Combeferre represents the philosophy of the Les Amis de l'ABC. He is a medical student in his last year and often serves as Enjolras's confidant, providing sensibility and humanity to his leader and close friend. He has little patience for patronizing but appreciates his friends without faltering. He is rational, often the one to guide his friends away from trouble instead of towards it, and unwaveringly loyal to Enjolras and to the good of his country. He is carefully spoken, serious, and respectable.