# Francine — Flight character guide

> Francine in Flight by Walter White.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Madame Francine, Madame

**First appearance:** 0001-flight

## Snapshot

The stately dressmaker whose third-floor atelier turns fabric into fortune, Madame Francine recognizes Mimi's gift before Mimi fully recognizes it herself.

## Who they are

From her throne of silks and chiffons, Madame Francine runs a house where wealthy wives come to be transformed, and she measures people the way she measures cloth — by what they can bear. She watches Mimi rise from draper's assistant to fitter, testing her against the impossible Mrs. Bennett, and sees in the younger woman a talent and hunger that mirror her own long apprenticeship. As the war money floods in and her own years begin to tell, Francine's gaze on Mimi carries both pride and the quiet arithmetic of succession. She is the door through which Mimi's ambition must pass.

## Relationships

### [Mimi Daquin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/mimi_daquin)

_professional_

Francine is Mimi's maid or personal attendant, serving her daily needs.

## In the story

### [Chapter XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/chapters/xvii)

Madame Francine is the owner of the dress shop where Mimi and Sylvia work, and is described as falsely claiming French heritage.

### [Chapter XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/chapters/xviii)

Madame Francine, aging and weary, relies increasingly on Mimi, recognizing her talent and considering her a potential successor.

### [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/chapters/xix)

Has virtually surrendered the shop to Mimi, visiting less frequently as she spends time in Mount Vernon and Florida.

### [Chapter XX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/chapters/xx)

Mimi's employer, who provided information about Mimi to Mrs. Crosby.

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