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Madame Hédouin
Bouthemont is the assistant buyer of the silk department at the Ladies’ Paradise. When Hutin pushes Robineau out of his position as buyer, Bouthemont is promoted to buyer. When Bouthemont doesn’t sell enough silk one year, Mouret fires him, too. Bouthemont then consults Madame Desforges, and she persuades Baron Hartmann to fund Bouthemont’s own department store, the Quatre Saisons. Just before the big white sale at the Ladies’ Paradise, the Quatre Saisons burns to the ground, sending all its potential customers back to the Ladies’ Paradise.
Bouthemont Quotes in The Ladies’ Paradise
The The Ladies’ Paradise quotes below are all either spoken by Bouthemont or refer to Bouthemont . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 11
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There were all sorts, hussies as well as decent girls. What is more, their moral standard was rising. In the past they had had nothing but the dregs of the trade, poor distracted girls who just drifted into the drapery business; […] in short, when they wanted to behave properly, they could; […] The worst thing of all was their neutral, ill-defined position, somewhere between shopkeepers and ladies. Plunged into the midst of luxury, often without any previous education, they formed an anonymous class apart.
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Bouthemont Quotes in The Ladies’ Paradise
The The Ladies’ Paradise quotes below are all either spoken by Bouthemont or refer to Bouthemont . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 11
Quotes
There were all sorts, hussies as well as decent girls. What is more, their moral standard was rising. In the past they had had nothing but the dregs of the trade, poor distracted girls who just drifted into the drapery business; […] in short, when they wanted to behave properly, they could; […] The worst thing of all was their neutral, ill-defined position, somewhere between shopkeepers and ladies. Plunged into the midst of luxury, often without any previous education, they formed an anonymous class apart.
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