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Mademoiselle Chanceau
Mlle Chanceau
also: m-lle Шансо, Mademoiselle Chansot
A dressmaker/corsetiere's-shop name Tolkachov must deal with by catalogue number (No. 82), fetching vinegar essence and a corset for her among the day's errands. The same figure (spelled "Chansot" there) appears as an errand-list name in Chekhov's 1887 story "One of Many," the play's close source.
Reading notes
- A Tragedian in Spite of Himself §23 Mademoiselle Chanceau
"m-lle Шансо" -- a dressmaker or corsetiere's-shop client Tolkachov must deal with by catalogue number (No. 82), fetching her vinegar essence and a corset. The same name (spelled "Chansot" there) appears on the identical errand list in "One of Many" (1887); reused conceptually as the same close-source figure, though each work's entity is kept separate here since the play gives a slightly different French spelling and no further shop detail ("Gvozdev's," present in the story, is absent from the play).