When she heard the drums of a marching regiment passing through the street, she would stand in the doorway with a jug of cider and give the soldiers a drink.

She nursed cholera victims.

She protected Polish refugees, and one of them even declared that he wished to marry her.

But they quarrelled, for one morning when she returned from the Angelus she found him in the kitchen coolly eating a dish which he had prepared for himself during her absence.
After the Polish refugees, came Colmiche, an old man who was credited with having committed frightful misdeeds in '93.

He lived near the river in the ruins of a pig-sty.