# Mme. du Croisier — The Jealousies of a Country Town character guide

> Mme. du Croisier in The Jealousies of a Country Town by Honoré de Balzac.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mme. du Croisier, du Croisier, Mme

**First appearance:** 0002-story-ii-the-collection-of-antiquities

## Who they are

Du Croisier's wife, who harbors a secret grudge.

## In the story

### [The Collection of Antiquities](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jealousies_of_a_country_town_se/chapters/story-ii-the-collection-of-antiquities)

A wealthy bourgeois and rival to the aristocracy, nursing a vengeance after his marriage proposals to Mlle. d'Esgrignon were refused.

### [The Collection of Antiquities](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jealousies_of_a_country_town_se/chapters/the-collection-of-antiquities)

The bourgeois enemy of the d'Esgrignons; his victory is complete when Victurnien marries his niece, Mlle. Duval, and he praises the family's honor.

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