# Madame Bauche — Short Fiction character guide

> Madame Bauche in Short Fiction by Anthony Trollope.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Madame

**First appearance:** 0007-la-m-re-bauche

## Snapshot

Through green spectacles she sees only a useful drudge in the orphan she has raised, never guessing her son sees a beautiful woman.

## Who they are

Madame Bauche is the wealthy matriarch of the valley, benevolent patron to the orphan Marie Clavert, and mistress of all she surveys. Her blind spot is her own charity: she has looked at Marie so long as a dependent that she cannot conceive of her as a rival in love, and her fondness curdles into alarm the moment Adolphe's intentions become plain. That collision between maternal pride and a protégée's quiet claim drives the story's central conflict.

## In the story

### [La Mère Bauche](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_4_se/chapters/la-m-re-bauche)

The stern, autocratic hotel owner who rules with green spectacles and rigid rules. She opposes her son's love for Marie and forces Marie to marry the Capitaine.

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