# Mademoiselle Carpentier — Now It Can Be Told character guide

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

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mademoiselle

**First appearance:** 0003-i

## Who they are

Daughter of Madame Carpentier, a young French woman.

## In the story

### [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 bookshop owner locks up her house and declares 'Ils ne passeront pas!' embodying French courage.

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

Daughter of Madame Carpentier; speaks rapid French, has a strong mind and shrewd understanding of military strategy, and shows courage after a bombing raid.

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

The younger self of Madame, depicted in the 1913 photograph before the war changed her.

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

Mademoiselle Suzanne, behind the desk at the Hôtel du Sauvage, shows no fear of death when a shell bursts nearby.

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