Mistress

the ten travelers bound for Le Havre. Her husband and companion is Comte Hubert. The Comtesse is the daughter of a small Nantes ship-owner. She has very distinguished manners, is an impressive hostess and entertainer, and is believed to have been a mistress to one of Louis-Philippe's sons. Thus, she was familiar with the local aristocracy, and they often frequented her salon. Madame Loiseau: Madame Loiseau is one of the ten travelers aboard the coach bound for Le Havre. She is traveling with her

The feeling expressed in the poems of the troubadours is the refined passion known as courtly love. It is a sentiment exactly suited to the feudal world in which the troubadours and their audience live. The devotion of the courtly lover to his mistress is in one sense a reflection of the unswerving loyalty owed by the vassal to his lord in the idealized concept of feudalism. In practical terms, this distant fidelity suits the social context of a nobleman's castle. The lady of a feudal castle

suscriptions de lettres ; – au début des titres d’ouvrages : Madame Bovary ; à l’intérieur ils s’abrègent : La Fille de Mme Angot, Le Gendre de M. Poirier. En anglais les abréviations de « Monsieur » et « Madame » sont Mr et Mrs (« Mis- ter », « Mistress »), sans point. Les divisions d’ouvrages Les mots désignant des parties d’ouvrages sont abrégés quand ils apparaissent dans des notes ou entre parenthèses et qu’ils sont suivis d’un nombre. Ils ne peu- vent être abrégés en cours de texte : L’auteur

sexual hysteria within the colonies from which the relationship between white women and women of color suffered lasting damage. The sexual history of colonization is replete with moments of sadistic cruelty perpetrated against slave women by white mistresses fearful of losing their precarious positions within the colonial matrix of race and class. Adrienne Rich explains how slave societies forged a fearful hostility between white women and women of color: If the white married woman had any status or

of the reservoirs a steam engine let off regular puffs 11 of white smoke. Gervaise, habituated apparently to puddles, did not lift her skirts but threaded her way through the part of eau de Javelle which encumbered the doorway. She knew the mistress of the establishment, a delicate woman who sat in a cabinet with glass doors, surrounded by soap and bluing and packages of bicarbonate of soda. As Gervaise passed the desk she asked for her brush and beater, which she had left to be taken care of

sixty-six, and I succeeded him. I married my cousin, whom I loved tenderly, and I thought she loved me too. But one afternoon, when I was half asleep, and was being fanned by two of her maids, I heard one say to the other, "What a pity it is that our mistress no longer loves our master! I believe she would like to kill him if she could, for she is an enchantress." I soon found by watching that they were right, and when I mortally wounded a favourite slave of hers for a great crime, she begged that she

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commercially speaking, in having their two main customers meet, as this would have cut them out of a lucrative trade. For instance it is well-known that Caesar spent a considerable amount for silk bespoke-tailored togas, and that he gave Servilia, his mistress and mother of Brutus, a pearl from the south seas for which he paid 60,000 sesterces and Caesar was a trend-setter, imitated by other wealthy romans. Something like few years ago with Italians imitating FIAT’s chairman Giovanni Agnelli habits and

original unity out of which difference must be produced’ and dominated (Haraway, 1991: 151). Chicana feminist Cherrie Moraga’s retelling of the story of Malinche, the indigenous South American woman who was Cortez’s first interpreter, and who was, as his mistress, ‘mother of the mestizo “bastard” race of the new world’ (Haraway, 1991: 175), offers a further set of lessons for Haraway, lessons that speak as well to the contemporary European context in which women’s bodies are again the site for conflicts over

pour utiliser sa bonne volonté, la laisseraient dans la même misère qu’auparavant. Cette place, le capitaine l’avait justement disponible : il fallait à la femme de Georges une aide dans son double service. Sir Édouard offrit de prendre chez lui mistress Denison, et il demeura convenu que, le lendemain, elle et le petit Jack seraient installés au château. Soit reconnaissance pour sa protégée, soit instinct que sa présence était agréable, Anna-Mary resta près de deux heures avec le capitaine