Did Dickens have a thing against French people?
I think every major French character I have read so far in Dickens' novels has been a villain. There was Mme Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities. M. Defarge, although not as villainous as his wife, was still a villain. In Bleak House, Lady Dedlock's maid, Mademoiselle Hortense, was a villainess. In Little Dorritt, Rigaud/Blandois is a villain. At what point does it become statistically significant and we can say with 95% certainty, that Dickens had a problem with the French?
