There's none but I to stand up for her, and the little saint of a creature is as innocent as a new-born babe." When he heard the last part of this speech, the doctor, struck by the word "innocent," made a sign to the uncle and took him out into the courtyard and from thence to the garden; leaving the Rabouilleuse at the table with Fanchette and Jean-Jacques, who immediately questioned her, and to whom she naively related her meeting with the doctor.
"There now, my little darling, good-by," said Uncle Brazier, coming back and kissing Flore on the forehead; "you can well say I've made your happiness by leaving you with this kind and worthy father of the poor; you must obey him as you would me.

Be a good girl, and behave nicely, and do everything he tells you." "Get the room over mine ready," said the doctor to Fanchette.

"Little Flore--I am sure she is worthy of the name--will sleep there in future.
To-morrow, we'll send for a shoemaker and a dressmaker.

Put another plate on the table; she shall keep us company." That evening, all Issoudun could talk of nothing else than the sudden appearance of the little "rabouilleuse" in Doctor Rouget's house.

In that region of satire the nickname stuck to Mademoiselle Brazier before, during, and after the period of her good fortune.
The doctor no doubt intended to do with Flore Brazier, in a small way, what Louis XV.