Aloïs Racine is the first of the three suitors. Aloïs has a self-destructive fixation with her, voluntarily cutting and mutilating himself to prove his love. He has admitted to being madly and jealously in love with Justine, abandoning his friends and family to be with her. Aloïs may have been partially responsible for the downfall and capture of the other two suitors, as he states in one of his notes to Justine that he would gladly murder Basile for her. He also sedated Basile, allowing Justine to blind him.