Madame
– Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revoluti..
Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumstances bring Lefebvre a noble title and even more -- Napoleon decides to make him the local ruler over a large territorial fiefdom. But trouble brews when Madame Sans-Gene, now elevated to the nobility along with her man -- cannot keep her frank observations under control.
13 Feb 1963
Italian, French
Christian-Jaque
Christian-Jaque, Ennio De Concini, José Luis Dibildos, Jean Ferry, Rafael García Serrano, Henri Jeanson, Émile Moreau (play), Victorien Sardou (play), Franco Solinas
Sophia Loren, Robert Hossein, Renaud Mary, Léa Gray
Catherine, an out-spoken Parisian laundress follows Napoleon's army to the battlefront to be near her Sergeant Lefevre. The couple perform a deed of heroism which abets Napoleon's victory, so that after the war the grateful Emperor bestows on the now married couple the title of Duke and Duchess. Catherine squabbles with Napoleon's haughty sisters, scandalizes the nobility with her lack of courtly manners, flirts with the men - and consistently creates havoc as she remains true to her earthy background.