He is an elderly, opportunistic French teacher who frequents the mansion under the pretext of giving French lessons to Bihruz Bey. He takes great advantage of the wealth Bihruz inherited after his father's death, peddling worthless, dilapidated magazines and books to him at exorbitant prices (fifty francs, etc.). As a character, he is the greatest provocateur of the corrupt 'European' aspirations within Bihruz; by constantly praising romantic, distorted literary works to Bihruz, he leads his mind toward a fantasy world and absurd passions.
Although few details about his past are given in the novel, he is a 'Sweetwater Frank' (Levantine) type of French teacher who lives around Beyoğlu, is nearly sixty-five years old, and makes a living by teaching French to various nobles and heirs or by selling them books, ornaments, etc., having learned oriental craftiness.
An old man in his sixties. He presents the image of an elderly instructor with thick glasses, usually wearing an overcoat or a sack jacket, dressed as a 'monsieur'.
Bihruz Bey
A source of income whose naivety he sponges up like a sponge, and to whom he constantly pushes his old books under the guise of 'quality and nobility'.