1. Aristocrats frequently performed pantomimic Branles in which they scolded each other like washerwomen or courted (as in …

2. In the nineteenth century, the belief in night washerwomen was very present in Brittany and Normandy, but it is also attested in many other regions of France: Berry, Pyrenees, Alps, Alsace, Morvan, Creuse, Burgundy and Ariège.