| “ | This is Madame DuBois. She's our parents and our nurse. Teach us everything. Then she got sick. (…) Six months. Yeah, we, um-- we read to her, and we sing. And everyday, we recite a prayer from Isaiah. For the sick and dying. Oui, but not dying. Prayers will be answered.
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Madame DuBois (first name unknown) is a survivor of the outbreak in AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.
Overview[]
Madame DuBois was a caring woman who took care of and taught the young children at the preschool how to survive since the start of the outbreak. Lou referred to her as being both a teacher and a parent to the children and she was considered to be very beloved by her charges who were absolutely devastated by her loss.
Pre-Apocalypse[]
Provence-Alpes–Côte d'Azur[]
Not a lot is known about Madame DuBois' life prior or leading up to the outbreak aside from the fact that she was the headmistress at École Maternelle Simone Veil.
Post-Apocalypse[]
In the early days of the outbreak, she stayed behind with the children of École Maternelle Simone Veil, and taught them skills on how to survive, and taking care of them like her own. She would also take in orphans when they would find them.
Season 1[]
"Alouette"[]
Madame DuBois had been sick with an unknown illness for 6 months. Lou talks about how she stayed behind at the school on Monument Day, and had been teaching the children how to survive. Daryl helps get DuBois medicine, but by the time he gets it, Madame DuBois had already died from the illness. She is later stabbed in the head by Lou before she reanimates, rejecting Daryl's offer to do it instead.
Death[]
- Killed By
- Unknown Illness
Madame DuBois is sick with an unknown illness for six months, eventually dying of it.
- Lou (Before Reanimation)
After DuBois dies, Lou stabs her in the head to prevent reanimation, rejecting Daryl's offer to do it instead.
Killed Victims[]
This list shows the victims DuBois has killed:
- Possibly numerous counts of zombies and unnamed people
Appearances[]
Daryl Dixon[]
Season 1[]
- "Alouette" (No Lines)
Trivia[]
- While she was not credited as a co-star, she was credited via the AMC Press Center as Headmistress DuBois.
- She plays a similar role to Ms. Martin in the Final Season of the Telltale Series in that both were beloved teachers who looked after their students alone following the start of the zombie apocalypse.
- Ms. Martin was also the nurse of Ericson's Boarding School and Lou states that Madame DuBois acted as the children's nurse as well as their teacher and parent.