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The paper analyses the image of female domestic servants and their condition as unmarried women in three examples of nineteenth‑century French literature: A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert (1875), Germinie Lacerteux (1865) by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt and Diary of a Chamber-maid (1900) by Octave Mirbeau. The protagonists of these stories represent interesting versions of stereotypical images present...