Monsieur D'Arque

"Oh, that is despicable...heh heh heh...I love it!"

- Monsieur D'Arque

"I have come to collect your father."

- Monsieur D'Arque

Monsieur D'Arque is the head of the local insane asylum in the story Beauty and the Beast. Gaston bribes him to pronounce Belle's father Maurice insane and lock him in the asylum (a job he is very happy to do), to blackmail Belle into marrying him. But when Belle shows that her father is not insane by revealing the existence of the Beast, D'Arque joins the mob that follows Gaston to lay siege to the Beast's castle. However, he and the mob were defeated.

Maison Des Lunes
In the musical version of Beauty and the Beast, D'Arque's asylum is called the Maison Des Lunes, which is French for "House of Lunatics". He, Gaston, and Lefou sing about Gaston's plot in the song, also called "Maison Des Lunes".

Lyrics
Gaston:

There's a danger I'll be thwarted,

And denied my honeymoon,

For the pretty thing I've courted,

Refuses to swoon.

So the time has come for a murky plan

For which I turn to a murky man

Lefou: 

To find that fiend

What better than;

Gaston + Lefou:

THE MAISON DES LUNES

Gaston:

I don't take this girl for granted,

There's no path I haven't hewn,

To her heart; no seed unplanted,

No flowers unstrewn.

But quite amazing to relate 

she doesn't want me for her mate.

Lefou:

Which forces him to contemplate;

Gaston and Lefou:

THE MAISON DES LUNES

D'Arque:

I don't wish to seem a tad obtuse,

But I don't see how I can be of use,

For I lock people up, I'm not a Lonely Hearts Club.

I'm a cold, cold fish,

I've a nasty, vicious streak.

Lefou:

Please speak!

Gaston:

It's Belle's father whose your client,

She adores the old buffoon.

She'll be forced to be compliant,

Lefou:

She'll dance to your tune.

Gaston: 

We'll get the daughter through her dad,

You just pronounce the old boy mad.

Lefou: 

And whoosh, he's slammed up

In your pad;

Lefou + D'Arque

THE MAISON DES LUNES

Gaston:

Do I make myself entirely clear?

D'Arque:

It's the simplest deal of my whole foul career!

Gaston: 

Put Maurice away and she'll be here in

Moments, in a dreadful state,

She'll capitulate

To me.

D'Arque:

Oh, I'll be strapping up an inmate

Lefou:

Very tightly

Gaston:

Very soon.

D'Arque:

But please don't bring him in late;

Our check-in time's noon.

So wave one bachelor good-bye,

Gaston: 

She'll be my bride!

Lefou: 

She'd rather die...(uncomfortable pause)...then see her daddy

D'Arque:

''Ossify? In my sordid saloon!''

Gaston + Lefou + D'Arque:

So book the church, raise glasses high,

to THE MAISON DES LUNES.

Trivia

 * "D'Arque" is a pun of the word "Dark".