Fall 1632-1636

She turned up at their doorsteps one summer morning, when the children were still asleep and Binet had just left. So Alanete welcomed her and because the young woman was looking for work she immediately offered to hire her as a handmaid. After all, looking after two small children while also taking care of your husband's affairs was anything but easy and taking somebody into service had been Alanete's  want for a couple of months already. Thus and so the young peasant girl was perfect. Her name was Albine and she came from a nearby village. Alanete didn't suspect a thing.

And so, Albine's new life began, far from her old family. Dressed like any other young girl serving in a worthy house, the new maid quickly adapted to what life in Paris meant. Except that she wasn't exactly a young girl and the advocate whose servant she became was no stranger for her. Fortunately for her, nobody, not even the advocate himself, seemed to notice her resemblance with the gypsy woman that was the mother of the girl a young merchant's son used to love more than ten years ago.

Her secret safe from everybody around her, Albine continued to work, taking care of the two small children, cleaning the house and cooking for the Boucher family, like that had been her plan from the very beginning.

Of course, nobody connected her presence with her master's recent sleepless nights.

Two days after her arrival, Binet's nightmare begun. It wasn't the fact that he was getting close to no sleep that really bothered him. It was the fact that every time he closed his eyes, he saw her ; heard her voice calling for him ; saw her hip gently swaying every time she bent to pick up one of the children, her thigh so carelessly uncovered every time she prepared for bed. It soon became an obsession, watching her almost every minute he spent awake.

It went like this for three more years, with him continuing to secretly watch her, with her continuing to pretend not to notice. Until one night, coming home late, with his wife and children asleep, Binet dared to open the door to Albine's room and she dared to open her eyes, letting him slip under the sheets beside her.

Six months later he woke up one morning only to learn that she was gone.

Haiete Gaudet

Name: Haiete Bonnet (born Gaudet)
Born: 1609
Traits: Impertinent, Gossipy, Curious, Industrious, Black-hearted, Egoist
Romantic History: None
Husband: Renost Bonnet
Parents: Marcelet Gaudet and Chrestienne Gaudet
Aspiration: Fortune
Character Alignment: Evil
Class: Working Class Laborer


When she and Renost left their village, Haiete hoped for a better future somewhere in Paris, where her husband could find a job and she could earn some money to sent back home, in order to help her family.Even if at the beginning everyone from her family stood out against their love and were disappointed when they found about their run out, the hardships of life determined Haiete and Renost to try to reconcile with their families, who's refuse transformed the young girl in a bitter woman.

Children
Elise Bonnet (1622)
Sacha Bonnet (1629)
Eliane Bonnet (1630)
Esther Bonnet (1630)

Winter 1620-1624

The night when the two of them ran away from the village was very vivid in Haiete's mind and she could swear she was still feeling Renost's firm hand almost crushing her fingers.Back then, in that awful night, they had nothing but the clothes they were wearing and the dreams of a better life.

The situation hasn't changed too much in the past four years.

They arrived in Paris a month later, exhausted and starved after the long journey and the big grey capital, with it's slimy narrow streets did not proved to be what they expected.Having no money, the two of them spent their first night there on the streets, dead with cold.

After a couple of days they managed to find a miserable garret to rent and Renost got a job as a gravedigger.Even if Haiete wasn't too happy about it, it was either this or la Cour des miracles and panhandling or prostitution wasn't exactly what the young girl wanted to do for the rest of her life.

While her husband was working, Haiete spent her time sewing clothes for their neighbours, cooking or dishing the dirt with the sieves.

In that winter she gave birth to a weak baby girl, whom they rushed to christen.Renost feared that he'll have to dig in his own child's grave, but the little girl managed to survive.

But digging in the frozen clay all day long only to get back home after that to a disgruntled and peevish wife was a hard life for Renost, who soon found his solace in a bottle, spending his wage on alcohol.

Renost Bonnet

Name: Renost Bonnet
Born: 1602
Traits: Hard-Worker, Simpleton, Openhanded, Gullible, Guzzler
Romantic History: None
Wife: Haiete Gaudet
Parents: Adam Benoit and Albine Bonnet
Aspiration: Pleasure
Character Alignment: Good
Class: Working Class Laborer

Growing up in a small house somewhere in a small hamlet, in a family with 4 children where his father never married his mother, Renost couldn't wait to leave his old existence and to turn over a new leaf somewhere in Paris, where he hoped he could find a job and start a family.
But, the indigence and misery from the Capital shattered his dreams and soon, Renost and his young wife, Haiete, were forced to cope with a precarious existence somewhere across the tracks.



Children
Elise Bonnet (1622)
Sacha Bonnet (1629)
Eliane Bonnet (1630)
Esther Bonnet (1630)