This character hires Sharpe to find her husband. She has known Sharpe for a long time. She first met Sharpe when she was known simply as Louisa Parker and was fleeing from war in northern Spain. Later she married the Count of Mouromorto. She continued to be friends with Sharpe, and her husband was Sharpe's friend too. During the wars her husband helped Sharpe, and she hopes that remembering this will help convince Sharpe to go to Chile in search of her missing husband. When Louisa first arrives at Sharpe's home in Normandy, she arrives in an expensive carriage. The Countess of Mouromorto is extremely wealthy