Folcoche

Paule Rezeau née Pluvignec, best known as Folcoche (litterally "Mad Sow") the insulting nickname that her sons gave her is the villain of the famous french novel Vipère au Poing (Viper in the Fist) written in 1948 by Hervé Bazin, and its two movie adaptations, where she was portrayed by the famed french actresses Alice Sapritch and then Catherine Frot. Folcoche also appears in its two sequels La Mort du Petit Cheval and ''Le Cri de la Chouette. ''Folcoche is widely know in France as the epitome of the tyranical and abusive mother, to the point that her nickname has become a synonym of it. Folcoche can also regarded as a symbol of a woman embittered by a marriage of interest, who hates a family that she never wanted.