# Madame Belhomme — El Dorado character guide

> Madame Belhomme in El Dorado by Baroness Orczy.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Belhomme, worthy Madame Belhomme

**First appearance:** 0005-part-i-iv-mademoiselle-lange

## Who they are

A kind-hearted woman who shelters Jeanne Lange during the chaos.

## In the story

### [What Love Can Do](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/el_dorado_se/chapters/part-i-ix-what-love-can-do)

Panics when soldiers arrive, but is calmed and directed by Jeanne to open the door and delay the soldiers.

### [Then Everything Was Dark](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/el_dorado_se/chapters/part-i-xiii-then-everything-was-dark)

Jeanne's landlady; arrested alongside Jeanne the previous evening.

### [The Removal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/el_dorado_se/chapters/part-i-xviii-the-removal)

Madame Simon, the cobbler's wife, assists in the removal and expresses her hatred of the prison.

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