Mère Parisot

In Un meurtre en sommeil, the French Télévisions film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Sleeping Murder, for the season 1 of the Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie TV series, Mère Parisot is the mother of lawyer Guillaume Parisot and the parallel of Mrs Fane in the original novel. Mère Parisot is portrayed by Denise Aron-Schropfer.

Like Mrs Fane, Mère Parisot is close to her son who is unmarried. She also bakes and specialises in star-shaped madeleines which would prove to be significant in the investigation. When Lampion and Sacha Poliakov call on Guillaume Parisot to ask about the history of the house which Sacha had just rented, Parisot serves them his mother's madeleines.

Later, at the police station, Larosière offers Lampion some star-shaped madeleines. Larosière says they come from a murdered woman, Séverina Patrominio. Presumably the pastries had been found in her hotel room and Larosière decided not to let them go to waste. Lampion recognises them as coming from Mère Parisot--an unexpected link.

Questioned by Larosière and Lampion, Mère Parisot admits that Séverina came to see her before being murdered and she had given her some madeleines. Séverina once worked for the Parisots more than fifteen years ago. She had then recommended her to the Poliakovs and Séverina had gone to work for them.