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Lavrenty Mikhailovich Kologrivov
Mademoiselle Fleury is a resident of the Meliuzeevo hospital, where she worked as the governess when the hospital was an aristocrat’s palace before the war. Mademoiselle unsubtly attempts to set up Yuri and Lara during the summer of 1917. Many years later, she is present at the moment of Yuri’s death, though she doesn’t realize it, as she is in Moscow hoping to procure papers to go back home to France.
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Mademoiselle Fleury Character Timeline in Doctor Zhivago
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Part 5: Farewell to the Old
...donated it to the war effort. Two of the aristocrat’s staff remain: her French governess, Mademoiselle Fleury , and her cook, Ustinya. An incorrigible gossip, Mademoiselle attempts to play matchmaker with Lara...
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...time to leave too. The night before a powerful storm comes over the town, waking Mademoiselle Fleury in fright. Mademoiselle, convinced someone is angrily knocking on the hospital door, goes looking for...
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Part 15: The Ending
...tram and collapses. A crowd gathers around him, including the old woman—who is in fact Mademoiselle Fleury , in Moscow to arrange her return to France. She leaves, not realizing her connection...
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