Grisette

Grisette, stock character in numerous 19th-century French novels, a pretty young woman who usually works as a laundress, milliner, or seamstress and who is an easy sexual conquest. Typically, such a character is hardworking and lighthearted, her cheerful disposition sometimes masking hunger or malnutrition. She represents a woman who can laugh easily and is always interested in having a good time. She is not averse to a casual romantic or sexual encounter and remains faithful...