« Bécassine is the earliest female comic strip protagonist. Her first appearance was on 02 February 1905 in the French children’s magazine La Semaine de Suzette (« Suzette’s Week »). Bécassine is a young provincial Breton girl turned housemaid as viewed by the sophisticated Parisians … [the series] covers the time of her childhood through her daily life as housemaid and nanny, and a number of adventures [and misadventures] as she travels the world »–Bécassine.net.
