Marie-Madeleine Fabre
Names: Marie-Madeleine FabreSunnysweetheartMommyMamanMomMarie-MadeleineMarieMarie Remillard
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 8 (7)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 8A quiet, pretty girl who shares Rogatien's love of science fiction; she dated him chastely, taught him bird-watching and prayed for him when ill.
- Ch 10Marie-Madeleine, called Sunny by Rogi, chose Don over Rogi and begs Rogi to remain her dearest friend and brother.
- Ch 12She is an eighteen-year-old fair-haired young wife who refuses to believe Rogi's account of telepathy and fears him, though she is devoted to Don and Denis.
- Ch 12Sunny warmly backs Don's suggestion and urges Rogi to agree to help.
- Ch 15Sunny supported Denis's learning, buying an encyclopedia and taking him on outings; she never reproached Don for his drinking.
- Ch 15Sunny learned mindspeech from Denis, who taught her telepathy in secret; she can only mindspeak with him.
- Ch 15Sunny knocked the drugged cocoa from Don's hand after Denis warned her, and was expecting another child.
- Ch 20Sunny, Denis's mother, has withdrawn from mindspeaking with him and retreats into fatalism, prayers and soap operas; Rogi expects her to be pregnant again within a year.
- Ch 20Sunny once apologised to Rogi for falling in love with Don, saying that when the thunderbolt strikes there is no resisting.
- Ch 30Sunny, 41, is Don's wife of twenty-three years and waits tables at the Androscoggin Kitchen; she loves Don and keeps trying to get him into treatment.
- Ch 31Sunny is Don's widow and mother of ten children, supported at the funeral by Victor and Denis.
- Ch 52Widowed mother of Denis and Victor; had long screened her innermost thoughts, fears Victor, and was misdiagnosed as simply depressed.
- Ch 52Refused to leave her five remaining children in Victor's charge, so she would not enter long-term therapy in Hanover.
- Ch 52Sunny is Victor's mother, whose life the rescuer says Rogi probably saved by resisting Victor.
- Ch 58Broken by the deaths, Sunny lost touch with reality and lived her last months with Denis and Lucille in Hanover, dying the following March.
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 6Marc's sensible twelve-year-old sister, writing her first novel at the grandparents' summer place; she dismisses his premonition as mental indigestion.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 9Marie is Paul's second-born, a Dartmouth history professor who secretly writes gothic novels.
- Ch 22Marie is Marc's sister; she refused to donate ova, being puritanical about incest and no great Milieu loyalist.
Connections
- partner ofRogi Remillardchaste dating
- partner ofDonengaged to be married
- family ofDonmarried; parents of Denis
- family ofDenisson
- family ofVictorson
- related toDonDon borrowed Sunny's car; she works at a restaurant
- family ofRogi Remillard
- family ofMarcbrother
- family ofJacksister
- family ofThe Family GhostThe Ghost calls Marie his sister
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 10Rogi's farewell to Sunny
By the river, Marie-Madeleine begs Rogi to accept her marriage to Don; Rogi, resolved to kill Don, pretends to agree and says goodbye.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Rogi reveals the truth to Sunny
Rogi tells Sunny about telepathy and Denis's gifts; she denies it, so he uses PK and coercion, calms her, and persuades her to have Don teach Denis.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Don agrees to teach Denis
Rogi tells Don; after an argument, Sunny's passionate defense wins Don over and he agrees to mindspeak with Denis.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Rogi agrees to help teach the kid
Don suggests Rogi join him and Sunny in teaching the kid. After a mental plea from the bedroom, Rogi gives in and agrees, and Don turns to asking about supper.
- Book 1 · Ch 15The LSD cocoa incident
In February 1970 Don offered Rogi cocoa laced with LSD. Denis had read the plan from Don's mind and warned Sunny, who slapped the cup away. Her telepathy training by Denis was revealed.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Don bars Rogi from the house
After Denis coerced Don never to harm him, Don ended Rogi's evening visits and announced Sunny's pregnancy. Denis privately told Rogi they would find a way to continue.
- Book 1 · Ch 30Don pleads with Sunny and flees
Don persuades Sunny to arrange for Denis to meet them, but sees Victor's black van arrive and flees in her Escort toward the north woods.
- Book 1 · Ch 30Victor calms Sunny and enlists Denis
Victor comforts Sunny, has Denis phoned to track Don with seekersense, and takes his mother home. Don wakes at dawn somewhere in the woods.
- Book 1 · Ch 31Don's funeral
Don is buried with a large attendance; Denis and Victor's coercion helps produce a verdict of death by misadventure.
- Book 1 · Ch 52Victor abducts Rogatien
Victor finds Rogatien drunk, overrides his mind, confesses to murdering his sisters, and forces him to leave for Berlin to be used against Sunny's resistance.
- Book 1 · Ch 58George and Pauline die
Told of her fate by Pauline, George bought a shotgun and killed her and himself by the Androscoggin River. Victor destroyed their note; Sunny later declined and died in March.
- Book 2 · Ch 26Marc reveals secret to siblings
Marc tells Marie, Maddy and Luc that their mother is alive and pregnant, then blocks their minds to prevent leaks.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Christmas Eve réveillon at the farm
After midnight mass, the family gathers at Marie's farm; Rogi detects a mindscreened cellar while one by one the conspirators slip away.
- Book 4 · Ch 35Rogi finishes the manuscript and bids the Ghost farewell
Rogi completes the account for the Family Ghost, is told to give it to Marie for publication, learns of the Lylmik helpers, and shares a farewell handshake with the departing Ghost.