chauffrette

Updated: August 25, 2026

She was a confirmed invalid, and, poor thing! showed every symptom of it. She rarely left her room except for meals; and although it was summer when I was there, she never moved without her chauffrette. She seemed to live for the sake of patent medicines and her chauffrette; she was always swallowing the one, and feeding the other. The middle daughter was Aglae.

Henry J. (Henry John) Coke - Tracks of a Rolling Stone

Even Mademoiselle Henriette managed to go sometimes aided by a little patent medicine, and when it was too hot for the chauffrette. If she was unable, a friend in the neighbourhood was offered a seat; and I had to sit bodkin, or on Mademoiselle Aglae's lap. I hated the 'friend'; for, secretly, I felt the carriage was mine, though of course I never had the bad taste to say so.

Henry J. (Henry John) Coke - Tracks of a Rolling Stone