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Première femme de Chambre ('First Maid of the Chamber') was an office at the royal court of France.
The Première femme de Chambre was in charge of the preparing of clothes, cosmetics and other things in the queen's wardrobe for the dressing and undressing ceremony,and supervised the femmes de chambre ('Maids of the Chamber'), who often reached a number of 16 per annum. The dressing and undressing of the queen was in turn supervised by the dame d'atour. The Première femme de Chambre was the only one of the ladies-in-waiting except the dame d'honneur to be in possession of the keys to the queen's rooms and in permanent access to the queen. This gave her the opportunity to filter requests of meetings, audiences and messages to the queen and made her a de facto powerful person at court, were she was often flattered and bribes by the courtiers.