# Flore Brazier — The Celibates character guide

> Flore Brazier in The Celibates by Honoré de Balzac.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Mademoiselle Flore Brazier, Flore Brazier, Flore, Mademoiselle Brazier, the fair Flore, Brazier, uncle Brazier, Dear little Flore

**First appearance:** 0006-story-iii-a-bachelor-s-establishment

## Snapshot

A coarse, calculating peasant woman who governs the Rouget household and its aging master, her plain face masking a patient appetite for the estate.

## Who they are

Flore Brazier shares a house in Issoudun with her brother and rules over the timid Jean-Jacques Rouget, whose fortune she intends to secure. Her hard features and business smile conceal a vulgar cunning that the townspeople mistake for good nature, while her grip on her master tightens with every year. She embodies the novel's warning about self-interest dressed as domestic loyalty.

## In the story

### [A Bachelor's Establishment](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_celibates_se/chapters/a-bachelor-s-establishment)

Housekeeper-mistress of old Rouget, she is persuaded by Philippe and others to marry Rouget to legalize her position.

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