Lucie Manette

Lucie Manette is a character in Charles Dickens' 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities.

She meets Darnay, the young Frenchman, on the voyage home with her father.

When Darnay is arrested as a spy due to evidence planted on him by John Barsad on the orders of his uncle, the Marquis St. Evremonde, Lucie and her father attend Darnay's trial out of concern.

It is there that she meets Sydney Carton, the drunken lawyer who falls in love with her.

She reaches out to Carton out of concern for his well being, but is being actively courted by Darnay and accepts the latter's proposal.