© 2005, Drawing by Eneg, colors by Monika Rubbermaid
TRANSFORMATION D'UNE BOURGEOISE
by Conchita
translated from French and adapted by Monica
Translators Note
The story is happening in Paris of the early 1970s and could be based
on real facts. At the time Portugal was still a very poor country and
not a member of the European Union. Lots of poor girls and married
women were coming from there to work in France as factory workers,
cleaners and maids. Many of those girls were working as live in maids
in many Parisian bourgeois houses or apartments. If they were working in
apartments they had there own separate rooms at the top of the building,
usually in the 6th floor, at what was called 'la chambre de bonne' (maid's
room). Of course there was no elevator in those buildings of the late
19th century and the maids were going down from the back service stairs
to the kitchen door of the apartment they were working. They were not
allowed to use the font entrance of the building even when they were out
of uniform and not on duty. For them there was the back or side service
entrace to come and go, the same way that the garbage was coming down as
well. All those apartment buildings had there own live in concierge who
had a little place to stay either by the entrance or in the basement. The
concierge was usually the 'terror' of all live in maids because she was
checking on them all the time, reporting back to their employers.
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