The submissive and devout wife of Félix Grandet. She endures a life of extreme austerity and her husband's miserly control, receiving only six francs for pocket money. Her illness and impending death become the catalyst for Félix's reluctant forgiveness of Eugénie, as legal inheritance laws favor the mother's lineage. She dies without reconciling her husband and daughter.
Mme Grandet employs Nanon to manage household duties under strict financial constraints.
Adolphe represents a marriage prospect that could link the des Grassins family to the Grandets.
Both women occupy similar social standing and participate in Saumur's community networks.
Explore the full interactive character relationship map of Eugénie Grandet