Walter is a private detective hired by Madame Benoît-Lambert to collect evidence for her divorce. He follows JBL and Laura Weber, photographs JBL meeting people connected with GTI, and later tells Paul that two men accompanied JBL before his apparent suicide, making Walter a key source in the investigation.
The protagonist, a middle-aged aerodynamics tester whose overwhelming obsession with pursuing women drives his life, relationships, and ultimately leads to his fatal accident.
Jacques Valin is the central character, a real-estate worker who marries Viviane. He grows detached from ordinary relationships, disappears for three days, and returns convinced that he has begun to live differently. After Viviane leaves, he develops beliefs about seeing through walls and needing almost no food, which he explains to the doctor.
Claude's Jewish father, who helps send his son to the countryside to protect him from Nazi persecution.
A womanizing artist and member of the hunting group. Julie becomes his model, but rebuffs his affection and kills him by shooting an arrow into his back.
A respectable middle-aged man who kills middle-class women under assumed names to steal their money. He murders ten women and a boy, burns their bodies, and funds his wife, mistress, and four children through the theft. After his capture, he stands trial and eloquently protests his innocence, confident his intellect and breeding will secure his acquittal.
Robert Goldman is a shy and inexperienced client of the matchmaking agency, eager but uncertain about finding a partner. He considers meeting a schoolteacher, mentions a nurse encountered at the Pasteur Institute, and struggles to learn dancing, introductions, and confidence. His worries about work, money, age, and family expectations reveal his anxious search for companionship.
Begins as a silent-film era camera operator killed in WWI, later revealed as David Goldman. He survives the war, connects with Rachel as fellow concentration camp survivors, and they marry. He becomes a successful footwear manufacturer, raises Sarah after her mother dies in childbirth, and eventually dies of a heart attack, leaving her his fortune.
Businessman who attempts to exploit Robert's infidelity scandal to pressure M. Jean into selling the salon for his retail expansion.
A fake American agent involved in the hunt for the Blue Panther. He joins the group of international spies and criminals relentlessly tracking Marie-Chantal across Europe and North Africa.
Bart's faithful friend who assists him in conducting a personal investigation after the heir is framed for drug trafficking upon his arrival in Paris.
A swindler and former associate of Lépidon, Reynald Manecca possesses documents capable of proving a fraud. Mado is strongly attached to him, yet she enables Simon Léotard to obtain the compromising material. Once the documents help Simon challenge Lépidon's network, Manecca is killed by Lépidon's men.
Charles Denner has 51 screen credits in a career dating back to 1954. Their work is anchored in the Claude Langmann universe with 2 titles. Signature works include The Man Who Loved Women, The Night Caller, Life Upside Down. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.
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