"You think you know me, but you don't know the first thing about me. You have no idea where I came from, what I came from, or what I had to do to become who I am today."[1]- Jacques du Marquis
Jacques du Marquis was a Grande Armée general of an unknown battalion
Appearance[]
"For a man with such an intimidating reputation, his physicality was a bit disappointing. He was a short man with large gray eyes and big hands. He wore a large rounded hat that was broader than his shoulders and several badges of honor were displayed on his tiny uniform. He removed his hat and placed it on top of the desk, revealing a perfectly bald head."[2]
Jacques du Marquis was a short, pale French man with grey eyes, bing hands and a perfectly bald head. Despite his short stature, his gaze was capable of intimidating anyone. He dressed a ancient costume for the French Empire.
As a child he was very small, extremely thin, pale and sickly with his eye swollen from a beating and his clothes torn, dirty and full of tatters.
Personality[]
Jacques is a codisious, ambisious, cruel and ruthless man, his ambition to have a legacy was so great that it led him to want to conquer the world of fairy tales. However, his ambition and pride were also his greatest weakness, as they were what allowed the masked man to manipulate him into getting what he wanted.
in his childhood he was a fearful and fragile child, growing up on the streets shaped him to become the ruthless general he was.
Relationships[]
He is the commander of a huge battalion of the French Empire's Grande Armeè.
Story[]
Childhood[]
Jacques' childhood is unknown but it is implied by the Mirror of Truth that he was born into poverty and was bullied by children older than him who physically assaulted him.
Joining the French Empire[]
When he reached adulthood he joined Napoleon's army, due to his cruelty and military effectiveness he reached the position of general of a large part of the French army called the Grande Armeè.
However, his ambition grew ever he wanted to make a name for himself instead of being just another of Napoleon's followers. His spies told him something interesting: that two men went into the forest every night and met a "brilliant woman" who told them stories to pass on in their world. He discovered that these men were none other than Jacob and Willem Grimm.
Interrogatin the Brothers Grimm[]
In 1811, General Marquis has the Brothers Grimm followed and then kidnapped to force them to reveal their sources. At first the brothers denied all claims that a fairy gave them the stories, but the general's eye flickered and he realized that they were lying to him, he ordered Captain De Lange and Lieutenant Lemberth to show them the proof, a golden egg, which was obviously not of this world. The brothers broke down and finally confessed that it was all true but that the fairy only gives him the stories and then leaves and that they have never been to the world she comes from, nor can they take him there. Jacob asks him where he got that golden egg and he answers that it was from the other woman who gives them the stories, he orders to bring a cage and in it was Mother Goose unconscious, who hours before was poisoned in a tavern by his men and captured.
The Brothes Grimm ask him the general whats is this intentions, conquest the fairy tails world and he respond right, Willem tells him that this world contains powerful magic and dangerous creatures, the french army would be destroyed just by entering there. The general laughs because he is determined to conquer and that no one, not even a place full of magic and monsters, would be able to defeat the French army.
He threatens the brothers with taking him and the army to that world or else he would kill their relatives, without realizing it Mother Goose began to wake up and realized that the poison had not killed her, confused she wondered what had happened and seeing Jacob and Willem tied up, they quickly tell her that they are kidnapped and that they seek to conquer the world of stories. Mother Goose reacted quickly, using her magic to free herself from the cage, took the golden egg and teleported away, fleeing the place.
Shocked by what had happened, he ordered the guards to tie the brothers, cover their faces, take them to the forest, and free them there. He told them they would have two months to figure out how to get to that world, or else he would personally kill their families. After the soldiers left with the brothers, he took a small French flag and placed it with a big, cruel smile in the storybook whose world would be theirs.
Defective Portal[]
The Brothers Grimm finally complied with the demands of General Jacques Marquis and gave him a map which was a portal to the land of stories, the general along with the entire Armee crossed said portal, however without their knowledge, Mother Goose cast a spell on said portal so that it would be difficult for the entire French army to get there, leaving the general and his entire army trapped in a kind of limbo between the Otherworld and the land of stories and they remained there for the duration next two hundred years.
In A Grimm Warning[]
When the Fairy Godmother began to weaken, the spell that kept the worlds apart began to break, the portal enchanted by Mother Goose between them, causing the general and his entire army to finally reach the Land of Stories.
Behind the Scenes[]
- In a live chat on July 18th, 2014, Chris Colfer mentioned that he had planned a secondary villain for A Grimm Warning who was a distant descendant of Jacques du Marquis and was pursuing justice for the presumably deceased general in clearing his name. Colfer added that he had planned for the villain to kidnap Conner Bailey and Breanne Campbell but scrapped the character altogether, claiming it would have been "way too confusing, having two [...] members of the Marquis family in the same book."[3]
Quotes[]
"You think you know me, but you don't know the first thing about me. You have no idea where I came from, what I came from, or what I had to do to become who I am today."[1]
"There is only room for one man in the history books."[4]
"And how can a man like you possibly help a man like me?"[5]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Grimm Warning, ch 22, p. 352
- ↑ A Grimm Warning, Prologue, p.4
- ↑ Live Chat With Chris Colfer for The Land of Stories 3: A Grimm Warning
- ↑ A Grimm Warning, ch 22, p. 352
- ↑ A Grimm Warning, ch 16, p 276