# Madame Carpentier — Now It Can Be Told character guide

> Madame Carpentier in Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Madame, you

**First appearance:** 0003-i

## Who they are

A French woman who hosts the narrator.

## In the story

### [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/now_it_can_be_told_se/chapters/xi)

An old lady who embraces a young Guardsman like a long-lost son upon his return from the trenches.

### [The Heart of a City](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/now_it_can_be_told_se/chapters/part-v-the-heart-of-a-city)

The cash-desk lady sits in the dining-room, her face waxen pale, working accounts as if the last day has come.

### [The Street of the Three Pebbles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/now_it_can_be_told_se/chapters/ii)

Alsatian lady with vivid memories of 1870; she hates Germans and recounts the German entry into Amiens in August 1914, speaking frankly to German officers.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/now_it_can_be_told_se/chapters/vii)

Mme. de la Rochefoucauld is the owner of the house where the narrator is billeted, though she lives elsewhere.

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/now_it_can_be_told_se/chapters/viii)

The woman behind the counter, once a well-to-do young woman from Lille, now aged and worn by the war and her husband's abandonment.

### [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/now_it_can_be_told_se/chapters/xvi)

Madame from the cash-desk sits in the dining-room, maintaining composure despite the crisis, working on accounts.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/now_it_can_be_told_se/chapters/vi)

Madame plays the piano at the Hôtel du Sauvage and invites the Canadian boy to play again.

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