<Li> Monsieur Defarge: Given name Ernest, he is the owner of a Paris wine shop and leader of the Jacquerie . "A bull - necked, martial - looking man of thirty...He was a dark man altogether, with good eyes and a good bold breadth between them ." He is devoted to Dr. Manette having been his servant as a youth . One of the key Revolutionary leaders, in which he is known as Jacques Four, he embraces the Revolution as a noble cause, unlike many other revolutionaries . </Li> <Li> Madame Defarge: Given name Therese; a vengeful female Revolutionary, she is arguably the novel's antagonist and is presented as a more extreme and bloodthirsty personality than her husband Ernest . "There were many women at that time, upon whom the time laid a dreadfully disfiguring hand; but, there was not one among them more to be dreaded than this ruthless woman...Of a strong and fearless character, of shrewd sense and readiness, of great determination, of that kind of beauty which not only seems to impart to its possessor firmness and animosity, but to strike into others an instinctive recognition of those qualities ." The source of her implacable hatred of the Evrémonde family is revealed late in the novel to be the rape and killing of her brother and sister when she was a child . </Li> <Li> Jacques One, Two, and Three: Revolutionary compatriots of Ernest Defarge . Jacques Three is especially bloodthirsty and serves as a juryman on the Revolutionary Tribunals . </Li> <Ul> <Li> Dr. Alexandre Manette: Lucie's father; when the book opens, he has just been released after a ghastly eighteen years as a prisoner in the Bastille . Weak, afraid of sudden noises, barely able to carry on a conversation, he is taken in by his faithful former servant Defarge who then turns him over to Jarvis Lorry and the daughter he has never met . He achieves recovery and contentment with her, her later husband Charles Darnay, and their little daughter . All his happiness is put at risk in Book the Third when Madame Defarge resolves to send Evrémonde / Darnay to the guillotine, regardless of his having renounced the Evrémondes' wealth and cruelty . At the same time, the reader learns the cause of Dr. Manette's imprisonment: he had rendered medical care to Madame Defarge's brother and sister following the injuries inflicted on them by the Evrémonde twins back in 1757; the Evrémondes decided he couldn't be allowed to expose them . </Li> </Ul>

Summary of tale of two cities in about 150 words