Madame Angot's Daughter

We're in the Directoire period, that brief political lull following the French Revolution and Robespierre's Terror. But one event could well make the inhabitants of Paris's Halles district regret the cannonades: Clairette, daughter of the redoubtable Madame Angot, is about to get married! Can we dare hope that the young lady will behave like a respectable fiancée?

Or are we more likely to fear that she has inherited her strong character from her mother - the famous fishwife who took the...