Matilda

'''Longueville/Fouquet (ロングビル Rongubiru/フーケ Fūke?), whose real name is Matilda de Sachsen-Gotha''' is the secretary of Old Osmond. Her runic name "Fouquet of the Crumbling Earth". She handles the overall running of the Tristain's Magical Academy. She is 23 years old, and a peasant, though was once a noble. Because of this, she is still able to use magic. Matilda is a triangle class, earth mage. We later learn the she is capable of making golems.

We later learn that she is actually the famous thief, Fouquet. She as a childish side implied by leaving messages whenever she completes a robbery. After she obtains the "Staff of Destruction", but it ends up that she can not use it, she is arrested, but is later busted out. Fouquet is a member of the Reconquista, and so she is ordered to stall Saito and Guiche, so that Wardes can get away with Louise, so that they may use her. Wardes is revealed as a traitor and an ally to Fouquet.

During the final battle in episode 13 of season one, when Louise uses void magic, and Wardes dies, Matilda manages to escape.

However, in the light novels, we see more of Matilda when she returns to Albion; more specifically, in Westwood twon, where Tiffania. It is implied that Matilda was originally the Duke of Albion's legitimate daughter, while Tiffania was illegitimate, being half-elf. It was also said that Matilda had helped Tiffania escape and live away from the Albion soldiers. When Matilda returns to Tiffania's cottage, Saito and the gang (who were supposed to fetch Tiffania for her meeting with Henrietta) they meet Matilda having tea with Tiffania herself. Of course, misunderstandings arise and the two opposing parties readied their weapons. However, Tiffania stands in the middle, begging them to stop fighting (because she does not know about Matilda's "job" as Fouquet; Rather, Matilda tells her that she is a secretary at an academy, which was previously true, but it was merely a cover) because Tiffania looks up to Matilda as a dear sister in the light novels, while in the anime there is no mention of Matilda being related to Tiffania. In the novels it is revealed that Fouquet is a friend of Tiffania as Fouquet's father was a viceroy who served Tiffania's father, the Archduke of Albion. Fouquet would bring money and groceries to Tiffania who lived with orphans in Westwood village. Fouquet cared for Tiffania and had a motherly attitude towards her.

After the hostilities, both parties decide to make up for the meanwhile for Tifa's sake. Later that night, Matilda decides to leave the cottage, but leaves Saito some advice, noting that the next time they meet, they shall become enemies once more.

Later in the novels, she continues to travel with Wardes (who did not die in the novels) as he researches the Void. As of Vol19 she is travelling with Wardes into the Sahara to retrieve Saito and Tiffania who was captured by the elves as ordered by Vittorio; if retrieving them alive wasn't possible then she and Wardes were to kill them to allow the power of the Void to pass on to the next Successor.

Matilda and Wardes might be making a brief appearance in later novels, during the Romalia vs Gallia Arc.

It is said in the Novel that she is Tiffania's sister (same dad).

As Fouquet, she is likely named after Nicolas Fouquet, a corrupt government official under Cardinal Mazarin and an underage Louis the XIV who most famously accumulated a large fortune while serving as finance minister until his arrest in 1661. In the light novels, Fouquet was stated as part of high-class Albion nobility.

Also Known As

 * Matilda de Saschen-Gotha
 * Fouquet
 * Fouquet of the Crumbling Earth

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