Madame

An ebullient, bawdy romp set in Napoleonic times that features the sultry Loren as the outspoken laundress who washed the Little Corporal's shirts in 1792. She falls in love with Hossein, a sergeant, who has a cannon placed in her shop. There's a revolution on the horizon and she wants to join her lover at the front, but he assures her the war will be over soon and he'll return to claim her. Time passes slowly during the war and four years go by. Hossein and Loren meet only once, in order to marry, and when she applies for a pass to the front from Napoleon (Bertheau), he doesn't recall her and sends her away. Loren jumps aboard a wagon full of "professional" women ...