Amélie/La Cadette Character Analysis

Amélie is Mitraillette’s little sister and Mama and Papa Thibaut’s youngest daughter. Maddie briefly refers to her by her Resistance code name, La Cadette (which translates to “the youngest”) but soon begins referring to Amélie by her given name. It’s unclear exactly how old Amélie is, but she’s still in school. Amélie is extremely charming to everyone, so when the Gestapo visit for Sunday dinner once per month, it often falls to her to make conversation with von Linden and the other officers. When Maddie first meets Amélie, this doesn’t pose much of a problem for the girl—Amélie is relatively innocent and naïve, though she’s aware that intellectually, von Linden is her enemy. But her outlook starts to change as she hears about and witnesses how von Linden tortures and murders his prisoners—one of whom, Marie, is a former classmate of Amélie’s.