A chambermaid is a maid who cleans and cares for bedrooms. A maidservant or in current usage maid is a female employed in domestic service. ... Jump to: navigation, search --212. ...
The two chambermaids, played respectively by Paulette Goddard and Jeanne Moreau at the peak of their careers, are about as different as one could possibly imagine; yet both can be seen to have originated in traits of the character created by Octave Mirbeau in his 1900 novel.
There is nothing in Paulette Goddard's glamourous and warm-hearted chambermaid to suggest anything of the sort, nor is it easy to believe that she has ever been a servant before; she is definitely lady enough to marry the son of the household at the upbeat ending....
Each of the four chambermaids is eager to escape from a social condition viewed from the perspective of the era in which the individual works were produced.
Lael Logan as Celestine in “Diary of a Chambermaid” at Walkerspace
The sexual complaisance and amoral candor of Celestine, the chambermaid in question, were so shocking to the pecksniffs of the U.S. Postal Service in 1901 that the work was banned here, sight unseen, for obscenity.
Much closer, in fact, to the entire thrust of “Diary of a Chambermaid” is Renoir’s own masterpiece, “Rules of the Game” (1939), which portrays a society of servants and masters, and of France itself, dancing on the edge of a volcano — a volcano named Hitler.
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