

After he arrives, she tells Georges that she wants to make out her will. Upon returning home, it is revealed that she is expecting her lawyer and longtime friend Georges Hautecourt to come to handle some business matters. She wears a long lavender nightgown when she is sleeping, including a purple bonnet and a pink dressing gown.Īt the beginning of the film, she is seen in her carriage, driven by Edgar, with her cats. Madame has long, silvery-white hair, usually worn up in a Gibson Girl-style bun (except when she is sleeping, where it extends down to below her shoulders, though she wears a night bonnet while asleep), having an elderly appearance, and wears a violet-red Edwardian Era dress.

Her main downfall is that she's too trusting of others (not knowing Edgar's evil scheme). She loves her cats dearly, telling them that they are the greatest treasure she could own and is unaware of Edgar's evil schemes. Madame is a polite socialite who is very kind and generous and at times vain (though not distastefully so). Despite her old age, Madame Bonfamille has a sophisticated appearance. Her other friends included her lawyer, Georges Hautecourt, and her former butler, Edgar Balthazar. At the time of the film, however, she had no living relatives, thus she doted on her cats. Madame Bonfamille, often simply called Madame, is an elderly, wealthy woman, who apparently was a famous opera singer at one point (she said that she once played the title character of George Bizet's Carmen, and was even seen dancing to the aria "Habanera").
