Lucille
Names: LucilleLucille CarrierLucille CartierSubject CLuceLucille RemillardMadame la DoctoresseGrandmèreGrandmaGrandmère LucilleMamaProfessor Cartier
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 2 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 15Lucille Carrier became Denis's wife; some Milieu historians claim her psychic impetus was needed for Denis's great work.
- Ch 26A stubborn Nashua girl a year younger than Denis, found in 1979; she would become his closest colleague, wife, and mother of the Seven Founding Magnates.
- Ch 29Lucille is a Dartmouth student returning for her senior year, in counseling for anxiety and insomnia, and is afraid of Remillard and his Coterie.
- Ch 29Lucille believes she started a house fire at thirteen with her unconscious mind, after nightmares of burning as Joan of Arc.
- Ch 29Lucille can do minor telepathy, melt ice cubes and jiggle tables, but wants a normal life and to study biochemistry.
- Ch 29Lucille had hidden her fire symptom and Remillard's harassment from Dr. Sampson; the fire nightmares returned at home during the summer.
- Ch 29Lucille perceives Remillard's private 'mental signature' and sensed he was not at his laboratory that day.
- Ch 35Lucille, a talented psychic subject of Denis, is in love with psychiatrist Bill Sampson, but the Ghost says she must marry Denis.
- Ch 36Lucille began operancy training at the Dartmouth lab four months earlier, on her analyst's advice, to raise her latent mind-powers; her creativity remains unreliable.
- Ch 36Lucille is secretly committed to marrying her analyst Bill Sampson; she refuses his ring while still his patient. Her parents disapprove and fear her.
- Ch 36Lucille dislikes Denis Remillard, the lab's young director, though she respects his brilliance; she is afraid of his mind.
- Ch 36Lucille's angry outburst energizes her creativity inadvertently, causing all the cats in the Cat House to shriek in terror, though none are harmed.
- Ch 45Lucille, the only one to notice Rogatien's absence, came to his apartment, cleaned it, dumped his liquor, and coerced him into showering, drinking coffee and eating.
- Ch 45Lucille is a student and talented experimental subject, not a full Coterie member, who likes dragon fantasy novels and once rejected Denis and Rogatien when they first dowsed her.
- Ch 45Lucille nursed her invalid father for years and is in analysis with Dr. Bill Sampson, whom she credits with helping her 'lick my dragons'.
- Ch 45Lucille wants Rogatien to meet Sampson at three o'clock that afternoon and says she will not coerce him into coming.
- Ch 47Lucille is a psychologist, newly a Ph.D., and operant, working on a creativity project at the Metapsychic Lab; she is engaged to Bill Sampson.
- Ch 47Lucille attacked Rogatien's mind with a powerful coercive-redactive probe taught by Denis, but he resisted it, protecting his secret about Ghost.
- Ch 47Lucille fled the shop in tears because her relationship with Bill Sampson is faltering badly, and she blames Rogatien.
- Ch 47Lucille endured a stormy breakup with Bill Sampson, later forgave Roger, and gave him a Maine Coon kitten at Christmas 1992.
- Ch 52Identified in Denis's lab as 'Subject C', whose inadvertent creative flame projections were cited at Weinstein's trial; her identity was disclosed only to the judge.
- Ch 53Lucille is a brilliant Dartmouth colleague of Denis, whose metafunctions are strong where his are weak, sexually experienced, passionate, and once despised him.
- Ch 54Lucille was braver and more creatively insightful than Denis; she later became the grande dame of metapsychic society and a clan matriarch.
- Ch 54Lucille has a temper that could literally set a house afire.
- Ch 54Lucille is still alive in the Centennial Intervention Year, honored as a pioneer.
- Ch 58Lucille served on the investigating committee and opened her personal psychocreative case history to it, which required courage; the committee kept it out of the public record.
- Ch 58Lucille pressed Denis to confront Victor to help Sunny and the nonoperant siblings, even if violence resulted.
- Ch 60Wife of Denis Remillard; a doctor and metapsychic operant who has a baby son, Severin, and feels the honors come too late to help.
- Ch 67Lucille is pregnant again, so Denis will not ask her to join the dangerous excursion.
- Ch 75Lucille is anxious about the demonstrators chanting 'Off the heads' outside; Denis comforts her with redactive calm.
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 5Lucille, Denis's wife, is in a regeneration tank for nine months and will return young; this is the first Good Friday she misses.
- Ch 6Marc's grandmother and Teresa's mother-in-law; she discovered the pregnancy and pushes abortion to shield Teresa and the family from legal consequences.
- Ch 7Lucille scanned the fetus with redactive deepsense, detected only chaotic embryonic cycling, and went to fetch Severin to perform an abortion.
- Ch 10Lucille is the formidable Remillard matriarch who guessed Teresa's disappearance and told Paul of the illegal pregnancy.
- Ch 18Lucille discovered that the swansdown bunting was missing from Teresa's cedar chest and that camping and woodcraft books were downloaded the day of the disappearance.
- Ch 21She felt queasy and sensed something awful about to happen at the dinner, attributing it to maleficent vibes in the aether.
- Ch 23Lucille supervises Marc's motherless younger siblings and has made herself Paul's hostess, taking an apartment beside his with Denis.
- Ch 28Lucille wears a fifteen-kilo beaded gown and cape and five-kilo hat, supporting them with constant PK.
- Ch 28Lucille asked the Lylmik who murdered her son-in-law and Margaret Strayhorn; Trend says he has no data on those crimes.
- Ch 36She answered No to the tenth question (suspecting a family connection to the murders) and the mind-ream showed she lied.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 8Lucille, Paul's mother, is an arbiter of taste who called Paul's cottage a bastard cross between a Swiss chalet and a wedding cake.
- Ch 12Lucille is Denis's wife of sixty-eight years, rejuvenated by a third regeneration a year earlier; she sympathizes somewhat with the Rebel faction.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 9Lucille, Paul's mother, organized the Edwardian-themed wedding and is in charge of arrangements.
- Ch 10Lucille organizes the wedding procession as self-appointed mistress of ceremonies, using a parasol like a baton.
- Ch 16Lucille has been married to Denis for eighty-three years and is a matriarch with thirty-nine great-great-grandchildren; she is weary of immortality and admits she clung to family power too long.
- Ch 16Lucille urges Denis to become a Magnate of the Concilium to counter Rebel leaders and champion Unity.
- Ch 17Lucille entered the cellar, saw the protective equipment and demanded to know what had been done to Denis.
Connections
- partner ofDenislater wife
- related toDr. Sampsonpatient and counselor
- enemy ofDartmouth Coterieshe resists their recruitment
- family ofMike LoPrestiyounger brother
- family ofLucille's fatherfather
- partner ofDr. Sampsonalso his patient
- related toVigdis Skaugstadmentor and trainer
- friend ofMinou
- related toDartmouth Coterieexperimental subject, not a full member
- friend ofRogi Remillard
- friend ofUme Kimuracoworkers and close friends
- member ofMetapsychic Lab
- related toDeniscolleague he plans to propose to
- family ofDenismarried 22 July 1995
- family ofTeresamother-in-law
- family ofMarcgrandson
- ally ofSeverin
- family ofPaulson
- family ofCatherinedaughter
- friend ofDenis
- family ofAnnedaughter
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 26Founding of the Dartmouth Coterie
Using seekersense from 1979, Denis locates Glenn Dalembert, Sally Doyle and others, then more operants at Dartmouth, forming the Coterie.
- Book 1 · Ch 29Lucille defies the Coterie
Lucille bikes to Remillard's laboratory building, mentally defies him and rudely gestures at it, then realizes he isn't there.
- Book 1 · Ch 29Lucille confesses her fire-raising
In therapy Lucille tells Sampson about the childhood house fire she believes she caused psychokinetically and her fear of Remillard. Sampson offers to quietly inquire about Remillard's subjects.
- Book 1 · Ch 35The Ghost reveals the Remillards' destiny
At 15 East South Street, the Ghost foretells the Denis–Lucille marriage, their descendants leading the Human Polity, and tasks Rogi with steering Lucille away from Sampson. It explains the Milieu and the coming Great Intervention.
- Book 1 · Ch 36Lucille and Minou materialize a mouse
In a controlled test, Lucille and the kitten Minou jointly create a mouse simulacrum that gains measurable mass and is pounced on by Minou, confirming a human-animal metaconcert.
- Book 1 · Ch 36Lucille frightens the cats
Upset by her parents' disapproval and by Vigdis's warning that normals cannot truly love operants, Lucille unintentionally triggers her creativity and terrifies all the cats in the Cat House.
- Book 1 · Ch 36Denis probes Lucille
Denis tells Lucille of the Army's Mind Wars recruitment, then coercively reads her mind to confirm she has not been suborned, leaving her humiliated and uncertain whether she belongs among operants.
- Book 1 · Ch 45Lucille rescues Rogatien
Lucille finds Rogatien in a drunken stupor days after the taping, cleans him and his flat, feeds him by coercion, and proposes he see her analyst Sampson that afternoon.
- Book 1 · Ch 45Rogatien realizes his task
Hearing Lucille mention Sampson, Rogatien understands that she is the dragon that sent him on his drunken gesture and that he must separate her from Sampson by revealing the truth about operancy.
- Book 1 · Ch 47Lucille and Ume visit Rogatien's bookshop
On 21 September 1992 Lucille and Ume asked Rogatien to join their creativity experiments. Lucille tried a coercive probe, which he resisted, then fled in tears over Sampson. Rogatien admitted to Ume that he interfered.
- Book 1 · Ch 47Roger agrees to the experiments
Ume persuades Roger to join her creativity experiments, promising to keep Lucille away and respect his wish for noninvolvement.
- Book 1 · Ch 47Experiments fail; Lucille reconciles
After eight weeks Roger is dismissed as a nonstarter. Lucille forgives him and gives him a kitten at Christmas 1992.
- Book 1 · Ch 53Denis decides to marry Lucille
After debating whether he owes humanity offspring, Denis decides on a eugenic marriage to Lucille and asks Ellsworth to officiate.
- Book 1 · Ch 54Wedding of Denis and Lucille
On 22 July 1995, Denis Remillard and Lucille Cartier wed in Hanover's Catholic church, attended by Glenn Dalembert and Ume Kimura, then left for a symposium in Brussels.
- Book 1 · Ch 54Starting a family
The couple bought 15 East South Street in 1996 and had six children between 1997 and 2011, following their Prenatal Curriculum, with a stillbirth and a miscarriage in between.
- Book 1 · Ch 58UN committee analyzes the Retributory Incident
After a year-long investigation, Soviet forensics found the assassination was by explosive, and a UN committee concluded the killer was incinerated by operants' concerted psychoenergy, recommending legal and ethical study.
- Book 1 · Ch 60Nobel ceremony in Stockholm
At the Konserthuset, Queen Victoria Ingrid presents the 2003 Nobel Prizes; Xiong Ping-yung and Denis Remillard receive theirs while Lucille and Gerry watch from the loges amid the backlash against operants.
- Book 1 · Ch 60Gerry reveals his plans
On the intimate mental mode, Gerry tells Lucille he is divorcing, will marry Shannon, leave Dartmouth for Cambridge, and run for Congress, shocking her.
- Book 1 · Ch 63Central Asian and Azerbaidzhán uprisings
Alma-Ata's university is bombed and Baku's oil facilities are struck in coordinated attacks. The Coterie watches by excorporeal farsensing, and Barnes collapses from the horror.
- Book 1 · Ch 75Breakfast amid tension
The Remillard family breakfasts uneasily as pickets gather again. Denis offers to send the boys home, but Severin stays, and Rogi takes him to help set up for MacGregor's demonstration.
- Book 1 · Ch 75Denis is summoned by the President
As security tightens around the hotel, Denis is paged and goes to take a secure call from the President, leaving Lucille worried he will miss his speech.
- Book 1 · Ch 77Denis proposes a pacifist grand metaconcert
Besieged in the chalet, Denis tells the delegates that Victor and Kieran are behind the attack and proposes a worldwide non-coercive metaconcert to reach the attackers' hearts, if the group chooses to uphold the Ethic.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Marc spies on Lucille and Teresa
Marc secretly scans his mother and grandmother, learning Teresa is five months pregnant illegally and that Lucille and Severin plan an abortion the next morning.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Marc reveals the pregnancy
On the drive, Marc explains that Teresa is five months pregnant, that Lucille and Severin plan an abortion, and that he finds the fetus extraordinary and opposes aborting it; Rogi is unconvinced.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Remillard family conference
The seven siblings and parents learn Teresa and Rogi are alive, Paul decides not to report them, Anne is assigned to take Marc to Orb, and Catherine accepts her Concilium duty.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Denis reveals the ash-pattern link to Victor
Denis tells Philip, Maurice, Severin and Lucille that Brett's ash patterns match Shannon's, killed by Victor, and fears Victor's mind passed to a family member.
- Book 2 · Ch 21Dinner party at the President's House
Socorro Ortega hosts a Mesoamerican dinner for the Poltroyans, MacGregors and Remillards; talk covers Poltroyan fetal education, proctor races and coadunation, and Margaret's pregnancy is toasted.
- Book 2 · Ch 23Paul reports Margaret's death
Paul tells Lucille that Margaret is dead, apparently a suicide, while Marc listens by farsense.
- Book 2 · Ch 28Lylmik hint at Denis's secret return
Homologous Trend suggests to Lucille that Denis could go home to Earth with the Poltroyans Fred and Minnie, who can evade security undetected.
- Book 2 · Ch 33Pardon denied
Paul reports to the family that the Directorate voted five to four against pardoning Teresa and Rogi. Denis expects clemency from Davy MacGregor, and Teresa plans to sing Turandot.
- Book 2 · Ch 36Remillard family mind-ream interrogation
On October 19 the family is tested with the mechanical mind-ream on ten questions about Fury, Hydra and the murders; Lucille Cartier is caught lying on the tenth question.
- Book 2 · Ch 44Marc wakes in hospital
Marc wakes after the race crash, learns his injuries and that his attacker was his cousin Gordo, who died. Family visits and advises him to tell police only facts.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Saint Patrick's Day party at Orb
The Remillards attend the Poltroyans' Irish-themed party; Denis and Lucille avoid Rory Muldowney and discuss Marc, Unity and the Hydra.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Halloween party on Orcas Island
Marc hosts a masquerade for metas at his house. Satsuma visitors, Dynasty members and friends mingle in costume.
- Book 3 · Ch 21Anne's account of Fury's temptation
Anne recounts dreams of Pallas Athene from 2054–2058 offering a Second Milieu, her realization that Athene was Fury, her breakdown, recovery with her parents and entry into the Jesuits.
- Book 4 · Ch 16Lucille persuades Denis
Before midnight mass, Lucille urges Denis to become a Concilium Magnate to champion Unity against the Rebels; he agrees if the Lylmik ask again.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Denis's faked death
After Denis vanishes, Lucille confronts the narrator. Jack fabricates a body, Severin signs the death certificate, and the First Magnate arranges formalities. Fake ashes are interred in Berlin, New Hampshire, and memorials follow.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Death of the new entity
The narrator reveals that Denis's foster-son-narrated successor entity finally died in autumn 2082 on Mount Washington, where his true ashes were buried.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Departure for Okanagon
Jack and Dorothea return the Carbuncle to Rogi, collect Paul after verifying his neural recovery, and set out to confront Marc.