# Madame Gilliard — Travel Essays character guide

> Madame Gilliard in Travel Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Madame

**First appearance:** 0000-an-inland-voyage

## Who they are

A French woman encountered during the journey.

## In the story

### [Pont-sur-Sambre: The Travelling Merchant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/pont-sur-sambre-the-travelling-merchant)

M. Hector's wife, a comely young woman with her hair in a yellow kerchief; doting mother who caresses her son and recalls his happy moments.

### [On the Sambre Canalised: To Landrecies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/on-the-sambre-canalised-to-landrecies)

Landlady at the inn who provides water for washing and brushes boots.

### [La Fère of Cursed Memory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/la-f-re-of-cursed-memory)

Madame Bazin, who nestles against her husband after a long day's work.

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