# Mademoiselle Sophie Gamard — The Celibates character guide

> Mademoiselle Sophie Gamard in The Celibates by Honoré de Balzac.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mademoiselle Gamard, Sophie Gamard, the aforenamed Sophie Gamard, the said Sophie Gamard, Sophie, the late Sophie Gamard

**First appearance:** 0003-story-ii-the-vicar-of-tours

## Snapshot

A pious spinster whose suffocating hospitality and quiet grudges turn her boardinghouse into a battlefield over rooms, rents, and wounded pride.

## Who they are

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 Birotteau, fails to honor her expectations, and her wounded vanity hardens into a campaign of petty persecution. She matters because her domestic war exposes how much cruelty can hide behind rosaries, rent receipts, and the social power of a wronged old maid.

## In the story

### [Story II: The Vicar of Tours](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_celibates_se/chapters/story-ii-the-vicar-of-tours)

A bitter old maid who controls the lodging and allies with Troubert against Birotteau.

### [The Vicar of Tours](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_celibates_se/chapters/the-vicar-of-tours)

The bitter old maid and landlady who, after a conflict with Birotteau, dies and leaves her fortune to Abbé Troubert.

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