and Don's blasphemy
One' Louie scolds the twins over failing grades. On the porch Don blames God for their minds; Rogi shuts him out and goes inside.
- Book 1 · Ch 8Remillard Christmas reunion and mumps
In 1961 the extended family gathers for Christmas. Seventeen days later the five young cousins get mumps; Rogatien develops severe bilateral orchitis.