Plot Summary:The ordeals of a crude washerwoman in the chic court of Napoleon the First;La Maréchale Lefèvre ,a former launderer who followed the emperor in many of his campaigns is the laughing stock of the court .Although she takes lessons in deportment ,she 's not able to learn good manners and the posh new aristocrats snub her and call her names .When the emperor, his wife Marie-Louise and Neipperg are involved in an intrigue,she saves the situation.
