# Madame Laure — Middlemarch character guide

> Madame Laure in Middlemarch by George Eliot.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Madame Laure, Laure

**First appearance:** 0015-xii

## Who they are

A French actress whom Lydgate was infatuated with in Paris.

## In the story

### [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/middlemarch_se/chapters/xv)

A French actress who captivates Lydgate in Paris. She accidentally (or intentionally) stabs her husband on stage, and later rejects Lydgate's marriage proposal, confessing that the slip was not accidental.

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