Who is Michel Duval from Red Mars and what is their importance? Mars_trilogy English & Literature Michel Duval | Red Mars

Michel Duval is a psychiatrist from France who is originally sent to live with the finalists for the Ares crew in Antarctica, to observe them. Now a part of the team, he is sent with them to Mars, as well. Michel is often quiet, and serves only as a sounding board to others, while inside, he is slowly losing his own mind. Homesick, Michel develops a system of categorization of characteristics that allows him to understand the first hundred, but this does nothing to stop his misery. One evening, the Coyote comes to him, and takes him to the farm team, where he is initiated into their religion. He becomes an important member of their hidden colony, and is instrumental in the saving of Maya, Ann, Nadia, Simon, and others in the first hundred during the revolution.