chauffeuse

Theres a lot to be said for having a chauffeuse.

Tied by a child, never having done a job other than that of a temporary chauffeuse to army officers, what could she do?

It is 1936 and May has just started as chauffeuse and secretary to a senior politician in Baldwin’s government.

May becomes chauffeuse and secretary to Philip Blunt, government Chief Whip.

A chauffeuse and a Skoda?

He confers with chauffeuse Edith Scob.

Jas stamped on the brakes, looked round glaring at me, then threw her champagne-coloured chauffeuse's cap down into the footwell.

She helped him in other ways also - she was a chauffeuse on occasions, tended him when he was ill, and sometimes acted as a secretary.

She took the chauffeuse uniform with her when she went off to front a punk band; I counted myself lucky she hadn't taken the car as well.

She became "a sportswoman, an author, an artist, a sculptor, a chauffeuse, a ministering angel to the poor, a grande mondaine, and an industrious mother."

We get glimpses into the rivalry between Mamie Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, the general's glamorous chauffeuse.

Hazel Lynes is offering her services as a chauffeuse with a luxurious limousine for a full day to the person who places the highest bid in the auction.

A fourth-generation Paris antiques dealer, Patrick Perrin, will show a set of four mahogany armchairs signed by Jacob, and a Lacroix Louis XVI chauffeuse.

My elegantly uniformed chauffeuse, Heike Hebsacker, met me as I arrived in Salzburg, opened the rear door of the Skoda and said: “Good afternoon, sir - your car.”

Also - Paul Dawkins as Dove, Michael Standing as Spoon, Norma West as Chauffeuse and Stefan Kalipha as Drum.

This second misfortune seemed to revive her memories of the earlier time when she had been carrying his child and had been given to understand that her husband had been simultaneously carrying on an affair with some young army chauffeuse.

Nabokov described his wife as "business manager, chauffeuse and assistant butterfly catcher all rolled into one," a list to which Schiff adds a dozen other terms: "disciple, bodyguard, secretary-protector, handmaiden, buffer, monitor, quotation-finder, groupie, advance man, professional understudy, nursemaid, courtier."

In the case of this well-liked fatherly brigadier, it was common knowledge that, although he would accept his chauffeuse's six shillings, he would then pay all other expenses in order that she would be wined, dined and accommodated in the same style as himself.

Designed to be drawn up to the fire, it is called a chauffeuse a la Turque because it has an exaggerated arched back and saber-shaped rear legs, which were meant to appeal to the taste for things foreign and exotic (Turkish then meant anything east of Vienna).

There was, for a start, the manner of his arrival - a few hours after the call to the Provost, late on a snowy night, swaddled in a travelling rug, in the back of a cavernous official Rover driven by a young chauffeuse in the dark blue uniform of the Women's Royal Navy.

I always meant to learn but - like a lot of things in my life - I never got round to it, and went too quickly from not being able to afford a car at all to having a chauffeuse for my Panther de Ville, and seriously thinking about going straight from pedestrianism to learning how to fly (a helicopter).

On the first morning, my chauffeur, Heliana (or should that be chauffeuse?)