The Celibates · Character
Mademoiselle Sophie Gamard
A pious spinster whose suffocating hospitality and quiet grudges turn her boardinghouse into a battlefield over rooms, rents, and wounded pride.
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Also known as Mademoiselle Gamard, Sophie Gamard, the aforenamed Sophie Gamard, the said Sophie Gamard, Sophie, the late Sophie Gamard
First appearance: Story II: The Vicar of Tours
As a supporting figure in The Celibates, Mademoiselle Sophie Gamard is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
A bitter old maid who controls the lodging and allies with Troubert against Birotteau.
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Mademoiselle Sophie Gamard presides over a respectable household in Tours where the clergy board and every courtesy is tallied like a debt. Her favor curdles into resentment when the lodger she hoped to keep, the Abbé…
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Character groups
- Provins and Paris social network
- Issoudun power schemers
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