Madame Gaillard was hit across the face with a poker as a child and as such, has no sense of smell and doesn't experience emotions. When the sleeping Grenouille wakes and sniffs the air in a menacing way, Father Terrier is terrified and takes Grenouille straight to Madame Gaillard, who runs a home for orphans. Father Terrier attempts to pay Jeanne Bussie more money to keep the baby but eventually gives in. Several weeks after she takes custody of him, she returns him to Father Terrier at the cloister of Saint Merri, stating that Grenouille is possessed by the devil because he doesn't have a smell. Grenouille goes through a series of wet nurses, all of whom accuse him of being especially greedy for milk. When she comes to she abandons her baby, but a crowd discovers the baby and his mother is arrested, tried, and beheaded. Due to the heat and the stench, Grenouille’s mother passes out immediately after his birth, drawing a crowd. Grenouille is born in a market in Paris in July of 1738 to a young fishmonger.
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