# La Fosseuse — The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman character guide

> La Fosseuse in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0200-xxiii

## Who they are

A French maid in a tale, involved in a comic misunderstanding.

## In the story

### [The Fragment](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tristram_shandy_se/chapters/the-fragment)

A maid of honor who first utters the word 'whiskers' before the queen, setting off a chain of associations and moralizing.

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